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Monday, March 2, 2009

waste420's wrestling wasteland

Are you getting tired and bored of WWE & don't like to waste your time with TNA?
But I am. But I still love wrestling. So I've started looking for something new. And I've found out that there are many wrestling promorions as well as indies out there. How to watch??

Here is a channel on Justin TV which usually broadcasts promotions like ROH or PWG.
That channel is run by a Justin TV user waste420 and it is called waste420's wrestling wasteland .

This is what they said on thier channel "showing any and all good indy ,like ROH,PWG,CZW, CHIKARA, and like minded stuff. also im in the process of making all my shows into clips so u can watch anytime , so click clips and hit the buttons till u find em...thks".

So if you have time and wanna try something new, pls check it out.

Watch live video from waste420's wrestling wasteland on Justin.tv

If you can't see, click on the link above.

Pro Wrestling Guerrilla


Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG) is a professional wrestling promotion that is run by wrestlers themselves as it was created by Southern California wrestlers Disco Machine, Excalibur, Joey Ryan, Scott Lost, Super Dragon, and Top Gun Talwar. Since then, Disco and Talwar have left the company.
The promotion debuted on July 26, 2003 and is known for its unique mixes of humor and professional wrestling, as well as their over the top press releases and show titles, which include: "Kee_ The _ee Out Of Our _ool!", "Taste the Radness", and "Free Admission (Just Kidding)."

Overall, the company's best selling DVD is PWG Sells Out, which was their first nationwide release.

In March 2007, PWG's Commissioner Of Food & Beverage Excalibur stripped Cape Fear (El Generico & Quicksilver) of the PWG World Tag Team Championship when Quicksilver was unable to compete because of a class two concussion he suffered during a match with Davey Richards & Roderick Strong . A tournament entitled the Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament, or DDT4, was held on May 19 and 20 at the Burbank Armory to crown new tag team champions, with Roderick Strong & PAC emerging the victors against the Briscoe Brothers in the tournament finals.

On May 3, 2007 PWG released a statement via the PWG Message Board at PWG's official site announcing they would no longer be working with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling after TNA presented them with a contract that would prevent contracted TNA wrestlers from appearing on DVDs sold through any third parties, including PWG's long-time partner Highspots.com. PWG stated that after looking at several solutions, including ending their contract with Highspots, releasing their DVD solely through their website, and removing all matches featuring TNA wrestlers from their home releases, they made the decision to end their relationship with TNA and thus were no longer able to book TNA wrestlers. This resulted in the loss of Frankie Kazarian, the first holder of the PWG World Championship, The Motor City Machine Guns of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, who were already booked to compete in the tournament for the vacated PWG World Tag Team Championship, and Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Low Ki, and Christopher Daniels, all of whom had been booked to appear on upcoming shows.

PWG celebrated their fourth anniversary with a show on July 29, 2007 at the Burbank Armory in Burbank . The event was scheduled to have the Briscoe Brothers on the card, but the team did not appear at the event which caused the card to be changed. The show ended up seeing Bryan Danielson defeat Necro Butcher in a Street Fight, Kevin Steen & El Generico defeat Roderick Strong & PAC for PWG World Tag Team Champions, and Bryan Danielson defeat El Generico to become the new PWG World Champion after issuing a challenge to him that ended up leading to an impromptu match to close the show. The show drew 500 fans, which tied the record for the largest live crowd to witness a PWG event. The show also made Southern California wrestling history, as five matches from the event were ranked in the Top 5 of the SoCalUncensored.com's monthly rankings, an accomplishment no other promotion had been able to achieve.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Paul Heyman


Paul Heyman (born September 11, 1965) is an American entertainment producer, most well-known for his former roles in professional wrestling as promoter, manager, and commentator.
Heyman is famous as the creative force behind Extreme Championship Wrestling's rise to prominence in the 1990s. He has also worked in World Championship Wrestling, the American Wrestling Association and World Wrestling Entertainment, including WWE's ECW brand where he was recognized as the ECW Representative.
Heyman was named in the prestigious list of Top 100 Marketers by Advertising Age magazine, a widely recognized honor that he is one of the true brand developers not only in sports entertainment but also on a global basis.
After departing WCW, Heyman attempted to start a new promotion in Texas with Jim Crockett Jr., but Crockett wanted to build a traditional wrestling company while Heyman declared wrestling was antiquated and a new take on the genre was needed to be successful in it.
At this time, Eddie Gilbert was booker for a Philadelphia-based promotion, NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling, which he did under the ownership of a pawn shop owner in Philly named Tod Gordon. Heyman came in to help Gilbert teach the younger wrestlers how to perform on interviews, but Gilbert's erratic behavior became too much for Gordon, who had a major falling out with Gilbert right before the "Ultra Clash" event on September 18, 1993.
It's that date that many point to the start of the ECW revolution and the birth of Paul Heyman as the most influential professional wrestling booker and writer of his time. Heyman decided to make stars of the promotion's local talent, an unheard of strategy and one that many believed could never work. But Heyman's approach was completely different than anyone could imagine, and he built a wild, rabid cult following that would chant the name of the promotion (EC-DUB, EC-DUB) instead of the names of the individual wrestlers.
As Paul E. Dangerously, he managed a few wrestlers, including Sabu and 911, but Heyman's increased workload led to him making fewer and fewer appearances on-camera.


Heyman addressing the crowd at an ECW television taping in 1999
A year later, Heyman rechristened the promotion "Exteme," eliminating Gordon's regional branding "Eastern" and declaring the promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling. Heyman broke the company away from the National Wrestling Alliance and ECW became its own entity, with Heyman encouraging wrestlers to express their true feelings about WWE (then WWF) and WCW, and allowing them to help develop their own characters. The company grew an intensely loyal fan base with which Heyman encouraged interaction. Eventually, Heyman became owner of Extreme Championship Wrestling and helped it to grow and become the third-ranking promotion in America. Heyman served as booker, promoter, and the executive producer of both live events and television. After Gordon left, he also had to deal with financial matters, which led to ever-increasing debts owed to the wrestlers. Many critics say Heyman's hands-on approach to the entire company lead to his inability to save the company when the TNN (later SpikeTV) network dumped ECW in favor of the market leading WWF (now WWE) brand. Heyman supporters point out that the total debt for the company was $7 million US, with InDemand pay per view owing over a million in PPV revenue. Heyman supporters argue that comparing that number to the staggering losses of other start ups such as EliteXC, IFL, and even TNA support the claim Heyman was a genius and built a global phenomenon from nothing.
Under Heyman's guidance, Extreme Championship Wrestling became a catalyst that altered the standard of pro wrestling in North America. The company pointedly eschewed the predictable and cartoon-like nature of the mainstream products, and fostered a counterculture alternative attitude; Heyman specifically analogized it to the grunge movement in music. With this, it also depicted more graphic and realistic violence in its product. Additionally, ECW introduced traditional Japanese and Mexican wrestling styles, which were previously rare on American television, and presented them alongside the North American wrestling. Journalists and those who worked with Heyman credit him alone with these innovations, and their effect reached to the mainstream even after the company had ended.
ECW achieved national prominence, but folded in 2001. Paul and a handful of other wrestlers have said that the death of ECW was for two reasons: One was that Paul did not like sharing power and thus put too much workload and stress on himself; he was getting 2-3 hours of sleep a night, if any. The second reason was ECW could not get another network deal after being kicked off The Nashville Network in favor of WWF. Heyman has also frequently cited Eric Bischoff as a primary architect of the company's downfall, expressing his long-held belief that Bischoff's hiring of ECW wrestlers away to WCW was intentionally meant to weaken ECW, which couldn't afford WCW-level salaries.
Having left WWE, Heyman tried to pursue a position in mixed martial arts when he joined a consortium which looked to buy out Strikeforce; it ultimately did not buy out StrikeForce although Heyman praised Strikeforce owner Scot Coker in subsequent interviews.
Since leaving wrestling, Paul Heyman has entered into a collaborative relationship with The Sun, a UK-based newspaper and website.
On February 4, 2008, he gave The Sun an exclusive interview (his first since leaving WWE) about his problems with WWE's handling of the ECW brand, and the events leading up to his quitting.
Heyman has also begun a multimedia project with the paper called The Heyman Hustle, which he describes as "the high definition video blog of a rambling mind." It features video of Heyman interacting with celebrities from various fields of entertainment on the streets of New York City, as well as regular writings of Heyman's take on the world of professional wrestling, including his thoughts on the McMahon wrestling family, the Chris Benoit murder-suicide, Ric Flair's retirement, and Joey Styles being replaced by Mike Adamle as the ECW play-by-play commentator. Noticeable guests of the 1st season of the Hustle include Holly Madison, Ice-T and Coco, James Lipton, Aubrey O'Day, and Jesse Ventura.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

R.I.P Eddie (A Tribute to Guerrero)

It has been a long time since WWE and wrestling world have lost a great wrestler & entertainer.
Eddie Guerrero was said to be one of the best Latino wrestlers. He was a former WWE Champion, former WWE Intercontinental Champion, former WWE United State Champion, former WWE European Champion, former WWE Tag Team Champion and Eleventh Triple Crown Champion.
On Nov 13 of 2005 , Eddie was found unconscious in his hotel room in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And he was pronounced dead when paramedics arrived on the scene. Eddie died when he got his peak in professional wrestling, which he loved of. Many fans (including me) and wrestlers as well as various wrestling promotion were in deep sorrow for the lost of Eddie Guerrero. I believe that about 4 years from his death, Eddie's name & image still can't fade away from our memory.
Although Eddie was being a heel for most of his career, he got over in and outside the ring with the fans.
I've been watching WWE for a long time and my personal best wrestling moments are around 2003 and 2004. And the best of the best of my best wrestling moments are being Eddie as WWE Champion & his feud with JBL & Kurt Angle.
I am wanting to do a tribute about Eddie for a long time. But some circumstances happen me not to happen this. Even though this is a Late Tribute to Eddie Guerrero, I am much appreciate what he had done in his career. And I don't care what he did outside the ring. Eddie, you are still the best. R.I.P Eddie, we miss you. Viva La Raza