SCW St. Paul, MN 4/27/18

Promotion: Showtime Championship Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 pm Friday April 27, 2018
City, State: St. Paul, MN
Venue: Eagles Club

Kara Noia defeated Sierra Avery in the opening match. Fun fact: I have been ring side with both of these lady's when they were not wrestling. Avery stated out as a ringside photographer for IPW before she became a wrestler. Noia was with me ringside working a video camera for HOW until she had to get ready to replace some ladies who could not make it to the event.

The Firm (Valentine Bravo & Ricky Noren) defeated Angry Dragon & Gerard Castle.

JDX pinned Kyle Pro.

Arik Cannon & Tomahawk Kid beat Lorbin Cometh (Darin Corbin & Heavy Metal Lore)

Air Wolf & El Angel Dorado defeated Flex Appeal (Tyler Jones & Austin Fouts.

Kal Creed pinned Giant Griffin.

SCW Future Clash champion Brandon Gore defeated ESQ III. This was Gore's 5th title defense so it was time for a new champion to be crowned. 

The main event was a match to decide the new SCW Future Clash Champion. James Tapia defeated Rylie Jackson.

James Tapia is the new SCW Future Clash champion.

AWF Pine Island, MN 4/21/18

Promotion: American Wrestling Federation
Time/Date: 7 pm Saturday April 21, 2018
City, State: Pine Island, MN
Venue: Pine Island High School

AWF owner Tony DeNucci and ring announcer DJ Danielson greeted the fans in the ring. They were interrupted by Big Slick Willie and Nick Nelson.

Nick Nelson defeated "Downtown" Petey Brown in the opening match.

Crixus pinned Big Slick Willie with a back slide. Yes, someone won a match with a back slide. You don't see that often.

El Angel Dorado pinned Gerard Castle.

Sterling Bond defeated Giant Griffin.

Arik Cannon beat JDX.

Craven Knyte pinned Ryan Cruz.

F1RST Wrestling Minneapolis, MN 3/22/18

Promotion: F1RST Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 pm Thursday March 22, 2018
City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Venue: James Ballintine VFW

When the doors opened the fans saw this title belt in the middle of the ring. Announcer John Maddening  let the fans know that this is the new F1RST Wrestling Uptown championship title belt. On this night there would be an 8 man tournament for that title. There would be 4 first round matches then the 4 winners would face off in the main event.

Air Wolf defeated James Tapia to win his first round match for the Uptown title.

Chaos 300 pinned Wild Cat in another first round match for the Uptown title.

The F1RST Wrestling Wrestlepalooza champion Arik Cannon pinned Joey Ryan to retain the title.

Darin Corbin beat Brandon Gore in another first round match.

Sami Callihan pinned Darby Allin in the final first round match in the Uptown championship tournament.

Officer Rob Justice defeated Giant Griffin after using pepper spray on the Giant.

Jessicka Havok pinned Rachael Ellering.

The main event was for the F1RST Wrestling Uptown VFW championship. It was a 4 man elimination match between Darin Corbin, Air Wolf, Sami Callihan and Chaos 300.

Chaos 300 was the first to be eliminated after he hit referee Clark Feldman with a baseball bat. 

Air Wolf pinned Sami Callihan for the next elimination.

Darin Corbin pinned Air Wolf after a kick to the nuts.

Referee Rob Page declared Darin Corbin the first F1RST Wrestling Uptown champion.

PWB St. Paul, MN 2/24/18

Promotion: Pro Wrestling Battleground
Time/Date: 6 p.m. Saturday February 24, 2018
City, State: St. Paul, MN
Venue: Wilebski's Blues Saloon

In the opening match Darin Corbin defeated "Downtown" Petey Brown.

Giant Griffin pinned Elliott "Eye Candy" Paul.

The Kid/Creed Connection (Kal Creed & The Tomahawk Kid) defeated Angel Dorado & James Tapia in tag team action.


Kody Rice pinned Stephen Wolf.

PW champion Super Thunder Frog defeated Matt Knicks to retain the title.

Stevie Fierce pinned Arik Cannon.

PWB Breakout champion Air Wolf pinned Orin Veidt in a no DQ match to retain the title. Metal chairs and doors were used in this match.

PWB returns to Wilebski's on March 24, 2018.
For the month of February I photographed 5 different promotions. There were 56 different wrestlers on those events. 13 of those wrestlers came from outside of MN. One of those wrestlers was on all 5 events and that was Air Wolf. It was recently announced that Air Wolf will be heading out of MN to compete in Chikara's Young Lion's Cup as well as IPW's Hall of Fame Classic tournament. 

Crushed Glencoe, MN 2/17/18

Promotion: Crushed Pro Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 p.m. Saturday February 17, 2018
City, State: Glencoe, MN
Venue: Glencoe City Center

Crushed Pro Wrestling held their 4th event at the beautiful Glencoe City Center. This building was built back in 1932 and was originally the Glencoe high school. This was 2 nights in a row that I was at a wrestling event in a venue that was over 80 years old.

Glencoe is about 50 miles to the west of Minneapolis. Too bad it's so far away as it's a really nice venue. There is a large floor area and a balcony which is were I took this photo from. Pretty sure some wrestler is diving off that balcony.

In a pre-show match The Tomahawk Kid pinned James Tapia.

Air Wolf, Angel Dorado & Chris Cro defeated Brandon Gore, JDX & AJ Bond in a 6 man tag match.

"The Minnesota Wrecker" Josh Price pinned Leonard Literacy.

Kyle Pro won a 3 way match against Kal Creed and Rylie Jackson.

Arik Cannon pinned "6% Body Fat" Rob James for the 1,129th time. James came to the ring to new entrance music. It was Joey Envy's old entrance music.

"Downtown" Petey Brown & Darin Corbin defeated The Black Plauge (Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne & "Heavy Metal" Lore) when Corbin pinned Lore.

Danny Duggan defeated Super Thunder Frog and King Leonidas in a 3 way match. With that win Duggan was granted a spot in a match for the Crushed Pro Wrestling championship at Crushed 5.

The main event was a 2 out of 3 falls match between Jacob Savage and Orin Veidt. Veidt won the first fall.

Jacob Savage won the second fall. Oh look, someone did dive off the balcony. This dive actually took place after Savage won the second fall.

Orin Veidt pinned Jacob Savage after a witch hunter on to a steel chair. After the match it was announced that these two would face each other at Crushed 5 in a last man standing match.

MIW Chanhassen, MN 1/20/18

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Saturday January 20, 2018
City, State: Chanhassen, MN
Venue: American Legion post #580


El Bano defeated Heavy Metal Lore in the opening match by DQ when Stonehenge interfered in the match. Mitch Paradise came out to help El Bano and that set up a tag match for later in the night.

Rookie Rylie Jackson pinned Aiden Wake.

Chris Jordan pinned The Tomahawk Kid.

The Black Plague ( Heavy Metal Lore & Joseph "stonehenge" Wayne) defeated Mitch Paradise & El Bano.

Kal Creed defeated rookie James Tapia. Black Stallion was scheduled to be on this event but he was injured at the SDW event the week before so Tapia took Stallions place.

MIW champion Scott Story pinned Arik Cannon to retain the title.