PWB 5/26/18

Promotion: Pro Wrestling Battleground
Time/Date: 6 pm May 26, 2018
City, State: St. Paul, MN
Venue: Wilebski's Blues Saloon

In the opening contest Brandon Gore defeated Heavy Metal Lore.

James Tapia beat up Kyle Pro in the second match.

PWB Breakout champion Air Wolf defeated Rylie Jackson to retain the title. Jackson was DQ'ed after using the title belt on Air Wolf.

Kal Creed & Tomahawk Kid defeated the PWB tag team champions, Giant Griffin & Kody Rice.


"Smiling" Darin Corbin pinned Matt Knicks.

In a 3 way match Scott "The Never Ending" Story defeated Stevie Fierce and Eye Candy Elliot. 

Venom defeated PWB Champion Super Thunder Frog to win the title.


After the match a bunch of guys came to the ring to celebrate with Venom.

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.

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. 

SCW St. Paul, MN 2/9/18

Promotion: Showtime Championship Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 p.m. Friday February 9, 2018
City, State: St.Paul, MN
Venue: Eagles Club

The first match was a 4 man elimination match for the SCW Future Clash Championship held by Brandon Gore.
JDX eliminated Koda Jacobs.

Brandon Gore eliminated Joey Keys.

SCW Future Clash champion Brandon Gore pinned JDX to retain the title.

The next match was to determine the #1 contender for the SCW Future Clash championship. Former champion Ricky Noren VS Kyle Pro ended in a double count out.

Tomahawk Kid pinned Shinigami. Message to fans who figure out who is under the mask. Keep it to yourself.

Heavy Metal Lore pinned James Tapia. Lore actually tapped out to a Tapia submission hold but the ref was knocked out.

El Angel Dorado & Giant Griffin won by DQ over ESQ III & Rylie Jackson.

This match must have been contested under lucha rules as the DQ came when Rylie Jackson took off El Angel Dorado's mask.

Zuka King pinned DeAndre Jackson after outside help from JDX. These two men and Movie Myk (who was in the main event) came all the way from the east coast for 2 SCW events. It's always nice to see two guys come to an area where no one in the crowd knows who they are.Both these guys connected with the SCW crowd.

Air Wolf won a 4 man match against Kal Creed, Movie Myk and Jeff Cobb. Air Wolf got the 3 count on Myk.

SCW returns to the Eagles Club on Friday March 30, 2018.