PWA 6/29/2013 South St. Paul, MN

Promotion: Pro Wrestling America
Date: June 29, 2013
Venue: VFW Post #295
City, State: South Saint Paul, MN

Rob Ivy defeated The Brauler.

El Bano defeated Tommy "Spiderbaby" Saturday by DQ. 

 Mystik Sexton pinned "Miss Natural" Heather Patera.

 Mitch Paradise & Billy Blaze beat Horace the Psychopath & Magic Man.

John Johnson defeated Udo to become the new PWA champion.

SDW 5/11/2013 Blaine, MN

Promotion: Steel Domain Wrestling
Date: May 11th, 2013
Venue: Roosevelt Middle School
City, State: Blaine, MN
"Grapplers for Gavin"

Ryan Cruz pinned Ariya Daivari.

Benjamin Sailer defeated Tommy "Spiderbaby" Saturday.



Rob Ivy pinned Chris Jordan with his feet on the ropes.

Cooter Bocephus & Wildcat defeated "Outlaw" Dave Bell & Dan Jesser.

Nora "Molly Holly" Greenwald presented Gavin Pierson with Heavy On Wrestling hall of fame plaque. This event was a benefit for Gavin who is battling a brain tumor.

Gavin was given asked who he wanted in the main event at this event and he picked Craven Knyte and Rob James. Knyte pinned James.

MIW Chanhassen, MN 3/9/2013

Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Saturday March 9, 2013
American Legion, Chanhassen, MN
Mitch Paradise defeated Arya Daivari in the opening match.
PJ Thorn VS Ty Cooper ended in a no contest when “Playboy” Pete Huge and Chas Betts attacked both men.
Shimdog defeated Aaron Corbin.
Chas Betts pinned Benjamin Sailer.
El Bano defeated MIW champion Rob Ivy by DQ. The DQ came when a second El Bano came to the ring. The fake El Bano turned out to be the Masked Jungle Fighter.
Chris Jordan pinned “Playboy” Pete Huge in the main event battle between these former team mates. Huge’s new partner Chas Betts tried to help but it back fired.

MIW Chanhassen, MN 12/3/2011

Minnesota Independent Wrestling returned to the Chanhassen American Legion this past Saturday night. The second snow fall of the year started earlier in the day so I thought there would not be many in the crowd this night.  The snow wasn’t enough to stop anyone who wanted to go to see some great MIW pro wrestling as the room was packed.
A Paradise’s Pit started off the night. Mitch Paradise had some uninvited guest for his pit as the Masked Jungle Fighter and his “army” came out and put boots to ass. MJF’s army now consist of Gunner Clash, PJ Thornbranch, The Rainmaker, Paul Brewski, Nick Colucci, Sean Priest and Matt Winchester. After MJFA tossed Paradise out of the ring they called out MIW champion Pete Huge to ask him to join their army. Huge and Chris Jordan came to the ring and said no to the MJFA’s offer.
“Playboy” Pete Huge defended his MIW title against rookie Dorrian.  Huge hit the ‘super G spot and covered Dorrian when MJFA came out to stop the 3 count so the match ended in a no contest. El Bano, Rob Ivy, Horace the psychopath and Mitch Paradise came out to attack the MJFA.  Paradise then challenged MJF to a series of matches for control of MIW.
PJ Thornbrach, in his debut match, defeated Rob Ivy and his moustache. Thornbrach had some help from MJF in order to get the win. MJFA 1   MIW 0
Gunner Clash w/ Masked Jungle Fighter pinned El Bano. Clashed used a taser on El Bano to get the win. MJFA 2 MIW 0
Horace the psychopath pinned Sean Saint. This was my first time seeing Saint. He did a religious gimmick with some holy water. MJFA 2 MIW 1
Dorrian VS The Rainmaker w/ The Masked Jungle Fighter ended in a double count out. MJFA 2 MIW 1
“The All Star” Paul Brewski & Nick Colucci proclaimed themselves the MJFA tag team champions. They defended their belts against The Junk Squad, Chris Jordan & Pete Huge. The Junk Squad got the win and the belts after Huge hit the G spot on Colucci. MJFA 2 MIW 2
Mitch Paradise defeated Matt Winchester after a power bomb. With that win MIW won the series to stop MJF from gaining control of MIW. After the match Rob Ivy turned on his friend Paradise and joined the MJFA.

MIW Spring Lake Park, MN 9/10/2011

After shooting ring side at an afternoon show I went home and ate dinner then headed north for an Minnesota Independent Wrestling event. MIW was at Biffs Sports Bar. A few years ago when they promoted at this same place the matches took place out side in a tent but this year they were inside. Four of the wrestler that were on the afternoon show were also on this show.
The show started out with MIW owner Terry Fox coming to the ring to tell the fans of the passing of Little Tokyo on September 6th at the age of 70. Fox then brought out Bad Boy Brian to say a few words about Little Tokyo. Then there was a 10 bell salute.
Little Tokyo (seen here from 1993 at a show in Columbia Heights, MN) was part of a match at Wrestlemania III.
Mitch Paradise did a Paradise Pit with Rob Ivy and James Jeffries. Paradise picked on Jeffries small size.
Mystik Sexton defeated Ann Brookstone with Paul Brewski by DQ. The DQ came when Brewski tripped Sexton.
Arya Daivari pinned El Bano after a magic carpet ride.
Ugly & Justin Decent defeated Rob Ivy & Mitch Paradise when Decent pinned Paradise. Ugly has been to MIW a few times before but this time he brought his tag team partner with him.
Horace the Psychopath defeated Chris Jordan.
MIW champion “Playboy” Pete Huge defeated James Jeffries to retain the title. Jeffries kick out after one G-Spot from Huge but couldn’t kick out after the second one.
Mystik Sexton & Bad Boy Brian defeated Ann Brookstone & “All Star” Paul Brewski. This match was made by Terry Fox after the ladies match earlier in the card.

PWA Inver Grove Heights, MN 9/10/2011

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon Pro Wrestling America had an event as part of Inver Grove Heights Days at Drkula’s bowling ally. The wrestling took place outside under a tent. This was my first time at this annual PWA event.
In the first match Rob Ivy and his mustache defeated Tommy “Spiderbaby” Saturday. Ivy was being held by Spiderbaby’s manager Nick Mason. Ivy moved and Spiderbaby hit Mason which lead to Ivy rolling up Spiderbaby for the pin.
Chiropractor DC defeated Luther Wilson III. This was my first time seeing Wilson in action.
Mystik Sexton defeated Ann Brookstone and Starla Love in a handicap match. I think this was suppose to be a one on one match but Love got in the ring a lot so it was pretty much a handicap match.
Horace the Psychopath pinned The Brauler. Before the match started The Brauler went out into crowd to yell at a guy who was talking on his cell phone. The Brauler took the phone away and broke it. I think he did the guy a favor as he was still using a flip phone. Time to up grade.
Udo defeated Mitch Paradise to become the new PWA heavy weight champion! Paradise’s manager, The Professor, had the ref distracted when Paradise had Udo pinned after a superplex. As Paradise was yelling at the Professor, Udo rolled up Paradise for the 3 count.
The Honky Tonk Man & Buck “Rock n Roll” Zumhofe defeated Lenny Lane & Billy Blaze in a retirement match. At the beginning of the show Lane made the stipulation that if his team lost then he would retire and if the other guys lost then Zumhofe would retire. HTM hit the shake rattle & roll on Lane and got the 3 count to send Lane into retirement.

MIW Chanhassen, MN 10/23/2010

Minnesota Independent Wrestling returned to the Chanhassen American Legion this past Saturday night. On this night there were two other wrestling events in the area just 15 miles away. Because of that some of the wrestlers on this card had already wrestled at one of the other events earlier in the night.
In the first match of the night El Bano defeated "Playboy" Pete Huge with a Vader Slash. Huge was very disappointed that he lost to a toilet.

Next up was a Paradise Pit where Mitch Paradise and Rob Ivy's guest were "Genuine Article" Chris Jordan, "All Star" Paul Brewski and Allison Wonderland. The topic of this Paradise Pit was 'winners and loser's' and Brewski brought of Pete Huge as a loser because of his lose in the first match. Jordan and Brewski attached Huge until El Bano made the save.

Rob Ivy defeated Death Mask in the second match of the night. This was Death Mask's first match with MIW. Ivy got the win after a low blow.

Mitch Paradise pinned Horace the Psychopath after a power bomb. During the match Horace was in the corner next to me and he grabbed my shirt. I guess he's not a big fan of my Marvel Secret Wars t-shirt.

After intermission Rob Ivy came to the ring looking for some competition as he thought his match with Death Mask was too easy. Rookie Dorrian came out to accept the challenge. I believe this was Dorrians second match after being trained by Terry Fox. Dorrian got the win over Ivy after a low blow.

Mystik Recognize defeated Ann Brookstone. I think the fans at the American Legion gave Brookstone a new nick name, "Drama Queen". I hope this name catches on and fans everywhere call her Drama Queen.

The main event was scheduled to be Chris Jordan VS MIW heavy weight champion Brody Hoofer for the title. Before the match started Jordan and Paul Brewski attacked Hoofer. Pete Huge came out the make the save so MIW owner Terry Fox made the main event a tag team match with Hoofer and Huge teaming up against Jordan & Brewski with Allison Wonderland. The match ended in a no contest when Huge turned on Hoofer. MIW is scheduled to return to the Chanhassen American Legion on January 8th, 2011.

Unnamed Promotion St. Paul, MN 9/18/2010

This was the second event held at the Rumors/ Innuendos night club in down town St. Paul, MN. I have not heard of any name for this promotion as it really just started out as a fund raiser event for an AIDS walk. This event, which I was able to make it to after the AWF show earlier in the night, was called "Wrestle Mania". I heard from the promoter that there will be more wrestling at this venue.
In the opening match Ryan Stone pinned Dirty Ernie with a roll up out of now where.

"The Law" Mark Barker won a triple threat elimination match against Contrast and Patrick McDaniel. Contrast was the first to be eliminated.

Tommy "Spiderbaby" Saturday defeated Gene Gadaski by pin fall. Gadaski's blue jeans split open in the crotch during this match.

Patriot III defeated JB Trask in a 2 out of 3 falls match up. Patriot III won the first fall and JB took the second fall. Patriot III got the final fall when he had help from on of Trask's valets who was a plant for Patriot III.

In a rematch from last time at Rumors Rob Ivy defeated Mike Hawk.