PTW Bloomington, MN 4/27/2012

Prime Time Wrestling was back at the Bloomington Knights of Columbus for their monthly show this past Friday night.

The first contest of the night was an arm wrestling match between The Brauler and El Bano. The contest ended when The Brauler poked El Bano in the eye. I think The Brauler was really intimidated by El Bano’s Over the Top hat. Some guy from the I.N.S. came in to the ring to announce that El Bano did not have a green card so he was taking El Bano back to Mexico. The PTW commissioner got in the ring and asked the I.N.S. guy if he could pay El Bano’s bond to keep him in the country until next months card when they will have a looser get deported match.
Magic Man defeated Chris Dorrian after Dorrian hit his head on the ceiling beam.
Magic Man thought that his match with Dorrian was so easy he challenged the next wrestler who walked out of the locker room. Magic Man was so confident that he could beat anyone that he said he would cut off his hair if he lost. Mitch Paradise was the next wrestler to walk out. Magic Man changed his mind about wrestling Paradise right then but said he would wrestle him next month if Paradise beat The Executioner. Paradise did beat The Executioner by tap out.
The Black Stallion defeated Robbie Thunder with Lilly. Thunder got some help from Lilly but she got a little too involved while she was on the ring apron when The Black Stallion pushed Thunder into her.
PTW champion Lenny Lane pinned Renny D. Lanes feet were on the ropes and ref Rob Page did not see it. Page should really go to a doctor to get his eyes checked.

MWE Robbinsdale, MN 3/3/2012

Midwest Wrestling Entertainment held their annual fund raiser event for a church youth group this past Saturday night. This year the event was held at the Elim Lutheran church in Robbinsdale, MN.
In the opening match Cpl. Julio Julio defeated Rob Ivy.

Arya Daivari & Renny D came out to cut a promo on the Junk Squad, Chris Jordan & Pete Huge. This promo set up the main event for the night as The Junk Squad were set to defend their tag team titles against The Young Guys. I’m not sure if that was the name that Daivari & D gave themselves but it sounds good.
Chris Dorrian pinned Benjamin Sailer in the the second match of the night.
Horace the Psychopath defeated Shimdog. This was Shimdogs last match as his doctor told him that he should never wrestle again because his spine is in horrible shape. Thankfully that means that this is the last time that Shimdogs tights will be seen in a wrestling ring. Here is a photo of Shimdog from June 2003. This was one of the first times that I photographed a Shimdog match. It took place at the old MPW arena. At the time Shimdog was the MPW cruiser weight champion. He defeated Kaos (Cody O’Neill) to retain the title.
The Black Stallion pinned El Bano.
The Junk Squad defeated The Young Guys when Chris Jordan pinned Renny D after some kind of swinging neck breaker type thing.

AWF Elk River, MN 2/25/2012

This past Saturday night the American Wrestling Federation held their annual fund raiser for the Elk River high school football team. This event was also a TV taping for the AWF Saturday Night Slam TV show that can be seen on channel 45 in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
In the first match Ryan Cruz defeated Rob James.
The Black Stallion pinned Mr. KK (Kamikaze Klecker)
Tony DeNucci pinned El Muerto  after a frog splash.
Johnny Parks came out for his match but his opponent never came out. A name was announced that I didn’t hear and music was played but no one came out. The ref counted to 10 and Parks was the winner. El Muerto was dumb enough to come to the ring and attack Parks.
Craven Knyte became the first AWF Elite champion when he defeated John Johnson.
AWF World champion Wildcat defeated former champion Arya Daivari in a no dq match. After his victory Wildcat wanted to celebrate with an adult beverage but the bar tender wouldn’t serve him with the mask on.

PTW Bloomington, MN 1/20/2012

Prime Time Wrestling returned to the Knights of Columbus in Bloomington, MN for their monthly shows. On this card PTW would crown their first champion.
The opening match was to determine who would face Lenny Lane in the main event for the PTW championship. Chiropractor DC defeated Magic Man to earn the the championship match. Magic Man was with out his hairdresser on this night but he still had his can of hair spray.
The Executioner defeated Chris Dorrian.
The Rainmaker came out for his match. While his music was playing it changed to “The Candy man”. It was Magic man who had the music changed. While The Rainmaker was distracted, Ian Xavier came out and gave The Rainmaker a big splash. The Black Stallion came out to save The Rainmaker.
After The Black Stallion saved The Rainmaker he challenged Ian Xavier to an match but Magic Man said he had a different opponent in mind. Out cam Robbie Thunder with Tiger Lilly to take on Stallion. When Lilly came in the ring to help Thunder Jordana K came out to attack Lilly. For some odd reason referee Willy Mack awarded the match to Thunder by DQ. This was Jordana’s first time in the ring. It’s nice to see some new females in the Minneapolis area. Hopefully both Lilly and Jordana will be around for awhile.
John Johnson pinned Cpl. Julio Julio. As you can see in the photo here Johnson had his feet on the ropes to get the pin but ref Willy Mack didn’t see it. But Mack reversed his decision when Johnson beat down Julio after the match. So Julio got the win by DQ.
Lenny Lane became the first PTW champion when he pinned Chiropractor DC. The fans were teased at the start of the match when DC pinned Lane and special guest senior referee Rob Page counted 3. But Lane pointed out that the bell had not yet rang for the match to started. Boy did Page look dumb. DC tapped to to Lane’s boston crab to make Lane the champion.

AWF Monticello, MN 1/7/2012

The American Wrestling Federation returned to the Monticello high school for another fund raiser/TV taping. AWF Saturday Night Slam is now taped in HD!.
In the opening match The Black Stallion pinned “All Star” Paul Brewski.
“6% Body Fat” Rob James beat “Livewire” Johnny Parks with the lipo buster, aka Canadian destroyer. This was actually a tag team match with James and Parks teaming with teachers from Monticello High School. After the match James told his partner to kick Parks while he was down. Teachers are really good guys so all the teachers pummeled James.
Former AWF heavy weight champion Tony DeNucci pinned John Johnson after a big splash from the top rope.
Arya & Shawn Daivari beat AWF heavy weight champion Wildcat & Ryan Cruz. Arya hit Wildcat with the title belt to get the 3 count from ref Rob Page.
The main event was a royal rumble with all the wrestlers from the four previous matches minus the teachers and Wildcat. Benjamin Sailer was also in the rumble but he didn’t last long. No wonder the AWF doesn’t book him. Johnny Parks was the winner of the match when he skinned the cat and pulled Rob James out to the floor.

BCW Crystal, MN 11/18/2011

This past Friday night Born Champion Wrestling returned to the Crystal Community Center for an action packed night of indy pro wrestling.
In the opening match The Patriot 3 pinned The Cougar after a frog splash.
Bret O’Brian defeated Udo and Savage in a 3 way dance. O’Brian pinned Savage to get the 3 count. This was my first time seeing Savage in action as this was his BCW debut.
Horace The Psychopath defeated Cpl. Julio Julio.
Judd Jennrich pinned Kamikaze Klecker. Jennrich needed outside help and some brass knuckles to get the win.
BCW Twin Cities champion Ryan Cruz retained the title when he beat Craven Knyte. This championship title was originally called the ‘rivals championship’ but I guess BCW realized that sounded dumb so it was changed. Be sure to check out the current issue of The Wrestler for an ‘Introducing’ feature on Knyte. If you can’t find it on on news stands you can order it from the PWI web site for $4 off the cover price. Also in that issue you can see photos I took of Mat Fitchett and John Morrison.
The Prophet defeated Venom. After ref Rob Page was knocked down Bret O’Brian hit Venom with a chair and put The Prophet on top of Venom for the pin.
“The Anarchist” Arik Cannon pinned “6% Body Fat” Rob James after a brain buster.
BCW heavy weight champion Darin Corbin defeated The Black Stallion to retain the belt. Corbin had some help from The Entourage to get the win. After the match Dirty Ernie came out to challenge Corbin to a no DQ match at the next BCW event. I hope this photo doesn’t make Corbin look fat.

PTW Bloomington, MN 10/28/2011

Prime Time Wrestling had their second event this past Friday night at the Bloomington Knights of Columbus. There was a new ring announcer for this event.
Apostle 13 defeated “6% Body Fat” Rob James in the opening match. Apostle 13 was suppose to have a rematch against Mikey Wipeout as part of the championship tournament but Wipeout was recently injured.
Udo defeated Arya Daivari.
Chiropractor DC pinned Gunner Clash.
Dennis “The Menace” Michaels and Tiger Lilly came out to talk to DC after the match. I’m not sure what they were trying to say to DC as no one got on a mic. Michaels did ask to shake DC’s hand and then he kick DC in gut. Lilly hit DC in the jimmy and then she left the ring with Michaels.
Magic Man pinned The Black Stallion. In my post about last months PTW event I wrote that Magic Man had fewer matches then the Rainmaker. I was wrong, Magic Man has had a few more matches then the Rainmaker.
In the first few minutes of the match The Black Stallion had Magic Man in a headlock. Stallion then gave Magic Man a noggie that messed up his hair. Magic Man didn’t like his hair messed up so he called Charise, his hair stylist, out for a touch up. Not only did Charise fix Magic Man’s hair, she helped him win the match when she shot the hair spray in The Black Stallions eyes.
In the main event Lenny Lane defeated Mitch Paradise by DQ. Lane did the old “hey ref, he hit me with that chair that he is holding’ bit. The referee then DQ’ed Paradise even though he didn’t see Paradise hit Lane with the chair, because he didn’t hit Lane with the chair.
Paradise was pissed so he he was going to stomp a mud hole in Lane’s face. But before Paradise could get his boots dirty he was attacked by 7’ masked man. A few moments later another 7’ masked man came into the ring to pound on Paradise. The Rainmaker came to the ring to help Paradise but there was not much he could do against the much larger men.

AWF Elk River, MN 2/26/2011

The American Wrestling Federation held "February Free for All V" at the Elk River High School this past Saturday night. This was a fund raiser show for the high schools football team. This event was taped for the AWF's TV show Saturday Night Slam. SNS can be seen on channel 45 at 11pm in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. You can also watch all the AWF SNS episodes on YouTube.
In the opening match "The Bulldog" Sammy Savard defeated "The Anarchist" Arik Cannon. Savard finished off Cannon with a stunner. Cannon's mohawk is getting pretty tall.
Benjamin Sailer & Ryan Cruz defeated John Johnson & Aaron Corbin to become the new AWF tag team champions. Sailer & Cruz are calling their tag team "Martial Law". If you think that's a good name for a good guy tag team leave a comment below. Just click on the word "comment". You don't even have to log in or anything.
Mitch Paradise pinned Mikey Wipeout after a choke power bomb. Wipeout used to go by the name Stanley but now he is doing a 'surfer dude' gimmick. Wipeout even rode the wave on Paradises back.
"All Star" Paul Brewski defeated The Black Stallion.
"live Wire" Johnny Parks defeated AWF heavy weight champion Arya Daivari. Unfortunately Parks won the match by DQ as Daivari hit referee Rob Page. After Page was knocked out another ref ran into the ring when Parks had Daivari pinned. The ref made the 3 count and gave the belt to Parks. Page finally woke up and DQed Daivari and gave him back the title belt.
In the main event for the night Tony DeNucci defeated "6% Body Fat" Rob James in a no DQ match.