HOW Duluth, MN 6/11/17

Promotion: Heavy On Wrestling
Time/Date: 4:30 p.m. Sunday June 11, 2017
City, State: Duluth, MN
Venue: Clyde Iron Works


Airwolf defeated Craven Knyte in the opening match.

Keely Quinn was announced as the new general manager of HOW. The first thing she did was announce that Dan Jesser would join Abyss in the casket match against Mitch Paradise.

King Leonidas pinned Cooter Bocephus.

Copper Teeth ( Duke Cornell & Chainsaw King) defeated Zero Tolerance (Black Stallion & John Johnson).

Kody Rice beat Scott Story.

For that match Cody Rice was managed by Jimmy Hart.

Mitch Paradise won the casket match against Abyss & Dan Jesser when he closed the door with Jesser in the casket.

Darin Corbin defeated Arik Cannon 2 falls to 1.

That match was for the vacated HOW Undisputed championship.Former NWA champion Tommy "Wildfire" Rich came to the ring to present Corbin with the title belt.

The next HOW event at Clyde Iron Works is October 29, 2017.
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Flash Back Friday: DCW Minneapolis, MN 8/13/2003

Promotion: Downtown Championship Wrestling
Time/date: 8 p.m. Wednesday August 13, 2003
City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Venue: First Ave night club

For this Flash Back Friday we jump back to a time when First Ave events were on Wednesday nights and mostly free. I'm not sure who won or lost in these matches I didn't take notes or make sure that I photographed the ref raising the winners hand.

El Viejo VS John Johnson. James "Moose" Thomas was the jeans wearing ref for this match. Not sure if Thomas had started wrestling before this or if he was still training. When he started wrestling it was under the name Tommy Gunn.

 "The Genuine Article" Chris Jordan defeated Christian Moore. This was Moore's first pro match after training with Terry Fox and Eddie Sharkey. Others that trained that summer with Moore were DOS, Josie, Rob Page and Big Mac. Moore wrote about this match in chapter 9 of his autobiography "Being Moore: my life in professional wrestling". This same photo can be seen in that book. The most interesting thing about this photo is Jordan's gear.

 Mitch Paradise VS Dan Jesser.

 DCW womans champion Josie defeated Rain. Terry Fox was the referee.

 "Playboy" Pete Huge VS Kaos,AKA Cody O'Neill. Looks like Huge was wearing shorts but still not showing any part of his legs.

Big Daddy Hoofer, AKA Brody Hoofer VS Detroit Slim.

DCW champion Black Stallion defeated  Lenny Lane.