#FBF MPW Maple Grove, MN 1/17/2004

Promotion: Midwest Pro Wrestling
Time/Date: Saturday 7:300pm January 17, 2004
City, State: Maple Grove, MN
Venue: MPW training camp

With these flashbacks I can't always tell you who won the match as I was not taking notes at the time. I try to take a photo of the ref raising the hand of the winning wrestler but that doesn't always happen.  That's one reason why I really like to do this blog as it's a record of all the matches that I've photographed. There used to be message boards where fans would post results/reviews of the matches. Too bad those message boards are no longer around. Message boards are a thing of the past.

This event was one of MPW's big Saturday shows. They had events every Sunday but once a month they had a bigger Sunday event. This one was a big deal as they brought in AJ Style and Christopher Daniels. Both of those guys were at an event in Wisconsin the night before.

MPW cruiser weight champ Kid Krazy defeated Casanova, El Viejo and Kaos (Cody O'Neill) in a 4 man elimination match to retain the title.

The Schoolboy VS Sheriff Johnny Emerald.

Cowboy Gator Magraw VS Aaron Corbin.

"The Fallen Angle" Christopher Daniels pinned Arik Cannon.

AJ Styles pinned Shifty. I think that Shifty only wrestled in one more match after this one. Styles came back to MPW to win the Universal championship.

While going through these photos I saw this one of a fan holding up a sign. That fan can now be seen wrestling on NXT on the WWE network. Oh yeah, there is a young fat Venom in that photo as well.

AWA RUSH Mankato, MN 7/27/2007

Gator's Last Stand was the name of the card held by AWA Pro Wrestling RUSH this last Friday at the Eagles Club in Mankato, MN. This was a new venue for RUSH and the place was packed for Cowboy Gator Magraws last match as he was retiring due to injuries.

The Junk Squad beat the Northstar Express to retain the AWA RUSH tag team titles.

Tag team partners Benjamin Sailer and Jasyin Strife wrestled against each other in an exhibition match to prepare them selves for a rematch with the Junk Squad. There was no winner in this match as the Junk Squad attacked Sailer and Strife.
The feud between student and teacher continued as Shimdog took on Jake Taylor in a strap match. There was no winner in this match as both men touched the 4th turnbuckle pad at the same time.
Arya Daivari beat Devin Carter to become the new AWA RUSH YouTube champion.
Arik Cannon beat Aaron Corbin. After the match Cannon poured some drain clog remover stuff on Corbin's face.
Joey Envy retained the AWA RUSH championship against Horace the psychopath when the ref reversed the original decision and Horace was disqualified.

In his last match Gator Magraw beat his long time nemesis and former partner Casanova.
It was a little over 4 years ago when I first photographed Magraw in action at a Neo Pro card in Cottage Grove, MN. He was a little thinner then.

NIW Amery, WI 6/9/2007

Northern Impact Wrestling returned to the Tac in Amery, WI after a cancelled show last month. Scheduled was the return of the first NIW champion who had not been in an NIW ring for about 2 years and a first blood match. Neither of those things happened this night as all announced matches were thrown out except for one and that was the opening match. One match that I didn't get photos from was the NIW Impact champion The Prophet defending his title against Kleck Micheals. Prophet retained the title.
Cowbow Gator Magraw beat Ryan Stone. This was to be Magraw's second to last match before he retires.
In a tag team match Bobby Mafi & Venom beat Tommy 'Spiderbaby' Saturday & Big Bad Booty Daddy.
The main event this night was an impromptu match for full control of NIW. The C.E.O. challenged NIW owner Frosty to find 4 wrestler to take on his team of 'Playboy' Pete Huge, Trent Jones, Malikite & Rob James. Frosty went to the locker room and put together the team of Arik Cannon, Ben Sailer, Ryan Cruz & Darin Corbin. The match ended when Huge hit Sailer with a title belt and got the pin for the C.E.O. to take full control of NIW.

AWA RUSH Mankato, MN 4/5/2007

Last Thursday night I made my way down to Mankato, MN to photograph AWA Pro Wrestling RUSH at the Bandanna Brewery for the first time. Cowboy Gator Magraw started RUSH back in October 2006 and has been running monthly cards from the same place. I was going to go to last months card but it was cancelled because of a blizzard. I was taking posed shots so I was not able to photograph all the matches on this night.
The first match of the night was a triple threat match between Arik Cannon, Casanova and Rob James. The match started with a Casanova special challenge which was a joke telling contest. Cannon won the challenge with a dirty joke and got the pin on Rob James after a brain buster.
Shimdog beat Matty Star.
Joessiah, "Hollywood" Brian Sager, & The Prophet beat Zak James, Benjamin Sailer, & Jake Taylor.
Gator Magraw was suppose to wrestle the team of Pete Huge & Kleck Micheals with a 'mystery partner' but no one showed up to the ring with Gator. With the help of a Joey Envy super kick Pete Huge got the pin on Magraw.
AWA RUSH Youtube champion Devin Carter retained his title against Jaysin Strife.
In a special Ladies match Rain beat Mystik.
AWA RUSH champion Chris Jordan beat El Viejo to retain his belt.

MIW Clearwater, MN 3/3/2007

The stars of Minnesota Independent Wrestling were in action at the Clearwater American Legion on Saturday March 3rd, 2007 for 'Battle for the Belt'. There were 5 matches with the winner going on to a 6th match that was for the vacated MIW heavyweight title belt.

Chris Jordan beat Gator Magraw in the first match of the night. Jordan had to be one of the favorites to win the MIW title as he already has 2 other belts right now.

'Live Wire' Johnny Parks beat Jean Marius. This was my first time seeing Marius who comes from Canada.
Shimdog beat Cooter to advance to the championship match.

Joey Envy beat Pete Huge to move to the main event.
Big Daddy Hoofer beat Rob Stardom in a submission only match.

MIW promoter/referee Terry Fox rasies the hand of new MIW heavy weight champion Big Daddy Hoofer.