MAW Minneapolis, MN 2/16/18

Promotion: Midwest All-Star Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Friday February 16, 2018
City, State: Minneapolis, MN
Venue: Parkway Theater

I believe this was the first time that pro wrestling was seen at this 80 year old theater in south Minneapolis. It has not been used as a regular theater in many years. I've been here to watch some Doctor Who episodes and most recently to watch a screening of 1980's Flash Gordon, which is when I found out about this event. It's been cold in the Parkway each time I've been there and this night was no different. I guess the heater has not worked in a while. This event was the last one in the Parkway until the new owners do a remodel. this was my first time at an MAW event as most of their events have been on Sundays.

The first two matches were pre-show 'young lions' matches. They involved 4 of the recent graduates from The Academy of Professional Wrestling.
Rylie Jackson VS Kyle Pro ended in a 10 minute time limit draw.

Brandon Gore pinned JDX.

Tomahawk Kid pinned Officer Rob Justice.

The Maulers (Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne & Damien Graves) defeated El Tigre & El Angel Dorado.

"Downtown" Petey Brown defeated "Mr Entertainment" Ty Cooper. After the match they were both attacked by JDX and Rylie Jackson. Brown and Cooper got their revenge after intermission.

Aiden Wake pinned Leonard Literacy after some outside help from Sneaky Pete.

Orin Veidt pinned Air Wolf. Veidt had some help from the Maulers. This was the first of 3 events I would shoot at on this weekend.There was one wrestler who was also at all three of those events and that was Air Wolf.

In the main event Garrison Creed defeated Duke Cornell

MIW Chanhassen, MN 1/20/18

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Saturday January 20, 2018
City, State: Chanhassen, MN
Venue: American Legion post #580


El Bano defeated Heavy Metal Lore in the opening match by DQ when Stonehenge interfered in the match. Mitch Paradise came out to help El Bano and that set up a tag match for later in the night.

Rookie Rylie Jackson pinned Aiden Wake.

Chris Jordan pinned The Tomahawk Kid.

The Black Plague ( Heavy Metal Lore & Joseph "stonehenge" Wayne) defeated Mitch Paradise & El Bano.

Kal Creed defeated rookie James Tapia. Black Stallion was scheduled to be on this event but he was injured at the SDW event the week before so Tapia took Stallions place.

MIW champion Scott Story pinned Arik Cannon to retain the title.

MIW Chanhassen, MN 12/2/17

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Saturday December 2, 2017
City, State: Chanhassen, MN
Venue: American Legion

Ring announcer Laszlo was kind enough to pose for me and show off his neat shoes. Wish the wrestlers would be so kind.

Santa Clause came out to hand out candy to the fans.

Ty Cooper defeated Officer Rob Justice.

Chadwick Wentworth III defeated rookie Kyle Pro. There are a lot of new guys on the MN scene as the first class of The Academy of Pro Wrestling are now getting booked.

The Black Plauge (Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne & Lore) VS Chris Jordan & El Bano ended in a double count out.

Rylie Jackson pinned The Tomahawk Kid.

MIW champion Scott Story defeated Kal Creed to retain the title.

MIW returns to the Chanhassen American Legion on January 20, 2018.

MIW Columbia Heights, MN 11/10/17

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Friday November 10, 2017
City, State: Columbia Heights, MN
Venue: Lions Club Murzyn Hall


"The Young Gun" Rylie Jackson defeated Aiden Wake.

Chadwick Wentworth III pinned Kal Creed. Yes, that's a golf club in CW3's hands. Yes, he hit KC with it while the ref was not looking.

Mitch Paradise defeated Kody Rice. Paradise wanted to find out if Rice tasted like a cheese burger.

Chris Jordan pinned The Tomahawk Kid after a top rope ace crusher.

The Black Plague (Lore & Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne) beat Joey Avalon & Jordy Lee.

MIW Open weight Lion champion Ty Cooper defeated "Notorious" Ryan Cruz to retain the title.

MIW Forest Lake, MN 10/28/17

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 p.m. Saturday October 28, 2017
City, State: Forest Lake, MN
Venue: American Legion Post # 225

The Final Chapter

El Bano pinned Leonard Literacy in the opening match. This being a Halloween weekend event it was nice to see on of the wrestlers dress in costume. Literacy came out dressed as Faarooq/Ron Simmions.

Even better then Literacy's costume was the next guys out. Tom Butterman came out as Freddie Krueger adn Scott Story as Hockey Mask Guy.

The best and scariest costume of the night was Pete Huge as Terry Fox.

Back to the matches as The Tomahawk Kid defeated Rylie Jackson.

Chris Jordan won by DQ over Lore when Lore's partner Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne interfered in the match. This set up a tag match for later.

Mitch Paradise pinned Chadwick Wentworth III.

The Black Plague (Lore & Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne) defeated Chris Jordan & Ty Cooper.


In the main event MIW champion JD Bandit took on Scott Story for the last time.

After a few ref bumps Scott Story defeated Bandit to win the MIW championship.

PTW Bloomington, MN 10/27/17

Promotion: Prime Time Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 p.m. Friday October 27, 2017
City, State: Bloomington, MN
Venue: Bloomington Event Center


This was the second annual PTW zombie invasion. The event started off with Lore and Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne coming to the ring and bringing out some zombies to attack a rookie wrestler. The zombies would come out more through out the night.

Black Stallion defeated PTW Uptown champion Darin Corbin by DQ. Corbin hit Stallion with the title belt for the DQ. Check out that old school WWF shirt on the the guy on the left of the photo.

PTW U.S. Fanny Pack champion Danny Duggan took on Luther Wilson III, Tomahawk Kid, Brandon Gore, "Downtown" Petey Brown and Ian Xavier in a 6 man match.

Most of the wrestlers were attacked by "Stonehenge" and his zombies.

Danny Duggan pinned Ian Xavier ( the only remaining wrestler) to retain the fanny pack title.

Air Wolf pinned Craven Knyte. This may have been Knyte's last match in pro wrestling.

"Livewire" Johnny Parks took on a guy who who runs a karate dojo. It was suppose to be Billy Blaze that was suppose to take on the karate guy but Blaze must have been too scared to show up. Parks was attacked by the zombies.

PTW champion Mitch Paradise defeated Lore to retain the title. This event was the first of 3 that I would attend over the weekend. Both of these guys would be on all three of those events.


PTW tag team champions Wild Cat & Super Thunder Frog wrestled DOUG & Other DOUG to a no contest when Lore, Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne and the zombies attacked the 4 wrestlers.

Wild Cat & Super Thunder Frog defeated Lore & Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne in a quick match to end the event.