MIW Chanhassen, MN 3/3/18

Promotion: Minnesota Independent Wrestling
Time/Date: 8 pm Saturday March 3, 2018
City, State: Chanhassen, MN
Venue: American Legion

Air Wolf defeated Kyle Pro in the opening match.

Former MIW champion Scott Story checked to see how many likes his latest photo on Instagram got as El Bano looks on. By the way, on can be found on Instagram @wamccarty. Go check it out if you have Instagram. If you don't have it then you should start an account named @crockedTerryFox.

"Young Gun" Rylie Jackson defeated Officer Rob Justice.

Mitch Paradise VS Joseph "Stonehenge" Wayne ended in a double count out.

Kal Creed defeated The Tomahawk Kid.

It was a hot night at the Chanhassen American Legion. Creed brought out his biggest fan to ringside to cool the room down.

Chadwick Wentworth III defeated JD Bandit. Not sure why CWIII had to put on a golf glove midway through the match.

MIW president Pete Huge came out ring side for the main event. He proudly showed off his year end award from Heel Turn Radio podcast.

MIW owner Terry Fox showed off his 2 Heel Turn Radio year end awards.

The main event was for the MIW championship title. Champion Chris Jordan VS El Bano VS Scott Story.


Scott Story won the match to once again win the MIW championship title.There was some interference at the end of the match to lead to Story winning the match.

HOW Duluth, MN 2.18.18

Promotion: Heavy On Wrestling
Time/Date: 5 p.m. Sunday February 18, 2018
City, State: Duluth, MN
Venue: Clyde Iron Works

No Love Lost

It was a snowy day in Minnesota. The drive up to Duluth from the Minneapolis area didn't see much snow but it did start close to event time.That snow would cause a change to one of the matches on this card.

In the opening match Wild Cat defeated Ryan Cruz. Wild Cat debuted his new mask in this match.

In a 3 way match King Leonidas defeated heavy Metal Lore and Chainsaw King. Fan fact, Leonidas is a town in northern MN.

Ken Anderson...Anderson defeated Mitch Paradise in a #1 contender match. This #1 contender match was pretty much like a "money in the bank" match as the winner could challenge for the HOW title when ever they wanted.

This next match was scheduled to be a 4 women match for the new HOW woman's championship title. Because of the snow Madison Rayne, Angelina Love and Laurel Van Ness were unable to make it to Duluth for this event. Leva Bates was able to make so she faced Kara Noia for the HOW woman's title.

For the first 2 matches Kara Noia was ring side doing video camera for HOW production. Noia is a student at The Academy of Professional Wrestling and she has only work in less then 10 matches. I last saw her as a referee at Showtime Championship Wrestling in St. Paul, MN. Noia had less then 10 minutes to prepare for this championship match against Bates. Good thing thing

Leva Bates pinned Kara Noia to win the first ever HOW Woman's championship title. Bates is known as the cosplay wrestler. For this match she cosplayed as Mikasa Ackerman from Attack On Titan, a popular anima series from Japan. The morning after the event I showed my wife photos of Bates as Mikasa as she has watched Attack On Titan. The first thing she said was "where are the leg straps?". Bates took those leg straps off mid way through the match.

Billy Gunn defeated Shawn Daivari. Usually I post a photo of the winner the match doing a move or hold but in this match I didn't have that. During this match I had to go to the bathroom. When I returned Gunn had just won the match with his fameasser move.

While he was in the area Billy Gunn did a seminar at The Academy of Processional Wrestling. He also did a pod cast with Ken Anderson and Michael Hunter for Lower The Mic.Click here to listen to that pod cast.

The main event was a 4 corners match for the HOW championship. HOW champion Darin Corbin took on Arik Canon, Kody Rice and Air Wolf.

Air Wolf pinned Kody Rice to win the HOW championship title.

Ken Anderson...Anderson and Shawn Daivari came out to congratulate Air Wolf as they are his trainers at The Academy of Professional Wrestling.Anderson told Air Wolf that he was going after his title, right now. After a belt to the head and a mic check Anderson got the pin on Air Wolf.

Ken Anderson...Anderson is the new HOW undisputed champion.

The next HOW event is a big one. It takes place on July 29, 2018 in Tower, MN at the Fortune Bay Casino. Already signed to appear at this event are Scott Hall, Eric Bischoff and Ricky Steamboat.

PTW Bloomington, MN 1/26/18

Promotion: Prime Time Wrestling
Time/Date: 7 p.m. Friday January 26, 2018
City, State: Bloomington, MN
Venue: Bloomington Event Center

This was PTW's annual Big Show and the last PTW event by promoter Greg McDonald AKA Magic Man. It was announced that Steel Domain Wrestling bought PTW and they will now run shows at the Bloomington Event Center under the PTW banner.

Lenny Lane returned to PTW to be commissioner for the night.

In the opening match The Tomahawk Kid defeated Magic Man. 

In a trainer VS student match Air Wolf pinned Shawn Daivari. Ken Anderson was scheduled to be in this match but he was unable to make it so Daivari took his place.

Next up was a match for the PTW Uptown championship. It was to be a 4 way match but Black Stallion was taken out of action by champion Darin Corbin before the other two wrestlers made it to the ring.

The other two wrestlers in the now 3 way match were Craven Knyte and Danny Duggan. As Darin Corbin was attacking Stallion before the bell Renny D came to the ring. Renny D was then made the referee for this match. The match ended when Corbin hit Knyte,  Duggan and Renny D with the title belt. Corbin lost by DQ and was stripped of the title because he hit an official. 

At intermission two more former PTW members, Tiger Lilly and Robbie Thunder,  came out for the raffle drawing. 

Big Sepp pinned Ricky Love.

Matt "The Beer City Bruiser" Winchester defeated Heavy Metal Lore in a hard core match.

The main event was a 3 tag team elimination match for all the titles in PTW. The DOUGs VS Body Beautiful (Billy Blaze & PTW champion Mitch Paradise) VS PTW tag team champions Wild Cat & Super Thunder Frog. The DOUGs were eliminated after Black Stallion unmasked one of the DOUGs to reveal it was Darin Corbin. The match ended in a double pin. Referee Jay Soltis said Body Beautiful won and referee Willy Mac said Cat & Frog won. So it looks like all the PTW titles are vacated until the next event at the Bloomington Event Center on March 30, 2018.

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 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.

HOW Duluth, MN 10/29/17

Promotion: Heavy On Wrestling
Time/Date: 4 p.m. Sunday October 29, 2017
City, State: Duluth, MN
Venue: Clyde's Iron Works

Heavy Halloween



Super Thunder Frog & Wild Cat defeated Cooper Teeth (Duke Cornell & Chainsaw King)

Sean "X-Pac" Waltman came out with his dog to announce that he would be at HOW's big event on July 29, 2018.

King Leonidas defeated "Downtown" Petey Brown.

Black Stallion beat Lore in a hard core match.

Little Bobby Rude won the costume contest that was judged by "Wild" Bill Erwin.

Lance Hoyt wrestled Mitch Paradise for the #1 contender for the HOW title. The match ended in a double count out.

Gangrel defeated Kevin Thorn in a first blood match.

The main event was HOW champion Darin Corbin VS Air Wolf VS Kody Rice for the title.

HOW champion Darin Corbin retained the title when he pinned Air Wolf.