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From this past weekend's Stewart/Colbert "Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive"

Here's a great article that answers some of your questions: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2009/03/18/8800311.html As noted, Silas actually did sign a WWE developmental deal in 2007, only to be released shortly afterward due to WWE cutting ties with OVW and going to one developmental fed.

Here's a great article that answers some of your questions: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2009/03/18/8800311.html As noted, Silas actually did sign a WWE developmental deal in 2007, only to be released shortly afterward due to WWE cutting ties with OVW and going to one developmental fed.

Here's the newest episode of 3XW Outside the Ring!:

Midwest indy wrestling news and video update: We added Tyler Cook and Arya Daivari (Shawn Daivari's really talented younger brother) to the card in the previous post. 1. Illinois-based POWW is holding a really stacked show by their standards at the Odeum in Nov. 13th. Ruff Crossing is taking on TNA's Ken (Kennedy) Anderson, which should be pretty great. Crossing has an awesome name, is really tall by indy standards and does a hell of a good job in the ring. The shows also has Traci Brooks, Serena, Shane Douglas, and DEMOLITION (Ax and Smash teaming together)! Quite the wild lineup for sure. If you live in Illinois, you should defintiely check POWW out as they essentially tour the state and hold 3-4 shows a month in a handful of different cities, as close to a territorial approach as you'll find in the Midwest. I've seen a handful of POWW wrestlers live and they always do a really impressive job. POWW typically doesn't bring in a bunch of "names", so this show is special treat. Here's a commercial for their show: 2. Metro Pro Wrestling has uploaded to more match videos from its TV show. - - This match is "The Rebel" Jeremy Wyatt vs. Michael Strider, long time rivals. Wyatt is in my estimation the best wrestler nobody's ever heard of - he is simply awesome. He was our champion in 3XW for almost a year and has had phenomenal matches with Tyler Black, Rory Fox, Mark Sterling, and Zach Thompson among others and that was just in 3XW. He wrestles all over the Midwest and recently began working for a promotion in Florida as well. He's definitely a wrestler that people would make a much bigger deal about if he worked in a company like PWG or ROH. My buddy and co-promoter Todd is the ref in this match and he always does a good job with the finer details despite what the goofy play-by-play man thinks. - - This is Domino Rivera vs. "The Human Wrecking Ball" Pete Madden. Madden is in his 40s and has worked for a long time, but despite his age, works basically an extreme stunt artist gimmick and always tries to incorporate weapons in bouts. He's fun to watch, but his matches never make a lick of sense psychology-wise. Works for short TV matches because he sells well though. 3. Ricky Kwong Destroys Opposition - If you love watching foreign heels destroy opponents in squash matches, check out this. Watch for the awesome chairshot in the first match and the wild belly-to-belly in the second: AAW also has a show this coming weekend featuring the return of Austin Aries. They always put out quality wrestling.

The problem with bringing J-Woww in is that (I believe) Jersey Shore airs new episodes on Thursday nights within the same timeframe as Impact. And, according to what I read about the tapings, if it airs as taped the J-Woww segment airs during Jersey Shore's timeslot. So, who the hell is supposed to crossover and watch a Jersey Shore star on TNA if they're actually watching a new episode of Jersey Shore at the same time? And regarding Freddie Prinze Jr. - does anyone know any of the angles/promos/gimmicks he was responsible for his first time through as a writer?

3XWrestling - November Knockout II Friday - November 5th, 2010 Des Moines Social Club 1408 Locust St Des Moines, IA Doors open 6:45 pm for Advanced ticket holders Doors open 7 pm for everyone else Bell time 7:30 pm Featuring: 8 Man Tag Team Elimination match 3XW Heavyweight champion Rory Fox, The Horn Dogs - Maddog McDowell & Krotch and Sir Bradley Charles vs. The Gentlemen's Club - Brian Ash, Gage Octane & 3XW Tag Team champions - "Delicious" Devin Carter & Casanova w/Todd Countryman 3XW Pure Wrestling championship "The Rockstar" Jimmy Rockwell vs. "The Laotian Sensation" Ricky Kwong © w/Chad Mylan Tag Team action The High Flyers - Zach Thompson & Mike Sydal vs. American Ground & Air - Benjamin Sailer & Nate Bash Two "Enemy Picks Opponent" Matches - "The Rebel" Jeremy Wyatt vs. mystery opponent & "2010 King of Des Moines" Mark Sterling vs. mystery opponent - Wyatt and Sterling choose each other's opponents in singles matches. Also in action: "The Canadian Sex Icon" Ryan Slade, "The American Fury" Jon West, Brady A. Dezire, the return of Shane Hollister & more! Tickets will be available October 9th, 2010 at: Jay's CD & Hobby - Tickets will be available at both Jay's stores 5921 SE 14th Street - Des Moines, IA & Merle Hay Mall - Des Moines, IA also Cup O' Kryptonite - Fleur Drive - Des Moines, IA Or online at www.3xwrestling.com Advanced General Admission $12.00 General Admission day of event $15.00 Kids 10 & Under $6.00 Kids 3 & Under FREE admission

Metro Pro has put a couple matches from it's TV show online now: - Tommy Dreamer vs. "Superstar" Steve Fender - Derek Stone vs. Mark Sterling The uploads aren't in the same HD quality as the TV broadcast, but you get a great idea of the overall production values. Mark Sterling is definitely someone to watch for breaking out at a higher level.

No, I live in Des Moines, but a good portion of the Metro Pro roster also wrestles for my company 3XWrestling. Metro Pro is a really well run outfit, you should check it out. Have you seen the TV show?

I'll definitely let you know on the rare chance we get such an opportunity again! If anyone happens to live in the Kansas City-area, you may not realize you have an alternative pro wrestling show on TV, in high definition no less - Metro Pro Wrestling, which airs on Metro Sports, a regional cable sports channel in that area of Missouri/Kansas. Here's a couple commercials for it and their T.V. opening: - First commercial - Second commercial - TV show opening I went to the most recent taping and had a great time. They tape four shows in one night, but it flows really well for a live event. The talent roster is pretty impressive overall and they make what is your typical indy wrestling show in a school gym look much nicer on TV with a combination of lighting and extraordinarily nice cameras. The first four episodes probably look the best (haven't seen a full show on TV yet) because they were filmed at historic Memorial Hall, but they now tape at Turner Rec Center. Plus, at the taping I went to, I got to see Harley Race verbally spar with Trevor Murdock and later punch a dude in the face, which was just totally great and I didn't think I'd ever see live and in person. Unfortunately, the crowd is still way too light, even after 8 weeks of TV have aired and I hope it picks up for their sake. Thankfully, they sound loud due to the construction and acoustics of the gym.

Here's some recent video updates from my indy company. The webshow has lots of really good content starting at the 3:50 mark on (after my goofy self stops talking from the studio): Video updates, including perhaps the best webshow in the Midwest, 3XW Outside the Ring. Lots of great promos!: Here's the latest episode of 3XW Outside the Ring: The October 2010 edition of 3XW Outside the Ring is broadcast from the 3XWrestling studios. This episode covers the upcoming Halloween Horror IV event and highlights the recent happenings at Clobberpalooza Classic III, including the despicable events that lead to Ricky Kwong winning the Pure Wrestling championship. The feature match of the broadcast is the first-ever "Luck of the Draw" tag team match, which is a real wild battle. Halloween Horror IV takes place Friday, Oct. 1 at the Des Moines Social Club. Complete ticket and card info available at http://www.3XWrestling.com Here's the 3XW Halloween Horror IV TV commercial: Also - we will be holding a Halloween Costume Contest at Halloween Horror IV, with prizes to be given away during intermission to the top costumes (as voted by a panel of 3XW officials and wrestlers). We'd love to see the fans in attendance dress up as their favorite 3XW wrestlers! What does everyone think of this month's episode of Outside the Ring?

That is truly the best introductory vignette I have seen in years. : Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you your latest politician giving a fascinating and wacky speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhV5RgcNJjE...layer_embedded#! Shit is getting crazy when this sort of passion and fire is brought to COUNTY TREASURER races. Here's a quote from this gem: "Politics is not touch football....politics is WINNER TAKE ALL!"

I've been so busy actually promoting a Midwest indy company that I've done a terrible job of keeping this thread up to date with indy wrestling info from the Midwest. From a personal standpoint, we've had an amazing series of summer 3XW shows. In an ass backwards way of achieving a lifelong goal, I was involved in promoting (and ring announcing) wrestling matches at Vets Auditorium in Des Moines, which is the same arena I went to WWF and WCW shows from the age of 4 all through high school. Sure, it was as part of preshow and halftime entertainment of women's roller derby, but the crowd absolutely loved the wrestling action and it was really incredible being in such a large venue. We even filmed our monthly webshow from Vets that night: That same month, we also held a free afternoon show as part of a town festival in the small town of Mingo, Iowa, which featured fans literally riding 4-wheelers up to the ring area to watch the show and babyfaces petting dogs in the crowd after being victorious in matches. Today I had a first in that the lady who took my order in the drive-thru at Burger King today recognized my voice and had been to our event last Friday - I even had her come in the ring during intermission while the crowd sang Happy Birthday to her. So, I got to thinking, I've had a number of strange "only in indy wrestling" moments the past year that I think people would get a kick out of reading about and I'm sure people can add to themselves. That being said, I'm going to turn this into a thread about "tremendously indy wrestling" observations with occasional tidbits of news and information. Unbelievable things that are not surprising in the least in the world of Indy Wrestling: - In a main event singles match, a chair (not even a steel chair mind you, but one of the office-style chairs also used at the facility) is thrown from a fan in the crowd and hits the back of one of the wrestler's stablemates at ringside. "Security" - a.k.a. the ring crew that are also training to be wrestlers that surely lack formal security training - actually do a nice job of grabbing the surprisingly older gentlemen and escorting him out of the building. Unknown to anyone - the overly involved fan is the FATHER of the babyface getting beaten up in the match. - a wrestler asks to use new theme music, which is not an unusual, if not far too frequent request. What is unusual is that when you put the CD in the computer to rip it, the label on the disc reads "Property of ***** Public Library." Yes, it's a CD borrowed from the local library. - After renting out a ring to a trio of drunk midget wrestlers to use at a small town bar show, you find yourself walking side-by-side with the county sheriff following the waddling little guys toward their motel after they cut a two-hour show short by an hour. You're worried they're going to bail before you get paid for the rental, the bar owners pissed because he's lost his ass in holding the event and now he's also being screwed out of a full show, and the local ad exec for the big city newspaper came to see the show and get her money for the ads, which isn't looking promising. Moments later, you and a 300 lbs. co-owner of the ring/wrestler are kneeling down on one knee to conduct business with the midget in charge of settling up (who also drank his own piss as part of the night's entertainment). He's frustrated because they have yet to get paid by the bar, but he makes things right with you by paying for his rental by giving you the merch cash they made for the night. By the way - the sheriff, upon discovering you're not associated with the midgets beyond the ring rental and finding out you hold regular wrestling shows for less cost, gives you his personal email address in hopes of setting up events for a future county fair. I'll add more later.

One thing I believe WWE could do much better that would instantly build more interest in matches is simply acknowledge the history of rivalries between wrestlers and use fact-based stats. I'm not talking about just the past few months, but past years. It would be as simple as posting a graphic on the screen showing, for example, "John Cena's all-time record vs. Randy Orton" or even "Cena's record as challenger in championship matches." I might not care at all why Kane put Undertaker in a coma, but if Kane is defending the gold but has a terrible win-loss ratio to the Undertaker, I would be intrigued to see if he could pull off a win in their next bout and stay champ. It's simply applying actual fact-based sports data to WWE's world of make believe. UFC does a great job of acknowledges these facts and clearly fans respond to having such information at hand.

One that completely annoys me that I don't believe has been mentioned is not allowing anyone to have "Jr." in his/her name. This is why we now have Ted Dibiase, big WWF star of the late 80s and early 90s, simply referred to as "The Million Dollar Man" and his son Ted Jr. as "Ted Dibiase". Same thing a few years back when Chavo Jr. was "Chavo Guerrero" while the actual Chavo Guerrero was "Chavo Classic".

Your misinterpreting the ad. Linda McMahon "tamed the traveling show-world of professional wrestling" is no different from Vince McMahon "took wrestling out of the dank, smoky arenas". She's clearly arguing that the traveling show-world of professional wrestling was made respectable by her family in the '80s. Yeah, watching it again, I definitely see it more in line with your thoughts than my initial reaction. The Domino's analogy is a good one. They're pizza is good now, but I also liked it before they started using higher quality ingredients too.

Check out the newest ad Linda's campaign has put out. Apparently, Linda McMahon "tamed the traveling show-world of professional wrestling." To me this is upsetting in the sense that is common knowledge that many people react to pro wrestling as if it's the plague because they've been trained to think it's stupid, fake, lower class entertainment (hell, when I tell some people I'm co-owner of local wrestling company, their whole perception of me changes and they look at me like I'm a weirdo.) So, here's Linda - whose family business which brought her millions of dollars and the ability to even run for Senate in the first place is because of wrestling - basically saying "You're right in thinking wrestling has been lame, but I made it respectable" I'm probably taking it to seriously upon first viewing, but to me, she's insinuating that much of the work of her family has done hasn't been respectable. It'd be like one of the heads of a family-run restaurant that's been open for 50 years coming on a TV ad and saying "You're right in thinking our food has been terrible in the past, but I'm making it respectable and I'm providing jobs to employees."

This is Bryan interviewing Dana after the show last night.

I've never been more disappointed about the finish of an MMA fight in my life. Actually, I can't remember the last time I've felt so much like someone just "kicked my puppy" from a sporting event. I was "Couture beating Sylvia"-level excited...and then that happened. At least they determined he truly did tap, because a no contest would have been even worse after all that. I like this analogy a buddy of mine used to describe it: "UFC 117's main event was like taking a test and feeling like you aced it, only to find out that you used the wrong kind of lead and your answers didn't count..."

I remember loving this theme when it first debuted and was upset that, as you mentioned, within (I think) only two weeks they edited the spoken words out of the majority of the song. It was an awesome theme and fit Christian really well at the time - I believe this is directly after Christian turned on Edge for the first time sometime after Edge won the King of the Ring tournament?

In regards to the posts above about Danielson from the prospective of an indy promoter, he definitely hasn't gone down in price (if anything, based on what I know, he's gone up) and is definitely cashing in quite well on his recent attention. If he's taking bookings in places he's never taken bookings before, well, it's because he's getting paid more to wrestle indies than before. I fully expect he plans on returning to WWE by the end of the year and he's profiting as much as he can right now in the meantime. And good for him for finding a way to make indy wrestling a profitable venture.

No need to speculate now - this makes it pretty obvious: http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/13756/

OK, this is how you cut a promo. This is one of the best "pro wrestling" promos I've seen in some time: Now, I'm not familiar with the situation in Alabama at all, but how in the hell did he NOT win on the strength of this ad? This is the best political ad I've ever seen.

Thanks man. I thought we had Central States TV up here, but wasn't completely sure. But that makes total sense because I believe they had a Central States TV title tournament in Des Moines around 1988?

http://sportsandwrestling.mywowbb.com/view...;jump_to=181135 Thanks for posting this link - I've recently been looking off-and-on for wrestling results from Des Moines and other towns in Iowa in the past decades. Family members will always tell me about going to the wrestling events in Des Moines in the 60s and 70s, but were little on details, aside from a few of the names and knowing it was either an AWA or NWA card. Great to see all these AWA results because AWA All-Star Wrestling was one of the big wrestling TV shows in this area. I often wonder how many other shows (besides the obvious WWE syndicated shows) aired in our area in the 70s and 80s because the first name everyone over 40 drops when wrestling comes up is "Handsome" Harley Race (who I know also spent some time wrestling in the AWA, but obviously wrestled quite a bit out of St. Louis.)