Steve's View #101
By Steve
Not a whole lot to talk about this
week, as I've been spending more time working on SoCal Hall of
Fame matters. So just a few quick noted this time around and a
more in depth column next week.
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I made it out to the WWE Raw brand
house show in San Diego on the 9th and Raw sure needs a lot of
work. WWE has hands down the best pool of talent in the world,
but also wastes that talent like nobody's business. Aside from
the Rey Misterio Jr. versus Eddy Guerrero match there wasn't much
of anything good on the show. Raw in Los Angeles and Smackdown
in Bakersfield both were much better shows.
The biggest news on both shows was
the performance of a few SoCal regulars. Apparently the WWE was
impressed with a few performances, and even had the Heat announcers
put Hardkore Kidd over pretty strong on their telecast.
Skulu, Keiji Sakoda, Outlaw Marshall
Knox, Frankie Kazarian, Outlaw Mike Knox, and Hardkore Kidd all
had dark matches or television matches on Heat and Velocity. Also
Big Chris Mordetzsky, Joelle Ward (Maxi Minx), Erica Porter, Derek
Neikirk, and Kyra (Melina Perez) all participated in workouts
with the WWE.
EWF is even reporting that Kyra
has been offered a spot in Ohio Valley Wrestling, WWE's main developmental
territory after Wrestlemania, though no word if she'll be getting
an actual developmental deal.
Kyra, who is also a model and actress
appearing in Nike ads and a few television shows, has been said
by some in EWF to have the most natural talent of any female wrestler
to ever come out of the promotion.
A lot of people also predict Frankie
Kazarian will be offered a deal soon.
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WPW should be returning soon to
the Anaheim Marketplace. WPW is temporarily unable to run when
they ran into problems with their insurance.
Martin Marin is scheduled to leave
for Toryumon around March 5th.
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Speaking of WPW, Lil' Cholo will
be going to Philadelphia, PA for CZW's annual junior heavyweight
tournament Best of the Best on April 12th.
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"Iceman" John Black has
announced on his website that he will be closing down his site,
and will from now on just be going by the name "Iceman".
Iceman's site was always one of my favorites to go to as he was
always very open and honest in all of his commentaries and I'm
sad to see it go.
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XPW has announced two matches so
far for their return to SoCal on February 28th. Justin Credible
will be challenging Shane Douglas for the XPW heavyweight title,
and Justice Pain will be challenging Supreme for the King of the
Deathmatch title. Also, XPW and the Havana Pitbulls (Ricky Reyes
and Rocky Romero) have also been in talks about the Pitbulls possibly
wrestling in XPW.
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FMLL will be running it's next show
at the Salon el Rey in Compton with Misterioso versus Elvio Reyes
for the FMLL championship on March 16th.
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GSCW and APW's SoCal versus NorCal
angle will continue this weekend when SoCal invades APW on February
22nd at their show at the APW Garage in Hayward. GSCW will return
at the end of March.
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Lucha VaVoom on February 13th had
what is easily the largest non-WWE crowd of the year in SoCal
with between 1,200 and 1,400 people, and by all reports it was
a very entertaining show. The next LuchaVaVoom will most likely
happen in the summer, possibly late June or early July.
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According to Josh Waldrop of "Parts
Unknown" radio, UPW will be running it's April show at the
Grove Theatre in Anaheim, CA.
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It's amazing that their could possibly
be zero shows running in SoCal this upcoming weekend. I can't
recall a single weekend, aside from Christmas weekend, where no
shows have run in SoCal over the last two years. Things will be
back to normal the next weekend with four or five shows going
on.
-Steve
