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tiny update

I'm going to post a blog or blogs about the BAW and CCW shows soon. I actually did a blog about BAW a few days ago but due to a site error, I wasn't able to post it and when I hit the back button to try and post it again, everything I typed out was gone. I should have some time tomorrow, so I will try and get up a blog about the BAW show tomorrow and maybe CCW on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning. So yeah they are coming, I've just been busy to type them out...again but they are coming along with a update on my training.
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Quick Training Update....ouch

I got myself a black eye tonight...well its a partically black eye. Looks like I'm wearing eye liner over my right eye really. I'm working on a getting a picture but my camera phone blows. What happen, was after getting my ass kicked all night at training, we had a match...and I started, even though I was dead tired and beat, I stayed in the ring. Anton came into the ring and went for a Shooting Starpress and i was going to move....except I didn't move out of the way correctly. Apprently i was suppose to just roll out of the way, instead I sat up a bit and caught his right knee straight to my head and somehow, his toe caught above my right eye...and now there's a bump and its black as well.   Man I hope this heals by Friday, or at least looks less noticable. Doing 3 shows with a black eye is going to suck balls...then again I can always do the emo ref gimmick. Edit: I got a somewhat good picture of it...and no thats not make up.
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Weekly Training update Jan 15th - Jan 20th

Monday Jan 15th: Practice went like usual, started with the warm ups and moved on. I'm not going to get in details about the full practice but I will talk about what I mostly worked on, and that was doing a cross body from the 2nd rope. Helfyre had teamed up a small guy with a big guy for this. Anton was teamed up with Josh and I was teamed up with Tim. The set up was that Tim was going to throw me to the corner and I was going to jump up to the 2nd rope and jump back off, do a 180 and end up doing a crossbody with Tim catching me. I had a lot of trouble doing this. I had trouble getting off the 2nd rope, I had trouble putting my body in the right position so I'd be easy to catch. I actidently popped Tim hard in the nose with my bi-cep...my little bi-cep because I did't put my arms in the right position....he wasn't to happy about that.   So after I popped Tim hard in the nose, Josh came into the ring and helped me out. I must have did it about 30 times until I got it right. When I finally did, we moved on. I was so freaking tired but I did it and felt good about finally doing it.   Weds Jan 17th: On Weds, it was myself, Anton, Tim, Helfyre, Josh, and Jason Vega. Jason can really only come to training on Weds, so we sorta swtiched up training days a bit. Normally it was suppose to be Monday, Thursday, and Saturday but we switched it so Monday, Weds, and Saturday so we could work with Vega as well. We did some practice matches on Weds, with me being the bumping dummie. I really don't have any offensive and it's been awhile since I did a "match" with anyone.   The first match I had was me vs Tim.....and it sucked. I felt it best, since Tim is a bigger guy was I would jump bump around for him to try and put him over. They're was a lot of miss-communitcation. It's hard to work with Tim (and i'm not knocking him because he's still learning) because either he gets a bit lost, as he forgets what he wants to do, or I can't hear him when he whispers something to me about something he wants to do. For example, he flug me over from one corner to the other corner and I could have said he said, do a crossbody (the one we worked on Monday) but he threw me to the other corner to hard and I couldn't get up on the 2nd rope correctly, so that looked like shit. Thats another issue Tim has, when he irish whips one of the smaller guys, like me and Anton, to actually throws us which throws us off.   When you Irish whip someone, your just suppose to rest your hand on their back and lightly push with them as their running away. That ways you don't actually throw off someone's running path. Tim sorta forgets that and most of time, flings me and Anton and screws up are running path and we loose a bit of control on the short run.   So anyways, we finished that match with Tim missig a splash on me in the corner and me school boying him getting the pin. The match sucked and I wasn't happy about it, but its training and we're there to learn, so I had to let it go. Oh and apprently before I forget, Tim actually wanted me to kip-up from the bottom rope and jump over him and then do a arm drag out of the corner...not a crossbody. Though I sware I heard the word crossbod, not kip-up and give me a arm drag.   We did another match, which was a triple threat tag match, it was me and Tim vs Josh and Jason Vega vs Helfyre and Anton. I was the bumping machine here as well. Tim didn't excatly work at a tag partner as he sat on the apron as I was put in holds and what not. That sucked as well but whatever. So practice ended and I came back the next day.   Thursday Jan 18th: We decided to do four days of practice....my body hated me for doing that. I was really sore and my knees were killing me when I went into practice. I have really bad knees as I warned them down from playing so much sports as a kid. The muscle is really screwed up on my knees. I'm hoping my knees will rebuild themselves as I'm training now but I really need to start doing Hindu squats to help rebuild them.....though I'm lazy when I'm at home.   So the main thing we worked on were Cruifix pins. For those who aren't sure what a Cruifix pin is, its when Wrestler 1 throws Wrestler 2 into the ropes and on the way back, Wrestler 2 ducks a clothesline, wraps his arms around Wrestler 1's clothesline arm, and then Wrestler 2 jumps up and wraps his legs around the other arm of Wrestler 1, then Wrestler 2 pulls wrestler 1 backwards and wrestler 1 falls and ends up getting pinned by wrestler 2. I was teamed up with Josh for this move.   The first attempts were....well they hurt. I had gotten up there but Josh wasn't used to falling down correctly for this move and ended up squashing me by accident for the first couple of times. Tim and Anton who paired up to do the move had gotten it down right away, so me and Josh sorta had to get it down. By the 3rd try, we got it. We did it a few more times and it worked out well. I can't remember what else we did that day, but the cruifix pin was the major thing we learned that day.   Saturday Jan 20th: Saturday it was myself, Anton, Tim, Helfyre, Jody, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr. Josh had something personnal going on, so he was't there. We did are warm ups and then Smirnoff decided he wanted to have a match with me. I told him I didn't have much offensive and he said that was fine and would lead me through the match....which he did but it was basically me being a bumping machine again. Which was fine, I really don't mind being the bumping machine as its good for my body to get used to bumping around so much. We finished the match and Smirnoff gave me a few pointers and said otherwise I worked with him just fine.   After me and Smirnoff had our match...oh he went over by the way....we worked on a few things. We worked on Cruifix pins again, and this time I worked with him Tim. Unfortuanily I screwed up on the way down a few times and ended up being squashed by Tim. A few times of being squashed, we moved on, I wanted to keep doing it until I got it right but Helfyre wanted to move on so we moved on. We worked on bodyslamming, and of course I need to learn how to go up lighter for someone. For some reason, I have an issue with going up light for a move, like the bodyslam for example. When someone is going to slam me, I'm suppose to just float up onto someone's shoulder to make it easier for them to hold me up and slam me, but I have an issue on that, in which I'm working on but I'm not 100% sure how to make myself go up lighter. Hopefully I'll figure it out soon.So after woking on some moves, and learning how to do a backslide. We moved on to another match...this time it was a triple threat.   It was me vs Anton vs Tim in a triple threat with one guy being tagged in with Smirnoff as the ref. The plan was suppose to be a 4 minute match with me going over...but the match went a lot longer than 4 minutes. I actually WASN'T the bumping machine here. It was actually a pretty much back and forth match inbetween the 3 of us. I ended up making Anton submit by doing a failed attempt at a surfboard. Basically I couldn't get Anton up for the surf board, but I held the move in and took his arms and used one of my arms to wrap around them and I took my right arm and put it under his chin pulling back his head...he submitted.   After the match was over, Helfyre and Smirnoff said I looked really good in the match and that I didn't seem lost the entire time. Though Helfyre said I'm going to start out wearing a mask, which I'm ok with as I have an idea for a masked wrestler that I came up with a long time ago, but we're not going to go with that idea right now. We're going to go with a different gimmick which I'll get into as time goes by. Gotta protect the gimmicks, never know whose actually reading my blogs.   So that was my week in training, Mon, Weds, and Thursday didn't go so well but went ok, still stuff I need to improve on but Saturday went really well..other then being crushed by Tim on the cruifix pins but it still went really well. Next week, I'm only training on Monday and Weds as next weekend is a really really busy weekend for me, so I'll post that my training update a little bit earlier than usual but you'll also get my weekend for next weekend when its over, as that'll be a intesting weekend for me.   So till next time...    
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Wrestling Training update for Jan 4th - Jan 13th.

Ok I got a bit of writers block on how to start this blog, so if the beginning sucks...to bad.   I re-started my training offically on Thursday, the 4th. It went...well. It was just me, Helfyre, Kiara Dillon, and Anton. Josh and Neil had something personnal to take care of, while Tim had a few wrestling meets to attend to. Tim coaches high school wrestling and I think its mid-season right now so he's pretty much in and out of training at the moment.   I was a bit nervous getting back in the ring..also cold....its freaking cold in the Bay Area right now....I already miss June. Practices/training sessions (whatever you want to call them.) always start out with some light warms to get the body nice and warm. A line forms in a corner and we start with some simple stuff. First we start out with some forward rolls, then after a few times of these we move on to handstand bumps. A handstand bump is basically what it sounds like, you go into a handstand and then do a back bump from there. Then for a 3rd thing, it sorta get switched up a bit. Either we walk out from the corner and do a back bump in the middle of the ring, or we do some forward flips, or something else....luckily we did the walk from the corner and do a back bump in the middle of the ring.   I have trouble with front flipping, i'm not completely comfortable with doing them yet as I have landed on my head a few times from not being able to complete the flip...I'm not very atheltic when it comes to jumping. So after our warm ups, we did some line bumps (stand in the middle and do a back bump.) and then after that, we did some different moves, I can't remember everything we worked on but I think it was some chain wrestling, arm drags from the corner, and some scoop slams. I'm sure they're was other stuff as well, I just can't remember. I did ok, I know i was a little sloppy with some of the stuff because it had been such a long time since I've actually done any of it but no one got hurt...OH WAIT NOW I REMEMBER SOMETHING ELSE....we did roll ups from the ropes. Thats right..oh that sucked.   Its sorta hard to explain, because the scenrio really doesn't have a name but basically its when someone hooks the other person around the wasit and throws them into the ropes, bounces them off, and rolls them over and pins them. Basically it starts looking like someone is about to be Germaned but instead the guy stays hooked around the wasit, the two do a backward roll and the guy who hooked the other guy by the wasit ends up pinning the other person..like I said it's hard to explain because the whole thing really doesn't have a name. I remember this now because I couldn't do this at all because I kept trying to over roll and yeah, it just didn't work and I actdently squashed Kiara by accident. :0)   So anyways, yeah, I did ok on Thursday. Saturday it was myself, Helfyre, Anton, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr. Smirnoff normally comes down on Saturdays to help train. Josh/Neil/and Tim still weren't there. I also found out Neil decided to take a break from the training for some reason, so he at the moment may not be returning for a few weeks. Anton and I worked on a lot of chain wrestling that day, head-lock into a wrist lock, reverse in a hammer lock, back into a head-lock, then do a head-lock take down, stuff like that. I really do enjoy the chain wrestling stuff as its simple but yet effective and when done right, looks great. I started out sloppy but as time went by, I started getting the hang of it and got my pacing together and I was told it was looking good. Myself and Anton also got to work on something new as well.   We started with me in a headlock, Anton would then lead me over to a corner of his choosing and I when we got close enough, Anton would put his left foot on the bottom rope, then his right foot on the 2nd rope, he's jump off and we'd turn and on his way down still with the headlock on me, he'd do a head lock take down. This was new to both of us and we had no trouble with it. Actually I take that back, when I had the headlock on Anton, there was a small thing where my head almost didn't clear the ring and got driven down into it but we made a last second adjustment so that didn't happen. It still looked good and we ended up in the right position but we did it again just to make sure we had it right.   I don't remember much about Monday and Thursday practice....I think Thursday was just me and Anton but I can't remember what we worked on. I do remember Saturday the 13th however....you know come to think about it, maybe it was Monday we did the roll ups from the ropes.....yeah I do think it was Monday. Anyways, on to Saturday.   Saturday I was late, practice was suppose to start at 10:30 but I had partyed the night before and was just to lazy to do anything on Saturday morning...so I ended up getting there 10 minutes before 11. Luckily practice hadn't started yet. When I got there Tim, Josh, and Helfyre was standing next to the ring. Anton showed up 4 minutes after I did. After Anton showed up, I noticed someone new on our side of the gym. I really didn't pay much attention to this new person because I wasn't sure why she was on our side of the gym. When we started to get going, she got up on the ring. I asked if she was a our new person and she said she was, I introduced myself to her and she shook my name and told me her name was Jody.   Practice started with the normal warm ups, then we went into some drop down/leap frogs and I was having trouble with these. I don't know why I was having trouble, with these. I just kept screwing them up. We were suppose to do a set of 4 but I think I did around 10 of them because I kept messing them up. I felt bad for Josh because I gave him a good cardio work out because of me screwing up. I finally got them down about 5 minutes of not being able to do them right. We then practiced on a few more things and of course I was sloppy with bad pacing. I actdently got Tim on the nose with a finger while we doing lock ups but managed to do what we were suppose to do.   I know its only been a week in a half since I re-started my training but being sloppy and now having good pacing is starting to get to me a little bit. I got frustrated on Saturday with the leap frog and the drop down stuff because I couldn't get it right even though I know I could have. I'll get it down in time but my main concern at the moment is that the others I'm working with are going to suffer because I can't get it right. Like I said, I gave Josh a good cardio work out when he didn't want to and I acidently bonked Tim on the face twice on Saturday, once in the fore head with my two feet because of bad timing and once in the nose with my finger on the mis-cued locked up. Hopefully I get my sloppyness and bad pacing fixed soon.   After a few hours of training, we did a few practice matches.   The first match was Helfyre vs Anton vs Josh vs Tim in a elimation match with me as ref. It was going fine, until a simple mistake. Tim had a thumb in the eye thing going on with Josh and I was counting to 5. Now this entire time, I'm waiting for Tim to either stop it or to whisper to me that I should try to break it up or should DQ him. So I get to 4 on a 2nd count and he still hasn't fucking taken his thumb off Josh's eye. I'm fucking confused because honestly, who the fuck would think being DQ'ed because your thumbing in the eye is a good idea? So I looked towards Helfyre because I'm confused and he tells me to DQ him, so I DQ'ed Tim because he was thumbing Josh in the eye....moving on. So the match gets finished and I'm standing on the aporn catching my breath and Tim chimes with this...."Toby you need to sell the sell.   Sell the sell? Huh? So I ask him what he means and he's telling me I should have counted to 5 because I just made it look dumb for not counting to 5. I responded with "you need to tell me what your doing if thats what you planned on doing." I mean how am I suppose to know thats what the hell he wanted to do. Seriously who the hell wants to be DQ'ed because they wouldn't stop thumbing someone in the eye. Me and Tim actually started arguing about this, and he actually told me "We do things by the cuff here."....THE FUCK!? By the cuff? What the hell? At this point, I told him unless he tells me what he's going to do, I'm not going to do anything for him except count to 5 or count to 3. If he doesn't either tell me what he wants to do or re-acts to me finishing my count, thats on him and if he looks dumb because of it, not my issue. I can't help him ,if he can't help me. Helfyre did say we were both right as I should have counted to 5 regardless and Tim should have told me what he was planning but thats true but Tim could have been a less of a dick about it.   After that, we did one more match where I actually did wrestle in this one...actually I take that back, I was the bumping dummie. I bumped a lot, I felt good afterwards because it had been such a long time since I bumped so much but there were a few things I didn't feel comfortable about doing during the match and I think the guys got a little frustrated with that but if I'm not ready to do something, I don't want to do it, hopefully they understand that. After the 2nd match, practice was over and I went home.   I have practice again tomorrow, hopefully it goes well. I thinking about doing a weekly update and maybe posting the important major stuff that happens. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this blog and if anyone has any commets or questions please feel free to ask or post.
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Going To BRAWL

(Sidenote: Information about the wrestlers and promotions I name in this blog can be found hereWrestlers and Promotions)   In the beginning of 2006, after the WCWA had pretty much closed down, I was invited to be the sound guy for BRAWL, I accepted and I think in Feb. I did my first BRAWL show. I will admit, I was nervous, it was my first time working with another promotion and it was my first time working with a lot of new faces. I had met quite a few wrestlers through the WCWA but a lot of workers didn't work with the WCWA because of various reason, and I was going to meet quite a few of them at BRAWL. When I got there, I walked into the venue and walked straight to someone I recoinzed. I think it was either Rik Luxury or one of the Surburban Commados, but it was one of those guys who I went up to. I said my hello and asked them about the sound set up and what excatly was going on. We went through everything and afterwards I decided it would be best if I went around and introduced myself to everyone, so thats what I started to do.   A lot of the faces I knew from the WCWA was there, Helfyre, Jason Vega, Alexis Smirnoff Jr, Sir Samauri and a few others but like I said there were quite a few wrestlers who I hadn't met before. I had heard about them but I really didn't know them by face. I did recoinize one of them after a few seconds and that was Pogo the Clown. I must admit, it took me a few seconds for me to go up to Pogo and introduce myself. Pogo and Vic Grimes were the two biggest names (in my view at the time) working the show that night. Of course I knew about Vic from watching him in ECW as one of the baldies and I heard about Pogo from him being in XPW. Even though I never saw one of his matches, I knew that XPW really put Pogo over as one of their top talents, so I was a little nervous about introducing myself to the both of them and to be honset, I shouldn't have been nervous.   Pogo, even though he was busy, was very welcoming and thanked me for coming to the show to help out. He told me he was a bit busy and had to take care of a few things so I let him be. Later before the show started, Vic Grimes showed up and he as well was very nice to me as well. Both are very cool men. So as the show started getting closer and closer to starting, I had gotten all my cues and found out what was going on and pre-pared for the show.   As I was pre-paring, I found out that BRAWL was running a WCWA invasion gimmick as Helfyre, Jason Vega, and Alexis Smirnoff Jr was being the WCWA heel group. I actually got a bit jumpy and wanted to be apart of it somehow. I asked Jason if I could have and he told me no, I should just do the sound thing for now so I don't start stepping on anyone's toes and such and he had a point. So I finished pre-paring for the show.   Showtime came and if I remember correctly, I didn't screw up anything that night. Everything went great. By the end of the night, after I took down the sound equipment, I started saying my good-byes. I said my good byes to the guys I knew and to the guys who I had just met that night. When I said my good bye to Vic, he actually offered me to work with another promotion called "Oaktown Wrestling" thats pretty much based out of Oakland CA but they were running in a city thats a pretty good distance from where I live, so I declined but thanked him anyways. He understood and gave me a way to reach him if I had changed my mind. I said my good bye to Pogo, I think pretty much last as he just had a match and didn't want to bug him right afterwards. Pogo thanked me for coming out and asked me to come back to the next show to help out again and I agreed and I have been since Feb.. Doing a show once a month, doing various things, but doing sound and I've been enjoying it since I started.   Working with BRAWL has also connected me to a few other promotions as well. Working with BRAWL kept me in touch with Helfyre. Helfyre had his own ring locked in the building that Paul Brown had moved into after loosing the building that the WCWA was held in and when Helfyre had a chance to get his ring out of there, he let me know about it and I volunteered to help him move it out of the building. Helfyre was going to move his ring into a gym where he's a powerlifter. Helfyre was planning on training people to become a pro wrestler and open his own promotion called Devil Mountain Wrestling. I'll get into Devil Mountain in another blog down the road as this one might get quite long if I go into it now.   Working at BRAWL also gave me one more connection and that was the connection to their ring annoucer, J.J. See I didn't know it at the time but J.J. (who I didn't know before working with BRAWL) was going to open his own promotion called CCW. Which will be a whole nother story that will be told in my next blog.   So stay tuned because the CCW story WILL BE a intresting one, I promise you that.
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In The Ring Again...

I'm once again training for pro wrestling! I re-started my training tonight with Helfyre at the Devil Mountain gym. I felt a bit weird getting back into the ring, it has been a long while since I was learning new stuff, so I was a bit concerned with some ringrust.   We started with some line-bumps (stand in the middle of the ring and do a back bump) and I diffently felt the rust. I just wasn't doing them 100% correctly and I felt it. After a few line-bumps, we moved over to scoop body slams, bumping on these felt odd as well but I after a few of the slams, I started bumping correctly. We went from scoop slams to armwrenches then to headlock take overs and I really started coming along. It felt great again, and i'm happy that i'm training again. The Referee stuff is fine and fun but thats not what I wanted to do when I decided to get into pro wrestling and it sucked not being able to train, so I'm happy that i'm doing it again.   I'm also going to start posting updates about my training and how its coming along so the rest of you can know how are things are going with me training wise. You'll still get my show stories, so just look at my training stuff as a added bonus. Anyways, thats it for now and I know I still owe you guys the story about me going into BRAWL and that will come soon, maybe tomorrow, we'll see, either way you'll get it soon. Just stay tuned!
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BRAWL Presents Duces Wild, last night

You can find out about some of the Wrestlers who were on the show and about BRAWL In This Link Here   Last night, I did a BRAWL show, it was called BRAWL Duces Wild, the card was all about a tag team tournament to find out the number 1 contenders for the BRAWL Tag Team Titles currently held by Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp Named Virgil.   The show took place in Antioch CA at the Contra Costa Fairgrounds, which is about 20 minutes away or longer if there's traffic...and of course their was. I got to the building at 4:30, there wasn't many people there surprisngly so I guess I was a lot earlier than I thought I was, anyways I said my hellos to the people who were there and went over to my sound table. Surprisingly the sound stuff was already set up, so I played with it just to make sure everything was honkey dori, switched some cables around, did a couple of sound tests and I was basically done until show time.   After a little while, more and more of the wrestlers showed up and I said my hellos. As everyone was setting up, the guys at BRAWL decided to do something for their website. Doug E. Bucks was going to shoot a promo for their website then a empty arena match was going to take place. Before the promo happen BRAWL wanted to put the new ring annoucer in the promo as well to introduce Doug E Bucks, but that didn't work out so well. The ring annoucer is very new and was nervous and it just didn't end up working and it was decided because he was so nervous just in front of the camera, it was thought he be eated alive in front of the crowd, so it was decided for him not to ring annouce. After that, Doug E Bucks, cut his promo and the cameraman cut over to the ring to film the match. Which should be up at www.brawlwrestling.net very soon. So be sure to check the website to check out the match.   As time drew near to the start of the show, I found out their wasn't any pre-made cards up. Their was a small piece of paper with what looked like the card in the back and I was asked to start making copies of the card for the wrestlers and for myself. So I started (in a hurry) writing down the card so the wrestlers knew what was going on and as I was writing the card, the head Ref Gweedo came up to me and told me that he and the other Ref needed a card, so I had to make one for them. So now I'm making a card for me, the wreslters, and the Ref, so now I'm writing down faster. Then as I'm still making copies, I find out that the new ring annoucers, yeah their's going to be two of them now, need the wrestlers weight and hometown. So now I need to make them a card with hometowns and weights and the show's going to start in a little bit. As I'm finding this stuff out I'm hearing Pogo saying we need to get the show going...so now I'm going super fast to find out everyone's information. Luckily I get everyone's information fast enough and go out there and start up some pre-show music as the crowd is still coming in, ECW the music volume 1 has good pre-show music by the way, if you skip past the first track.   So the show started..I think at 7, I actually didn't check the time come to think about it. Anyways the show started with Doug E Bucks, Pogo the Clown, Helfyre and Rik Luxury coming out first and me having no ring annoucers yet, luckily Doug had the mic. Doug E Bucks and Pogo had recently offered a open challange to anyone for Pogo's BRAWL title and after Rik Luxury and Helfyre left the ring, a returning El Chupacabra came through the front door and attacked Pogo the Clown. The fight went back and forth until Pogo got the upper hand and started choking out Chupacabra, which brought out The Big Ugly JD Bishop. The Big Ugly talked Pogo off of Chupacabra then after Bishop checked on Chupi, Pogo hit The Big Ugly with a big boot and Pogo shortly left the ring and returned to the back shortly after. When El Chupacabra and the Big Ugly got back to their feet, Chupacabra claimed it was all about SPW and that BRAWL can kiss his ass and left through the front door again.   While El Chupacabra had worked with BRAWL before, a few months ago, I guess Chupi had some kind of falling out with BRAWL but returned last night. I don't know what happen and why it happen but I'm glad Chupacabra is back. Really good guy to watch in the ring.   After this, Doug E Bucks, called Helfyre back out and Helfyre challanged T-Rizz to a match. T-Rizz ended up winning after some outside intereferance by his brother and former BRAWL Champion, D-Unit. After the match Doug E Bucks told the Surburban Commandos that he would get them by the end of the night. Now the tag team tournament starts and I now have my two new Ring Annoucers. The two new ring annoucers.........the BRAWL Tag champs, Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp named Virgil...both of them took a seat next to me at the sound table.   The tournament started with Super Mexico and Chica Calienta (sp?) vs Saito Hayashi and Vennis Demarko, the team of Super Mexico and Chica Calienta won the match after Demarko attacked his tag partner the cross dresser Hayashi which led to Hayashi getting pinned by the team of Super Mexico and Chica. The next match was suppose to be The Big Ugly with his partner vs someone but someone didn't show up which led to The Big Ugly getting a bye in the tournament.   The next match was the American Missiles vs The Surburban Commandos (D-unit and T-Rizz), the Commandos beat the hell out of them and won this match. The next match The Cruz brothers and Chicono Flame vs Pogo the Clown and Helfyre in a 3 on 2 handicap match, Pogo the Clown and Helfyre won this match to move on. After this match we had a intermission, but not before a fight broke out.   After the match was over, a fight broke out between the tag champs and Pogo the clown and Helfyre after A Pimp named Virgil went after Pogo. Before Pogo's tag match, the two teams had some words that Virgil didn't take to kindly and after the match took the first chance he got and went after Pogo. The fight was crazy and Virgil ended up taking a nasty slam on the hard cold concrete floor. As myself and Mike Rayne was checking on him either Pogo or Helfyre threw pizza at us, which now made things more of a mess. After this, I took the mic and told everyone we'll be taking a intermisson so we can get everything cleaned up and to make sure the tag champs are ok to come back out. After intermisson we got everything cleaned up and the tag champs returned back to the sound table and continued to do their ring annoucing.   The first match back was Super Mexico and Chica Calienta (Sp?) vs The Big Ugly JD Bishop. It turned out The Big Ugly actually didn't have a tag partner and went into the match alone. The Big Ugly still won the match even though he was alone after he VISCIOUSLY CHOPPED THE SHIT OUT of Chica and got the 1, 2, 3. I know what your thinking, "he won off a chop?", you may not understand. Bishop is a freaking big guy and I mean big as muscled out, Chicha weighs about 120, maybe less. She got the shit...THE SHIT..chopped out of her. Myself, Virgil, and Mike Rayne popped out of our chairs after the chop and the crowd ate up and gave out a Ugly chant after the match was over. The Big Ugly had moved on in the tag tournament.   The next match was The Surburban Commandos (D-unit/T-rizz) vs Helfyre and Pogo the Clown with Doug E bucks. After a back and forth match and after the Ref took a splash from Pogo the Clown, Doug E Bucks slid into the ring and made a pinfall count for Pogo and since Doug is the commish of BRAWL, the decision stood and The Commandos had lost the match and their shot at the tag titles as Pogo and Helfyre moved on. After the match The Commandos got ahold of Doug E Bucks and beat the hell out of him.   The next match was for the BRAWL internet title and it was a 3 way Coal Miners Glove on a pole match between The Sheik Kahn Abodi vs Rik Luxury vs the champion DJ Rizz. After a pretty damn good match, DJ Rizz picked up the victory after he pinned The Sheik. The next match after that was the finals of the tournament and we would find out who would face Money Mike Rayne and A pimp Named Virgil for the tag titles after the tournament.   The final match of the tournament was the BRAWL heavyweight Champion Pogo the Clown and Helfyre with Doug E. Bucks vs The Big Ugly JD Bishop in what would be another Handi-cap match because Ugly didn't have a partner. Well thats what we thought until Ugly pointed to the curtain and El Chupacabra came out! So now its El Chupacabra and The Big Ugly JD Bishop vs Pogo the Clown and Helfyre with Doug E bucks. The team of Chupacabra and The Big Ugly won the match after Chupi pinned Helfyre. After the match was over, Doug E bucks challanged them to a match on Jan 19th.   The match will take place in a cage and it will be Pogo the Clown and Helfyre AND DOUG E BUCKS(!!) vs El Chupacabra and The Big Ugly JD Bishop and their partner, The Rock Legend Scum Adam Throwstowe who will also be making his return to BRAWL as well in a steel cage match!!! Yeah I think Doug E Bucks is screwed.   After this was annouced Money Mike Rayne and A pimp Named Virgil had to defend their titles against the Big Ugly JD Bishop and El Chupacabra. The match was on like motherfucking Donkey Kong. The match was pretty much back and forth until the Pimps got the upper hand and won the match. After the match was over the two teams shook hands and that was the end of the show. I got back on the micaphone and made the annoucement of the next show and thanked the crowd for coming out.   I'd think I'd make a pretty good damn ring annoucer sometime down the road as long as my voice doesn't screw up. I have some brain damage to my speech lobe of my brain so sometimes my voice gets all screwed up. Either I mumble, talk to fast, or don't say excatly what I need to say clearly. Anyways the show was a fun show to be at and sitting next to Money Mike Rayne and A Pimp Named Virgil was a fun experiance as well. I'm looking forward to the next BRAWL show on the 19th as I have never seen BRAWL do a cage match before. Should be fun.   After the show was over, I took down the sound system, said my good byes and handed back to Benicia and went to bed. So until next time, stay tuned to my blog for more of my life on the Pro Wrestling Indy Curcuit.
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The Wrestlers and the promotions

I feel I should introduce you to the local wrestlers and promtions. That ways I don't have describe each one in a blog each and every time.   The Wrestlers   A.   A Pimped Named Virgil: Met Virgil while at WCWA, wrestles as a light heavyweight but has held world champions throughout various promotions. Is one half of the BRAWL tag champions with Money Mike Rayne.   Adam Badapple: See T-Rizz   Alexis Smirnoff Jr.: Does a evil russian gimmick, modeled after Alexi Smirnoff.   Anton: Trainee at DMW, he came in with a friend, while his friend stop due to "Practice taking to much of his time.", Anton stayed and continus to train at DMW.   Axe Murder, Piercton Steel: Met him at WCWA, liked to show me and train me on chain wrestling before WCWA shows.   B.   Blackie: Was co-booker of WCWA, also is a heel manager and is a ring annoucer.   Bonzai Bruce Bukakke: Used to wrestle through out North Cal, but is now training with Harley Race.   Bitho Cruz: 1/2 of the Cruz brothers   Buddy Sotello Esquire: CCW's top heel manager   C.   Chicano Flame: Masked mexican wrestler   Chica Calienta: I have no clue how to spell her last name right, masked wrestler, teams with Super Mexico   Cyanide: Met him at BRAWL, not sure of his history. BRAWL's current U.S. Champion   D.   D-Lo Brown: Former multiple title holder with the WWE. Met him at the 1/26 BAW show and got to have dinner/breakfest with him after the show.   D-Unit: Also known as Dede Badapple and teams with his brother T-Rent through out North Cal. I believe he is also a co-owner of BRAWL. Member of the Surburban Commandos   Dave: Another trainer I had at WCWA, wrestles under mulitple gimmicks under a mask. His main gimmick in which case doesn't wear a mask is U.S. Steele. Also helps train at DMW.   Dede Badapple: See D-Unit   DJ Rizz: Wrestles singles and tag matches, he normally teams with D-unit as a team called The Surburban Commandos and is also the current BRAWL Internet Champion. I also think he's also a co-owner of BRAWL but I'm not really sure on that one. Member of the Surburban Commandos.   Doug E. Bucks: Does the evil commish gimmick at BRAWL.   E.   EL Chupacabra: Used to go by El Hiro De Chupacabra, but dropped De Hiro. Current GZW champion.   El Flaco Loco: Top masked wrestler in Norcal, was the last Pacific Rim Ring Of Fire champion for WCWA, mainly works SPW shows.   Eric West: Former trainer I had at WCWA, I haven't seen him since the last WCWA practice in Jan, he moved out of state.   F.   G.   Gweedo: One of Norcal's top Ref's, BRAWL's head Ref.   H.   Helfyre: One of my former trainers at WCWA. Now runs Devil Mountain Wrestling and is also running a training school as well.   I.   Izzy High: A BRAWL Ref.   J.   J.J.: One of Norcal's top ring annoucers, also co-owns CCW.   Jason Vega: Another trainer I had at WCWA, he now helps train at Devil Mountain Wrestling. Also the last WCWA champion.   Jesus Cruz: 1/2 of the Cruz Brothers   Jody: New student at DMW   Josh: Trainee at DMW   K.   Kassie Summers: Pretty much the only woman wrestler in Norcal. There are others but they mainly work APW shows while Kassie works all over Northern California.   Kenny K: Trained by BRAWL but looks like he is heading east to train with ROH.   Kiara Dillon: Valet for Jason Vega also at one point was a Godfather Ho for the WWE.   L.   Luster the Legend: Wrestler I met at BRAWL, one half of the team called "The Reno Boys."   M.   Malachi: Wrestler I met at CCW, the other half of "The Reno Boys" tag team with Luster the Legend.   Mike Blaze: Wrestler I got to work with at BAW   Mike Modest: One of the top Indy Wrestlers, got to work with him at BAW.   Money Mike Rayne: Does a pimp gimmick, met him at BRAWL, at the moment is one half of their tag champions. Also runs a promotion called NAW.   Mother Truckin Otis: Wrestler I met at WCWA while he was doing another gimmick. Really nice guy.   Mr. Frost: In the group The Honor Socitey with Sir Samuari, trained at SPW   N.   Neil: Trainee at DMW, both him and Josh entered training together.   New Jack: Former ECW big name, if you don't know who New Jack is....how are you a wrestling fan? Met New Jack at my first BAW show, had dinner with him and D-lo Brown after the 1/26 BAW show.   O.   P.   Paul Brown: Owner and Promoter of WCWA.   Paul Isadora: 7 foot giant   Pogo The Clown: Former XPW star, now runs BRAWL and is the current BRAWL Heavyweight Champion.   Q.   R.   Ray Kejimora: Wrestler I met at CCW.   Rik Luxary: Wrestler who is also a co-owner of BRAWL.   Robbie Gilmore: Trained by BRAWL, wrestles as part as the team the American Missiles.   S.   Shiek Khan Abadi: Does a Shiek gimmick, met him at a CCW Show.   Sir Samuari: Don't let the name fool you, Samuari is a loud mouth heel white guy. Funny to watch but a guy you just love to hate. Leads the heel group called the Honor Socitey.   Sir Timothy Thatcher: The British guy of the Honor Socitey (I swear I'm spelling that wrong.), trained at SPW.   Super Mexico: Masked wrestler.   T.   T-Rent: Also know as Adam Badapple and teams with his identical brother Dede (D-unit) through out North Cal. I believe he is also a co-owner of BRAWL. As the Badapple team, I think they were the last WCWA tag team champions. Member of the Surburban Commandos.   The Big Ugly JD Bishop: One of the top Norcal Wrestlers, also teams with Vinnie Massaro to form the team of "The Cartel."   The Rock Legend Scum Adam Thornstowe: Current SPW champion, one of most over guys in Norcal and normally main events in promotions he works.   Tim: Was a trainee at WCWA, now trains at DMW.   U.   U.S. Steele: See Dave   V.   Vennis De Marco: Does a italian gimmick, trained at APW.   Vic Grimes: Former ECW/XPW wrestler. The bladie that fell on New Jack's face at a ECW show. Did a few shows for BRAWL.   Vinny Massaro: Current CCW Champion, also one half of "The Cartel" with the Big Ugly JD Bishop.   W.   Wage: Wrestler I worked with at BAW, asked me if I was in Mike Modest's pocket after he lost to Mike Modest in a match I Ref. Apprently Modest grabbed the tights but I never saw it.   X.   Y.   Z.         Thats all I can think of right now, if I remember more, I'll update this post with them and most likely will describe them a little bit in a blog.   The Promotions   All Pro Wrestling (APW): You've heard of them from Beyond The Mat, their promoter is Roland Alexander, and I REFUSE to work with them, but you might see me mention them from time to time so I might as well post who they are.   BAW: Promotion based out of Oregon, I am a ref for BAW.   BRAWL: Promotion based out of Antioch CA, ran and owned by, Pogo The Clown, Rik Luxary, T-rent, D-Unit, and I think DJ Rizz. I am BRAWL's sound guy.   California Championship Wrestling (CCW): New promotion thats drawing a lot of attention in Norcal. Was doing shows in Pleasanton CA but are now doing shows out of Newman CA, Co-owned by JJ. I am a Ref for CCW.   Devil Moutain Wrestling (DMW): Promotion ran by Helfyre, will be training there soon, currently I'm their Ref.   NAW: Promotion based out of Modesto, CA. Ran by Steele and Money Mike Rayne. I haven't been to one of their shows yet.   Supreme Pro Wrestling (SPW): Based out of Sacramento, I haven't been or have worked one of their shows yet but from what I hear, they're really good. Most of Norcal workers are based from SPW.   WCWA: Promotion where I started trained, at the moment is closed.     Well hopefully that gives you some insight on the wrestlers and the promotions around here and hopefully when you read my blogs I don't have to go through and re-explain who that wrestler or that promotion is. Any questions feel free to ask.
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Me and The WCWA (Another long one)

Last night I worte out this blog but due to issues with the site, I lost it all! So I'm going to re-type it the best I can. Again sorry for posting this after a little while, but since I got the BAW post out of the way, I figured I'd go ahead and post the WCWA blog.   In the month of June of 2005, I contacted the promoter of WCWA and we set up a meeting to where I would go their where the WCWA was being ran in Pleasant Hil, CA. Concord's a few cities away from where I currently live now, so it was a short drive for me. When I got there, I wasn't sure I had the right place. The building from the outside was bare. It was this big building that had no signs, nothing on the outside of it, and you really couldn't see into the building from the outside, just because there were no windows, there were two glass doors but they were tinted, but even though the building looked empty from the outside, one of the two doors were left open, so I made my way over to the building.   As I got closer, I could see into the building better as I got closer and the first thing I saw was a wrestling ring that was placed right in the middle of the floor. When I entered the building I saw that there were two guys in the ring talking about something, one of them noticed me and asked me "Are you Toby?" I said yes and walked over to them to shake their hands. They introduced themselves as Jason and Dave. Jason wrestles as Jason Vega and Daves wrestles under different masked gimmicks, I'm not going to say who just because he stills wrestles under those masks and even though none of you may ever see him wrestle, I'd like to protect those gimmicks just in case. He does however wrestle under one un-masked gimmick and thats sorta his main gimmick, which is U.S. Steel.   After introduing myself to Jason and Dave, the promoter came out and I introduced myself to him as well. His name is Paul Brown. Paul is a big man, not as in he's a fat guy because he really is, I ment big as he's a strong man. Trust me, when I took a clothesline from him, it was like being hit with a thick tree branch and if he was going to hip toss you or give you a push to help you get your ass in the air for something, you were going over weather you wanted to or not. He was literally that strong of a guy. After introducing myself to Paul, he took me to the side of the building away from the ring so we could talk. As we sat and talked, I had a view of the ring and noticed that Jason and Dave were practicing as myself and Paul talked.   Paul and I talked about a few things. We talked about the building we were in, how he ran his promotion, and most important the thing we talked about was about training. The building we were in was a old bank that even still had the vault, it was a two story building. The first floor of the building was where the ring was placed. When shows were ran, chairs were set up on 3 sides of the ring. No chairs were set up on the 4th side because thats where the sound set up and where the ring annoucer sat were. There was this big platform with two tables on it. One for the sound set up and the other table was for the ring annoucer. The platform and the ring were connected by a ramp. The ramp was so the ring annoucer could get from his seat to the ring without having to walk down or up down stairs, plus the crowd could see him the entire time. I'll explain why the crowd would want to see the ring annoucer later on. The second floor was the bathroom and the locker room, along with a weight room. There was a black curtain between the locker room and the bathroom so fans couldn't really see into the locker room without having to move the curtain. I should probably mention that Paul was renting out the building, so he could run a show out of it and pretty much do whatever he wanted to it when he wanted to.   The WCWA was ran as a family promotion and Paul let me know it. The wrestlers were not allowed to cuss, they were not allowed to use any enterance music that had cuss words in it and if a song had cuss words in it, Paul told me he had no problem coming over to the sound and destorying their cd with his own bare hands. According to Paul (because I hadn't seen their crowds), the crowds he drew were parents who brought their little kids and their friends to the shows. I hadn't attended any of the WCWA shows before so this being explained to me was a good thing. After we discussed about the building and about how the WCWA was ran, we talked about training. Paul also ran shows every two weeks on a Saturday.   Training sessions were every Tuesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon, and Saturday morning...well not so much on Saturday morning because...well everyone liked sleeping in plus all the trainers had something to do on Saturdays so a practice rarely happened on a Saturday. I think the compete total fee for training was $1,500.00. It's hard for me to remember because it was such a long time ago. Paul said it was a pay as you go kind of deal, I didn't have to sign any contract's with him and he wasn't going to force me to sign something or force me to do anything as a trainee like Roland Alexander does down in Hayward. After finding things out, I took a few seconds and decided that I liked how things were ran and two days later on a Thursday I was back, ready to train.....and it hurt. My trainers were going to be Paul, Jason, Dave, and two more guys who'd I meet later and would be Helfyre and Eric West. Helfyre's gimmick is sorta crosss between a Death Metal guy crossed with the Undertaker.....if that makes sense. Its basically him being himself, but you'd really have to know Helfyre to understand what I ment. Eric West basically wrestled under his own name and was basically himself.   I sucked at bumping, I really did. I knew I was going to suck and that I wasn't going to catch on right away, but I had no clue I was going to be as bad as I was. I was horrible. When you bump, your suppose to land on your back flat with your hands and feet hitting the ring all at the same time. I couldn't do that at all. Either I kept putting my hands behind me, rolling my back, not tucking my neck, which resulted in a neck whiplashing motion, or I couldn't lift one of my feet off the ground. One of the best piece's of advice I ever got from a wrestler about bumping and training was this, "When it comes to training, not everyone will be the same and will be able to learn all at the same pace. Either you'll get it or you won't but when you get it, everything starts clicking." and thats very true. Since I sucked at bumping, my trainers all had the idea to help me out, was to slam me. Which ment quite a few different slams, bodyslams, spinebusters, things like that. It helped but not so much. I kept coming home banged up, sore, bruised, and at times limping because I was in so much pain from not being able to bump correctly.   There were times early on when I kept questioning why I was putting myself through the pain I was in, I kept telling myself that some day it would all be worth it and that one of these days, I'll get it and it won't hurt as much. Ok the truth is, I kept going because I had paid for the month and I hate spending money which could result in me wasting it, so thats really why I kept going. After a couple of months, I started improving. Luckily I was the only one training so the trainers could put their focus on me and help me learn how to bump and take moves correctly. I also started running the ropes and let me be one of the first to tell you this, THE ROPES FUCKING HURT! Even if you hit them right, those fuckers hurt like a bitch. You train your body to toughen up while hitting them and while your body is trying to do that, you get really bruised. I had a brusie under my shoulder blade, one right above my ass, and one a little bit above my foot, yeah that shit does NOT tickle. As time went on I was understanding more and more and was doing better and better. I really started enjoying training.   Like I said before, Paul ran shows every two weeks on a Saturday. I would get up early in the morning and would get to the building around 10 in the morning to help set up. Setting up ment, hooking up the sound, setting up chairs around the ring, sweeping the floor, rolling up these wrestling mats (Paul also coaches High School wrestling), vaccuming these small rugs that were placed around the ring (we didn't use mats), and also cleaning up the upstairs locker rooms and bathrooms. The first show I did, I sat back and watched. I met a lot of local wrestlers there for the very time. All were very nice to me and introduced themselves to me. I won't go through and talk about everyone that I have met this blog because the blog will become VERY long if I sit here and introduce you to everyone I have met but my next blog will be deicated just to that. Two people I met I will talk about are Blackie and Alexis Smirnoff Jr.   Blackie was the ring annoucer, he was also the co-booker of the WCWA with Paul. Blackie also managed Helfyre and the heel team of Devil Mountain Wrestling. Imagine it as the nWo only with like a death metal/punk edge to them....plus it was a lot smaller group of people. Devil Mountain were Blackie as the heel manager, Helfyre as the leader (in my view anyways), Shane Dynasty, Risa De Merte, and Rage. The crowd HATED Blackie and he enjoyed every minute of it and had a lot of fun while pissing off the crowd. Alexis Smirnoff Jr is a wrestler who wrestles as a evil Russian. He wasn't one of my trainers but he worked very closely to the WCWA and with Paul Brown. He would take me aside before shows and help me improve myself in the ring a little bit, he actually got me to do a forward roll. I couldn't do one for anything and he was able to get me to do one. Me and Smirnoff still do shows together as most recently me, him, and Jason Vega all travled to Oregon for the BAW show together.   So anyways, the first WCWA show I did, I sat back and watched. I enjoyed the show but one thing that bugged me the most was the music. Paul's son was running the music, and I hate to put it so brutally honest, but he sucked. By the next show, I had voluntered to run music and became the soung guy for the WCWA. Which was cool because I got to work with the wrestlers a little bit more closely, and it also gave me the best seat in the house, but it also got me involved here and there. One time, and I'm gonig to go in much detail about it, but a brawl broke out near the sound system and because I was "protecting" it I ended up being chopped and hit with some kind of object, across my back. That was fun! Everything was going really good for me......but then just like that, I hit a few big roadblocks.   The first roadblock was that my medical coverage was going to expire when I turned 22 in November. I didn't want to train without any medical because I feared that I would get really hurt and would get a really big medical bill that I couldn't pay for. So in Sept. I decided I would stop training by the month of Oct. and would work on being able to get some medical coverage and after getting some medical, I would get back in the ring and train. I talked to Paul about this and he understood just fine and as much as I didn't want to stop training, I had to stop by Oct. Another roadblock I hit was from my job. I worked in retail at a gamestore and I started going through new managers and because of it, I started loosing hours. One of the new managers I had gotten really started screwing me over in hours and even though I told him I needed the hours so I could pay for wrestling, he kept cutting them in favor of other employes and because of it, my monthly payments kept getting lower and lower. I hated doing that to Paul, but again he understood and let me keep on training even though I was making lower and lower payments and because Paul let me keep going, I respect the hell out of Paul for that and I owe him a lot.   The third roadblock I hit, had nothing to do with me, it had to do with the owners of the building and property we were running out of and on.The owners of the building wanted us to leave for a month in a half because they wanted to put a halloween store in for the end of Sept of all of Oct.. Paul didn't like that because apprently last year when the Halloween store took over, they had destoryed a lot, which includes some of Paul's own personnal things. Plus the WCWA was drawing really well, we had a lot of returning fans and we were getting newer and newer fans each show and it would have been stupid to just stop running and risk loosing some of our fans. The owners of the building didn't feel the same way and there was a big conflict because of this. Not only did we have to deal with this but in the same shopping center we were in, a Kohl's was being built and it was going to be focused on as the main store in the plaza and the owners of Kohl's felt we were drawing the wrong type of people.....even though our crowds consited mostly of kids, we were drawing the wrong type of crowd. So by the end of Oct. the WCWA had it last show in that building, which was a Halloween themed show.   It was a fun show which ended in a gimmick battle royal that had all the wrestlers dressing up as wrestlers who were in the WWE, WCW, or ECW at one time or another. After the show, that week and that week, we started moving everything out of the building and into a new one in the next city over in Concord, CA but their were so many problems with this new building. It was some kind of store that was TORE up. The wiring was horrible, and yeah it just needed a lot of work done to it. Plus being in Concord, we needed permits and other shit to run a show out of that building and being RIGHT NEXT to a police station didn't help matters either. They made sure we needed to get all the permits and paperwork for us to run shows and actually sent inspectors to the building to see if we were safe enough to run. As the months passed, nothing was happening. Their were being practices being held but I didn't really go because I couldn't get in the ring and train and I wans't about to try and get into Paul's ring to train when I wasn't paying him.   In Jan. I decided to attend a practice to stop in and say hi and to see what was going on as I really hadn't heard much about what was going on. When I got there, Jason was there along with Eric West and the new trainee named Tim. There were also a few other wrestlers there that ran another promotion called BRAWL. After a little bit of catching up, I found out that Paul had lost this new building and that the wrestlers were there getting their stuff out of the building before it all got locked up in it. I started helping getting stuff out of there and randomly said "Does anyone need a wrestling techie?" and one of the BRAWL owners spoke up and said they needed a new sound guy. I agreeed and told them I would be at their next show in Feb.   That night, I pretty much knew that the WCWA was done. We had no building to go to and Paul's stuff was going to be locked up in that building for a little while. I wasn't sure where I was going to go now for wrestling, I just had to see where things would go for me. I was going to go to BRAWL and help them out, but I had no clue if that was a one time deal or what that was even going to be.   The month of Feb was quickly coming, was my life in wrestling going to continue or would it stop after that show? I'll leave you at that question and will answer it for you in a blog. Not the next blog because thats where I'm going to introduce to you and talk about the wrestlers that I have met , but you'll find out soon enough. Stay tuned.
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B.A.W. Oregon Trip (Will be long.)

on Friday I worked a wrestling show as a Referee for the promotion of BAW in the motherfucking cold state of Oregon, and here, yes here on Scroby's blog, are the details of my journey from California to Oregon to work the BAW show.   My adventure began on Friday morning, at 4 in the motherfucking morning, as myself (Referee Toby), and indy wrestlers, Alexis Smirnoff Jr, Jason Vega, The Big Ugly JD Bishop, and Kassy Summers, all packed ourselves in a new Dodge Charger and left Sacramento CA and started making our way towards Oregon. It was a LONG freaking trip. The trip from Sacramento CA to McMinnville OR, took us about 12 hours, making very little stops...and myself getting very little sleep.   Nothing special really happened on the way up there, I heard a few stories from the wrestlers, we talked about other local promotions, and gimmicks and stuff like that as we made our way up there. Due to us getting lost a few times because Smirnoff can't apprently read his own writing, myself, Jason Vega, and Alexis Smirnoff got to the venue that was hosting the show in McMinnville OR around 4 o'clock. We had dropped off Kassy and The Big Ugly with two other wrestlers that had met up with us after we got into Oregon. The two of them would be at the venue later on.   It was very cold in Oregon, but I tired to not let it bother me much as I was excited to work this show. New Jack, Brother Runt (Spike Dudley), Mike Modest, and Molly Holly were also booked on this show as well and I was excited to meet them, plus all the other wrestlers on the show that I had never met before. Even though myself, Vega, and Smirnoff had gotten there around 4 in the afternoon and had been put in the wrong direction a few times, we were really the first workers there. The BAW Promoter, along with the head trainer Terry Bull, and some of the trainees and ring crew were there but we were the first people outside of the promotion to show up.   I don't know much about the BAW promoter or Terry Bull but both were very nice to me throughout the night, which I'm grateful for because it was a long ass drive there and I only had about 5 hours of sleep from the night before with maybe an hour of sleep on the car ride up there, and I really wasn't wishing for anyone to be a dick. When I had got there 3 of the trainees were working out a dark match that they were going to do before the actual show had started. After introducing myself to the people who were there and feeling out the ring a little bit, I pretty much sat back and relaxed and hung out.   After a little while, the owner of Devil Mountain Wrestling (my home indy promotion) Helfyre showed up as he was also booked on the card. Helfyre's gimmick...well is basically himself, Helfyre. I guess I would describe him as a Death Metal wrestler gimmick, but...not so much. Its sorta hard to describe what Helfyre's gimmick actually is, but if you want you can look him up on myspace under "Helfyre". After a little while longer more and more workers started showing up.   The Devil Mountain Trainees, Josh, Anton, and Neil showed up. Anton and Josh were both having their first matches on this show, while Neil made the trip to support the both of them. Neil and Josh are both close friends who both went into wrestling training together. Josh was going to have a match with Helfyre whose his trainer at Devil Mountain and Anton was going to have a match with Jason Vega.   As the night went on, more and more people showed up. I introduced myself to all the new wrestlers who I hadn't met before and also put my Ref gear on as the time got closer to show time. It was near 6:30 when Spike, New Jack, and Modest had showed up. I introduced myself to Spike and Modest and shook both their hands, with New Jack it was a little bit hard to introduce myself because he was pretty much getting settled in and figuring things out, so I just let him be as I finished getting myself ready for the dark match at 6:30.   Even though the show started at 7, the promoter and the booker wanted to have the dark match at 6:30 to try and get the crowd hyped up a bit before the show. It was the 3 wrestling trainees who were The Incredible Ty, Sir Latte (yes its a Starbucks coffee gimmick), and someone else whose name escapes me at the moment (like I said it was a long night). I got to Ref this match and it was a pretty quick match and the 3 BAW trainees did some pretty good spots as well with the match ending with Sir Latte stealing a pin on Ty after the 3rd trainee hit a swinging neck breaker on Ty. After the match was over, I went back to the locker room so I could get the run down of the card and the matches I was giong to Ref.   After waiting around a bit because I wasn't sure if the card was fully finished or not, this woman came up to me and I introduced myself to her and lord and behold it was Molly Holly! I didn't reconize her as she has (from what I can tell) slimmed down from the last time I saw her on tv and looks great. Not saying she didn't look great before hand because she did, but she looks even greater now. After I talked with her a bit and letting her know when what she was doing was up and when a match was, I had to talk with Terry to figure out what matches I was going to be doing for the night. I had the first, second, and sixth match of the night.   The first match was Micheal Blade facing someone whose name again escapes me at the moment and his name isn't on the BAW site yet, so I can't look it up there. The second match was going to be Jason Vega vs Anton, whose under a mask for this show, and the sixth match was going to be Mike Modest vs Wage. Yes folks I had Mike Modest's match! I felt like a lucky boy that night.   I'm not going to go into detail about how the matches went because I felt they all went fine and all 6 men that I worked with really liked the job I did as a Referee. Modest was very impressed with me and told me what he had liked about the job I had did. Modest had went out there with a ring on his finger and as I was "checking" him, I had noticed ( really didn't notice the ring) the ring. Before I rang the bell, Modest jumped out of the ring and grabbed a mic and told me to come here. So I very confusingly walked over to him and asked him whats going on.....he then explained to me how he had the ring on his finger when I checked him and didn't say anything and told me that he could have used that as a weapon. I hung my head down as he was telling me this in front of a live crowd on the mic. After the match was over, Modest had won with a small package, Wage who was still in the wrestling ring, was telling me that I made a fast count and started asking me if I was in Modest's pocket, then to make things worse the freaking BAW Commish comes over and says "Wage has a points, it looked like a fast count." At that point I just got down off the ring and went back to the locker room.   Afterwards, I went up to Modest to shake his hand, and return his ring (he had handed it to me after the promo) and he told me how he liked how I didn't do a Ref over reaction when he was cutting the promo on me and how he liked how I did just stand next to him and listened to what he had to say, like I knew I fucked up and I was going to listen to what he had to say....in reality I thought I had really fucked up, I honest to God did not see the ring he was wearing and he was cutting a shoot on me. Luckily it wasn't and Modest was really cool and I'm really glad I got to work with him and Wage, both really stand up guys.   As the night went on, I enjoyed myself. Everyone was just fun to be around and was just so freaking nice to me and all had positive things to say about my Refereeing, espically how I had the crowd hating me, even though I was just being a Ref. We actually had a 2nd Ref there and when he came out for the 3rd match of the night, the fans cheered for him and I also heard some fan yell out "Finally a good Referee."...God I love heel heat. For some reason on the 3 shows that I have Ref'ed for, I have been boo'ed or have gotten some kind of heat, its freaking great, it really is. After the show was over, myself, Jason Vega, and Smirnoff all headed back for California around midnight of Friday night, and I got back home in California after 10 in the morning, and even though I'm still tired, I wanted to post this as hopefully some of you would like to read it.   Now if guys don't mind, I'm going to leave you a little describtion of my experiance with the some people I worked with last night.   New Jack: Just fun to be around and a very cool guy. He was having a good time last night in the locker room and it was just fun to be around him.   Spike Dudley: Nice guy, I don't know what to make of the guy other than that. He was just a very nice kinda quiet guy.   Molly Holly: Ok first, she's hot! Chris Water's if your reading this, I'm sorry but......I MET MOLLY HOLLY, I MET MOLLY HOLLY!, ok I'm sorry. Molly is such a nice and sweet person. She's very cool to talk to and I'm glad I got to meet her last night.   Mike Modest: Like I said, very stand up guy, and I'm so happy that he was really impressed with my work in the ring with him. It also seems he lost a lot of weight as he's not as, and I'm not knocking him at all so no one take it like that, muscle massive as he used to be. He's still in GREAT shape but he's just slimmed down a bit.   Everyone else was just a pleasure to work with and hang out with in the back. Everyone was so nice to me and actually the wrestler Lonestar, who has his own promotion in..I think Kentucky gave me a invite to go Ref a show for his promotion out there. I really made a good impression and I can't wait to return on the 26th of Jan.   Well there you guys go, thats pretty much my trip to Oregon in a nutshell. I did leave some detail out because I felt this blog might get to long and I didn't want to do that. And I also know I said my next post was going to be about my time with the WCWA but I'll do that post later, I promise. I hope you guys enjoyed this post and all comments are welcomed.  
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Introduction

For those who don't know, I've been really getting involved in the North California Wrestling Indy Curcuit and I've decided to write blogs about the shows I'm doing and basically my life on the curcuit. First let me do the introduction and tell you about myself.   My real name is Toby Reynolds and I've been a wrestling fan since I was little little kid. By the end of 2003, I decided to take a huge step in my life and get involved with pro wrestling. I moved to Bremerton WA, to live with my dad and train with a indy promotion called ICW. ICW was based out of Bremerton so me moving there made sense. Unfortunaily it didn't work out and I moved back to California.   I had a job lined up in Bremerton, I was suppose to transfer to a store out there but the transfer got screwed up and after about 3 months I got tired of not being able to find a job in WA and before I ran out of money I came back to California. Even though I was only in WA for 3 months, I did work with ICW and all the guys there treated me very well. I miss those guys and hope some day, I can work with them again.   After about a year in a half of being back in California, I found that there was a indy promotion called the WCWA in the near by city of Concord. After checking out their website I gave them a call and set up a meeting with them to talk about training. After I met the owner and two of the trainers, I had my mind set up, I would start training two days later but that will be a story for my next blog.   (I got to have something for you guys to come back to.)
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