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Dec 15th = My In-Ring Wrestling Debut AND I'M KICKING INTERNATIONAL ASS!!!

Yup, next month in Dec. on the 15th, I make my in-ring pro wrestling debut and that's because 3 guys decided to beat me up at the last Devil Mountain Wrestling show. Yup....three international assholes decided to blantly take me out, so next month on the 15, Ref Toby doesn't count anymore, Ref Toby gets payback!   Yes, I know, that was corny. I haven't quite figured out the art of the face promo yet. It's a work in progress, and I'm kinda getting there but doing the face promo in all seriousness is kinda hard. Anyways, let me explain the set up for my first wrestling match next month on the 15th.   Last Saturday, November 3rd, was Devil Mountain Wrestling. I was Refereeing The Fun Athletic Guys Kimo and Chico, or the F.A.Gs for short, vs Sheik Kahn Abodi and Alexis Darevko. I was Refereeing the match and everything was going...umm out of controlish but I had things under normal Referee control. Anyways, so The Fun Atheltic Guys pretty much have Sheik pinned and I'm in the middle of my count, when all of a sudden I'm pulled from out of the ring. I turn around and it's someone dressed up in Sheik clotheing. I call for the bell when I'm all of a sudden thrown into the post.   After a few minutes, my limp body is thrown in the ring and picked up over Darevko's head and he gives me a high razors edge, then as soon as I land, I open my eyes just soon enough to see and feel Sheik Kahn Abodi land a frogsplash on me. After seeing the video footage of the aftermath and I found out who the mystery guy in Sheik's clotheing was who attacked me....canadian Superstar Anton Vorhees. It seems Anton, Darevko, and Sheik has formed some kind if International Alliance.   Well I asked our Commish's permission and requested that I team up with Kimo and Chico to take them on in a match. He wasn't willing at first, but with my charm and wit, he changed his mind so now it's on!!!!   Dec. 15th, it will be Myself and The Fun Athletic Guys Kimo and Chico vs Sheik Kahn Abodi, Alexis darevko, and Anton Vorhees! The Stripes come off and the athletic tape goes on!   .....yeah that was corny too, I know.
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Congrats to California Championship Wrestling

California Championship Wrestling got a tv deal! And not just some regular tv deal, oh no they got a deal with Comcast! The deal is that Comcast will run a show for a entire month...and it will be On-Demand. I'm very happy for CCW and I'm very happy to be apart of CCW. So BIG congrats to California Championship Wrestling and I can't wait to see what happens next with them.   For those who are wondering if California Championship Wrestling will reach you here in California. You can check out the California Championship Wrestling 5/12 thread in the "other promotions" part of the forum.
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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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Big News and A Actual Post! Two Deals In One! How Lucky Are You!?

I haven't posted in awhile, there's really no reason why except I really haven't found much to post about. I am still training and I am still Refereeing for promotions and regardless of what the Khali mark says, are not backyard feds. (check out the WWE comments that don't warrent a thread...thread to see what I'm talking about.)   -Training: Training has been going ok. I've just about completed 6 months of my 1 year training contract. While I'm still slowly improving, I'm still having trouble with being able to do a straight forward flip and body control. When I flip, I keep tucking a shoulder in causing me to rotate into what looks like a jumping spin kick. Plus I'm also not jumping straight up, I keep lunging forward, which I"m not really suppose to do. i'm suppose to jump up, but for some reason my body just doesn't want to.   My problem is that I keep thinking/fearing I'm going to end up on the top of my head again. I've done it quite a few times in the pass and got really lucky and only got a sore neck because of it but I keep thinking that next one, if that next one happens, will result in something a lot less worse then a sore neck.   Other than those things, training is going ok really. I'm learning new moves a few times a week and learning how to craft matches better more and more and we have a few gimmick ideas for me but my favorite one will be done with me wearing a mask. I won't go into detail about it here, because you never know who might end up reading this stuff but when I'm really close to debuting it or at least have debuted it I'll talk about it.   Oh, and before I forget if anyone here whose reading this wants to help me design a mask, that would be great. I can't draw worth a damn and everyone I ask if they can design a mask for me sorta falls through, I've asked quite a few actual wrestlers if they knew anyone or any company that might help me but I've got silent no's or a "do it yourself" from Konnan. So if anyone would be intresting in drawing a design concept so I can send it over to Highspots so the mask could be made, that would be FUCKING GREAT!   Refereeing: Refereeing is going amazingly well. I'm being booked around the bay area about 2 or 3 or more times a month now and if training doesn't work out very well by the time my 1 year is up, I think I will just skip out on the wrestling part and just become a Ref, as I'm still having a lot of fun doing it.   Promotions: Devil Mountain Wrestling (DMW):Devil Mountain Wrestling (my home promotion that made me into a Ref and where I'm currently training.) is finally running shows again. We really haven't ran a big show since last Sept. We kept getting the run around by the armory that we wanted to run shows at, so after almost a year of not running any shows we finally found what may become our new home for running monthly shows, which is a Boys and Girls club. We did our first big show of 2007 last weekend and it went really well. We had near or at 85 paying people and for really your first big show in almost a year, that really is a good number. I was hoping for 100 while others were hoping for more, but I'm generally happy with having that many people show up.   California Championship Wrestling (CCW): CCW is still running extremely strong and actually just had their 1 year aniversity show this month (July). Plus CCW is still on Comcast On-Demand here in Northern California so I'm regularly on tv....you just need to have Comcast's On-Demand service...and live in Northern California to watch CCW on tv. I know CCW is also working on other things for tv right now but I can't really say anything about it until they annouce something. But yes, CCW is going really strong and doesn't look like they want to keep running just as strong or stronger. Their drawing huge crowds of about 300 or more people (think Indy show people), have great wrestling matches, and have a Bay Area market, CCW is really going.   BRAWL: BRAWL is still going and running very well. They're having 2 regular shows a month and I'm used as a Ref for them now instead of a sound guy. Well I still do sound if they REALLY need me to. Rik Luxury really trusts me when it comes to hitting music cues and doing everything correctly when it comes to running the sound and I competely understand that, so if asked, I'll do sound for something he wants done perfectly.   North American Wrestling (NAW): Goddamn NAW shows are a lot of fun. I've only worked a few of them but whenever I work them, I always have a great time. Not saying I don't have a great time at the other promotions I work for, but there's something at NAW that lets me know that I'm going to have a great time that night. NAW's also really starting to bring in big names as well. At the last show Psicosis (the actual Psicosis) wrestled on the card and so did Gangrel. I didn't really get to meet Psicosis as he pretty much stayed away from the rest of the wreslters and was mainly on his cell phone, Gangrel on the other hand....AWESOME GUY. Really friendly, really easy to approach and talk to, I have nothing and will never have anything bad to say about Gangrel EVER! Great guy.   I love working NAW shows but there is one kind of negitive thing about working NAW shows. They go for so long. They are stacked 11 or 12 match cards and the show doesn't seem to end until about 11:30 or midnight...on a sunday night. Which sorta sucks because I get up for work on Monday mornings between 5 and 5:30 am, but since I have so much fun I really don't seem so much...until the next day when I'm driving my work truck and I'm really sleepy, but like I said I really enjoy working their shows so I shouldn't be complaining.   BAW in Oregon:BAW is up and running again after being forced to take a few months off due to someone else up in Oregon who got scared by how well they are doing. I still have a working relationship with them, but I really can't afford to keep going to Oregon to do their shows, which is sading as I really loved working up there but I got to look at the reality of things, should I skip work and have less money so I can pay my bills, buy food, and keep a little left over until my next paycheck, or should I go work in Oregon and miss that paid day at work and that answer would be....choose buisness over pleasure.   THE BIG NEWS!: Ok, time for the big news I mentioned. In late Oct., there will be a wrestling con (think Comic-con) taking place at the Cow palace. It's going to be a 3 day event and on the 2nd day (Saturday) the people running the con is going to have a HUGE card and I found out last night, after contacting the promoter via E-mail, it looks like I'm going to be one of the Refs for this huge ass card. Now when I said "Huge ass card" I don't mean it's a whole bunch of matches put together, no I mean it's a stacked big name card!   Here's the card so far:   Knight of the Indys-Last Man Standing 30 man Battleroyal: Every 60 seconds, a new wrestler will enter the Battle Royal and when all 30 men are in the match, YOU MUST BE THROWN OVER THE TOP ROPE TO BE ELIMATED. My trainer Helfyre is actually in this match.   Hardcore Fatal 4 Way: Al Snow vs Axl Rotten vs Blue Meanie vs Nick Sinn   Battle Of The Giants: The One Man Gang vs Kamala   Singles Match: Tony Atlas vs Dr. Death Steve Williams   Legendary Tag Team Match: The Rock and Roll Express vs The Midnight Express   Battle of The Big Boys: The Nasty Boys vs Vicious & Delicious (Buff Bagwell and Scott Norton)   Texas Bull Rope Match: Ron Bass vs Black Bart   Triple Threat Match: JD Micheals vs Billy Kiddman vs Sharkboy   Greg Valentine & Brutus The Barber Beefcake vs Koko B Ware & Tito Santana   Test & A-Train (T&A) vs Rick Steiner & Dan Severn   (NOW FOR THE TWO BIGGEST MATCHES ON THE CARD (in my view only) )   The Great Muta vs Ultimo Dragon!!!!!!   And the Main Event: Christian Cage vs Abyss vs A Mystery Man.   (I actually don't know who the Mystery man is, but I'm thinking/GUESSING It's either Kurt Angle or Bill Goldberg as they both will be at the Con.)   So you can see why I'm really excited to be working as a Ref for this show. The idea that I could Ref one of these HUGE matches is fucking awesome, espically Great Muta vs Ultimo Dragon, that would be a dream match to Ref. Here's also some good news about it, it looks like the show is going to be on Pay Per View. I don't know the details about according to the website and flyer, it looks like the show will be on PPV. If anymore details come up, I'll post the details.   So yeah I'm extremely excited about it and if you want to check out the website and get more information about the 3 day WrestleFanFest go to http://www.wrestlefanfest.com/   Being a Referee is so great!
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BAW/CCW post continued, the CCW Show

So after almost missing my flight (I woke up late), I flew from Portland and returned back to the Oakland airport, then I drove home to wash my Ref gear and try to get the blood out of my Ref shirt. On the way home, I stopped at a big 5 and bought a brand new Ref shirt just in case I didn't get the blood stains out when I got home. I already had 2 ref's shirt as it was, but one is a normal ref shirt while the other has a long zipper on it....and guess which one I prefer wearing, the one that doesn't have a long zipper on it, and that one had the blood stains on it so I bought another one that is the same excat one I perfer to wear. Anyways, around 3, I started making my way to CCW in Newman.   Now Newman is quite a way aways from where I live now. So its a nice long drive down a few freeways/highways...but I have having an issue on the entire trip down there. At the end of year 2005, I got in a car accident that broke the piece of my car that holds my blinkers and my headlights. The piece broke on the passenger side of my car...and I haven't been able to get it repaired yet. I have the parts but its either expensive or I've just been to lazy to try and put the pieces on....and I'm also not to good with cars either, so my answer to my broken headlight and blinker? Duct tape the blinker into my car and since the headlight still works, just the casing is broken, put serriane wrap over the broken casing, so no water gets to the blub and breaks it when its on.   Now the duct tape over the blinker was kinda wearing out a bit due to the odd cold and hot weather we've been having lately, and all the way down there, about ever 15 to 20 minutes my blinker would play peek-a-boo with me by popping up over the hood waving hi to me. So I would have to stop and put somew new duct tape on the blinker and car to hold the blinker in...but the roll of duct tape that I had in the trunk was old as well so the damn thing would keep popping up every 15 to 20 minutes. After about the 3rd time of playing peek-a-boo with my fucking blinker, I stopped at a Shell gas station that sold the small rolls of duct tapes for cars, so I bought the last 3 rolls of duct tape and then preceeded to duct tape the hell of my blinker and car....save to say, it stayed in the rest of the trip there and then the trip to Rocky afterwards.   I got the arena just before 6, I said my hellos and then went back to the locker room to get changed again. The Ref's for the show was me and Guido and a new guy whose name escapes me at the moment...I think it was Casey, though I'm not sure. It was good to work with Guido again, I didn't really like working with the last Ref CCW used at last months show. Something just didn't sit well with him, so yeah working with Guido again was a breathe of freash air. The other Ref, Casey, was really new to the scene, so new infact this was going to be his first time Ref'ing! So before the show started me and Guido went over differant things with Casey to make sure he had an idea on what he would be doing. Then the show started at 7 and on we went.   I had the opening match of the night which was a triple threat. It was Ryan Drago vs El Chupacbabra vs Kenny K with his manager Shawn Stevens. This was also my first time doing a triple threat. Everything went really well as I just stayed out of there way and let them do their thing. Ryan Dragon won the match after Chupi submitted to a figure four leglock. After the match Drago kept attacking Chupiacabra's knee until I backed Drago off Chupi. Afterwards I helped Chuupacabra back to the locker room.   The next match I did was a tag team match. It was The Reno Boys (Luster the Legend and Malachi) w/ Buddy Sotello Esquire vs The Rock Legend Scum Adam Thornstowe and "Showtime" Shane Dynasty who holds the Dead Fed title (Formerly the GZW title....that promotion just died after having..umm issues, yeah I'll just use that word.) The backstory of this match was that Buddy Sotello managed both Adam Thornstowe and Shane Dynasty but couldn't produce what he promised both guys and that would be the CCW Heavyweight title that Vinnie Massaro holds, so both Adam and Shane fired Buddy and now we have this match.   This match was crazy and I had already knew it would have been, when you have bad blood between so many people, its going to be a crazy match....and I was right. The match was your pretty standard tag match as both Malachi and Luster kept Shane Dynasty away from his partner and kept working him over. Adam kept trying to get into the ring to make the save but I had to keep cutting him off as he never made the tag. After a little while, Shane made a clean clear tag to Adam then everything went crazier, as all 4 men had gone to the outside. So now I have to deal with Luster the Legend, Buddy Sotello, Malachi, Adam Thornstowe and Shane Dynasty all fighting outside while I have to keep an eye on Buddy Sotello who just happen to be right next to all 4 men fighting. Then all of a sudden when I thought I was getting all 4 guys back in the ring, Shane and Adam threw Malachi in a bunch of chairs, as I was tending to Malachi I looked up into the ring and Adam was pinning Luster so I slid back in and made the 1...2...3. Annoucing that both Shane Dynasty and Adam Thronstowe as the winners of the tag match. After that took place, for some reason The Reno Boys were about to kick Buddy Sotello's ass and after a few minutes...and Buddy's crying and begging, The Reno Boys let Buddy go and we went back to the locker room. That was my final match for the night so afterwards I went and put my street clothes back on.   It was diffently a fun show and I had fun doing both matches. After the show was over, I said my good byes and started making my way to Oakland so I could do the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and that was my wrestling show weekend. I have so much fun working for BAW and CCW but unfortuanily I won't be doing BAW in OR in April as it's getting a bit pricey for me, so I'm going to skip this month's show to save money for the show in May, but of course I'll post a pre-view when BAW puts one out.   I really hope you guys are enjoying my stories about being on the road and working the indy scene....and if your not....to bad. :0)    
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BAW Show 2/Portland Trip

Ok, since ECW is on and I'm just sitting here and watching it, I have some time to post about me working the most recent BAW show.   I flew out of Sacramento, really really early Friday (1/26) morning. Before my flight, I saw this big Samoan guy who looked really familar. He was on my flight, I couldn't put my finger on it, but he looked really really familar. Anyways, I let it go and we flew out of California a little before 6:30 in the morning. I got into Portland a little after 8 and Portland's airport is FREAKING huge! I couldn't believe how big it was, I felt like I was in a mall. I waited outside for my shuttle under these space heaters the airport has and after half an hour of waiting, I went to my hotel. My hotel room was ok, nothing special about it, I tried taking a nap as I didn't get much sleep Thursday night. The problem was, the hotel was putting new carpet in the rooms...and they happen to be putting new carpet in the room across mine. So sleep was pretty much out of the question. So after waiting a little while, Helfyre called me up to let me know he was picking me up and we headed to BAW in McMinnville a little before 4 in the afternoon......and we hit traffic all the way there. What should have been about an hour drive, turned into a two hour and 10 minute drive, granted we had to make a sidestop due to Helfyre forgetting his music and had to get a cd for the show, but it still took a lot longer to get there than it should have and I thought California Bay Area traffic was horrible, I really shouldn't complain about Bay Area traffic again after sitting in Oregon traffic, that shit was insane.   Me and Helfyre got to the show a little after 6...and the show started at 7. As soon as I got in the building, I said hello to some of the BAW rookies and the booker and went right to the back to get changed quickly. I didn't know how soon they needed me, so I got changed quickly. Of course I said hello to those in the locker room before I got changed, that would have been rude if I didn't and as I was getting changed, the big samoan I saw that was on my flight that looked familar but I just couldn't put my finger on it, well he was there! Turns out, that guy is the Tonga Kid. The guy who teamed with Haku in the early 80's of the WWF and made the team of the Islanders. Really nice guy, I introduced myself and continued getting ready. He also showed up with "Count Black Pearl", which is a cousin of the Rock and Rikishi. More and more of the bigger names were showing up. Kamala showed up, along with D-Lo Brown. Both were really cool to meet. I didn't realize how tall Kamala and D-Lo actually are, both are really tall, espically Kamala.   The show started at 7 and I found out what matches I had. I had the first offical match of the night, which was a tag match between Kimo and Chico Navarro vs Cosmic River and "The Ideal Reflection" Christopher Ryseck. Kimo and Chico are actually workers from North Cal. They wrestle out of a promotion called BTW or Big Time Wrestling. Cosmic River is a maked hippie wrestler who believes in Peace and puts the peace sign of two fingers up a lot. Christopher Ryseck I met that night and I really don't know anything about his backround. His gimmick is the guy who is in love with himself gimmick. As I got into the ring before the wrestlers came out, I took a second to look at the crowd and the crowd had grown since the last show, it was at least double the size of the last show and they were loud...really loud. The tag match went well. I almost screwed up as I didn't see Cosmic's foot on the rope but I saw it as the last second and stopped my count...well ok I hesitated and slowly put my hand down to make it look like I didn't screw it up. The end of the match resulted with a double team as Kimo hit a back cracker on River and held him so Chico could hit a double stomp on River, then Kimo pinned River for the 3 count.   The 2nd match I had for the night was "Superstar" Shane Matthews vs JB Luce. I had met both these guys at the last show. This was Luce's debut match, not his debut with BAW but his first offical match altogether and Shane Matthews wrestled Micheal Blade on the last show and I got to Ref that match, so me and Shane worked together before. Shane had a lot of heat from the crowd, the crowd just hated him. The match went well for all 3 of us and the match ended up with Matthews rolling up Luce and according to the results, Shane Matthews used the ropes to help pin Luce...I didn't see it.   The was my last match for the night, which sucked because out of 9 matches and only using two Refs (me and another guy), I only got to do two matches. I was really hoping to Ref a few more matches but it happens, you learn that about wrestling. I stayed in Ref gear just in case they needed and I just stood near the enterance and watched the rest of the show on the moniters we had. I did come out for two more matches, I came out for L'Empereur vs Kamala match. I collected Emperuer's gear for him and got chased around the ring by Kamala...that was really cool for me and I also came out for the main event. The main event was a cage match, which was New Jack vs Terry Bull. I came out and set up the cage and I stood ringside, just in case anything bad was to happen. This match was crazy as all hell.   It started with Terry Bull attacking New Jack during Jack's enterance, which spilled out to the crowd. After a few minutes and after both men were busted open, Terry Bull and New Jack got into the cage and I locked the door so they couldn't get out. The match ended with New Jack pinning Terry Bull after hitting a suplex on him. Yeah I know what your thinking "A suplex?" and let me take a second to explain why it was off a suplex, both guys beat the living hell out of each other with weapons and in the cage, it wasn't a pretty sight, there was really nothing more they could have done to finish it, so thats how it ended. Besides NEW JACK DID A F'N SUPLEX! How often do you see Jack wrestle?   After the show was over, myself and Helfyre geared up and got ready to go. Oh and before I forget Helfyre had a match as well. He wrestled a triple threat agasint D-Lo Brown and Count Black Pearl. All 3 guys had a good match that the fans ate up. As me and Helfyre were getting ready to leave, Tonga Kid asked if we could give anyone a ride and then the game of musical passengers. First were two luchadores and ater a few minutes, it turned out the two luchadores had a ride, so they switched cars. The next two people were Rikishi and Count Black Pearl. Oh yeah! Rikishi was also on the show, I just didn't get to talk to him much but when I did talk to him, he was a nice guy. So after a few minutes later, we found out we actually weren't going to give Rikishi and Black Pearl a ride to the hotel. The game of musical passengers was pretty much over so Helfyre started backing out of the parking lot and as we were backing up we noticed New Jack and D-lo was in the parking lot, kinda walking around aimlessly. Helfyre asked if they needed a ride and they did. D-Lo had to get to the airport as he had a late flight and New Jack needed a ride to the hotel. So now D-Lo Brown and New Jack are in the same car as I am! I'm secretly marking out in my head.   The car ride to the airport in Portland was a lot of fun. D-Lo and New Jack told stories from Smokey Mountain and their time with TNA and we all joked with one another. At one point I got ribbed because the windows were fogging up in the back (5 people in a car can do that) and for some reason my window looked like some kind of Zebra pattern and everyone in the car ribbed me about how I was freaking them out making the window like that. We also stopped so D-Lo and New Jack could grab a beer. I got to share a beer with New Jack as drinking wasn't good for him that night as he lost a LOT of blood due to the cage match. After about an hour of driving, we dropped D-lo off at the airport in Portland, about half an hour before his flight was about to take off. It was funny watching D-lo speed walk into the airport as he was somewhat drunk off the 40oz he had bought and drank very quickly. As we were pulling away, New Jack rolled down the back window and started yelling to D-lo "D-LO YOU FORGOT YOUR BEER!" over and over again, it was great.   After dropping off D-lo, Helfyre and New Jack wanted to get something to eat, I asked Helfyre if he could drop me off as I had to get up early so I could catch my flight and wanted to get some sleep but New Jack wanted me to come and eat with them and I can't really say no to New Jack, so I went with them. When we got to the resturant, New Jack got a phone call and it went like this "Hey!"...."your kidding?"....*new Jack puts the phone down and a bit and looks at Helfyre* "Can you pick up D-lo, he missed his flight." So off Helfyre went to pick up D-lo as myself and New Jack got a table. As we waited, me and New Jack talked about wrestling and how it was a bit surreal for me to be hanging out with him and D-lo. He told me a story about him and Kamala and we discussed about how he was going to be running a school soon and invited me to come out and visit sometime. Yes New Jack is going to be running a pro wrestling school soon, and he actually plans on training on wrestling. Jack knows how to wrestle...he just doesn't use it very often in his matches. After a little bit, D-lo and Helfyre returned and joined us. Turns out D-lo had the wrong time for his flight and was actually 10 minutes late for his flight. So we all sat down and had dinner..well Breakfest for me as it was late enough to where it was time for a early morning/late night breakfest. After eating and talking some more, we all finished and left the restuarant and I got dropped off at my hotel and of course I said my good byes to D-lo, New Jack, and Helfyre.   As soon as I got back into my hotel, I took a quick shower to make sure all the blood was off of me and then went to sleep. I had to get up early to catch my flight back to CA as I had the CCW show still to do. Which will be told in my next blog, which I promise will be up in the next day or two.....at least before the weekend.
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BAW and CCW show over the weekend.

Over the weekend, I had two shows. I had BAW up in McMinnville Oregon and CCW which was in Newman California.   I'll write about the BAW show because that was the first show I did as the show was on a Friday. So BAW was holding a two day tournament to find out who would be their first Heavyweight Champion. I could only make the first show because at the moment there's been a lot a of drama with Rocky Horror and I have lost most of the lighting crew because of it and I'm not the kind of person who leaves people high and dry, espically on a show that affects other people, I'm just not that kind of person. So I had to be in Oakland for Rocky on Saturday night. The officals of BAW were pretty understanding and were ok with me only doing one of the two shows.   I flew out of Oakland, Friday morning at 9:30. Which was cool because I had enough time to go my work and pick up my check and go cash it at the ATM..a broke Toby going out of state, not a good idea. The flight was nice and easy, left on time, got to Portland a little bit earlier than schduled and the weather...freaking nice. Warm, sunny, barely a cloud in the sky. I got to my hotel a little before noon and took a nap. Before I took my nap, I got a call from BAW letting me know that they'll send someone to pick me up sometime at 4. After a little while, 4 o'clock came around and I waited but no phone call about someone here to get me, so after waiting a little while longer, I called a offical of BAW at 5. She told me that my ride would be there soon after she had picked up Raven....I said okie dokie and we hung up....i started marking out a bit.   I'm going to be riding in the same car as Raven? Holy shit.... I've watched and studyed Raven matches for a few years as he's FUCKING GREAT when it comes to ring psycology. So after a little bit longer, 5:30ish(?), the girl coming to pick me up called me and let me know that she had Raven and was on her way to pick me up. She said she would be there in about 10 minutes so I told her I would be waiting outside. So after a little bit of waiting, I got a voicemail, it was the girl picking me up saying she was at my hotel in the lobby waiting for me.......umm okie dokie. There was only one way to get to my hotel and if she didn't see me, she was at the wrong hotel, so I called her and she said she was Red Lion on 82nd st, but that wasn't my hotel. Apprently there are 3 Red Lion's in Portland...all near the airport...all within a 5 mile radius of each other! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!? About 15 minutes, a blue van came around the corner with Raven sitting in the passenger seat.   I got into the van, and me and Raven shook hands as we introduced ourselves to one another and within 10 seconds of me getting into the van, Raven told me I already had heat with him. Because the girl who picked myself and Raven up, didn't have the right directions to the right hotel (not her fault, not really mine either as I sent my rotel address before my flight but had no clue if the email got read or not) and we sorta missed about 20 minutes of travel time to get to the show, so Raven didn't have time to sell his merchindise as we wouldn't have gotten to the arena until after 7 because I wasn't picked up till after 6. He wasn't to happy and just wanted to get to the show. Raven wasn't going to stay for the two days either and had a flight schduled for 10:40 later that night and because he was picked up late and because the girl who didn't have my right hotel info wasn't able to pick me up till after 6, Raven had only enough time to get to the show, streatch, get dressed, have a quick match, then leave. I felt pretty bad because I was part of the reason why he had to get there and go, but it wasn't all entirely my fault. So after listening to Raven telling the girl who was driving to drive faster and faster so we can get to the show, we got to the show at 7:20, when the show was just starting. I got my stuff out of the van and went to the back.   The promoter was waiting for us at the back door, I shook his hand told him sorry we are late and he said it was ok and I started walking to the locker room. I saw some wrestlers in the hallway, one of the first people I saw were Kassy Summers. She looked at me surprised, asking what I was doing there, I told her I was Ref'ing the show and she told me there were like 8 Ref's...umm ok. So I kept walking towards the locker room, saying hello to those who I knew and introducing myself to those who I had not seen before. Some of the new faces were Flash Flanigan, Daffney (or lucy), Vic the Bruiser, Haley Hatred, Rayn Caden, Rosey, and a few others. The ones who I already knew were Helfyre, D-Lo Brown, Kassy Summers, New Jack, The Big Ugly JD Bishop, The Blanchard Brothers, The Tonga Kid, Wage Reighten, Terry Bull, The Cosmic River, Superstar Shane Andrews, J.B. Luce, and a few others who I can't remember who all to list at the moment, I'm sure it'll come to me.   After a few minutes I found out what my first match was going to be for the night and it was the re-match between Superstar Shane Andrews and J.B. Luce. At the last show, Luce lost to Shane Andrews due to be rolled up and I made the 3 count, but Luce..and the results sware up and down Andrews grabbed the tights and used the ropes, but I didn't see that. Anyways, so the two of them had a re-match and I was going to Ref it. They had a pretty good match, though when Luce took Andrews up for a side back suplex, Andrews punched J.B. Luce in the head and Luce went down and Andrews made the pin and got the 3 count and the win over Luce for the 2nd time. After Luce got up, he complained to me that Andrews hit Luce with something but it looked clean to me, so I just told him the match was over and it wasn't my fault he couldn't get the job done. We both went to the back arguing...I pretty much stayed away from him for the rest of the night.   My next match of the night was The Big Ugly vs Vic The Bomber. The two of them had a good match with Vic chopping the shit out of Ugly. I've never seen anyone chop Ugly in that kind of way, normally its the other way around. Vic ended up getting the win after Ugly went to splash him and Vic moved out of the way and rolled Big Ugly up with a school boy and got the 1, 2, 3. After this match, there was a woman's match with Haley Hatred vs Kassy Summers, I didn't ref this match but I made a apperance. After the match was over and Kassy picked up the win, Haley attacked Kassy when her back was turned and Daffney ran out to make the save. Haley and Daffney got themselves into a cat fight. I ran out a few seconds later to help the other Ref for the night seperate Daff and Haley...oh by the way, there was only 2 ref's for the night, I had no clue where Kassy came up with 8, but meh.   My next and final match for the night was a New Jack match. It was New Jack w/ Daffney in his corner vs a guy doing sorta like a voodoo gimmick. Sorta like a Papa Shango gimmic. I never caught his name, but once I get it, I'll post it. So not only is this my first time Ref'ing a New Jack match, but its my first Hardcore match as well. This match was a weird one at that. The guy who New Jack was facing came out with a smoking head....a fucking head that was smoking! He laid his stuff in the corner and I was not going to touch it, New Jack and Daffney came out next. New Jack came with a backpack full of goodies. When the match started, the two were punching each other in the corner, when New Jack got a chance, Daffney went into the backpack and got Jack a staple gun. New Jack started shooting staples everywhere and then stuck the staplegun to the other guys head and shot a staple in his head. HE SHOT A MOTHERFUCKING STAPLE IN THIS GUY'S HEAD!!!! I saw it, I saw the staple in his head! The hell!? Man, what the hell!? The match only got crazier, the other guy started coming back and took some kind of bone and started hitting New Jack with it. A few seconds later Jack got the advantage again and Daffney handed him a fucking stun gun and the next thing I know, Jack's shocking the hell out of this guy! Daffney then hands New Jack a sickle...A MOTHER FUCKING SICKLE!!!! Jack starts craving this guys head up with it too! Yeah......both guys are bleeding...a lot and just when you think things just can't get any worse....New Jack goes and gets a dollar from a fan...then the staple gun. The other guy cuts him off though and then takes both the gun and dollar and staples the dollar to Jack's head! Ok I'm ready to call the match but knowing if I might do that, Jack and the other guy might kill me with Daffney yelling at my dead corpse.   So after a few minutes of Jack getting beat down, Jack somehow manages a comeback and Daffney hands him a chair while New Jack is climbing to the top turnbuckle, with chair in hand, New Jack jumped from the top and hit the other guy in the head with the chair. New Jack quickly covers him and gets the pinfall win over him. I went back to the back, and started getting back into my street clothes as it was my last match of the night. I got dressed quickly and watched Helfyre wrestle D-lo Brown. The two of them had a good match, and the end of the match saw D-Lo getting the pin over Helfyre after D-lo hit the sky high on Helfyre.   After the was show was over, I said my good byes to everyone and got a ride back to my hotel room. Where I went to sleep after taking a shower to make sure I had all the blood off of me. I was going to post about CCW in this blog but its sorta getting late so I'll post about it tomorrow or on Tuesday.    
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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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Another Busy Weekend Gone

If the WrestleFanFest weekend wasn't long enough, this past weekend certainly was. I ended up having a total of four shows over pre-Halloween weekend, two Rocky Horrors and two wrestling shows...but I'll skip the Rocky Horror shows because I know you guys read my blog for Pro Wrestling, not for my adventures in Rocky Horror land.   On Saturday CCW was running a show at their brand new studio. Well ok, it wasn't brand new as they ran there last month but it was at least new...right? I was impressed with how the studio looked this time around, last month, the studio was very small and packed and hot, but since the last CCW show in Sept. the powers of CCW made some changes to the building. In sept, the locker room was this small room that we all packed into to get changed. Well a wall got removed, the room got painted black and what was once the locker room was now set up so crowd members had a better place to sit, thus giving them more room. The locker room got moved though, to out back. A hole was cut into a wall and a door got added, thus giving us access to the building from the back. It will be intresting to see how the new locker room works out as Newman is really windy and the rainy season is starting to show itself, hopefully everything works out.   The CCW show was another good show. Since CCW runs in Newman, they normally draw a good crowd. Newman, is a small town off Highway 5, so there is pretty much NOTHING to do down in Newman and if you do wanna go out to something, it's most likely happening miles away from Newman, so normally a big/loud crowd pops up and last Saturday was nothing differant. The crowd seemed to like how the building was re-done as they had a lot more room to sit and weren't packed in like a can of sardines.   I Ref'ed two matches that night, the first match was Virgil & El Chupacabra vs The Buissness man Jesus Cruz & R-Cayde. Jesus Cruz is normally known as the brownsnake but apprently he changed his ways and isn't a thug anymore, he's now a buisness man. He came to a ring with rolling luggage and started selling stuff out of it. He had some pretty good stuff on him to, dvds, cds, horrible smelling colone. I always love Ref'ing Virgil's and Chupi matches as their just fun to work with.   Something about me and Virgil just click. I don't know what it is, but when we are in the same match, for some reason it just seems me and him are always on the same page and act like we're on the same team. It's a weird thing as he's the wrestler and I'm the Ref and the only thing me and him have worked as a team on was holding onto The Dead Fed title. The Dead Fed title is a title that was invented after the Scum took the belt away from a promotion that....umm wasn't playing correctly with others. That promotion is now dead and gone, thus The Dead Fed Title was born along with a game, where ANYONE in the buisness could play. The way you played the game was to just steal the title from the person holding it at the time.Myself and Virgil decided to join up and co-hold the Dead Fed title. Our pairing worked out pretty well as it took awhile for the boys to figure it out.   I remember one night at BRAWL, Rik Luxury grabbed the Dead Fed title and ended up trying to hide it in his bag...unfortunaily he had no clue that I was watching him and let Virgil know what Rik had tried to hide the title, but when I told Virgil this, Kenny K was standing next to him and was listening in, so Kenny K joined our group as he snatched the title from Rik's bag. Well a few minutes later, Kenny had let myself and Virgil down as Dj Rizz stole the title off Kenny. So now the Commandos had the belt. Well for the main event that night, two of the three commandos were in the main event, D-Unit who wasn't in the match, sat at ringside. Rizz before getting involved in the match, gave the Dead Fed title to D-Unit to hold onto. Well after the match, D-Unit got into the ring to comfront I think Pogo and tossed me the Dead Fed title to hold onto. I was at the music table running music for that match, I quickly ran the title back to the back and found Virgil. Rizz for some reason was chasing Virgil, I think he figured Virgil had the title. I yelled "Virgil!", Rizz noticed I had the belt and started charging at me like I was a quarterback and he was a lineman......a very skinny lineman, as Rizz was running at me I tossed the title to Virgil and ran back to the soundtable to finish what I had to do. Virgil ended up leaving with the title that night and it was safe in our group. Ok back to my other story telling, enough of the Dead Fed title game. Oh and before I forget, the game ended a few months ago.   Now the reason why I like Ref'ing Chupi matches is because he tries so hard to make me laugh. Before the bell rings, while me and him are in the ring, he keeps kinda charging after the guy he's wrestling and I have to back him up, well when I'm backing him up he keeps talking to me telling me why he hates him and for some reason I almost start laughing everytime. He does it on purpose and it's sorta devloped to a game for him. It's fun but sometimes I really hate him for doing it. Anyways back to CCW.   So the Chupi & Virgil vs The Buissness man Jesus Cruz & R-cayde goes really well and the crowd really enjoyed it. The match ended with R-Cayde walking out on Jesus Cruz as he got frustrated with Jesus because Jesus kept jumping down from his corner to try and sell his wares. Well after R-Cayde finally got a tag to Jesus, R-Cayde left and Chupi and Virgil took advantage. Chupi hit Jesus Cruz with a back to back backbreaker and held Jesus Cruz bent backwards on Chupi's back, Virgil got into the ring, stood on top of Jesus Cruz, jumped up and hit Jesus with a Cannonball. Chupi made the pin and got the pinfall.   The 2nd match was the main event, which was Adam Thornstowe vs CCW champion Vinnie Massaro. The match went really good but not so much for me. At one point during the match, Adam went for a superkick on Vinnie while Vinnie was facing me, Vinnie had gone to hit Adam with a elbow but Adam ended up ducking and Vinnie almost nailed me with the failed elbow because I was behind Adam but Vinnie was able to stop himself before nailing me. So while Vinnie was facing m and his back toward Adam, Thornstowe went to nail a superkick from behind but Vinnie ducked and Adam nailed me with it instead....and that didn't feel to good. I was out.....but what's new. Apprently while I was out, Massaro nailed Adam with the CCW title, but since I was out, I didn't see it, had no idea it happen and when I was waken up a bit, Vinnie was making the cover on Adam and got the win.   After I rang the bell, the rest of Buddy Sotello's synicate came out (Badapples, Rik Luxury who replaced Ryan Drago) and started attacking Thornstowe, I was still recovering. Big Ugly, and Scum members Luster the Legend and Shane Dynasty ran out from the back to get the Synicate off of Adam. When I started standing up, Adam got in my face about the belt shot but I told him I didn't see any belt shot as he nailed me with the Superkick, after telling Adam what happen I tried to leave the ring, but apprently Big Ugly wasn't to happy and the next thing I knew I was in a half nelson being held by Ugly.......yeah, not good. Luckily Ugly let me go and I left the ring really quickly.   So other than the superkick from Thornstowe, CCW was good and fun, but it doesn't seem I won't be doing a CCW show for a few months. The next show is on November 17th, which is my birthday and I decided to take all wrestling related stuff on my birthday so I could just relax. Then the next CCW show is on December 15th, but Devil Mountain Wrestling is also running on that date, and Devil Mountain is my home, so that's where I'll be. After CCW was over, I made that long drive to Oakland to do Rocky Horror where my Saturday night ended after Rocky.   Sunday was SPW in Sacramento. This was my 2nd time working SPW and it was a historic/great night. It was a historic for a few reasons, one reason was because Rik Luxury and Adam Thornstowe had a 60 minute hardcore ironman match that I will talk about in a few minutes but the other reason is because The Gangstas re-united. Yes New Jack and Mustafa put all their past issues in the bag and re-united at SPW and they spent the show taking pictures and signing autographs for the fans.   That night I ref'ed two matches. The first match was all 3 Surburban Commandos vs Ryan Drago, Wage, and Luster The Legend, the match went well with the Commando's winning after D-unit rolled up Wage in a school boy while Wage was yelling at Luster for not really getting involved in the match. After the match, Wage attacked Luster before leaving the ring.   The 2nd match was a 4 way tornado elimation match which was The Big Ugly vs Chupacabra vs Virgil vs Dante. This match was great to Ref, as it was just all over the place and the fans loved it. Virgil and Chupi were the first two elimated then Ugly hit a vicious clothesline on Dante and then getting the pinfall victory over Dante.   Now it was time for the main event, for the SPW title, in the 7th match of a best of 7 series, it was Rik Luxury vs SPW Champion Adam Thornstowe in a 60 minute Hardcore Ironman match and honestly this match was un fucking believeable. This is a match you have to see, and as soon as it get's online, I will post it in a thread on the messageboards. You have to see this match. I'm not going to go into full details about it because I really really want people to see this match once it comes online, but here's a few things that happen. Rik drops a elbow off a basketball hoop, Adam doublestomps a flowerpot that has Rik's head in it, barbwire is involved, Adam jumps from the top of the enterance, many things happen but you have to see it to believe how good this match is. I sware if this match gets put online, it will be posted.   The weekend full of shows went really well, but man I spent a lot on gas. I did a lot of driving that weekend and that was kind of the downpoint. I have another wrestling show on the 3rd as Devil Mountain Wrestling is running, then I think I'm taking a break from so many wrestling shows for November. I'm not like burnt out or anything, but I really need to save some money and driving so much, isn't going to help me save any money as my car really isn't a gas saver. I'll try to make another post after the 3rd to let you all know how Devil Mountain went, so until then, please keep enjoying my blogs and thank you for reading.
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After 1st match thoughts

On Saturday night (12/15) I had my first offical pro match at Devil Mountain Wrestling. Well technically my first match was the Halloween Battleroyal that took place in Oct, but I'm not counting that match, so the match over the weekend was my first offical match.   The night started with me cutting a promo after the first match..that I fucking butchered. I kinda had certain points I wanted to get over but I think I tried to structure it to much and tried to hard to get those certain points over with the crowd, which caused me to over think and stumble over my words. I really really butchered that promo and felt really shitty about it afterwards. I actually heard Helfyre in the back yelling stuff during the promo...he had been doing that all night long as well. Helfyre was being really..umm..loud that night. Which was funny because even though we had a good crowd..they were dead for a good majority of the night. I didn't get it. Even with big moves, the crowd kinda sat on their hands, which was weird because it was pretty much our normal crowd. Luckily they did get loud for my match.   So I Ref'ed another match that night then after a little while longer, my match finally came up. It was a 6 man tag match, with America's Most Hated Anton Vorhees, Alexis Darevko, and Sheik Kahn Abodi vs The Fun Atheltic Guys Kimo and Chico and myself. The match started with Kimo working on Anton. Kimo got a early advantage and decided to keep tagging his tag partner Chico in. The Fun Atheltic Guys wouldn't tag me in. They felt they were protecting me from America's Most Hated.   At one point, Kimo and Chico were able to get all three members of America's Most Hated outside of the ring. Kimo and Chico invited me to come into the ring and celebrate with them...but they ended picking me up and throwing me to the outside on top of America's Most Hated. Here's a picture...     After being tossed out and on top of America's Most Hated, I threw Anton Vorhees back into the ring and returned to my corner. After being not tagged after a few more tags, Chico went for another tag of Kimo and I cut Kimo off and tagged myself in. I was tired of being ignored and wanted my chance to shine.   After being tagged in, I went right to work on Vorhees. I snapped him over with a snap mare and gave him a good kick to the back. I then picked him up and gave him a nice LOUD chop to his chest, backing Anton to the ropes. I whipped him off the ropes as I planned to hit Anton with a clothesline but instead, Anton did a Pa-lae (Aj Styles back flip kick) kick and caught me on top of the head. It all went down hill from there.   I proceeded to get my ass kicked for what seemed like forever. America's Most Hated kept me away from my corner and kept tagging themselves in and out. I was getting my ass handed to me as Anton Vorhees, Alexis Darevko, and Sheik Kahn Abodi kept hitting big moves on me but I was always able to cut out. Finally at one point, I caught my bearings and ducked a clothlines from Abodi and when I turned around, I caught Sheik's kick, I then spun Sheik around and gave him a stunner.   We were both down and out as the Ref started his 10 count on us. Sheik crawled over to his corner and made the tag, before the fresh member of America's Most Hated was able to catch me, I dove and tagged the fresh Kimo. Kimo came in and cleaned house and was on FIRE~! After a few minutes, Kimo and Chico hit a combo backstabber/double stomp on Alexis Darevko. I noticed that Anton was trying to sneak into the ring and I came in and cut Anton off and gave him a clothesline which knocked him back over the ring. Kimo and Chico told me to climb to the top rope and I did. When I got to the top, Kimo and Chico grabbed me and threw me off the top rope with me landing a splash on the fallen Alexis Darevko. I stayed on top of Darevko to try and get us a pinfall victory. Kimo and Chico put their hands on my back to make the cover that much stronger and the Ref counted to 3.   We had won the match. After the match, I celebrated with Kimo and Chico and did a "insult pray" to Sheik as America's Most Hated stumbled back to the locker room. After America's Most Hated got to the back, a good chunk of the DMW locker room came out from the back and made their ring to celebrate my first match. As soon as I saw Mike Hayashi and Helfyre come out from the curtain, I broke down.   At first, I was just relieved and happy that I actually made it through the match. After two years of on and off again training, after two years of doing sound and Ref'ing and doing other things at various shows, I finally got to have my first offical Pro Wrestling match and these guys, who I see as family, came out and give me that praise, just made me very happy. I was happy with how the match went, but seeing these guys come out and to tell me I did great put me on all levels of happiness and I broke down because of it. It became a very emotional thing for me but it was a happy emotional thing.   After the match was over, I broke down what I had to and packed everything up in my car and made my way over to Oakland for Rocky Horror and damnit I was tired and my back was sore (Dareveko lit my back up with chops) but I still made it through Rocky and the drive home. After I got home, I passed the hell out.   It was a good night and a good match but I think I'm going to put my next wrestling match on hold for right now and continue to Referee. I really enjoy Ref'ing at the moment and I feel I still need some more training before I start a full-time with just wrestling.  
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....Newman.....

Later today, I head down to CCW. I haven't been at CCW for the past two months. Lacks of funds and schduling conflicts, I couldn't make it, but I'm working the show later today.   It'll be nice to go back to CCW. I really like the locker room as the locker room is filled with guys who just want to put on a good show and have a lot of fun. Plus it should be pretty intresting because of where the locker room is. The locker room is outside and it's been raining pretty much all week long. So depening on how the weather is.....it's either going to be foggy along with cold or cold and wet, good times.   The main event will be unique as it's 3 stips rolled up into one big match. So it's a cage match, with a "I quit" match, and the wrestlers get to bring their own weapons. So it's a weapons, I quit, cage match between Vinnie Massaro and The Big Ugly. It should be pretty fun to watch, granted if I don't have to leave first because it becomes to late.   I only real problem with working the CCW shows is that it's kinda far away from where I need to be before midnight. See every Saturday, I go to Oakland to help put on the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I have to be there preferablly before Midnight...and Newman is an hour in half away from Oakland. So for me to make it to Oakland in time, I pretty much have to leave at 10:00 then haul ass to Oakland to make sure I make it up there on time. It's a bit of a pain but I really enjoy working both shows, it just sucks that I have to do them back to back and that their so far apart.   I'll post results of the show in the indy thread when I'm able to, oh and before I forget. I've decided to try and showcase Nor-Cal Pro Wrestling here on Thesmartmarks.com. I noticed that I'm pretty much the only one who tries to promote the Nor-Cal scene and only a handful of people bite onto what I'm promoting. So what I decided to do is work with some of the guys who film the wrestling shows out here and post what they film on this forum.   So if you head over to the Indy Wrestling forum part, look for my most recent thread and watch a few matches that took place a number of months ago. Right now there are two videos up, one from a SPW show that took place a while ago in Sacramento. It's about an hour long and the main event is a barefoot thumb tack match, and to let you guys know ahead of time, I'm not in that video and it's a hour long. The whole video was made for tv.   However, I am in the 2nd video. The 2nd video is Sheik Kahn Abodi defending his BRAWL Internet Championship against El Chupacabra at BRAWL a few months ago and I'm the Ref. It's about 15 minutes long, but it's good times.   So go and check out those videos and leave comments and feedback.
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