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Scroby's Pro Wrestling Journal
 

Taking A Break Part 1

Hello Everybody! Randomly updating this thing because I haven't since Feb apprently. Sorry about that. there's no excuse for me not updating this...just haven't done it.   So since I haven't updated this thing in such long time, I'll go ahead and talk about a few things that I've done here and there.   The first thing I'm going to discuss is my experiance working for a new company out here in CA called Big League Wrestling..or BLW for short. They were using DMW's ring so I got automatically booked to Referee at the show because I'm also apart of DMW's ring crew as well as a trainee. So we get there, set up the ring, and I'm under the impression I'm the only Referee at the show, later I find out from the promoter that I'm not the only other Referee. Which was nice because I really didn't feel like Refereeing 8 matches in a row.   The other Referee was a guy named Ronnie who Refs for another promotion out here in Bay Area. It was my first time working with him even though he's been around Refereeing for years. I guess he only Refs for this one promotion or if that promotion has influance somewhere else, he'll go and Ref for the company his main company has influance in.   So as I'm waiting to time pass and show time to come closer, Ronnie is not there yet and the promoter tells me what matches I have for the night. Which was 1, 3, and 5, which was basically all the matches that had DMW folk in them. I was fine with that, but I was hoping to get half the card and Ronnie could take the other half, but the promoter didn't know me and my history with just about EVERY wrestler working BLW, except Chris Masters and Relik. They were also on the show but I'm going to talk about them in a minute or so. So after hearing my line up, Rated 2-G, who are a tag team from LA who've I've worked with quite a bit, requsted my Referee services as well. The promoter agreed and now I had Matches 1, 3, 5, and 7...basically all the odd numbers.   The show starts around 6 and every one is there, the main event for the night was Chris Masters vs Relik. I was looking forward to meeting Relik as I've always been a fan of his and when he showed up, he was a really nice guy. First thing he did was walk around the entire kitchen turned into a locker room and shook everyone's hand and was really friendly throughout the night. Really easy guy to walk up to and talk to. Masters also did walk up and shake everyone's hand when he showed up....but to be honest, and this isn't a knock against him or anything, but he just seemed like he didn't want to be there. He just seemed he wanted to get through the night and get ouf of there.   I go out there and Ref the first match, get done, go to the back and watch the 2nd match happen as I want to watch Ronnie Referee......I can't my opinon about his Refereeing (counts way to fast) skils. During the 2nd match, Rik Luxury (who was also working the show) asked me who was doing his match,the 4th match. I told him Ronnie and I was informed it was actually me. Ronnie ended up telling the people in the match that he didn't have it, which puzzled me because I was never informed of the Ref match listing change till right then.   The 2nd match ends and now it's the 3rd match. Which was one of the DMW guys vs a guy who works with the same company Ronnie works in, (sidenote: I'm advoiding names here for good reasons.) who also holds a belt that was on the line. Before I walk out for the match, I noticed that Ronnie had not returned to the back yet, which puzzled me. I walk out there and I see Ronnie standing in the ring, waiting for the wrestlers to come out. I tug on my shirt and point to myself to give him the sign I have the match. As he's getting out the ring to walk past me, I pat him on the back and tell him I have the next 3 matches. Which was match 3, 4, and 5.   I get into the ring and about 20 seconds later, I turn around to see Ronnie getting back in the ring. I ask him what he's doing and he points to the promoter who is now ringside. The promoter gives me the "come here" sign and I get out of the ring to ask the promoter what's going on. He tells me he screwed up and that Ronnie actually this match and I get pist. I go to the back and I'm asked why I'm in the back instead of out there from the guys in the back. I explain to them what happen and they're not happy about it either. A few people have an idea on why I was switched out of the match as a Ref but I'm not going to go into that here as I have no clue who will read this.   So the match ends and I go out for match 4, still pist about what happen but it's over and hopefully nothing like that will happen again. Match 4 goes well and now we hit to intermission....which is half an hour long. Long intermission but people were signing autographs and Relik was in the ring taking pictures, so it's understandable why intermission was so long.   Now it's Match 5, which was Helfyre vs DMW Champion Jason Vega for the DMW title in the DMW's championship first road defense. When the match begain, the three of us did a little something. Helfyre climbed the turnbuckle to get a cheer from the crowd, then Jason did the same thing, then Helfyre repeated the turnbuckle crowd cheer as did Jason. After they both did it twice...I decided to do it as well. So I do it and the crowd cheers...yay. The match goes on and Helfyre ends up beating Jason to win the DMW Championship.   After the match we go to the back and I peak out the window to watch the match 6 and what do I see? What's the first thing I motherfucking see? The two wrestlers and Ronnie the Referee do the same excat thing Helfyre, Jason Vega, and Myself did with the turnbuckle crowd cheering. It just pist me off more. First he got my match switched and now he pulls that crap? Fuck him. It actually kinda backfired though because I know people in the crowd found it really dumb that they just did the same excat thing myself, Jason, and Helfyre did and actually doing it the match after ours. If anything, it just put me out there because it just made people think of the three of us doing it, so I guess it favors me and Jason and Helfyre in the long run but still...fuck him.   I'm alright though because 2 of the 4 matches he was suppose to originally Referee (this was before he got my match switched at the last minute) in, the wrestlers involved in those matches told me how they wished or wanted me to Referee their matches as I know what I'm doing and how I know my place in matches and how I can keep up with the guys involved in the matches...while Ronnie...while to be blunt..Ronnie sucks and he made it painfully obvious that night.   The BLW show itself was cool. I had fun doing it other than the minor problems I had with Ronnie that night, but the show itself was fine, but sadly that is most likely the last show I'll be doing with BLW as......well...I plan on taking a long break really soon.  
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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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My WrestleFanFest Experiance Friday 10/19

Now that WrestleFanFest is over, I can happily blog about....well about my experiance anyways, but I'm doing to do it in parts, starting with day 1, Friday the 19th, which will be done in two parts. :0)   Friday was going to be a long tire-some day for me and I knew it. I was excited about it, but I just knew it was going to be a long tiresome day. Mainly because of my day job. For my day job, I have to be at work at 6 in the morning and I DON'T go to bed early, I really can't unless I take a pill and I don't do that unless I don't feel good or have a bad toothache. For my job, I drive a truck, so not only do I have to get up early in the morning and not get a lot of sleep because I don't go to bed early, but I drive for the better part of my day. The truck I drive isn't a big rig or anything, it's just a flatbed truck, that's like 10 feet long or something, by the way, the only reason why I'm telling you all this stuff, it isn't important to my story but it helps me tell my story about how I know it's going to be a long tiresome day that I was excited for.   So after a 7 hour shift of driving around Oakland all day, and taking two cat naps in my truck, as I had to wait for a few companys to take care of a few things before I could move on to the next place, I left work at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and hurried home to take a shower and get cleaned up and make my way out to the Cow Palace. I left my house around 3 all nice and packed up. Luckily on the way there, traffic wasn't all that bad, there was a bit on the 101 after the Bay Bridge but I lucked out as it died out pretty quickly, so I was able to get to the Cow Palace a few minutes after 4 pm.   I pulled into the parking lot expecting that I wasn't going to pay because I was working the show, but did the parking people have a list of names of people suppose to be at the convention.....nope they didn't, so I was suppose to pay the 8 dollar parking fee, which I really wasn't to happy about, I was even more dissapointed when I found out I only had 7 dollars on me. I asked the parking guy if I could back up and go find a atm to get more money as I only had 7 dollars on me, he told me to go ahead and park but next time I need a parking pass. I quickly explained that I hadn't been given any information except on who to ask for when I got to the door and he didn't want to hear it, so I drove away and parked. I walked up to the front door and was asked to open my bag, I told them I was a Referee for the show tonight and needed to know where to go, I got told gate 11.   I went over to gate 11, and was asked on where my pass was, I told them I didn't have a pass as I hadn't recieved it yet but I was suppose to ask for someone when I showed up. Another worker named Jardi Frantz was next to me as well and was explaining the same thing, it was the first time I had met Jardi but I had heard of him before. After we both explained our sitution and had the same story pretty much, we were let in to try and go find where we get our damn passes. We walked towards the back of this room where the vendors, booths, and wrestlers doing autographs were being held and asked around, but we both got no information. After a few minutes, I told Jardi was going to walk around and just see if I can find anyone I knew and walked away. Shortly I found Sir Samurai and one of his students.   Sir Samurai and his student shook my hand and gave me a brotherly love hug and pulled me in the right direction to go, which was to the back. In the 5 minutes that I was in the convention hall, I had already seen Virgil (Millon Dollar Man body guard), Mean Gean Okerland, and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. On the way to the back, before we had rounded a corner, Samurai warned me not to mark out to hard because the entire backstage area was filled with legends and other wrestlers...and he wasn't kidding. Devon was there, Slick, Ernest Miller, One Man Gang, and others well. Also I found a lot of the Nor-Cal wrestlers who had already been there for awhile. Helfyre, Alexis Darevko, Jason Vega, Maynard Skynard, Mr. Frost, Tim Thatcher and others as well. Also two guys from LA who I knew from before were there as well, which was great as I hadn't seen them in awhile.   As time went by, more and more wrestlers/legends started coming around and I got to meet a lot of them. Dr. Death Steve Willams, Bubba from Team 3D, Lance Hoyt, Mean Gean Okerland, Larry Zybysko (who told me his neighbor had a dog named Toby and I responded, "I always hear that when I meet someone new.), Eric Bischoff (who I didn't meet, but said Hi to.), Kamala, Rock Riddle, April Hunter, Ultimo Dragon, Francine, Steve Corino, The Sandman, Black Pearl, Chavo Gurrero sr., Orlando Jordan, and so many more. A lot of indy guys from around the United States as well.   As it became closer to show time, I went up to the locker room to get changed. When I found a room, there was Gangrel talking with Traci Brooks. I introduced myself to her and found a spot against the wall and started getting changed. I would say I introduced myself to Gangrel, but I've worked with him so much as of lates, he feels like one of the boys to me. After getting changed, I decided to stay by the stairs in the hallway because A. it was getting crowded and B. it was getting hot and there was a nice ass draft coming from downstairs to upstairs. So I stood next to the stairs.   When I got to the stairs, I heard a loud banging sound as someone was coming up them, I peaked my down and there's Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner walking up the stairs, the banging sound was coming from his bag hitting the stairs. When he got up the stairs, I introduced myself, Rick Steiner was already upstairs, along with the Powers of Pain the Barbarian and Warlord, and let me tell you they both are still in great shape, espically Warlord. I didn't introduce myself to Warlord as I was intimated, I did however did introduce myself to Barbarian before the show started, he ended up dressing in the same room as I did, so I had to. I was nervous as all hell but Barbarian was completely and totally a great guy. Very easy to talk to.   After Scott Steiner came up the stairs, I saw that someone else started making their way up the stairs as well, The Great Muta. I shook his hand and mentally marked out hard! Physcially I looked very comfortable around him, but mentally...yeah I was marking out. More and More wrestlers started coming up to the locker room and I introduced myself them all one at a time, all very nice people. I decided to go downstairs and find the other Refs to see what matches I had schduled for the night.   To be honest, I was a bit worried about what matches I was going to get. The other 3 Refrees were from So-Cal and were friends, and normally Nor-Cal and So-Cal workers don't get along to well. Luckily I really haven't that problem when it came to Rated2G and Chino, but I was worried about the other Ref's because A) It seemed they were all friends and B) This wasn't no indy show. When I got downstairs, the other Refs pulled me aside and showed me the card. They told me I had match 3; Al Snow & Blue Meanie vs Luke Hawk and Alkatrazz, Match 7; The Battle Royal (All of the Referees were out for that match, and Match 11; The Main Event The Sandman vs Steve Corino vs The Great Muta. Yup I had the main event, I was mentally Marking out even harder now, it was like a orgasmic marking out....physically I was all fucking smiles..not quite marking out, but you could easily tell I was happy and excited as all fuck. I heavily thanked the other 3 Referees and went off and told a lot of the workers who I was close with.   Everyone close to me worker wise, shook my hand, gave me a brotherly love hug, and told me congrats. I introduced myself to Al Snow, The Blue Meanie, Luke Hawk, Alkatrazz, Steve Corino, Francine, The Sandman, Babydoll, The Great Muta, and another woman whose name escapes me right now as I just can't remember it. She told me it when I met her, but there was a lot of noise so I really didn't catch it. All of the workers involved in these matches treated me very nicely and I was very honored to have their matches. Never in my life did I ever think I'd be sitting in the same room as these guys, it was a dream come fucking true. It was so great.   (I'm going to skip the backstage stuff, i'd most likely get in trouble for telling those stories, so I'm not, I'm sorry.)   So 7:30 starts nearing by and the wrestlers and workers are getting themselves ready for the show and their matches and now...it's show time.
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Did You Miss Me?

Hey everybody, I'm actually making a new post! Hooray for you! Truth is, even though I haven't updated in awhile....or for a very long time anyhow, I'm actually kinda bored and cooking dinner while waiting for Letterman to come on, so I figured I'd take the time to post something since I haven't in a long while.   First things first, for those who haven't seen the posts in the Indy Wrestling thread, Devil Mountain Wrestling (where I'm training) has been running shows for the past few months. The shows have been going really well, I really haven't heard anything negitive from any of the fans who have gone to the shows, so I'm very pleased about that. We have another show coming up on the 13th (next Saturday) and I'm looking forward to it. Mainly because we're having a Halloween Battle Royal. The Halloween Battle Royal is just a royal rumble type of battle royal except all the people in the match dress up as other wrestlers or in some type of costume. I'm actually going to be in the match, I know what I'm going as but I'm going to wait until after the match happens to actually post what I went as and how it went, and yes I'll post about it, sooner or later.   Speaking of Devil Mountain Wrestling, training has been going.....umm..alright. About a month ago, I thought I was doing really well, I actually figured out how to get my body to get a front flip and it seemed I was getting things more and more, but then we took about a week in a half off after the last show, and it all seemed to just go away. I forgot how to front flip and it seems, I'm getting more and more sloppy with learning moves. Mentally I can figure these things out but phyiscally, I'm having a lot of trouble. I don't know why all of a sudden it seems I have forgotten everything I have learned, hopefully I'll be able to get back to where I was before we took that week in a half off.   I'm also about 90% sure, I won't be continuing my wrestling training in the beginning of 2008. When you train with DMW, you sign a contract. One contract, the first contract, (I think this contract is still around.) you sign a 3 month contract to see if you want to stick around after 3 months. The second contract is a 1 year contract. Basically you train for one year and if you decide to stop training because it's not for you, you still have to finish the payments. My contract ends in Jan. 2008 as I started in Jan of 2007.   There's a few reasons why I'm pretty sure I won't keep training at least in the beginning of 2008.   1. (The Main Reason) I just can't afford to pay for another year. It's a monthly payments but currently money is really tight and to be honest, the stress of living pay check to pay check is something that's really taking a mental drain on me. So I think it's just best to wait a little bit and get my money issues straighten before I put more effort into my training.   2. I would like more free time, wrestling training is either 3 to 4 days a week and sometimes I don't have a lot of free time and there's some stuff I still want to do and learn. For example, while I do have a good job at the moment, within a few years it'll most likely a dead-end job. I think I want to go back to school and learn a trade so I can get a job that most likely won't be a dead-end job. I'm thinking I want to become a electriction or a plumber.   3. I'm really enjoy Refereeing. I'm having a blast doing it, and everytime I do a show as a Ref, I enjoy doing it more and more. I'm really thinking about just being a Referee. Yes, when I first got into it, I wanted to become a wrestler but with my troubles in training, Refereeing just feels right. I'm not a 100% sure right now, but I'm really thinking about just being a Ref, so after my training contract ends, I'm just going to Ref for a few months and see where it takes me.   Now that doesn't mean I won't get back into the ring and re-start my training down the road. I just want to take a few months to take care of things in my personnal life and see how I feel about just being a Ref.   Being a Ref is going really well for me at the moment. I'm now pretty much working for all the promotions here in North California except for two. One being APW and the other is PCW. I actually can't work for PCW, I've been asked to come up by another Referee, but PCW normally runs on Saturdays in Oroville, and Oroville is something like 2 hours towards Sac...actually past Sacramento and I have Rocky Horror on Saturdays, so traveling a few hours in the opposite direction of Rocky isn't really a good idea. I don't work for APW...well because it's APW and I have no desire to work for them, but I am working for just about everywhere else and I couldn't be more pleased with myself.   I'm now Refereeing for Devil Mountain Wrestling, California Championship Wrestling, BRAWL, NAW, and I just started Ref'ing for SPW. SPW also runs a show called Punkslam and I've been asked to Ref for that show as well as long as my schdule lets me. Punkslam is basically a Wrestling show that has Punk bands playing live. I've actually never been to one myself but I hear they're really fun to work. Not only am I working for all those promotions but I'm also (currently) schduled to Referee the Malice at the palace show that's taking place at the Cow Palace in San Fransisco for the WrestleFanFest wrestling convention and it's also schduled to air on Pay Per View. So it's a big thing for me. Depending on how well I perform at the show, a lot of MAJOR doors could open up for me, so that's a big thing.   So right now, other than my actual wrestling training going from better to "what the hell happen?", things have been going good Refereeing and show wise. I'm Ref'ing all over the place and every show I do is doing great.
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Scroby Meet Thumbtacks...Thumbtacks Meet Scroby

On Sunday night, I was in Modesto, Ref'ing for a promotion called N.A.W. or NAW if you say it as a sound, for the first time. Anyways, I got to Ref 3 matches.   Match 1: Mark Vega vs Kenny K vs Kassy Summers in a triple threat match to find out who will be interim champion for Chupacabra's NAW Light weight title.   Match 2: Was Jason Vega vs Sheik Kahn Abodi   and Match 3: was a hardcore match with Pogo and Rage vs The Body Snatchers   Match 1 and 2 went well. Match 2 ended kinda intresting. Jason Vega is a member of the Stepfamily, the Stepfamily consists of Jason Vega, Stepfather, Kiara Dillon (my roommate)....and Otis the Gimp, and when I say Otis the Gimp...if you have ever seen Pulp Fiction...yeah like that...except worse...OTIS IS LOOSE!   So the 2nd match ends with Sheik Kahn Abodi picking up the win over Jason Vega after hitting a Asai backwards ddt...well after I make the 3 count, the step family all come into the ring and I'm trying to back them off Sheik...but Otis see's me...then starts stalking me. Otis grabs me by the back of the head....and gives me a GIANT MAN KISS!!!!!!!!! I need hot water and I need it fast, so after what seemed for 5 minutes, Otis the Gimp lets me go and I quickly crawl the FUCK out of the ring and run to the back to find the nearest sink and lots of soap.....I forgot how horrible soap tatses but damnit it tasted better than Otis The Gimp's kiss.   After 30 minutes of washing my mouth, my next and final match of the night was next. This was the hardcore match between Pogo and Rage vs the Body Snatchers...and of course this match was insane. Pogo, Rage, and the Body snatchers used a lot of dangerous weapons. They used a chain, a singapore cane(kendo stick), a staple gun..and a knife...but that wasn't it..no no my friends...something else came into play..something I didn't see coming a mile away.   At one point during the match, Pogo and both Bodysnatchers and myself were all outside the ring. I was trying to get those 3 back into the ring and restore some order when it dawned on me that Rage wasn't anywhere near us. I looked back into the ring and there stood Rage...pouring out a bag full of THUMBTACKS INTO THE RING! Yes Rage had now brough a whole hell of a lot of thumbtacks into the ring. A few minutes after Rage poured the bag of thumbtacks into the ring, both Bodysnatchers isolated Rage in the ring and was able to pin him after they hit Rage with a singapore cane shot to the head. While the bodysnatchers were getting out of the ring, for somet stupid reason, I stayed in the ring..and that was my mistake.   Pogo had came back into the ring and as soon as he got in the ring, he quickly came over to me and kicked me in the stomach. The next thing I knew I draped over on Pogo's shoulder looking at the crowd and the ring filled full of thumbtacks. Pogo with me on his shoulder, backed towards a corner, ran to the middle of the ring and powerslammed me to the ring......right in the middle of the pile of thumbtacks....IT HURT LIKE HELL. I was laying there, rolling around screaming in pain, and when I thought things couldn't possibly worse...I felt someone else start to pick me back up. I took a quick glance to my side and there was Pogo....and I then realized that Rage was picking me up...and I knew it wasn't going to be good.   Rage stuck my head inbetwen his knees, he then flipped me up onto his shoulders and powerbombed me back onto the thumbtack filled ring....I don't remember what happen afterwards. I just remember opening my eyes and seeing Sir Samuari to my left and Referee Brandon (other Ref working the show) to my right with my arms draped over them, and both of them dragging me back to the locker room. I also saw that I had a thumbtack stuck in my left hand.   I got back to the locker room, and I laid down on my stomach until I got my barrings back. After a few minutes, I slowly stood up and looked myself over in the mirror. Surprisingly I didn't have any tumbtacks in my back or my legs, or my neck. I had the one in my hand, that I forgot about for a second and pulled it out. Pulling it out didn't feel that great either. I went to the bathroom and washed all the blood of my hands and went back and laid down.   After a little bit, I came out of the locker room and got myself a drink. Like I said earlier, the show was happening in a bar. I was walking very slowly as my back still hurt like hell from landing in that pile of thumbtacks...twice. I got a screwdriver and headed back to the locker room so I could drink it in piece but on the way back...a lot of fans and wrestlers asked if I was ok. I told them I would be and continued my slow walk back to the locker room so i could drink my screwdriver.   After finishing my screwdriver, I slowly walked back to the bar to return my glass. When I got to the bar, there was a small group of people there, 2 guys and 2 girls...I'm guessing they were all in relationships with each other espically since one of the girls was pregnaught, they asked me if I was ok and I told them I would be and we ended up talking for a few minutes. During that few minutes, the pregnaught girl asked me if she could have my Referee shirt. I gave her a puzzled look and asked "huh?", and she said she would like to have my Ref shirt. I thought about it for a second and reminded her it had blood on it but she didn't care. So being the nice guy that I am, I slowly walked back to the locker room, went to my bag, grabbed my Ref shirt and slowly walked back to the bar and gave the girl my Referee shirt and she was really happy and she thanked me. After I gave her my shirt, I slowly walked back to the locker room feeling a whole lot better mentally.   After the main event, I stuck around for a bit longer and talked a little more with the fans who were there and then said my good byes and went home. Even though I got a running powerslam and powerbombed into a giant pile of thumbtacks I still had a lot of fun and the fans asking me if I was ok, was a great icing on the cake for the night. Espically with the girl asking me if she could have my Ref shirt. I thought that was pretty cool as well. All and all I really enjoyed working for N.A.W. and I can't wait to work for them again in June.  
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It's Been Awhile....

Ok time for a update and I'm sooooo very sorry I haven't really updated this blog for awhile now. I've either been busy or just to lazy to take the time to type one or a few out, I'm sorry, but to make it up here's a overall update on things.   First off, so I finally moved out of my mom's place and moved into my own place a few weeks ago. I mention this for a reason, that reason, my roommate used to be a Godfather Ho. So thats worth mentioning.   Update on Training: Training...is going well I guess. I'm still very sloppy in the ring and it seems once every two weeks, I'm either hurting myself or actidently hurting someone. It's very frustrating, the last thing I did was actidently give Helfyre (my trainer) a black eye. We were doing a practice match and he was going to give me a pumphandle/t-bone suplex, he threw me over but I somehow managed to hit him in his eye with my left elbow. I felt sooo fucking horrible afterwards. I guess what I was suppose to do was tuck my arms to my inside on the way over but I didn't know that and in mid-air I bent my arms so I could bump correctly, and thats how I caught him in his eye. I still feel horrible about it.   Another issue I seem to be having is with front flipping. I'm having difficulty flipping straight over and then sticking my landing on the mat. Its sorta a few things, 1. I can't spring (being light on my feet/jumping up high) very well, so I'm sorta low to the mat when I go over and I fear smashing my head into the ring. 2. For some reason, I keep tucking my right arm causing me to flip more to the left and not straight over, also a issue with me front flipping, but on Thursday last week, Kenny K came through to help out and he said I should try to tuck my left arm and see what happens, so I did and I went over more straighter, but now I just need to work on getting some height on my flipping so I don't go so far across the ring.   One thing I have been trying to learn and really excel at is chain wrestling, as I've always been a fan of it. We're learning bit by bit and I'm trying really hard to remember a lot of it, I've picked up on a little bit of it but we'll see how I do as I go.   Wrestling Shows: Everything seems to be going well with me doing shows.   CCW: CCW is going extremely well. They're drawing good big crowds and these crowds are hot! They're loud through the entire night, for every match, it's a awesome crowd to draw. I'm very pleased to be working with them as I'm having fun being a Ref for them and hey! they allowed to Ref my first title match.   BRAWL: BRAWL's running decently. They've started running twice a month, one Friday and one Saturday a month. The Friday Night shows do great, BRAWL draws a pretty good crowd on the Friday night shows, but the Saturday shows...not so much. BRAWL has to run at noon on the Saturday shows due to the rules the fairgrounds have laid down for their Saturday shows and it seems people either can't or don't want to come to a wrestling show that is running at noon. I mean, people do show up, but its not in a great number like the Friday night shows. Other than that, BRAWL is fun as well. I'm still just their sound guy but I'm thinking about asking for another role, though I'm not to sure yet. I won't be at their show this friday because I'll be in Oregon, working for BAW so for this show their using a new sound guy and if he works out pretty well, I may just ask to do something else, but we'll see how that goes.   BAW: Working for BAW is a trip for me. First, its in Oregon, so working out of state so early in my Referee career is a bit weird. I figured I might work out of state way down the road, but early is good too. Second, BAW mainly uses bigger names on their shows, by bigger names I mean former ECW/WCW/and WWE names and just like working out of state, working with and meeting all these bigger names, just like working out of state already, has been a trip as well. I mean, i've already met New Jack, D-Lo Brown, Spike Dudley, Molly Holly, Tonga Kid, Rikishi, and Kamala and on Friday not only do I get to see New Jack, D-Lo Brown, Rikishi, and Tonga Kid again, but I also get to meet Daffaney (Lucy), Raven, and Brian Christopher. I'm really looking forward to meeting Raven and listening to anything he has to say as I've been a fan of his for years now and I think he's one of the best guys to watch and listen to about in-ring psycology.   One complaint I have about working with these companys, really have nothing to do with the companys themselves, but the show schduleing sorta sucks. It seems that these three companys always run during the same weekend. Like this weekend, BAW and BRAWL run on Friday while CCW runs on Saturday, so my weekend will be, fly out to Portland Friday Morning, work BAW show, fly back to Oakland on Saturday morning, then a few hours later, make a hour in a half drive to Newman to work the CCW show, then I have to haul ass up to Oakland to work Rocky Horror. So I'll be doing 3 shows in two days, and Sunday...i'm fucking relaxing and I'm hoping no one really runs during Wrestlemania weekend, that would just be chaotic for me....well maybe not, who knows.   So yeah, there's been a update on whats been going on. I'll TRY to update again after this weekend. If anything if I have some time, I will diffently try to update during the few hours I have to spare on Saturday, but no promises.   Till next time Scroby out!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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South Cal vs North Cal

Ok, so I know I'm really lacking on my blog updates. I still owe you a BAW and CCW blog along with a training update. I'm lacking, I'm sorry, I'll get them up soon, I promise but right now I want to discuss how I recently found out how workers from South California hate North California workers and vicea versa.   The night I was in Oregon working the BAW show, another promotion here in CA was running. This promotion is called GZW. To be honest, I don't like the promoter of GZW, dude was very rude to me while I was talking to him and the end result ended up me being pist off. Before his first show, he sent me a message via Myspace to come down and watch GZW's first show, as a paying customer. I was considering it, it was kinda of a long drive for me to make as the show was set in Lodi and thats an hour in a half drive from where I currently live but I was considering going to the show regardless of the drive. Anyways, me and him were talking about the show, sending messages back and forth and I decided to offer myself to help him out with whatever he needed help with and I didn't ask for any pay, and I made it clear that I didn't want any money for it. Anyways, after sending that message asking if he wanted any help, I never got a response. I thought maybe Myspace screwed up, so I sent him another message after about a week after not hearing from him. Again after the 2nd message, I didn't hear back from him.   So after the first show took place, I sent him a message asking him how the show went...and I quickly got a response back. This was a surprise to me. So after talking about his first show and finding out how Samoa Joe was going to be on the next show, I again offered my hand in helping him out for free and after that message, I didn't hear back from again...he was ignoring me. I know he was getting my messages because when you check your "sent" folder on Myspace it lets you know if message had been read or not and the messages I was sending him were getting read. He just decided to stop talking to me altogether as I was offering my help...but yet he had no issue talking to me when he wanted me to pay to get in....So F him.   Anyways, so on the most recent GZW show, he had a mixture of North Cal guys with South Cal guys, mainly guys from PWG. Human Tornado, Joey Ryan, Chris Bosh, and Scott Lost. Now Sou Cal (South California) hate the Nor-cal (North California) guys. From my understanding, they think they're better than the wrestlers here in Nor-Cal and yeah that doesn't really sit well with all of us. Anyways, at GZW there was a major issue where actually The Reno Boys took GZW's belt home with them and no this wasn't a work, this was a shoot. The Reno Boys actually took the GZW title with them and left the show early. After this happen, GZW's promoter freaked out and booked a Sou-Cal vs Nor-Cal match...where I heard was rather stiff match, espically on the Nor-cal end of the match ( ).   So in a brief update, I wanted to put out there apprently is an issue between South California workers and North California workers. Something may arise again between the two parties, so if that happens, I wanted to post this first so there's some kind of backstory. So now you know...and knowing is half the battle.
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Working with a new promtion

As of today, I'm working with a new promotion and that promotion is called NAW. I get to be a ref on their 2/25 show. Can't wait, details will come after the show. I'm also booked for the two day tournament for the BAW Heavyweight Title with BAW in March on the 16th and 17th, can't wait for those shows.   Edit: So I fucked up and got myself doubled booked on the 25th. The Rocky crew and cast also do a show for the Oscars. Basically the theater that we perform out of, airs the oscars on one of their movie screens and the cast/crew of Rocky do performances during the commericals and we're basically at the place all day and night long and I said I would do the show a long time ago but I got the wrong date in my head. I thought the Oscars were on March 4th, but I found out today it was on Feb 25th, the same day as NAW. So I had to back out of NAW and I feel real shitty about doing it. Hopefully their promoter understands, because if he doesn't, i may have burned a bridge and that's gonna suck ass.
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Finally the 1/27 CCW show post.

Alrighty, here's the post about the CCW show I did the next day after the 1/26 BAW show. Its up late, I know, I know, I really know and I'm sure you guys are bored about hearing about it but I'm gonna post about it anyways. So to bad for you. Though I think I'm gonna try and keep it short.   (The events take place on 1/27.)   So I flew back from Portland to Sacramento Saturday morning, I drove home and of course the first thing I do when I come home..check the internet. I'm surfing my websites and one of the websites I visit on a regular basis is a message board on Nor-Cal indy wrestling and to be honest the posters on that board suck ass. A lot of ass. Not all of the posters on that board, but a good amount of them. The posters are normally fans who think they know all there is to know about wrestling and give everyone attitude about everything and they all seem to like talk a whole lot of shit as well. Espically those who just use a fake un-registered name, which is a good majority of them. Its also my understanding that lackeys from APW post there as well and just talk shit about every other wrestling promotion around the Northern California area....well except APW of course and by APW lackeys, I mean guys who get on their knees and blow Roland Alexander for a living.   Anywho, so I check out this site for results on a GZW, a indy promotion here in CA, show that had a show the same day as the BAW show in Oregon and I was intrested in what happen. I was reading the results and it seemed like a big clusterfuck, then I read something intresting...really intresting. The Reno Boys had stole the GZW heavyweight title. I read it again to make sure I didn't read it wrong...and I didn't. According to the results posted by a guy who helps run GZW, The Reno Boys had taken the Heavyweight title after apprently jumping El Chupacabra (who is GZW champion) and then leaving with the title. Now after reading it, I wasn't sure if it was an angle or if the Reno boys had actually taken the GZW title. Anyways, I really didn't think about it to much because I don't like the sole owner of GZW, so I just put it past me. Anyways after relaxing for a bit, I left my place in Benicia and started making a drive to Newman and Goddamn Newman is a far drive!   For those who don't know, Newman California is off Highway 5 and Highway 5 is about an hour and 20 minutes away from where I live now, in Benicia. Then Newman, is about another half an hour after you get on Highway 5. So that drive was close to 2 hours so yes it was a long freaking drive and I was already tired from the Oregon trip. I made it down there and the first two guys I see were the Badapples, Dede and Adam Badapple. I said hello and the first thing they said to me was "What happen to your eye?". Yes my right eye was STILL pretty damn black. I told them I got kicked in the face at training and they understood. Surprisingly, they were the only ones who asked about it. After talking to them, I went inside and saw one of the owners of CCW and I ended up to him for a little bit.   He asked me about what I thought of the building and what I thought about Newman? I told him the building was good for a wrestling show, nice and big spacious room but Newman is pretty much in the middle of no where, and after I said that, he explained to me what thats pretty much a good thing, and I understood why later that night. When we opened the doors up, the place filled up quickly. We were suppose to start at 7:30 but because there was still people filing into the building, we started about 20 minutes later. Thats how packed this place was. I believe the total number of fans was just somewhere below 300.   Now before I get to the show, remember when I talked about how I read that the GZW title got stolen but I wans't sure if it was true or not. Well I found out, and it happen. Luster the Legend, whose apart of the group walked in wearing the thing. Which gave me a laugh. I'm not going to get into details about it because I don't know who might stumble apon this and would give me heat about it, so I'm going to leave it as the Reno Boys do have the title last time I checked, anyways on to the show.   Sometime before the show started, I found out the number of matches I was going to be Ref'ing for that night. I had two matches, Ryan Drago vs Old School Oliver John. I had met Drago for the first time that night, I heard his name a few times but I never met him or knew anything about it. Old School I had met once back before CCW was in pleasanton right before they move to Newman but that was months ago, so I didn't think he remembered me. Drago vs Old School was a fun match to Ref. Oliver was insanely over with the crowd, while the crowd boo'ed the hell out of Drago. The match went really well for the two, the only problem I saw was with the ropes. CCW uses actual rope for their ring ropes and when someone tries to do a springboard move by using the ropes, the ropes just sorta sink. I think Oldschool tried to do a springboard..I think twice and both times the ropes just sank but the match finished and I didn't screw up on anything, so it was all good.   The second match was El Chupacabra vs Virgil (aka A Pimp Named Virgil). I knew from the start this was going to be a fast paced, hard-hitting match and that both guys were going to run me around the ring to keep up with them and their moves, and I wasn't wrong. It was a face paced, hard-hitting, high flying match and the crowd ate it up. From my understanding it was being said that this match was a early candidate for Match of the year (Nor-cal wise). So I'm very proud I got to be apart of it and that I didn't screw up anything to make the match look bad or antyhing.   After that match, I asked the booker if I was needed anymore and he told me no, so I got changed back into street clothes and got ready to leave shortly. I had to drive from Newman straight to Oakland so I could work the Rocky Horror Picture Show and I had to try and get there by 11:40 so I could set up. Out of 4 lighting people including myself, 2 people couldn't make it to the show. Which ment there was only me and one other person to work the show, which ment I had to get my ass out of Newman and get my hot sexay ass to Oakland. Which unfortunaily had me miss the main event. The main event was Vinnie Massaro vs Rik Luxury for the CCW title and I really wanted to see it but I had to leave. It was 10:00 pm and it's an hour in a half drive from Newman to Oakland so I had to move. Before the match started, I let both Vinnie and Luxury know I had to leave and that I was sorry but I was going to miss their match, they understood so I think they were cool with it and during their match I made my rounds to each of the guys and said my goodbyes to them and left the areana in Newman and hauled ass to Oakland.   It was good to see CCW have a great draw and I really missed working with them. I was afraid to make the drive to Newman due to my car being a 1990 Mercury Topaz, meaning...well its a piece of crap car but its a piece of crap car that is built like a tank and is still realibe but I was paranoid to make that drive down to Newman, so I missed a few months of CCW shows, which I regret missing so it was diffently good to work with them again, good atmosphere and good people.   Anyways, so that's where I'll leave you for now. Next I'll update you guys on my training and let you know how its going. It might be a few days because at the moment i'm moving to another city in CA, but I'll post the training update soon. Thank you for being patiant and I hope you guys are enjoying my stories so far.
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How I Got Hit With A Chair

Yup, I took my first chairshot on Saturday night at the CCW show, but before I get into CCW. I'm gonna take a quick second to talk about the BRAWL Show I did on Friday.   The BRAWL Show started really sucky for me. Way before the show even started. I was doing sound for the night and one of the first things I hear is that something is wrong with the sound equipment. So I go looking at the sound equipment and I'm brought this cord. Now the actual cd player and the play button are on two seperate boxes...why I have no idea. So this cord, brings power from the cd player to the power box that has the play button and whatever else on it, and there's something wrong with this cord. So I'm looking at it and I notice that on one end of the cord, a few prongs are bent and the metal circle that suppose to protect the metal prongs is a bit smashed as well. So we're pretty much fucked on sound for the night. I tried a few things to fix the cord and that didn't work. We sent out Robbie Gilmore to a Best Buy and a Raidoshack to see if they had a cord, and they didn't. So as a last minute thing, I came up with the idea of having me "fired" because the sound wasn't working correctly. Luckily we didn't have to do that (Even though I sorta wanted to do the angle), because a kid said he had a stereo system. So I took this kid back to his place to check out his stereo system and its little system with small speaker. We ended up grabbing it and I had to use it for the entire show...and the music was really low because of it. Other than that, BRAWL went really well for the rest of the night. Now onto CCW and me taking my first chair shot.   On Saturday, I got to Referee for CCW once again. They were holding a tournament for their newest singles title, the Westside Championship, and also having a Heavyweight title match and also just a regular match. It was me and this other Referee named Alan. There were two other shows going on in other cities, so Ref's were sorta limited for the night. There were 6 matches altogether, I took the odd number while Alan took the even number. It was sorta weird not working with Guido on the show as normally I ref along side of him in California, so I tried to work well with Alan. After talking about what matches we were going to do the show started shortly after and I had the first match of the night.   Match 1: Ryan Drago vs Virgil Flynn (A Pimp Named Virgil); The match went really well. The only mistake I made was not being out of Drago's way before the match started. Before Virgil came out for his enterance, me and Drago were looking at the curtain for Virgil and Drago started backing up towards me. I tried to get out of his way before he stepped on me but I didn't move in time and he ended up stepping on my left foot and sorta tripping up a little bit. He gave me a quick shove and told me in a heelish voice "Don't try to trip me!" I gave him a quick sorry and on we went. The match was quick and back and forth. The end result saw Virgil putting Ryan Drago's shoulders to the mat while Drago went for a armbar on Virgil. So Virgil advanced after I made the 3 count.   After the match was over, I shook both of their hands and said thank you and said sorry to Ryan again about the small trip and he said no problem.   Alan had match 2 which was Big Ugly vs Bonzai Bruce. It as good to see Bonzai as I hadn't seen him for a couple of months as he's been training with Harley Race. Ugly went over in the match and I had match 3.   Match 3: Super Otaku vs Ryan Cade; Super Otaku is this masked animae guy who sorta dresses up like Goku with the karate Gi and Ryan Cade is a wrestler who was wrestling with WCWA when I started training with them but for some reason in the beginning of 2006, Cade stopped wrestling. Saturday night was his actual return back to the ring in over a year.   This match was pretty fun for me. It was also filled with back and forth action and the crowd ate it up. Though the greatest part of the match for me happen in the beginning. I was checking Otaku and after I checked him, he grabbed me and switched spots with me, then he started checking me! After seeing that I was clean, Otaku went to the middle of the ring and told me and Ryan Cade to go at it. Me and Cade just looked at each, shrugged, then started circleing the ring. A few seconds later me and Ryan Cade locked up then he power shoved me out of the lock up. I compalined to Otaku that Cade pulled my hair, Otaku and Cade argued for a second then Otaku put Cade in a headlock and I returned to my Ref'ing duties.   Ryan Cade went over on Otaku using the Claw using a Nintendo Power Glove. Oh! Ryan Cade's gimmick is a gamer gimmick. Awesome gimmick if your a fan of old school games. He wears the old Nintendo Power Glove, his tights consits of Zelda, Nintendo, and Street figher referances. Its fucking awesome! After the match waw over, I shook both guys hands and said thank you in the back.   Match 4 went to Alan and then we had a intermission.   Match 5 was the 1st of two main events. It was Showtime Shane Dynasty vs CCW's Heavyweight Champion Vinnie Massaro and I got to Ref this match. This was my first title match, so I was a little nervous but I was really honored to be doing this match. I came out and got the annoucement of the "Your Referee for this match, Referee Toby!", which is always cool to hear. Shane Dynasty and Buddy Sotello Esquire came out first, then the champion Vinnie Massaro came out 2nd and before the match even started, things got crazy.   I had to keep the two seperated and I tried that but after I gave the title to the guys at the bell table, Shane attacked Vinnie and the match started. They fought all over the place. They went all over the buidling, Vinnie throwing Dynasty into walls and all around the buidling. Finally I was able to get it back into the ring...for a few minutes. After a few minutes, Shane mounted a comeback against the champion Vinnie Massaro and threw Vinnie outside, shane followed. As soon as Dynasty's feet hit the floor, he took a chair from a little kid who was sitting in the front row. He was about to hit Vinnie and being the 20/20 vision Ref that I am, I rolled under the rope and grabbed the chair before Dynasty hit Vinnie with the chair but I didn't take it from him. Dynasty turned around, yelled at me "What are you doing!?" then wallopped me in the head with the chair. I was out.   Ok time for the shoot part of the post: As I was laying there, the first thing that popped into my mind was "Fuck, did I just screw something up?" We hadn't gone over the chair spot and I never heard them speak of a chair shot but I could have missed it sometime before the match or during the match. As I laid there, "KO'ed" I was so pist at myself. I started to stir to make it look like I was waking up, and I as I was stirring, I heard the little kids in the front row talk about me getting hit with the chair. I heard "Thats a DQ!", "he's still breathing, so i think he's ok", "Is he hurt?" and I think one of the kids actually poked me. I started to stir after the poke. As I was stiring, Dynasty got the ring and picked me up and slapped me to "Wake me up". I put the thought that I might have fucked something up out of my mind and got back in the ring to count a near fall. After the near fall, I said to both of them under my breath, as we were all getting up, "Guys, I am soooooo sorry if I fucked something up." I heard them both tell me that it was ok and we moved on.   Back to Kay-fabe: After I got hit with the chair, sometime during the match, Vinnie gained control and went for a moonsault. When Vinnie got to the top rope, Dynasty's manager Buddy Sotello Esquire got on the ring and he wasn't suppose to do that, so with my headache, me and him started arguing, then all of a sudden a few seconds later, Shane Dynasty grabs me and pushes me aside and then I have to argue with both of them. Vinnie Massaro gets up and grabs Dynasty from behind, around the hips and pushes him against the ropes into Buddy. Buddy and Dynasty collide knocking Buddy off the ring and then Vinnie massaro wraps Shane Dynasty up and I made the 3 count. Vinnie had retained his title in a crazy match.   Shoot: I was so pist with myself after the match, I kept thinking I had really fucked something up and the first thing I did was go up to Vinnie, because he was the first one in the back, and said I'm sorry if I fucked that chair spot up. He told me it was alright because everything worked out fine and not to worry about it but next time I should find a way to get distracted, so I didn't have to do that. I was a bit realived but I still had to clear things up with Dynasty. Dynasty came back into the back and I walked up to him and shook his hand, said thank you, and asked him if I fucked that up. He told me I didn't and pretty much told me the same thing Vinnie told me. I was so realived. I really enjoyed working the match and I was soooo fucking happy that I didn't fuck anything up and I did everything I was suppose to do. Though the chairshot wasn't very comfortable...those damn things hurt!   Back to Kay-fabe: The final match of the night was a triple threat for the Westside Championship. It was Big Ugly vs Ryan Cade vs Virgil Flynn with Alan Ref'ing. Virgil won the match and became the first CCW Westside Champion.   Overall: It was a fun night and I really enjoy working with everyone at CCW. Great atomospher, hot crowd, its just a overall great experinace.  
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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