Jay Cal’s View: #174 (A History of the NWA in SoCal)
The National Wrestling Alliance Worlds Heavyweight Championship will be defended this Sunday at the Oceanview Pavilion in Pt Hueneme, for the first time in over five years. The Champion Tim…
The Grand Olympic Auditorium
SoCal Throwbacks Vol. 2: Classic SoCal Wrestling Matches
In the return edition of SoCal Throwbacks, we have matches featuring Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan), Frankie Kazarian, Colt Cabana, John Cena as The Prototype, Cincinnati Red Red taking on Little…
Super Dragon vs. Rising Son: 15 Years Later
Author’s note: I wanted to write more about this match and what the scene was like at the time, but because of personal reasons I couldn’t put as much time…
Theo Ehret: The Grand Olympic
From the mid 1960’s through the early 1980’s, Theo Ehret was the house photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium. His evocative work captured the enormous personalities of the era, Muhammad…
SoCal Legend Baron Michele Leone biography
In an era when pro-wrestling began to change because of the popularity of television, Michele Leone became one of wrestling’s biggest stars of the time due to the new medium. In Southern…