The American Dragon went from PWG World Champion to the WWE World Champion. If you like to plan ahead Battle Ground put up their entire OC Schedule for 2012 up, news about the NWA Hollywood TV Taping, an update on “Dirty” Dan Hanson, a bit of thanks, and Legion Championship Wrestling is running Christmas Day!
Bryn Danielson from the NWA Hollywood TV Pilot
The American Dragon is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion
I don’t watch the WWE anymore. In fact the last time I watched any WWE program in its entirety is the night that ‘Daniel Bryan’ was “FIRED” for choking out Michael Cole as part of that NXT Invasion. Part of the reason I had even started to re-watch the WWE was because of Danielson. After years of watching Bryan Danielson wrestle in Memphis (thanks Scrub), APW via the Web, EPIC, AWS, NWA Hollywood/New Japan USA, and PWG, I’m very happy to see Danielson holding the biggest prize in the World of Wrestling. I never thought I’d see the day he would be on top. I recently read on a facebook post that one individual couldn’t believe that two “Indy Schmucks” now sit a top the Wrestling World, but I think the wrestling world is a better place because of it.
Battle Ground Pro releases its 2012 Schedule
In a strange turn of events, Battle Ground Pro does something not many indy promotions have ever done. Release a full calendar schedule of events for the next year. As I know it, they are still working on dates for South Gate, but these dates are for the American Legion Post #716 Los Alamitos, California.
NWA Hollywood Television Taping–FREE
To celebrate its new home at the Glendale Studios (they will be officially debuting this taping) at 1239 S Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91205-3204 the next taping is scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 3:00pm until 6:00pm.
[2011 SoCal Year End Awards] Nominations
We haven’t had a lot of nominations just yet for this years SCU Year End Awards. If you want to ensure your favorite promotion, wrestler, match, and more are recognized make sure you visit the message board and share your choices. The best way to ensure your nominations be posted are to post them here, or submitted to adair@socaluncensored.com. Polls for the 2011 Year End Awards will go up on Monday, January 2nd. Please submit nominations for the following categories: Wrestler of the Year, Most Outstanding Wrestler (based solely on in-ring work), Tag-Team of the Year, Rookie of the Year, Promotion of the Year and Match of the Year.
“Dirty” Dan Hanson
I’d like to send out a congrats to Former SoCal Wrestler Dirty Dan Hanson (also known by his slave name Brain Walther) becoming a grandpa. Besides grappling in the Dakotas and studying at University– Brian has plans to enter the studio in February. Friends, family, fans and other are encouraged to help Brian get into the studio by visiting his kickstart page here. Any help would be appreciated.
A Bit of Thanks
Lastly, since this will be the final Jay Cal’s View of the Year I just want to give a bit of thanks for everyone who has made this regular reading material through out the year. Thanks to Adair for keeping the lights on at the SCU Offices. Thanks to Andrew, I appreciated all the work you did on this site. Thanks to Chad for running with the Chaos Column and making it a highly sought after feature on SCU. Thanks to B-Boy for allowing us to publish his commentaries (oh and buy his shirt. “N.A.P. Time, No One Is Safe” OFFICIAL B-BOY T-Shirts, Pace your orders by emailing new8gepunisher@gmail.com. Sizes are… M, L, XL, XXL), Jon Ian & Mach-1 Wrestling for hosting the SoCal Hall of Fame Ceremonies, Angelo Trinidad for previewing the Hall of Fame Show on my podcast Jeff Dino for allowing special access to SoCal Pro Wrestling, Jarek Matthews, Nick Madrid, and Adam Pearce for joining me on the TalkNWA Podcast, NWA Hollywood, David Marquez and Caesar Espinoza for allowing me backstage access. 2011 was a stellar year for SCU but there wouldn’t be an us, if there wasn’t a you. So thank you once again.
Upcoming Events:
LCW: “Battle Lines”
Sunday, December 25th 2011 • 5:00pm
Casa Del Mexicano
2900 Pedro Infante St. Los Angeles
Tickets: A $10, $5 for Kids, $8 for Students
Featuring: Death Match Rico Dynamite vs. Tito Escondito
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