Lucha Va Voom started off what is shaping up to be a huge ten days for wrestling in SoCal, with eight shows, including the WWE and two indy shows that will (or have in Lucha Va Voom’s case) break the…
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 California where he enjoyed the most success he was the…
2003 Steve’s View Awards At the end of every year I like to take a look back at the best of SoCal for the previous year, and do my annual awards column and year in review. First let’s start with the 2003…
Before there was a Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, APW LA, PCW, or an EPIC, there was Millennium Pro Wrestling. Before MPW started in early 2001, pretty much every active promotion in Southern California had a school associated with it. The one…
I don’t think there is any doubt that wrestling wise Pro Wrestling Guerrilla is the best promotion in the western U.S. if not the whole country. There was a lot of hype going into this show that it would be…
XPW owner Rob Black (real name Robert Zicari) and XPW valet Lizzy Borden (Janet Romano) will face obscenity charges for allegedly distributing pornographic movies that depict murder, rape and other violent acts against women, according to federal authorities in Pittsburgh.According…
In the second part of my interview with XPW Vice President Kevin Kleinrock we discuss a few things that XPW has never publicly commented on before, such as New Jack and his XPW debut, going to Philadelphia, the Messiah, the infamous surprise, the future…
Recently I had a chance to interview XPW’s Vice President Kevin Kleinrock. For most of their existence XPW has been silent on a lot of things, and in this interview Kleinrock talks about several subjects that XPW has never talked…
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla ran their debut show on July 26th at Frank and Sons in City of Industry. PWG is taking a different approach to running a promotion, with six wrestlers running the fed, and claiming there is no promoter,…
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla Six (Super Dragon, Excalibur, Joey Ryan, Disco Machine, Scott Lost, & Topgun Talwar) interview by Steve BryantRecently I had a chance to talk with the six wrestlers who are behind the new Pro Wrestling Guerrilla promotion. Super Dragon, Excalibur, Joey Ryan,…
Lucha VaVoom 3 – 26 June 03 This was the third Lucha VaVoom, which started as a film festival, burlesque show, and lucha event at the Mayan in Los Angeles that lasted three days. They dropped the films after the…
RIP February 8th, 1918 – June 2nd, 2003 It was announced at WWE Raw in San Diego tonight that SoCal Hall of Famer “Classy” Freddy Blassie passed away earlier today. SoCal UNCENSORED would like to send our condolences to the…
For those who don’t know, XPW has canceled all of it’s upcoming shows, lost it’s TV in LA (and according to one source Pittsburgh, but that isn’t independently verified) and their parent company Extreme Associates was raided by federal authorities,…
The war with Iraq has begun, but there is another war right here in SoCal. In San Bernardino County to be exact. In what has become a quasi-promotional battle between the Empire Wrestling Federation and Threat and his upstart United…
