Steve’s View #129 – 2003 Steve’s View Awards
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…
Articles by Steve Bryant
Steve’s View #125 – How MPW changed SoCal, PWG tag tourney, and more
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…
Steve’s View #124 – PWG, WWE, and more
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…
XPW’s Rob Black and Lizzy Borden Indicted In Pittsburgh
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…
Kevin Kleinrock [Part 2]
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…
Kevin Kleinrock [Part 1]
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…
Steve’s View #118 – Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and more
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…
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla Six interview
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…
Steve’s View #115 – Lucha VaVoom 3, half year awards, and more.
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…
”Classy” Freddie Blassie passes away
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….
Steve’s View #106
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…
Steve’s View #104
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…
Steve’s View #89
This was supposed to be the weekend Ultimo Dragon made his United States return. It just didn’t happen the way anyone planned. EPIC announced a little over a month ago…
SoCal Valerie interview
Recently, Steve had a chance to talk with up and coming valet SoCal Valerie. In their conversation Valerie talked about her start in wrestling, Florida versus SoCal, the Messiah attack, and more. Steve:…