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…
Columns
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…
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…
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…
Steve’s View #114 – SoCal’s Internet history, Roddy Piper, XPW’s PPV, and more
One of the things that I think defines the SoCal wrestling scene is the Internet. If you go to pretty much any show in SoCal, you wont just see people from the…
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…
SoCal Wrestling School Guide
UPW UPW’s school is based out of El Segundo and has been running since 1998. Rick Bassman is the owner of UPW while Tom Howard is classified as the head…
A Disaster of EPIC proportions: part two – The Sinking of “Wrestling Roots ’02”
I was going to use this column to explain what happened later on that night and how it went from bad to worse but, after having a few days to…
Paul T.’s Rant
Disclaimer: As I will say later in this column. I am not claiming to know all, I’m not claiming to be perfect myself. I realize I still don’t know shit…
A Disaster of EPIC proportions: part one – The Sinking of “Wrestling Roots ’02”
I was actually going to wait a few more days to write this because I feel I still have so much more to think about. The demand, however, to know…
Redshift
The Epic Disaster Although I drove (or Steve drove me more accurately) almost all the way to the LA Entertainment Center for the phantom show, I do not find myself…
A Message from Excalibur
By Excalibur With everyone clamoring for a statement by EPIC, I’m here to disappoint. For those not familiar with EPIC’s origins, the idea came together when myself, Disco Machine, and…