Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #5 The San Diego Coliseum
#5 The San Diego Coliseum On April 5, 1938, a packed house in San Diego saw George Zaharias wrestle Killa Shikuma to a draw. Max Baer, the former boxing world heavyweight…
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Taking a look at last night’s CXF 11: Alpha Dog event
California Xtreme Fighting returned to the Sportsmens Lodge in Studio City, CA on Saturday night with a fight card loaded with finishes. Click for GIFs and video.
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #6 The San Bernardino Arena
#6 The San Bernardino Arena Professional wrestling had been promoted in the San Bernardino area since the 1800s. When the San Bernardino Athletic Club opened on May 28, 1897, in…
Steve’s View #150 – How I Voted on the 2017 SoCal Wrestling Awards
Now that all the ballots have been returned and the polls are about closed on the 2017 Southern California wrestling year end awards, I’ll make my ballot public and explain…
The Opus of the Worst Best Friends
A few weeks ago, it was announced that Rise would be making its return to SoCal on June 29th. And with the announcement that Madison Eagles would be making her…
Tales from the Vault – December 2017
In this month’s look back through the SCU archives we take a look back at a longtime SoCal fan becoming an independent wrestler in Japan, Dragon Gate USA returning to…
Looking Back at the XFL’s Los Angeles Xtreme
After all the recent talk of a possible XFL comeback, I wanted to look back at Southern California’s representation in the league: the first and (so far) only XFL champions,…
Chaos Column Recap of the RISE/AWS Triple Shot Weekend – December 1st and 2nd
When I first started to do these recaps for SCU, I did it to share my thoughts & opinions on attended shows. Back then, I was attending alot of shows,…
Gina Bouza and Bungles the Toothless Baboon
Who was Gina “Bronco” Bouza and was she killed by a toothless baboon from the San Diego Zoo? Addressing the second part of the question first, the answer is no….
A requiem for Finest City Wrestling
It was early last week that the first person contacted me with the thought that Finest City Wrestling’s November 18th show might not be happening. The promoter, Gus Parsons, had…
Tales from the Vault – November 2017
In this month’s look through the SCU vault we take a look back at lucha Underground’s first SoCal show to take place outside the temple, Joey Ryan saying goodbye to…
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…
Top Ten Venues in SoCal History – #7 American Legion Post #308
#7 American Legion Post #308 For the last twenty years a small Legion hall on Canby Avenue in Reseda has been the site of some of the greatest (and strangest)…
Chaos Column View: The 2017 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Female 50
A storm always comes when PWI publishes their annual “PWI 500”, which lists their top 500 male wrestlers from around the world. It was hardly any different when they started…