Steve’s View #136 – Women’s Wrestling Award?
I’ve been working on a historical column that has to do with women’s wrestling in Southern California and it got me thinking about our year end awards. A question that…
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Steve’s View #135 – The Greatest Time to be a Wrestling Fan
It seems over the last decade indy wrestling has really expanded to every corner of Southern California. When SCU first started, Los Angeles and Orange County is where the majority…
Steve’s View #134 – PWG, the Messiah attack, and more
Pro Wrestling Guerrilla ran it’s latest show on March 27th, only three weeks after coming off of what may have been it’s best show to date. This show featured the…
Steve’s View #133 – UPW review, Toukon, and more
UPW ran the biggest show in their history, as they held their fifth anniversary show on February 20. The Grove is probably the nicest venue for wrestling in Southern California….
Steve’s View #132 – Lucha Va Voom, UPW, PWG, and more
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…
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…
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…
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…