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 gets asked often (though not as often as questions about…
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 of shows took place, with EWF and IWC being the…
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 PWG debut, and SoCal return of Spanky. The crowd was…
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. It almost seems wrong to have a wrestling show in…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 general area, but from all over Southern California. And most fans…
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…
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 that Ultimo Dragon would be making his return to the…
