SoCal Legend Baron Michele Leone biography
In an era when pro-wrestling began to change because of the popularity of television, Michele Leone became one of wrestling’s biggest stars of the time due to the new medium. In Southern…
Opinion
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…
Review of PWG’s ”Pimpin’ in High Places”
PWG delivered yet another solid show on Saturday night, with an amazing six-man tag and one of the best angles I have ever seen in independent wrestling. An awesome effort…
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…
Review for PWG’s ”An Inch Longer than Average”
PWG delivered another solid show with quite possilby the best hardcore match I have ever seen, a nice surprise with CM Punk, and fantastic wrestling overall.PWG’s “An Inch Longer than…
Are You Adequately Prepared to Rock thoughts
“Are You Adequately Prepared to Rock” has been the best Pro Wrestling Guerrilla show that I have seen (although I have yet to see the Bad Ass Mother 3000). Everything…
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…
EWF Review – May 23rd, 2003
I got to the KOC a bit early, and was surprised to find the place empty. I saw Jesse Hernandez, Bobby Bradley Jr., EWF Jeff, and Bo Cooper’s hot wife….
PCW Review – April 27th, 2003
Arrived at around 6:15. There was about 15 fans there. By the time the show started, I’d peg attendence at around 50. A very disappointing turn out for the first…
Pacific Coast Wrestling Review – April 27th, 2003
Pacific Coast Wrestling 4/27/03 Buena Park, Ca Today’s show was empty five minutes prior to bell time, but by the time it started there was a respectable crowd there to…
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…