GSCW Review – December 14th, 2002
GSCW 12-14-02 Newhall, CA I got to this show a bit late, 20 minutes to be exact, and missed two matches. Who ever heard of an indy starting at the…
Opinion
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…
WPW Review – November 16th, 2002
At UPW, I got a flyer from WPW saying that they would have Ultimo Dragon on their show a day before EPIC. Personally, I had to be at both WPW…
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…
Scrub’s View #26 – This Sucks
This sucks. I missed out on seeing Ultimo wrestle live in SoCal. I would have went to WPW for sure, had I known what was going to go down with…
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…
SCU Roundtable Discussion – October 2002
Scrub: Me and Steve have been thinking about doing a SoCal Roundtable discussion since May of this year. We just never got around to taking on this project due to…
EPIC Review – September 29th, 2002
EPIC needs to get its act together regarding show production. I know people were supposed to get there between 12 and 1, and yet fans still weren’t let in until…
The Enormous Success that was Lucha VaVoom
The evening of August 28th saw the Mayan Theatre (aka Club Mayan) host the first ever hybrid of authentic lucha libre and retro-styled burlesque. The FORMAT was the star here,…
Overexposure: What’s Killing the SoCal Scene
Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that SoCal Indies are pretty incestuous. Maybe not as much as the South, or the newest videos available at Extreme Associates, but it’s pretty…