MARION, Ill. – Southern Illinois-based All American Pro Wrestling made history on Jan. 14 when the promotion hosted “Main Event,” the capstone live event for the first season of its television series “Collision.”
“Main Event” marked a special occassion for AAPW on many fronts. The show broke an attendance record for the five-year-old company, drawing more than 405 fans to a jam-packed, standing-room-old venue.
The show also marked the debut of four internationally recognized professional wrestling stars in AAPW. Dragon Gate star PAC faced off with Ring of Honor’s El Generico, while Colt Cabana faced third-generation star Eric Wayne and WWE “Tough Enough” contestant Matt Cross made a surprise appearance, answering the undefeated Pokerface’s open challenge.
The list of accomplishments for “Main Event” continues weeks after this event, as this show will also be the first DVD release for AAPW.
Pre-orders for the DVD begin at aapwrestling.com on Friday, Jan. 27, with shipping expected mid-February.
The two-disc DVD features all nine matches from “Main Event,” including:
– Edmund “Livewire” McGuire vs. “Old School Warrior” Ax Allwardt
– AAPW Color Commentator Kevin Hunsperger vs. “The Masterpiece” Mike Masters
– Colt Cabana vs. “3G” Eric Wayne
– Stacy O’Brien vs. Rebecca Raze
– PAC vs. El Generico
– The Mississippi Madman and KC Jackson vs. Roscoe D. Harris of The Convoy and Bull Bronson
– A Five-Way Freestyle featuring Jay Spade, “Farmer” Billy Hills, Justice, Bull Bronson and “Playboy” Paul Rose
– “M-Dogg 20” Matt Cross vs. Pokerface
– Heath Hatton vs. “Golden Boy” Greg Anthony
The set also features a number of never-before-seen interviews featuring the stars of AAPW, as well as the show’s special guests.
“Main Event” sells for $15 and can be ordered through aapwrestling.com. German promotion wXw will also be distributing the DVD in Europe.
For more information about AAPW, visit aapwrestling.com. To view past episodes of “Collision,” AAPW’s television program, visit vimeopro.com/aapw/collision.
AAPW returns to live action on Saturday, March 17, at the Black Diamond Harley-Davidson Warehouse in Marion, Ill.
Commercial for 3XW’s Divide & Conquer 2 event, featuring “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce defending the NWA World’s Heavyweight championship against “The Rebel” Jeremy Wyatt. It will be the first NWA World’s Heavyweight title match in Des Moines since 1986!
Divide & Conquer 2 takes places Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Baratta’s@Forte Center in Des Moines (1 block south of Wells Fargo Arena). Full card info, including a 3XW Heavyweight title defense and women’s wrestling action, available at http://www.3XWrestling.com
4-time NWA World Champion Adam Pearce (Photo Credit Brian Kelley)
By Brian Kelley
Info help from the book “A retrospective by Roger Deem Mat Photographer
This Friday at 3XWrestling the former MWR Wrestler of the Year Jeremy Wyatt will take on the NWA World Champion Adam Pearce in Des Moines at ALL-Play.
Fans have been e-mailing me, texting and calling me the past two weeks with the same question. Can Wyatt actually defeat Pearce for the title? One fan stated that they saw Pearce had title defenses after the 3XWrestling card and felt like it was just going to be another match . That my friends is normal, the Champion in the past has always had dates lined up to defend the title.
Jeremy Wyatt punishes former NWA World Champion Colt Cabana (Photo Bill Smith)
Take a look back On September 17, 1981, when Ric Flair reached the top of the mountain when he beat Dusty Rhodes for his first NWA World Heavyweight Championship. At the time Rhodes was on tour to defend the belt, and after that night Flair was to take over Rhodes title matches.
NWA President Sam Muchnick quickly contacted Flair to let him know that the then champ Rhodes was to defend the title against Harley Race on Oct 2nd at the Checkerdome. Flair always the fighting champion agreed to the take the title defense that the old champion had agreed upon. Therefor the title match was changed to the new NWA World Champ Ric Flair defending the title against Harley Race.
The postcard mailed to ST Louis Wrestling subscribers announcing the title change.
So wrestling fans there you have it, has it been done before? Yes.
How will the NWA brass deal with such a change as the next night in Magnum Pro Wrestling NWA World Champion Adam Pearce is set to defend the NWA title against Tony Cortez?
Will it be NWA World Champion Jer,emy Wyatt defending the title against a former foe in Tony Cortez, or will it be Wyatt vs Pearce 2, or even a three way with the new NWA Champ Wyatt, Pearce and Cortez?
The Tokyo Monster Kahagas. Duane Long Photographer— NWA Ring Warriors
Wrestlers around the Midwest are on red alert as we speak due to the announcement that the world wide superstar Kahagas will once again return on April 6th in Glen Carbon, Illinois for NWA Dynamo Pro Wrestling then the very next night in Kansas City, Kansas with NWA Metro Pro Wrestling.
It has been since October 16th, 2010 that Kahagas has terrorized the area during a run as the High Voltage Wrestling Champion. A feud that saw him have classic battles with the best have to offer including Dingo, Flash Flanagan, Bloody Harker Dirge, and the KC Killers( Jeremy Wyatt and Mark Sterling).
During IWA-MidSouth’s last attempt at the Ted Petty tournament, the company decided to have a try-out for aspiring wrestlers. MWR was on hand as “Tokyo Monster” walked in the building, you could see the fear in the eyes of the wrestlers as they scurried around to find out if they had drawn the unlucky number to take on the Superstar.
When the dust settled of over twenty one matches that night , Kahagas entered the main event and stole the show with a win and along with a standing ovation from the fans with chants of “Please come back”. The IWA-Midsouth promoter was so impressed he invited “Tokyo Monster” to take part in round one of the IWA-Midsouth Ted Petty tournament against the future Ring of Honor World Champion Roderick Strong.
Though the tournament or match would never happen, the legend of Kahagas continued to grow.
Time has gone by but nothing has changed as Kahagas have been on tours of Carlos Colons World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico, been to the Dominican Republic and traveled up and down the east and west coast. Videos and photos of Kahagas have been pouring into the MWR office that proved that he was pounding his opponents into submission while having fans run for cover.
Feuds and matches with the very best have only made the man more dangerous. WWE,TNA and ROH stars have not been safe as he has went to battle with Jay Lethal, Sabu, Scotty 2 Hotty, Low Ki, Michael Tarver, Kevin Thorn, Tatanka, and the veteran Cuban Assassin.
In Texas, he went to the finals of the first ever GWT tournament that had legends vote on the matches. Wrestling greats that were on hand for the voting process were Harley Race, Killer Karl Kox, Iceman King Parson, Stan “The Lariat” Hansen, and Jake Roberts to name just a few.
When it was announced that the NWA Junior World title was vacated and a tournament was to be done to crown, Kahagas was among the first one wanting a shot at the title, promising to bring respect, recognition and honor to the belt once more.
The NWA National Heavyweight Champion has shown up with a blood lust. Duane Long Photographer— NWA Ring Warriors
The NWA wisely saw the talents in the Tokyo Monster and instead of the NWA Junior title; he was offered a golden opportunity at the NWA National Champion Chance Prophet.
Chance Prophet has been the NWA National Champion since February 19, 2011. The prestigious NWA National title has a rich history starting with the very first champion Jack Brisco who defeated Terry Funk in the finals of a tournament on October 1980. Since then great men like Buzz Sawyer, Paul Orndorff, Wahoo McDaniel, Ted DiBiase and one of the original Four Horsemen Tully Blanchard have all held the title.
The Tokyo Monster wants Chance Prophet to try a little filet of sole! Duane Long Photographer—NWA Ring Warriors
The toughest challenge to date for the NWA National Champion Chance Prophet has been the Tokyo Monster who has been stalking him as of late meeting him twice at NWA Ring Warriors. The action has been so intense that in only their second meeting ever NWA Ring Warriors demanded that the match be contained with lumberjacks surrounding the ring. Still no one was safe as the match was called off due to a Double Disqualification, after referee Bruce Michaels was assaulted by a chair that left him bleeding.
The Kahagas-Prophet match ends in another double disqualification as a dazed and bloody referee Bruce Michaels is helped from ringside. Duane Long Photographer
The next NWA Ring Warriors card will be in Fort Lauderdale at the National Guard Armory on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. Titled “Battle of the Belts,” the event will kick off South Florida’s WrestleMania weekend which includes shows and events from Ring of Honor, Dragon Gate and WrestleReunion.
Larry Brannon has set in motion to end the chaos once and for all as the NWA National Heavyweight Champ Chance Prophet will clash one more time with The Tokyo Monster Kahagas, except this time it will be in a Steel Cage and the only way to win is for one of the competitors to climb out of the cage.
Not only will there be two NWA officials at ringside, but former three-time NWA World Tag Team Champions, the New Heavenly Bodies (“Vivacious” Vito DeNucci and “Casanova” Chris Nelson) will serve as special enforcement referees for the match.
Then less than a week later one of the most traveled wrestlers in the world today, “The Tokyo Monster” Kahagas will return to the Midwest on April 6th and April 7th. If Kahagas should defeat Chance Prophet for the NWA National title, this will be among the first title defenses for the new champ.
Regardless, a man who has been in main events around the world returns from his year and half absence in the Midwest to once again.
Don’t miss the man who ran Godzilla out of Tokyo, Kahagas.
MWR Dubray Tallman presented the 2011 MWR Female Wrestler of the Year plaque at AAPW- Photo Credit Brian Kelley
The first show of the year for MWR was at All American Pro Wrestling where the fans were hanging from the rafters. The AAPW card appropriately named “Main Event” was filled with stars around the world and in the Midwest.
We were thrilled to be in Marion, Illinois on that night as AAPW supported MWR as Dubray Tallman presented Stacey O’Brien with the 2011 MWR Female Wrestler of the Year plaque. During the award presentation O’Brien’s rival and opponent Rebecca Raze took offense to the honor that was bestowed upon O’Brien and attacked her as she was thanking the fans.
Thankfully, Dubray Tallman was able to get out of the ring without any injuries as the Irish Catholic schoolgirl was on the defense early on in her first match of 2012. Quickly the AAPW fans rocked the house to try to help O’Brien get on the offense.
A big right clothesline from Stacey O'Brien takes down Raze. (Photo Credit Brian Kelley)
Raze delivered an impressive showing against her arch rival but she soon found out that the women she met four years ago had improved greatly under the watchful eye of Harley Race.
Much to the fans delights Stacey O’Brien would capture her very first win of 2012 in her debut at All American Pro Wrestling.
Past Winners 2010 Amy Hennig 2009 MsChif 2008 Stacey O’Brien
Special thank you goes to Jay Ray for his help assisting us with the collage of the MWR Plaques for 2011
This week on the NBS TV they head back to World League Wrestling this time in Mt. Vernon, IL for action from that event.They feature a ten-man battle royal and mixed tag action between Brian Breaker & Lucy Mendez vs. Jack Gamble & Stacy O’Brien.
Casanova entertains the 3XW fans during a match with SBC (Photo Credit Brian Kelley)
Early in their time as undergraduate students at Iowa State, Matt Erickson and Terry Sindelar were in the same marketing class. They didn’t know each other at the time.
Just a few short years later, Erickson and Sindelar found themselves inside a wrestling ring in front of 200 people, attached by connecting dog collars.
Devin Carter pounds into Zach Thompson. (Photo Credit Brian Kelley)
“The crowd was extremely into it,” said Erickson, who performs under the name Casanova. “That dog collar match is one of my favorite matches of all time. Everything came off exactly how we wanted it to.”
Tag Team Titles: 11/16/08 – “Our Time To Shine 2008” with Pierre Abernathy – Pinned former champions The Garza Brothers in a 4-way match which also included Team Smurf & Troubled Youth.
Tag Team Titles (2): 01/17/2010 – “Guilty by Association 4” with Pierre Abernathy – Defeated former champions Jerry Lynn & Scot Summers.
St. Louis Anarchy Title: 12/12/10 – “Delusions of Our Childish Days 2” – The former Lethal Wrestling Alliance Title was declared the “St. Louis Anarchy” Title and the current champion, Evan Gelistico became the first champion.
2010 Tag Team of the Year (with Pierre)
Other Titles Held:
LWA Champion, LWA Medallion, LWA Tag Title (w/Pierre), XWO Heavyweight Champion, WBW Tag Team Champion (w/Pierre), GCW (w/Pierre), PPW (w/Gary), HVW Trios (w/Pierre, Vega), Dalmatian Spotting Contest Winner from 2003 and so far undefeated
Notable Feuds and Alliances: (In his own words) Alliances: Submission Squad, Bearded Men from Space Station 11, Sexual Dynasty
Foods: Pizza, grilled chicken with pineapple, cookie dough ice cream, and so much more. I’m surprised I’m not a huge fat ass!…Wait…what? Feuds? It’s too late I’ve already written out my favorite foods and I don’t use backspace…DEAL WITH IT!
Personal History: (In his own words) Born to a life on the streets and swaddled in the finest of Sunday paper comics for diapers, I lived most of my life by the strict rules of Calvin and Hobbes. Those two rad dudes changed me from a walking infant thug to the most intellectual and devious man you read before you. I am a machine and ain’t nothing gonna stop me from reaching my goals.
Hey 3XW fans, to commemorate this special event with the 25 year return of the NWA title and its first-ever champion crowned in Des Moines, Asteroid Belt Company is pleased to have a small part in this historic event.
The “NWA 3XW” title has been created and will be raffled off at the show on January 27th. This belt will be signed by both champion Adam Pearce and challenger Jeremy Wyatt. It has the date and place on it as well to mark the event. Tickets will only be $2 each or 3 for $5.
The match of a lifetime comes together with the chance of a lifetime…doncha dare miss it!
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