05/01/10 NWA Southwest Upcoming Show

Two Title matches and Two 3-Ways

on NWA Southwest Show May 1st

The Texas Junior and Texas Tag Team titles will be defended on NWA Southwest’s Red River Stampede Road Show May 1, in Whitesboro, Texas.

Rudy Russo will defend his Texas Junior title against former champion Gabe ‘The Babe” Himeros, while The Heartthrobs (Shawn Sanders & Bryce Payne) will defend their Tag belts against top contender Pretty Flawless (Jerome Daniels & Keith Lee) now managed by legendary Dallas Sportatorium manager Baboose “The Witch Doctor.”

Two other matches will be 3-Ways for both Men and Women. Men’s 3-Way will be for next Texas Heavyweight title shot with Dane Griffin, Chad Thomas, and Kevin Northcutt involved. Northcutt is a 9-time champion but had to vacate his belt due to injury recently now held by Ben “New Style” Galvan. The Women will be Lillie Mae, Jen Alise, and La Brenia.

Also, on this star-studded card two former Texas champions Chaz Taylor and Spoiler 2000 facing each other for first time ever.

Tickets go on sale April 1, and 700-800 fans are expected for this second annual Rotary Club fundraiser.

NWA Optimum presents: Live Pro Wrestling for Streator Unlimited Fundraiser

Congratulations to the 3 time NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion

Congratulations

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Former NWA World Tag Team Champ Guy Mitchell passed away

John Hill, who wrestled under the names of Guy Mitchell, Mr. X, The Stomper and others passed away yesterday in Franklin, Indiana.

Here is an excellent write-up about John Hill’s career from the Slam! Sports Wrestling Page

John Hill, man of many faces, dies at 68
By STEVEN JOHNSON — SLAM! Wrestling

“There’s another Valiant brother!” the covers of national wrestling magazines screamed in 1979. What they failed to add was that there was another Heenan brother, another Stomper, another Mad Man, and on and on.

All of those characters, and more, were wrapped up in one person, the unassuming John Hill, a character actor of a wrestler, who died March 11 in Indiana at the age of 68.

No matter what role the versatile Hill played, he fit it like a glove, according for former grappler Pat Blake, who called him “fantastic … he could work either way.” Veteran manager Percival A. Friend called him “good wrestler in the ring. He knew his stuff.”

But the quick change artist never left his guises get the best of him, said former wrestler Mike DuPree, who knew him for many years.

“Mitch understood wrestling was a business, and he didn’t live a gimmick,” said DuPree. “Wrestling was just a job he loved, but I don’t think it ever overtook his life. His wife and kid when I was around him always seemed to be his priority, and hence he kept his family and sanity when so many others hit the skids.”

Growing up in a family of 11 children, Hill boxed a little and played hockey as a youth in Hamilton. But like many athletes in the city in the late 1950s, he could scarcely avoid wrestling. “It’s often been called a wrestling factory with streets,” he recalled in one interview. “There were so many wrestlers walking around the city when I was a kid.”

While he worked in the mail room of the Hamilton Spectator at night, he hooked up at Al Spittles’ gym in Hamilton, thanks in part to the prodding of Hurricane Smith. He spent about a year there, and also worked out in Jack Wentworth’s facility before turning pro as a teenager under his real name around 1959.

In a 2005 interview with SLAM! Wrestling, he said he turned to the United States in 1960 because the money was better.

At first, he worked as Guy Hill, to avoid confusion with some other Canadian athletes named John Hill. He wrestled in the Central States area against other future stars like Larry Hennig, while maintaining a toehold in Canada with a handful of matches in Winnipeg.

The following year, he picked up his first alias of Guy Mitchell during a tour of the south. Hill attributed it to a botched promo in an Atlanta newspaper; another Guy Mitchell was a pop singer in the 1950s, who had his own show in the United States on ABC-TV, and played in a TV detective series in 1961.

Regardless, Mitchell the wrestler made a name for himself very quickly. He wrestled as a fan favorite in the Georgia-Alabama area in 1961 and 1962, and made a few appearances on undercards in the Mid-Atlantic area for Jim Crockett Promotions.

The biggest moment of his early career came as a witness, though. In 1962, he was teaming with Happy Humphrey in a tag match in Florence, Ala., when a fan stabbed Pedro Zapata nine times putting him in critical condition.

Hill said the imprint of that incident is a major reason why he generally donned a mask when he was called on to portray a bad guy. In 1965, he teamed with Joe Tomasso as The Assassins in the Indianapolis-based World Wrestling Association. The team was notable for winning the company’s top tag team title three times in 1965 and 1966.

The duo also represented Bobby Heenan’s first run as a manager, though he was hardly the Heenan that wrestling fans came to know and despise. During a TV taping, Tomasso was unavailable, so Dick the Bruiser, who co-owned the promotion, put a mannequin to simulate Tomasso behind the other members of the team.

“Guy did the interview because I didn’t talk. I didn’t know how to back then,” Heenan said in his autobiography, Bobby the Brain. But he bonded with Mitchell as the two became lifelong friends and even wrestled briefly as Bobby and Guy Heenan.

Indianapolis became Hill’s home base for the rest of his career, but he reprised the role of the Assassin in Toronto from 1968 to 1971, where he locked up with Canadian favorites like Lord Athol Layton and Whipper Billy Watson. Al Costello of the Fabulous Kangaroos was an occasional tag team partner in Toronto, which is more remarkable because they simultaneously were part of a hot and heavy feud in Detroit.

There, the Kangaroos broke the Hill’s leg when he was under yet another guise as The Stomper, a moniker Bruiser gave him. The rivalry between the Kangaroos and the team of The Stomper and Ben Justice was red hot in 1971 and 1972. Meanwhile, the Assassin headlined Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto against The Sheik in July 1971 in a classic heel-versus-heel bout.

“I just did what the situation called for,” Hill told SLAM! Wrestling. “You have to remember that this is a business.”

After the run in Detroit, he headed to the Northwest where, as Mr. X, he won the top tag title with Gene Kiniski in Al Tomko’s British Columbia-based promotion. He lost his crown and his mask to Kiniski in October 1974, and, characteristically, became a fan favorite in a feud with the ex-world champion.

DuPree, who now runs rasslinrelics.com as an Indian wrestling archive, Hill helped to pop the 1976-77 when he was WWA champion as the Masked Strangler, during an otherwise slow economic time.

“I never really noticed how over the Strangler character was until late last year, looking at the listed attendance,” DuPree said. “The point behind noting this was how well he could work a hood, which is a unique art that really only a handful of guys really got down. I think it was his best strength.”

Greg Lake also found Hill to be a good influence out of the ring and a mentor in it. “During a match I had with him in Ft. Wayne, Ind., he taught me how to apply a short-arm scissors while in the ring — of course, very discreetly, as to not alert the fans what he was doing.”

His most well-known role came as Jerry Valiant, when he pinch-hit for a hepatitis-riddled Jimmy Valiant in the WWWF. Johnny Valiant, another friend from Indianapolis, persuaded Vincent J. McMahon to bring Hill to the Northeast in 1979 while Jimmy was sidelined.

The Jerry and Johnny show immediately captured the federation’s tag crown and worked in six-man matches after Jimmy recovered later that year. It was the first time Hill wrestled as an unmasked villain and he remembered the vitriol he suffered as a result.

“When I left New York and I moved back west, I actually experienced lifting off a shield,” Hill told SLAM! “I actually felt I was lifting off a shield because you were constantly on guard, no matter where you went.”

With Roger Kirby, he was a share of the WWA tag titles again in 1980, working as Jerry Valiant. Among his other roles were Mad Man Mitchell and The Destroyer, a bad-guy guise that earned him the IWA world title in Australia in 1966. He continued to wrestle through the mid-1980s, and even refereed some WWF shows, but spent most of his time in construction and landscaping work from his home in Franklin, near Indianapolis. He also played Santa Claus for several years at an Indianapolis mall.

Hill is survived by Carolyn, his wife of nearly 40 years; a son, Jonathan; three brothers, and two sisters. Visitation will be Sunday, March 14 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Swartz Family Community Mortuary and Memorial Center in Franklin, Ind.
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Below is the Title History of John Hill

NWA World Tag Team Title (Detroit Version) (As The Stomper)
01/31/70 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Ben Justice
07/ /72 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Ben Justice [2]
07/21/73 NWA World Tag Team Title w/ Bobo Brazil

NWA Canadian Tag Team Title (Vancouver Version) (as Mr. X)
12/17/73 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Buck Ramstead
04/17/74 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Gene Kiniski
05/27/74 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ The Brute

NWA Canadian Tag Team Title (Vancouver Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
03/03/75 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Ormand Malumba
06/16/75 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Ricky Hunter
08/29/77 NWA Canadian Tag Team Title w/ Eric Froelich

NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title (Vancouver Version) (as Mr. X)
04/01/74 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
08/22/77 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title [2]

NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title (Vancouver Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
01/20/75 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title
03/14/77 NWA Pacific Coast Heavyweight Title [2]

NWA Central States Tag Team Title (as Guy Mitchell)
01/25/82 NWA Central States Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby
03/25/82 NWA Central States Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby [2]

NWA Southern Tag Team Title (Georgia Version) (as Guy Mitchell)
05/05/61 NWA Southern Tag Team Title w/ Bob Rasmussen

IWA Heavyweight Title (Australia) (as The Destroyer)
09/03/66 IWA Heavyweight Title

WWA World Heavyweight Title (Indiana) (as Masked Stranger)
05/01/76 WWA World Heavyweight Title

WWA World Tag Team Title (Indiana) (as Assassin #1)
07/17/65 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Assassin #2 (Joe Tomasso)
03/03/66 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Assassin #2 [2]

WWA World Tag Team Title (Indiana) (as Guy Mitchell)
04/27/80 WWA World Tag Team Title w/ Roger Kirby)

WWF World Tag Team Title (as Jerry Valiant)
03/06/79 WWF World Tag Team Title w/ Johnny Valiant

Timothy Dixon’s Tradition vs Retribution vs New Blood

NWA: New Beginnings – March 14th, Charlotte – NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship Match – Champion Blue Demon Jr. vs Phill Shatter vs Adam Pearce
On Sunday, March 14th at the University Hilton in Charlotte at NWA: New Beginnings, the “Legendary 10 Pounds of Gold” will be on the line as Blue Demon Jr. defends the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat elimination match against “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce and “The Universal Soldier” Phill Shatter. All three competitors bring a different element to this match, which has become one of the most talked about NWA World title matches in recent memory.

Tradition:

The lineage of Blue Demon Jr starts with his father, the original Blue Demon. Widely considered to be one of the greatest Mexican wrestlers of his time, Blue Demon set a standard that is carried on to this day by the current NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Blue Demon Jr. Winning the Championship in October of 2008, Blue Demon Jr. became the first masked wrestler and first Mexican wrestler to hold the legendary belt and has also become the longest reigning champion of this century. His connection to history and tradition exemplify much of what the National Wrestling Alliance represents.

Retribution:

In October 2008, Blue Demon Jr. won the Championship from the then Champion, “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce. In a match in Mexico City, Demon trapped Pearce in a single leg Boston Crab and Pearce, succumbing to the pain, passed out, giving Demon the win and the Belt. However, at the time that he passed out, Pearce’s right arm was clearly underneath the bottom rope which, in Pearce’s mind, nullified the victory for Demon. For the past year and a half, Pearce has loudly proclaimed that he is the true World Heavyweight Champion and that Blue Demon has never given him his rematch. This Sunday Pearce will get his shot at Blue Demon and his retribution.

New Blood:

The current NWA National Champion, “The Universal Soldier” Phill Shatter represents the new breed of competitor in the National Wrestling Alliance. A former Marine from Hickory, NC, Shatter grew up dreaming of becoming a World Champion. A multiple time champion in NWA Anarchy, Shatter has traveled all over the country making a name for himself and has held the NWA National Championship for over a year, winning the title last January from Crusher Hanson. Last month in Charlotte, Shatter earned his shot at the Championship by defeating Adam Pearce and solidifying his claim to the number 1 contender position. However, Pearce has worked his way into the match, making it a three way elimination match for the belt. While competitors like Shatter are, undoubtably, the future of the National Wrestling Alliance, can Phill Shatter get by the two men that stand in his way to realizing his dream?

Tradition – Retribution – New Blood

Sunday, March 14th at the University Hilton in Charlotte, they will all come together in a clash for the ages with the richest prize in the sport of professional wrestling on the line. Three men will come into this match, but only one will have his hand raised in victory. Only one will leave with the Legendary 10 Pounds of Gold. Only one will earn the right to be called the NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

Larry Goodman’s thoughts on NWA Main Event Television

From Larry Goodman and Georgia Wrestling History

This was the fourth episode of NWA ME to air since the arrival of Bill Behrens as Executive Producer. Things got better right away and have improved each week. It’s been a long time coming. After Jeff Daniels departed as booker this summer, the first few “New Era” episodes had some life in them. Largely written by Jason James and prominently featuring Shawn Shultz, they were uneven as hell but made for compelling viewing at times. To say NWA ME TV has been floundering since then would be putting it mildly. In between the occasional flashes of decency (pieces of the Will Owens and White Tiger stuff), there were long stretches of horribleness. Some if it was comically bad. Some bordered on being unwatchable. The show was basically on life support as an internet-only product when Mike Porter brought Behrens on board. It’s still internet only, but the booking, the formatting of the television and most importantly, the talent roster, are all greatly improved. The production values not so much. At least they got the audio dialed in this week. I don’t mind the single camera most of the time, because it stays active. This was the third episode to air with Behrens at the helm, and it was the best one so far. The first two episodes were solid by the number stuff. The wrestling was much better. The thing that distinguished the current episode was the zany, unpredictable quality that has in times past, made NWA ME so much fun to watch AND the wrestling was pretty good, too. Hayme and Rockwell opened the show with a very strong match, playing off the angle that closed the previous episode. I liked cutting to the clip from last week explaining why Rockwell was so badly wanting to kick Hayme’s ass. The Mega Rumble, of course, is a Behrens specialty. Se7en is green for sure, but he’s a monster by NWA ME standards and was booked accordingly. You could see the thing with Hyatt coming a mile away, but that’s fine. He’s an appealing buffoon. I liked it for the zaniness factor. The centerpiece of this show was the interview with Rudy Charles. I thought the “aliens” vignette with Posey on last week pretty far out there. Who would expect to hear Art mentioned on a pro wrestling show? This one was completely off the chain. Charles riffing on Bogart as Captain Queeg blew my mind. I thought Aaron Camaro did a nice job here as well. The main event provided solid storyline development. The titles are being made to feel important. Rockwell seems bound and determined to get Posey’s junior title. Owens is none too keen on defending the heavyweight title, and Boyce now has a claim there. Meanwhile, Bishop has set his sights on Boyce’s title. They’ve got some over babyfaces in Rockwell, Boyce, and Tiger. The building blocks are there. It will be interesting to see what Behrens does with them.

To read the entire review please check out Georgia Wrestling History

Adam Pearce on Alliance-Wrestling Radio TONIGHT! March 11th 9PM PST

Alliance-Wrestling Radio goes live on March 11th at 9:00pm PST

When it comes to the sport of professional wrestling very few names ever reach the pinnacle of World Champion. And to win a Worlds Championship twice means you have to be twice as good as your competition. The “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce, who defended the title all over the United States and Mexico, is looking to re-gain a title he is convinced, he never lost. Adam Pearce will be my special guest on a one night only Thursday Night edition of Alliance-Wrestling Radio. We’ll be talking to Pearce about his career, his time as NWA Heritage Champion, his new NWA British Commonwealth Championship, his time as NWA World Champion and his match this Sunday March 14th for NWA New Beginnings where Pearce will challenge Blue Demon Jr., along with Phil Shatter in a Three Way Dance for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship.

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NWA Pro Wrestling Fusion presents: Carpe Diem

Saturday March 13, 2010
Bell time: 8pm
NWA Pro Wrestling Fusion Presents:
Carpe Diem
A Benefit Show for the American Cancer Society
Bartram Trail High School
7399 Longleaf Pine Parkway
St. Johns, FL 32259
Tickets: $10 in Advance – $15 At the Door

Matches scheduled so far:
BRUCE SANTEE -vs- FRANCISCO CIATSO
TOMMY TAYLOR vs. CHRISTOPHER GRAY
NWA Florida Junior Heavyweight Title Match
CRAIG CLASSIC -vs- JOHNNY VANDAL
DAGON -vs- JACK MANLEY
Also Appearing:
NWA NORTH AMERICAN HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
THE SHEIK
NWA FLORIDA TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS
DARK CITY FIGHT CLUB
BLAIN RAGE
SHANNON ROSE & many more superstars of the National Wrestling Alliance!
Contact (904) 707-7402 for more info

Credit NWA Florida