Stratoti – Hard Knock Wrestling Results & Photos from 4/14 Benefit Show
April 24th, 2013 No CommentsHard Knock Wrestling April 14, 2013 Benefit Wrestling Card For Holy Name Elementary School
– Article & photos by Paul Stratoti
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Cauliflower Alley Club, 3rd column
By Dr Mike Lano, youngest board member ever back when I was put on in the early 90′s
We’ve gone over some of the good and bad (and low lives) from last week in Vegas. Here I’m focusing on the many positives there.
Cauliflower Alley Club 48th Reunion Rundown, part 1 of several
By Michael Lano, CAC photographer since 1987, 90′s CAC Board Member
The primary lure of CAC each year is in seeing old friends and brothers/sisters one may only have email contact with the rest of the year. Not the politics behind the scenes certainly. We’re all still trying to figure out what this year grossed. Say approx 400 people paying $125 each which is a pretty sizeable chunk of change and one fan coming all the way from New Zealand.
Whatever One Called Him, Bill Moody Is Missed
by his friend Mike Lano
Just had The Great One back on the radio show a few months ago and as always, it was a great learning experience with bits of major minutia he recalled as if it was yesterday. No one knew their biz history the way Bill always did. Total student of the industry.
Stratoti – Absolute Intense Wrestling: Girls Night Out 8 Results & Photos
March 3rd, 2013 No CommentsAbsolute Intense Wrestling: Girls Night Out 8
– Article & photos by Paul Stratoti
Girls Night Out 8 was AIW’s inaugural iPPV which was streamed live worldwide.
Just Pro Wrestling Featuring Buff Bagwell at Spring Fling 3/18 & 19
– Article, Buff Bagwell profile, & photos by Paul Stratoti
According to Tammy Fitzgerald of the Just Pro Wrestling promotion, JPW is bringing in Buff on Saturday May 18th to the annual Spring Fling in Amsterdam New York on East Main Street from 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM where his fans will receive a FREE 8×10 photo with the purchase of a $15 Autograph or a $15 photo-op.
We’ve all heard it through the years:
“It takes formal schooling from trained professionals to succeed in your chosen career and to have that competitive edge over others’”
“It’s not what you know but who you know”
“It takes money to make money”
“Kids, don’t try this at home.”
Sound cliche?
Well, all four of those statements carry equal weight and like it or not they are true.
Canvas Cavity Column: NorCal promotion APW offers up an insane 5 star bout. Again
By Michael Lano, DDS – all photos by Dr. Mike Lano
Pro wrestling/boxing/MMA global photojournalism since 1966
“I’m not 100% sure what a 5 star match is by definition, but I think I know it when I see it”
re: APW (Northern California boot camp and promotion) had just such a match on their card last Saturday 1/5/13 in “Old School” Oliver John vs British Messiah Tim Thatcher
Mr. Hughes Battles On
–Article & photos by Paul Stratoti
48 year old Curtis Hughes began his wrestling career in 1988 in the AWA as “The Cat” Curtis Hughes, a babyface who was trained by Bob Geigel and Sonny Myers.
Remembering Kurt Von Hess
– Article by Paul Stratoti photos contributed by Paige Sutherland.
To this reporter Kurt von Hess will always be remembered as a potential main event star yet he was a mid-carder when I saw him wrestle. I didn’t really take note of him until he teamed up with Karl von Shotz (aka John Anson) as Waldo von Erich was the dominant German heel of our area (Toronto, Detroit, Cleveland) as well in Vince McMahon Sr’s WWWF at that time.
