Scotts Wrestling World

This post is on tag teams, one of the most under utilized divisions in all of pro wrestling. You may say well TNA has a great tag team roster or your local promotion might have its tag team division almost as important as their heavyweight division. Either way you look at it, we all look to the WWE most of the time as the saviors of pro wrestling. I mean really, where would pro wrestling be today without Vince McMahon. Yes his television shows sometimes bring out contreversial storylines but really, Vince really did save pro wrestling by having all of his divisions be really exciting whetther it be the heavyweight, intercontinental, or tag team division. Now to get back to what I want to say about tag teams. When Vince first started working for his father, the late Vince McMahon Sr., the tag team division back then in the WWWF was basically one of the big drawing cards for the WWWF shows and it could just be an ordinary tag match or for the tag titles, the tag division was always a major drawing card for the company. Even a few years ago, not only the WWE but all of the major promotions like WCW and ECW all had strong tag divisions. WCW probably comes in last when talking about this topic but still, the tag division was still exciting. ECW had Balls and Axl, The Gangstas, The Eliminators, Sabu and RVD, the Dudleys before they went to the WWE, and a few others. The WWE’s tag division was still a few years ago had a hot tag division. You had the Hardys, The E&C Dynasty (Edge & Christian), The Dudleys like I mentioned, Too Cool, The Brothers of Destruction (Kane & Undertaker), and The Two Man Power Trip Stone Cold & HHH). Now you wouldn’t believe that all of these teams were the years of 2000-’01. In 2002, WCW and ECW were gone, and the WWE was throwing teams together. They had a couple of key teams like 3 Minute Warning, The Un-Americans, and Billy & Chuck. But for the most part they were just throwing guys together and just seeing if they would stick. Now those 3 teams I mentioned are all gone now, heck, they were mostly gone by the end of 2002, namely Billy & Chuck and The Un-Americans. 3 Minute Warning lasted at least thru the first half of 2003. But look at that and how just 6 years later, the tag teams are now for the most part a forgotten art. TNA really highlights their tyag division though and the majority of wrestling fans watch WWE and see how WWE does not make their tag division a big deal so for the fans who don’t watch TNA think that it is the same there. Now for example, earlier this year it seemed that WWE was finally trying to bring back the tag division as a highlight when Kane & Big Show were champs and then this talented new team in the Spirit Squad won the titles, it seemed that we might start seeing something out of the tag teams of the WWE. Even though they didn’t have alot of name teams like the Spirit Squad or Cade & Murdoch. it seemed to be improving. But, the Spirit Squad won the tag titles like late last April or early May and as far as I know, they haven’t even defended the tag titles once they got them and just this past week, The Highlanders, a new team who had a few weeks of buildup prior to their debut and have a few matches under their belt, challenge for the belts. I mean give me a break, they are not that over yet but again like I said before, if these guys came in 6 years ago and beat a few of the big teams, they would be over enough in my mind to challenge for the belts. It just shows of how much things can change in less than a decade.

Here are just a few of the many pics we took at the live ECW show in Green Bay,WI 07/09/06

We’ll have more from the Francine VS. Kelly bikini contest/catfight in our next pic set,don’t miss ‘em!!





More pics from the live ECW show coming soon,check back often,and thanks for stopping by!!

This past Sunday (July 9) I went to my very first ECW show. I have been to many wrestling shows in my time. I have gone to see WWE many times and WCW. I have been to house shows and tv shows. Now when I go to wrestling events, I much prefer the house shows because they dont have alot of bull crap that nobody cares about on it like alot of backstage vignettes. But after all of these shows that I have gone to including ECW, I can actually say that this show was by far my favorite. The atmosphere at this show was just so tremendous that I definitely had the time of my life. The fans including myself and my own family that went with me were just yelling things out at the wrestlers. Now originally, I was 5 rows back from the ring. But when the show was about to start, we saw that a whole lot of seats were open including ones by the aisleway so we moved there. I have to tell you also that because of our move my step dad got some excellent pictures for the site and they should be up in the next couple of days for you curious people that would like to see the pictures. Anyway we all were chanting many things such as FU Vince, Big Show swallows, You F’ed up, Holy ****, and of course ECW. The show was better than the ones on tv. Sandman didnt fight to big of a chump this time, he actually wrestled a real match. He came out form the fans as usual but he was interacting with them this time. They had an extreme vixen contest between Kelly and Francine and as a 16 year old seeing those girls in person. THEY WERE HOT!!! What else can I say. And finally the original main event was scheduled as RVD defending his ECW Title in an Extereme Rules match against the Big Show. But a recent drug bust changed all that as RVD was suspended and in the process lost the title to the Big Show. So the new main event was Big Show defending his title against Sabu and that match was the best one of the night by far. If you want details about that match or any other match that I will go in depth about, tune in to Eric Gargiulo’s “Pro Wrestling Radio” show this Saturday at 12e/11c at WBCB 1490.com or catch it archived at Prowrestlingradio.com. I will also give full results of the show this Saturday as well.