Metro Pro Wrestling – Show 081 – Michael Strider address Adam Pearce.

From Metro Pro Wrestling’s Show 081 – Michael Strider’s last pro wrestling match will be Saturday, June 2, 2012, against former four-time NWA World Champion “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce. Here’s his thoughts on that match-up.

Taped May 2012

MWR Trading Card #78 Ricky Cruz.

Ricky Cruz has the CWC Championship with the NWA World title on his mind.- Photo Credit Brian Kelley

Ricky Cruz has made great waves on in the Midwest in a very short time. The man who has been a star in Mexico and Puerto Rico but in less than a year at the MWR promotion coverage area he is about to take on one of the top wrestlers in the world in less than a week. That’s right Ricky Cruz will meet the former 4-time NWA World Champion Adam Pearce in Glen Carbon, Illinois on June 1st

Just two weeks prior to the event, Cruz has defeated one of the longest reigning champions during the MWR Years in a classic matchup against the CWC champ Ron Powers at SICW in East Carondelet on May 19th. Not only did he have to fight through the henchmen of Power’s The Big Texan and Waco but at ringside was WWE HOF wrestler and current WWE scout Gerry Brisco watching.

Talk about being clutch as he would become only the third man to hold the title much to the fans delight as he would end the terror of Ron Powers.

Look for a recap of this historic night in the near future at MWR.

The last time Cruz was in Glen Carbon, IL he upset Kevin X in his final match in the area for a while in thus sending a message in the locker room that he was to be a force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately the then NWA World Champion Adam Pearce would find out firsthand the back down from no one attitude of Cruz during his match up with the NWA National Champion Kahagas. While Pearce was beating down on Kahagas after the match, Cruz who has a history with Kahagas in Puerto Rico came out to put an end of it.

Moments later, Pearce would challenge Cruz to a NWA World Championship Match on June 1st. Unfortunately, Pearce would go on the next night in Kansas City to defeat Matt Murphy but Colt Cabana would defeat him in California the very next day in California, thus making this a non-title match.

Still this match is huge for both men as they eye the 10 pounds of Gold that Cabana now has around his waist.
Cruz has also collected victories against top wrestlers in the area including Dave Vaughn, The Big Texan, Ken Kassa, David Osborne amd Sean Vincent .

We here at Missouri Wrestling Revival is proud to announce that the newest member of the MWR Trading card series is Ricky Cruz.

#1 The Northstar Express Darin Corbin and Ryan Cruz – 2008 MWR Tag team of the Year

#2 Mark Sterling- 2009 MWR Wrestler of the Year

#3 The Hooligans Devin and Mason Cutter – 2009 MWR Tag Team of the Year

#4 MsChif - 2009 MWR Female Wrestler of the Year

#5 Mike Sydal – 2009 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Rookie of the Year —-SOLD OUT—

#6 Jeremy Wyatt – 2008 MWR Wrestler of the Year, 2008 & 2009 MWR Match of the Year (vs. Michael Strider, vs. Tyler Cook)

#7 Santana G – Midwest Sweetheart

#8 Kahagas – The Tokyo Monster

#9 Mephisto - Hardcore Favorite

#10 Tyler Black – Ring of Honor World Champion

#11 Sir Bradley Charles – Rising star trained by Lance Storm

#12 Brandon Espinosa – 2011 MWR Wrestler of the Year

#13 Dave Vaughn – The Wrestling Machine

#14 “The Future” Donovan Ruddick – The 6’9″ Monster

#15 Brandon Aarons – Current Triple Crown Champion in the Midwest

#16 Davey Richards – Arguably the best in the world today

#17 “Superstar” Steve Fender – First American wrestler to train in Pro Wrestling NOAH Dojo

#18 MR Late Nite – “Hollywood Super Agent”

#19 Eric Allen – The Pride of Peoria

#20 Eddie Edward – American Wolf

#21 Evan Money – The Pro Wrestling Kid

#22 Delirious – A Familiar Face from “The Edge of Insanity”

#23 Jason Jones – On the Path to Superstardom

#24 Tony Kozina – Rugged and Well-Traveled Veteran

#25 Jeromy Robb – Senior Referee at 3XW and MECW

#26 Sean Vincent- Canada’s Favorite wrestler

#27 Lucy Mendez – Midwest Latino Knockout

#28 Trevor Murdock – Former WWE Superstar

#29 Eric Davis –Senior referee at IHW and PWE

#30 Angel -ECW Original

#31 Jonathan Greshem- Electrifying young star

#32 Brett Young -#1

#33 Michael Crase Jr -Metro and NWA Dynamo Ref

#34 -U-Gene Dinsmore- Lovable fan favorite.

#35- Billy McNeil- Innovating high flyer.

#36 Mia Martinez – Mysterious and fiery, Midwest diva

#37 Mike Sydal – 2010 MWR Wrestler of the Year

#38 Stacey O’Brien-2008 MWR Female Wrestler of the Year

#39- Neil Diamond Cutter- Prince of Death

#40- Bloody Harker Dirge- God of Thunder

# 41- Brian Breaker- 2011 Pro Wrestling Noah tour

# 42 Brandon Schmitt -WLW and Metro Pro Ref

#43 The The Mississippi Madman- PWE Champion

#44 Dan Gier WLW Announcer

#45 B.G. James- 7 time World Tag Champion

#46 Rob Conway- 3 Time WWE Tag Champion.

#47 Larry Zbyszko- 2 time AWA World Champion

#48 Michael Barry – MR Saturday Night

#49 The Lumberjacks Abe and Gabe- Most decorated tag team in the Midwest

#50 Larry Matysik - Wrestling at the Chase announcer

#51 Jimmy Jacobs- ROH Superstar

#52 The Survivor Barry Ryte - Cancer Survivor

#53 Jessie Belle Smothers - Tracey Smothers daughter DING DING

#54 The Strong Style Devil’s - Bailey Mannix Eric Allen, Loveley Leon

#55 Ace Hawkins- Young High flyer

#56- Ryan Howe- WWE Tough Enough

#57- Misfitt Manners- Mizfitt Madness

#58- JB Payne-The Midwest Mauler

#59 Dave Hebner - Legendary Ref

#60 El Generico- The Generic Luchador

#61 Tony Atlas-MR USA

#62 MsChif- Raven Johnson Art card of the 2012 MWR Sexiest female of 2012

#63 Maddog McDowell- Fan favorite around the Midwest WOOF WOOF

#64 Michael Elgin- ROH Superstar

#65 KC Jackson- The Main Attraction

#66 Ron Powers – SICW Champion

#67 The Briscoe Brothers- The Baddest Tag team on the planet.

#68 OUTKAST- One half of the Bum Rush Brothers.

#69 Miss Natural- 5-time Harley Race’s WLW Ladies Champion.

#70 Bob Geigel- 3-times NWA president

#71 Chase King- Young star in St Louis.

#72 MWR/3XW Match Card Jeremy Wyatt vs Mark Sterling IRON MAN CARD

#73 Hellfire Symphony- The Great Malaki and The Great Cheyenne

#74 Jeff Vernetti - SICW ring announcer

#75 Stacey O’Brien - 2 time MWR Female Wrestler of the Year

# 76 Michael Strider- Kansas City wrestling legend.

#77 Amanda the Blood Thirsty Vixen -Beautiful, Extreme and BloodThirsty

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These cards are limited and are not mass produced making them highly collectable.

Classic Feud DVD series: Misawa vs. Kobashi- Disc 1 review

By Kyle Erickson

Welcome to the first DVD review here on the wrestling experts corner blog! I will be reviewing DVDS on the blog on a regular basis. In this first DVD review, I look at the first disc of a DVD showcasing one of the greatest feuds in wrestling history Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi: The Classic feud! Disc one of the Misawa vs Kobashi classic feud DVD starts with the first match between these two legends when Misawa was still the Tiger Mask character, which was a Japanese TV character that had turned into a pro wrestling character. The Tiger mask character would not last long for Misawa as he would take the Tiger Mask Mask off shortly after this classic first match between Misawa and Kobashi. All matches on disc 1 take place in All Japan Pro Wrestling. This is a review of disc 1 only.

This first match on the DVD is, as I said before the very first match Misawa and Kobashi had had against each other. Kobashi had not yet started using his trademark chops yet, but would start using them a few matches later in the DVD. This match shows just how even matched both Misawa and Kobashi were with both men trading suplex’s and holds throughout the match. Misawa would get the win with the Tiger driver suplex in this excellent opening match. (*****)

The second match on this DVD is home video footage that was taken by a fan’s camera, so the picture quality is not as good as the rest of the matches on the DVD, but the match action makes up for the video quality and provides a unique fan perspective from the front row. This match is again very evenly matched with Kobashi very close to victory at certain points in the match, but Misawa would again get the victory. From this match, viewers can really tell that this feud is starting to heat up. While not nearly as good as the opening match this was a good match that advanced the feud. (***)

The 3rd match on the DVD is joined in progress, but shows Kobashi starting to develop what would become his trademark chops. Misawa would again get the win. (N/A) because match was joined in progress.

The 4th match on the DVD features Kobashi as a heel showing he really wants to win against Misawa because so far in this DVD Misawa had won all of the matches and it was no different in this match. Kobashi once again came very very close to defeating Misawa for the first time, but one again Misawa would gain the win in another excellent very good match and by this point the feud had reached its height and it was only going to get more intense! )*****)

The 5th match on the DVD was for the All Japan Triple Crown championship with Misawa as champion and Kobashi as the challenger. This was a back and forth match with both men realizing what the match ment. Kobashi hit a moonsalt at one point in the match and I thought the referee had counted 3 but as he was at two Misawa kicked out. Misawa would get the win once again with a tiger suplex in an excellent match. )*****(

The 5th match on the DVD is another excellent match with Kobashi coming very close to winning as he has many times but Misawa would get the win in another excellent back and forth match to end Disc 1 of the classic feud Misawa vs. Kobashi DVD! In my next post I will review Disc 2!

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