Pro Wrestling Revolution in SF Weekly

Raising money for college scholarships in a recession begs creativity. Bake sales? Overdone. Car washes? Cliche. A man in furry underwear kicking the ass of a Border Patrol agent in the school gym? Now we’re getting somewhere.

John O’Connell High School of Technology enlisted a line-up seemingly borrowed from a Robert Rodriguez slasher film Saturday night to fund scholarships for high school athletes: There were hardcore lady fighters in push-up bras. There was the strapping Brazilian named Kafu, who’s loyal fans barked “Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!” along with him when he pumped his hand like a claw in the air. There was a posse of homoerotic, spandex-clad Border Patrol agents, easy villains among the mostly Latino crowd. Check out the video below for some of the highlights. To save you suspense, Kafu kicked the agents’ ass.

Athletic Director Bob Gamino has students put posters around the Mission to help sell tickets – of which they get 20 percent of the proceeds. They also get a portion of the sponsorships and all of the concessions. About 600 people showed up — 200 short of the gym’s capacity — but still enough to generate three $500 scholarships for the high school’s athletes.

“I get flack for it because some people think I’m making hundreds and thousands from it and lining my pockets,” Gamino says. “But I know what I do, my principal knows what I do, and the students know what I do.”

Saturday was the school’s fifth foray into lucha libre events, after the school bit on promoter Pro Wrestling Revolution’s offer to host a fight there. Yet Gamino says the students would make even more money if it weren’t for the onerous prices of hosting an event in the city. Add up the mandatory costs for a janitor, a police officer, the entertainment commission permit, and a fire department fee, and it takes a $962 chunk out of the profits. That’s enough for two more scholarships.

Gamino says the first time the school hosted a wrestling event in 2008, the police sent four officers since they didn’t know what kind of crowd to expect. Even with an at-capacity 800-person crowd, the school made no money at all after paying the police more than $1,900.

“The police department was very apologetic and said you don’t need four police officers,” Gamino says, after they say that the crowd was “mainly strollers.”

Indeed, the crowd seemed to behave itself Saturday night — probably in some no small part due to the fact there’s no alcohol sales on school property. Gamino told the promoter, Pro Wrestling Revolution’s Gabriel Ramirez, a couple ground rules: No blood. No over-the-head smacks with chairs. And no breasts.

But the fight was not short on entertainment. In a role that rings oh-so-true in a time of anti-immigrant sentiment, the border patrol agent hammed up the part of an anti-sanctuary city xenophobe. He asked the audience for their papers, and, out in the hall, told one Latino kid, “I only talk to Americans,” to which the kid responded, “I am an American.”

Please read the story on SF Weekly, here.

UPRISING – Episode 4: NWA World Heavyweight Title Match

In this installment we are in San Francisco, California to catch a showdown between Oliver John and the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Blue Demon Jr. but everything is not what it seems.

Also focused is the exciting Mini’s Division with a Matchup between Octogoncito facing Pequeno Pierroth, with Pierroth looking to pickup his first win on UPRISING.

Many special thanks go out to making this episode possible, including Missing Words Records for supplying the new Official UPRISING Theme Song, “Wow, Really?” performed by the amazing End Transmission from the Album “Devour”.

Please check them out online and on iTunes in the links below and buy the track to help support a great deserving band, as well as support UPRISING!

Missing Words Records:
Twitter - twitter.com/​missingwords
Facebook - facebook.com/​missingwordsrecs
Official Site - missingwords.com

End Transmission:
Facebook - facebook.com/​pages/​End-Transmission/​122670600036
Devour Album on iTunes - itunes.apple.com/​us/​album/​devour/​id331338639
Myspace - myspace.com/​endtransmissionrock

Results & Images – San Jose 10.20.10

The work that went into this show will be hard to be outdone. The promoting, talent, booking, media and over all effort will not soon be forgotten. Promoting is never easy and you always do what you can do give yourself, and in this case, the school the best opportunity to make this profitable.

The only think we could not control was the thunderstorm that hit the day of the event, but, we are thankful for all that came out as we closed out our year. We want to thank our sponsors,Estrella KNTC TV42, El Mensajero Newspaper, and 93.3 La Raza. The continued support of our efforts with School fundraisers is one of a kind.

A special thank you, goes out to our photographer, Jeremy Maurer, who had just days before the event, returned from his 2nd visit of Haiti. He goes there to volunteer and help where he can and give back. He is one of a kind and needs to be acknowledge for this work.

Here are the results and the images!

• Galactico over Cazador
• Vinnie Massaro over Dyno’Mite Dave
• El Dinamita & Hijo de Chupacabras over Famous B & Rik Luxury
• Mr. Wrestling IV over Rocky Romero
• Strongman & Misterioso over “La MIgra” Vaquero Fantasma & Oliver John
• Blue Demon Jr. over “Border Patrol” Derek Sanders

Results & Images – Santa Cruz County Fair 09.19.10

Pro Wrestling Revolution returned to the Santa Cruz County Fair to close out the Fair, and were received with nearly 2000 fans. The vision of all the fans taking in our show is something the entire staff is still talking about. The city of Watsonville has become a new home away from home for us and we like it.

The show had a great flow, with the match that featured the Pro Wrestling Revolution Woman’s Title, as challenger Alissa Flash took on Princesa Sugey as she made her way from Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).

Seeing so many happy faces and families enjoying their evening, tells us that we accomplished what we set out to do.

We saw many fans from our last show there and made new ones, and we hope to see them when we return.

Here are the results and the images!

• KAFU over Vinnie Masarro
• Princesa Sugey over Alissa Flash
• El Dinamita & Hijo del Chupacabras & El Galactico over Derek Sanders & Oliver John & Vaquero Fantasma
• Mondo Matt Cool over El Cazador del Alma
• Grappler III over Famous B

Results & Images – Watsonville 07.31.10

Pro Wrestling Revolution was welcomed back with a night of excitement, new talent and a new champion crowned. An exciting crowd of nearly 1000 fans came out and had a great time. We can’t thank our team enough for all the hard work. Our new students for being there and taking in the hard work from morning till nigh-time. our trainers, new talent than impressed everybody and our core of talent that has been doing this from day one…

This night, we lost a champion, gained a new one and lost one… Of course, this doesn’t make sense, but that is what happens when you deal with Oliver John and the Border Patrol. We want to thank IGF Officials for being present and as-well to the all the press from Tokyo, Japan. We saw the debut of The Grappler III, Bryan Cage sent home packing, and new tag champions. Oliver John seems to be losing control.

Gracias Watsonville, thank you very much, we will see you September 19th at the Santa Cruz County Fair… ¡Viva la Revolución!

Here are the result and the images!

• Mascara Sagrada & KAFU over Vaquero Fantasma & Misterioso
• Atsushi Sawada over “Border Patrol” Oliver John to become the NEW NWA Heritage Champion
• El Galactico over El Cazador
• Mr. Wrestling IV ver “Border Patrol” Derek Sanders
• The Grappler III over “Polyester Express” Mondo Matt
• Vinnie Massaro over Bryan Cage , Hero Tiger , El Hijo del Chupacabra
• “Latin Explosion” El Dinamita over Famous B

UPRISING – Episode 3: Oceanside, CA

Pro Wrestling Revolution presents, UPRISING!

In our 3rd Episode, filmed live at the SoCal Pro NWA TV Tapings in Oceanside, CA, we have 2 Tag Team Matchups and a very special Mini’s Division Bout!!

Milpitas, CA had been waiting for Lucha Libre to come back to town for a while, but little did they know how Pro Wrestling Revolution would bring it back! The Revolution gets EXTREME when Super Crazy teamed up with the ever popular Hijo de Rey Misterio!

Also on todays episode we finally see a few of the members of El Patron Oliver John’s Border Patrol members in tag team action of their own. Who knows how many members of the Border Patrol there are and when and where they will show up.

And don’t miss the end, as Blue Demon Jr,. responds to Oliver John’s video from the last episode of UPRISING, and this will have fatal consequences for John at Lucha Libre Experienca in Mexico!

We would like to thank everyone at SoCalPro Wrestling for having us at the event, and encourage everyone in and around the Oceanside, CA (SD) Area to check them out online at SoCalProwrestling.com for information on their upcoming shows.

Matches on Todays Episode Include -

Special Attraction Mini’s Division Match

Pequeno Pierroth vs Mascarita Dorada

Border Patrol vs El Amante y El Snowflake

Vaquero Fantasma y “El Mystico de Juarez” Incognito
vs
Hijo de Rey Misterio y “Extreme Luchador” Super Crazy

Uprising – Episode 2

We are proud to bring you our 2nd Episode of UPRISING, featuring the best Lucha Libre action in California and Beyond! This time around we head to E3, the Electonric Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, CA. E3 is where all the biggest game companies gather once a year to show off their newest games and Konami was there to debut their new Lucha Libre Video Game, AAA Lucha Libre, Heroes Del Ring!

We will take an indepth look at the new video game, as well as catch up with NWO Member and Former WCW US Champion, as well as World Renouned Lucha Superstar, Konnan! We also hear from wrestling and sports writer Dave Meltzer about Lucha Libre in California.

On top of all of this is news from CMLL about a NEW Revolution Women’s Champion, and some great wrestling matches from Santa Maria!

Matches on todays Episode include -

NWA Pro Heritage Title Match
Ryan Taylor (C) vs Mr. Wrestling #4

Lucha Libre Special Feature
Hijo de Rey Mistirio & Hijo Del Rayo De Jalisco Jr.
vs
CMLL’s Felino & Lucha Vavoom’s El Chupacabra

Also we hear from Pro Wrestling Revolution Champion, El Patron Oliver John.

Thank you for watching!

Special thanks go out to - SuperLuchas.net , SOE . Slang and Konami , Konnan. Dave Meltzer

Alliance Radio – Pro Wrestling Revolution style!

Pro Wrestling Revolution owner Gabriel Ramirez was a guest on Alliance Radio hosted by Jay Cal. This was a small peek at what takes place in Revolution and what is coming up next.Topics discussed varied from the 1st show to potential shows in Bolvia. A great listen to all fans and even spilled over past the time limit!

The topic discussed varied from the decision was made to start Pro Wrestling Revolution, tours, Oliver John and the Border Patrol, CMLL, and everything else that Jay Cal the host could bring up. it was fun and we look forward to doing this again in the near future!

Results & Images – Sacramento County Fair 05.31.10

Pro Wrestling Revolution made its debut in Sacramento at the Sacramento County Fair. It was the first time the fair has wrestling there and it was great to be the first ones to brought in. It is a small stepping stone in where they want to be and we look forward to working with them in taking this to the next level.

It was a very hot day and we thank all our staff and wrestlers for all their efforts and we thank the Fair for making all the accommodations as best as possible.

We welcomed the debut of Pcicosis to Pro Wrestling Revolution and we look forward to working with him again in the near future, and who knows who he brings with him next time.

Here are the results:

• Mascara Sagrada & Rey Tigre over Vaquero Fantasma & Pciscosis
• Oliver John over Mr. Wrestling IV
• Octagoncito over Pequeno Pierroth
• Chupacabras over Brian Cage
• Polyester Express over Rik Luxury & Vincenzo Massaro
• El Cazador over El Galactico

Uprising!

Pro Wrestling Revolution is proud to bring you our fresh Pilot Episode of our brand new web series, Uprising.

Uprising will feature NWA Sanctioned matches from Pro Wrestling Revolution shows held throughout California and beyond. Catch your favorite Luche Libre superstars from Mexico in exclusive matches only found here on Uprising.

Learn about the rivalries, histories and legends of the NWA and find out first about upcoming Pro Wrestling Revolution shows coming to your town.

Thank you for watching Uprising. Tell us what you think of the Pilot Episode as well as what matches and types of segments YOU would like to see on upcoming episodes. Make sure to visit out Uprising TV page on our site, that is where you will see all our new episodes.

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