World Wrestling Entertainment
Another year starts and the WWE is pushing its luck with the censors once again. On the first WWE broadcast of the year (Smackdown, 01.02.03) Dawn Marie "got married" to Al Wilson (Tori Wilson's father), while both were only wearing underwear. Although this love and sex storyline is stupid, no can deny that Dawn Marie only wearing underwear is good for ratings. I only have one complaint and most people would agree with me. We didn't have to see Al Wilson (if that is his real name) only wearing underwear. On Smackdown of 01.09.03, Al Wilson allegedly died of a heart attack. On Smackdown of 01.16.03, Al Wilson has his open casket wake. If this is another WWE storyline, it is sick, plain and simple.

I am fed up with Kurt Angle and his goons, Team Angle. He will face Chris Benoit on the Royal Rumble PPV. I hope Benoit beats Angle and finally gets the world title (at least one of them).

With the purchase of WCW, WWE changed part of the WCW history. WWE recognizes Benoit as a former WCW heavyweight champion. WCW at the time made excuses not to hand Benoit the title. Benoit left WCW for that reason.

Originally four wrestlers left WCW at the same time for the WWF (now WWE). They were Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn and Eddy Guerrero. Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero are still in WWE. Where is Malenko? At least, there are news about Saturn. Sources indicate that Perry Saturn was released from WWE and is now in New Japan Pro Wrestling.

Why doesn't Paul "Big Show" Wight doesn't fight Angle for the title and put their alliance aside? If the Big Show wins the tile, he could fight Nash. All this fantasy is for nothing. Nash is hurt or taking a break, but it would be a cool comeback.

Speaking of cool returns, where are Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sting, Lex Luger, the rest of the wrestlers that made WCW cool who were not picked by the WWE? Some are in Total Non-Stop Action like Konnan.

RAW started the year (01.06.03) in a low, low key. The Dudleys were beat by 3 Minute Warning, Ric Flair, Batista, Eric Bishoff, Sean Morley, Regal and Storm. Do we need Bischoff to show off his so-called power. What in the hell was Vince McMahon thinking? At least, RAW finished with a phone call indicating that Vince McMahon was returning to RAW the following Monday (01.13.03).

The first Smackdown of 2003 had footage of Dawn Marie and Al Wilson's alleged honeymoon. By the end of the show, Al had suffered a heart attack.

The highlight of Samckdown (01.09.03) was a fight between Brock Lesner and Albert (now A-Train). Lesner finally Lesner had a real fight.

WWE celebrates 10 years of RAW (01.14.03). That means live action on Monday with Vince McMahon (01.13.02), live celebration on Tuesday and taped footage for Smackdown (01.06.03). Maybe the excitement of the celebration and the return of Vince McMahon have brought some new wind to a worldwide promotion that is showing its age and getting boring again.

Eric Bischoff has brought as much new wind as Shane McMahon's alleged purchase of WCW or the Alliance (WCW and ECW) against WWF gimmick about a year ago. We (as fans) need another promotion besides WWE (how about NWA-TNA?). The WWE needs competition to drop all stupid gimmicks and be the same promotion that dared to invite ECW to RAW and that survived the Monday night war.

On RAW (01.13.02) Vince McMahon put Eric Bischoff in his place. McMahon threatened to fire Bischoff if he didn't "turn around" RAW within 30 days.

Right now there are so many talented wrestlers in the WWE that some of them can't shine as they did in WCW or ECW. For example, Mike Awesome was the world champion in ECW. He went to WCW around the time that Time Warner put the promotion for sale. He was in the WWF for a couple of months. He won the WWF Hardcore tile and disappeared right after the Alliance gimmick was dropped.

On the Tenth Anniversary of RAW, Cold was declared the wrestler of the decade. He was also part of the favorite moment of RAW (when he drove a beer to the ring). There seems to be a lot of bad blood still between the WWE and Stone Cold. Steve Austin didn't come out to get his award. Instead Vince McMahon came out and emphasized that Stone Cold was not invited to the award presentation. Right after this charade, Triple H and Flair left the ceremony upset (as if they wanted to see Austin). Let's just hope Stone Cold returns to the promotion.

Speaking of bad blood, Trish Stratus was chosen the favorite female. The WWE might have been "played" with the numbers, so the other female wrestlers would get this recognition.

Smackdown (01.16.03) had an ECW flashback. Tajiri and Muzio (Little Guido in ECW) had a classic ECW-style fight, fast and aggressive, but short). Munzio won the fight thanks to the interference.

At the Royal Rumble (01.19.03), the Dudleys won the tag team titles for the 16th time, from Steven Regal and Lance Storm. The next night Sean Morley made this whole stupid charade to have Regal and Storm steal the title again. What in the hell is Morley doing in the WWE?

Brock Lesner won the Royal Rumble (01.19.03). He will face Angle and hopefully beat the crap out off him. Angle is still the Smackdown champion after a brutal fight with Benoit.

Just as some wrestling websites had predicted, Bischoff is trying to get Austin back to the WWE. He invited Austin to return on the next PPV, No Way Out.

As of 01.22.03 Raven and Justin Credible (real name: Peter Polaco) have been released from the WWE. Raven has gone to NWA-TNA. Just like the good old days of the WWF and WCW wars, wrestlers are jumping back and forth form promotion to promotion.

WWE has signed Hulk Hogan again. Stephanie McMahon welcomed back Hogan (aired 01.24.03). To add more excitement to Hogan's return, Vince McMahon interrupted Hogan's comeback insulting him. Hogan asked McMahon to face him at No Way Out. How boring and silly is wrestling getting? WWE, the biggest promotion in the world nowadays, needs a wrestler that was big in the 1980's but rather lame in the 1990's (in WCW). It could be worse but at least Hulk Hogan is still exciting to see (welcome back Hulkster). If the WWE wants to bring back the ratings, they should get Bret Hart to come back at least for one more fight or at least for commentary.
 

Total Non-Stop Action
The following (this paragraph only) was sent by the guys from PWE (Ontario, Canada). NWA-TNA gets a TV deal. NWA-TNA has apparently reached a great overseas deal for television. The deal is with "Star World" and it is rumored to include broadcast rights for Israel, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Middle East, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The shows will start airing on 01.17.03, sequentially, starting from the first shows in June. They will be broken up into one-hour shows, so the first hour of the two-hour PPV would air on Fridays both from 2 to 3 PM and again from 7:30-8:30 PM, and the second hour would air on Sundays at 2 PM and 7:30 PM Considering North America is starving for an alternative and is apparently willing to pay for it (heck, just look at the gate that UFC 40 pulled in), a free outlet for TNA would have great odds of paying immediate dividends for NWA-TNA.

The previous news are very good for wrestling fans outside the US. Unfortunately those of us who live in the US still have to pay $9.95 for each PPV (every Wednesday).

NWA-TNA had another PPV (01.08.03), which I missed. The Road Warriors, Hennig and Jarrett were at the Asylum (the venue where NWA-TNA broadcast from). I wish the NWA-TNA gets a TV deal fast. I'm missing a lot of good wrestling.

Raven is now part of NWA-TNA. He was released from the WWE on 01.22.03 and the same day he decided to crash Jarrett's celebration (keeping the NWA-TNA world heavyweight title).
 

Pro-Wrestling Extreme
The following newsletter dedicated to all things related to Ontario's Hottest Wrestling Company, Pro-Wrestling Extreme, was sent by Chris Clarke, 01.05.03.

The Holiday Season has been a busy planning session for the PWE. 2003 is shaping up to be a great year for us. A lot of information has already been announced about our upcoming shows. Please make sure to look over all the sections below, as there is something for every taste. Hope to see you out at the shows in 2003, they are already shaping up to be the best ones ever!

Everyone out there knows that unlike most of the Promoters in this great Province of ours, I have never been afraid to send out kudos to other area promotions. This is reality folks, and what the majority of the marks out there don't understand is that storylines are for shows. Anyhow, I wanted to focus first of all this week on the PWE debuts of a few guys who came in from the Niagara region from the former Fighting Spirit Pro-Wrestling. At the time, 3 of the brightest young stars of the FSPW were Knoxx and Kincaid of Body Count, along with Los Jalapenos. With our regular monthly shows at Brock, it made sense to bring these guys in as it was close to home for them. Besides this, my regular communications with referee Matt Young had sparked my interest in these guys long before, so when the time was right we booked them. And I am happy we did.

Body Count are guys who have worked hard at their persona's and they are easy to work with. Their matches with Xzibit and Kronus have been solid, and in 2003 we are very interested in seeing Knoxx and Kincaid on many more PWE events not just in the Niagara area, but across the Province as well.

Los Jalapenos is another product of the former FSPW (which is now defunct, with several FSPW people now operating under the NEO Spirit banner) who has come in and worked hard and has impressed the office. An easy going guy who is able to adapt to whatever is presented to him, Jalapeno always seems to have his own section chanting endlessly in Spanish during his matches. All in all, Body Count and Los Jalapenos have been welcome additions to our roster.

With people coming in, you always seem to have people going out as well and in the latter part of 2002 we saw our greatest staple of all retire from the wrestling business. C-Note, who won our Fans Choice Manager of the Year award in both 2000 and 2001, was the glue that held things together at times and will be sorely missed.

From our first event in June of 2000 when it was his jobeat to get some very extremely green guys over with the crowd, he did his jobeat and then some. We put together the BayStreet Posse, which was originally comprised of DJ Money and Solid Shawn Gold, and would soon include Damien Truth and later, TSE. C-Note learned how to draw heat from the crowd, and on many occasions would cause near riots as his classic exchanges with the front row would often have fans ready to attack him. That is what being a true heel manager is all about. After running an angle where C-Note lost everything he had and we brought him back as a janitor, he played that off perfectly, then as a disgusted and reluctant announcer before coming in to 2002 with The Xzibit, Jason Kronus - then adding Candi, Colin Douglas and Ricky Stardust to the mix. C-Note's departure will definitely leave a gap in the roster, and only time will tell if he gets the 'bug' and shows up someday, somewhere.

C-Note was also the guy who I credit with introducing the PWE to its greatest fan faction, the MIO (Men In Orange). The MIO are a bunch of drunken, obnoxious, but really very cool guys and gals from McMaster University in Hamilton. The MIO has supported the PWE and traveled with us around the Province, and we have mentioned them numerous times that we had nights where without them we wouldn't have had much of a crowd at all. I can remember Oakville Ontario, when the venue screwed up the advertisements and we ended up with maybe 65 to 70 fans, that one section on the hard camera side was MIO. They made it looked packed and they made enough noise for a packed house. Even when the houses are big or bigger, they stand out and we appreciate these guys and gals who have made doing shows fun. They know how to have a good time, and we are honored that they quite often choose our events to have fun at. Announcer Al Case, wrestler-trainee Axl Row and valet Candi are all MIO people.

2002 also saw PWE Academy trainee referee Dave Dread win an Ontario Fan Poll as 2002 Referee of the Year. Dave has worked with several different federations now and continues to get better every time out as he reaches for the goal of one day refereeing in the WWE. Huegobos made his return as a live commentator and seems to have lost nothing of the sharp tongue that has endeared him to fans and those who need to get over.

And in the midst of it all, I look back at all those who have moved on. Some I am ecstatic over their leaving, some I don't care others, for whatever reason, I really do miss, but that's the business right?

Lord knows what 2003 will bring. (Chris Drury, 12.30.02)
On 01.12.02, PWE's first show of the year at the Appleby Mall in Burlington Ontario. Marks the professional wrestling debuts of Bobby Thunder, (as Avenger 6.6) Jason Kronus and The Brown Hornet. Also marks the Ontario wrestling return of l'Artiste who is now known as Phil Latio, as well as the PWE debuts of Bobby Rude and The Xzibit.

On 01.19.02, Flesh Gordon interferes in a match between The Mongol and Ricky Stardust and destroys both before Notorious T.I.D. announces Fabian stokes has officially left a promotion in Toronto and will battle Flesh later in the card. PWE Cruiserweight Champion 'Sexy Baby' Jamie Jackson defeats 'Bloody' Bill Skullion for the PWE Heavyweight Title making him the first ever dual title holder in PWE. C-Note announces a Battle Royal that is won by rookie Jason Kronus, who receives C-Notes services for the year as a result of the win.

02.15.02, Marks the PWE debut of Dirty Sanchez, (formerly El Fuego) who blows out his knee and is eventually beaten by Original Sinn. Also marks the first ever match together as a team for Xzibit and Kronus - who defeat Stardust and Mikey Madrox.

03.16.02, on a show that received worldwide thumbs up reviews, Notorious T.I.D. defeats 'Sexy Baby' Jamie Jackson for the PWE Title. 'Bloody' Bill Skullion and Phil Latio put on one of the best matches in PWE history as after the match the several hundred in attendance chant "Respect, Respect" as a bloodied and beaten Phil Latio made his way from the ring area.

04.05.02, Badd Boy Batty Batt makes his PWE debut, as does Gorilla Jones who comes down and knocks out Stardust and Batty during their match. Rawhide makes his PWE debut, and Custom Made Man defeats Jamie Jackson for the Canadian Cruiserweight Title.

05.04.02, Colin Douglas officially comes out of retirement and returns to action, first leading the crowd in a tribute and ten bell salute to the recently departed Lou Thesz, then defeating TJ Harley as part of the "King of the Lethal Lottery" tournament. The Mongol also suffers severe burns when he is hit in the face with a fireball thrown by Bill Skullion, who then knocks out Badd Boy Batty Batt with several chair shots. Jamie Jackson also regains the cruiserweight title from Custom Made Man.

05.25.02, former PWE champion Mike Vantastic returns to the ring and defeats Promoter Chris Drury in a match that left Drury requiring 7 stitches. Notorious T.I.D. defends the PWE Title against Xzibit, marking his third successful title defence.

07.06.02, PWE features its first ever ladder match as Custom Made Man and Jamie Jackson battle for the cruiserweight Title. Custom defeats Jamie in an excellent match. In a PWE Tag Team Title Tournament match, Marco Malaquias, due to Jason Breeze being unable to a last minute work assignment, defeats Xzibit and Kronus alone to advance in the tournament.

07.13.02, Phil Latio wins a Toronto Tornado match against Otto Bahn, Custom Made Man and Marco Malaquias to become new Cruiserweight Champion. Rawhide and The Brown Hornet team up to face Bobby Thunder and Colin Douglas, and rookie Jason Kronus bodyslams JC Owens to defeat him in a 'bodyslam challenge' match.

07.27.02, "Bloody" Bill Skullion and Mike VanTastic take part in the first ever "Russian Roullette" staple gun match. Bill attacks VanTastic with the loaded gun and staples his picture into VanTastics forehead with one of the staples embedding in VanTastics skull and requiring emergency hospital treatment to remove. T.I.D. defends the PWE Title against Xzibit again, and the tow have a great match that Tid is able to gain the upper hand in and win.

08.10.02, Billy Boogie makes his PWE debut. US Champion 'Nitestic' Eddie Brown and Delicious Dino take part in a three-way match with Colin Douglas for the US Title. With assistance from C-Note, Douglas wins the title by pinning Dino. Marco Malaquias, again without Jason Breeze, gets set to face JC Owens and Mikey Madrox for the final match in the PWE Tag Title tournament. Marco faces forfeiture, when Gorilla Jones comes down and teams up with Marco to defeat Madrox and Owens to become first ever PWE Tag Champs. Also, Custom and Jamie take part in the first ever PWE Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. The match is thrown out after outside interference from the Consortium.

09.06.02, Pimp Dady Flexx, Lazz, Los Jalapenos and Body Count all make their PWE debuts. ECW Queen of Extreme Francine makes her PWE debut as special guest referee as Notorious T.I.D. defeats JC Owens, Custom Made Man and Jamie Jackson in a four-way for the PWE Title.

09.25.02, C-Note forces the Championship Committee to strip Marco Malaquias and Gorilla Jones of the PWE titles due to "non-defence" rules. He (C-Note) then forces the Committee to allow the Consortium to take the PWE Titles to North Carolina to defend against the Danger Zone Wrestling Tag Champions to unify the belts. Xzibit and Kronus lose to 'Nitestic' Eddie Brown and DJ P-Rokk, therefore losing the PWE Tag Titles without actually first winning them on 09.27.02 in Carthage, North Carolina.

09.26 and 09.27.02, Colin Douglas loses the US Title to Ali Steele on September 26th, and defeats Steele to regain the Title the very next night in Carthage North Carolina.

10.04.02, Ash and Chris Chambers make their first ever PWE match appearances. The Original Sinn returns to the PWE ranks and defeats The Brown Hornet.

10.06.02, The Brown Hornet defeats the 400-plus-pound JC Owens, and Season of the Sick are declared winners of a Tag Team Tables match against Xzibit and Kronus.

10.30.02, After leading Colin Douglas, and Xzibit and Kronus, to PWE Title reigns and after being voted Manager of the Year in both 2000 and 2001, original PWE performer C-Note retires from wrestling.

10.31.02, Marco Malaquias teams up with Otto Bahn to defeat Season of the Sick in a Barbed Wire Tables match, and Phil Latio defends the PWE Cruiserweight Title against Jamie Jackson in a match that those in attendance claim may be "the greatest (they have) ever witnessed live".

11.22.02, Three titles change hands as Custom Made Man defeats Colin Douglas for the US Title, Brown Hornet defeats cruiserweight champion Phil Latio and returning former cruiserweight champion Kidd Krazzy to become new Canadian Cruiserweight Champion, and Xzibit and Kronus defeat 'Nitestic' Eddie Brown and DJ P-Rokk to become PWE Tag Champs. The 6'3", 350-pound monster Michael makes his PWE debut and after being disqualified in a handicap match against Season of The Sick and interferes in Notorious T.I.D.'s title match against Marco Malaquias leading to a dressing room clearing brawl.
 

Border City Wrestling
The following was sent by Border City Wrestling.

On New Year's Revolution (01.15.03 at the The Ciociaro Club in Oldcastle, Ontario, Canada), Matrox wrestled Kris Chambers to a NC when Dyson Pryce ran in and destroyed both men.

The Hacker and Gutter beat Podz and Alex Shelley (01.15.03).

Tracy Brooks against Jaime D turned into a three-way dance when Angel ran in. Tracy picked up the pinfall victory (01.15.03).

The tag team champions Tyson Dux and El Tornado beat Ruffy Silverstein and Trent Steele (01.15.03).

Showtime Eric Young, "Dangerboy" Derek Wylde, Larry Destiny, El Tornado and Tyson Dux defeated A-1, Mike Legacy, Petey Williams, El Fuego and John E. Bravo in a huge ten-man tag match (01.15.03).

Franco Demarco wrestled Kyle Rice to a no-contest when Dyson Pryce again destroyed both men. Sabu ran out to combat Pryce (01.15.03).

Sabu pinned Dyson Pryce following the Arabian Facebuster (01.15.03).

In the main event, Johnny Swinger retained the Border City Wrestling heavyweight title over Gangrel and "The Future" Chris Sabin. The Brooklyn Brawler surprised everyone afterwards, when he came out and defeated Swinger for his prestigious belt (01.15.03).

On Thursday, 01.16.03 at Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Showtime Eric Young beat Bobby Roode via pinfall.

Petey Williams and Mike Legacy defeated Ash and Kris Chambers (01.16.03).

Angel pinned Tracy Brooks after interference from Jaime D (01.16.03).

King Kong Bundy beat Dyson Pryce (01.16.03).

Dangerboy Derek Wylde pinned "The Future" Chris Sabin (01.16.03).

The Hacker and Gutter became the new tag team champions in a three-way dance over Ruffy Silverstein and Trent Steele, and then-champions El Tornado and Tyson Dux (01.16.03).

The BCW heavyweight champion Johnny Swinger pinned Gangrel (01.16.03).

Hacksaw Jim Duggan and El Fuego beat Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart and A-1 (01.16.03).

Border City Wrestling is celebrating its 10 year anniversary and we have come a long way since March of 1993. From small shows at LaSalle Arena to standing-room-only sellouts at the Windsor riverfront, BCW has constantly strived to bring you the best wrestling action for your buck.

Over the next year, we will be bringing back some of your all-time favorite superstars that have competed in Border City Wrestling in the past ten years. Last month, we brought back the BCW TV Champion, the Brooklyn Brawler and this month is no different.

Border City Wrestling is proud to announce, the return of arguably the most popular BCW Heavyweight Champion ever. Current WWE Superstar, The Innovator of Violence, Tommy Dreamer returns to the Ciociaro Club for March Break Down. It was two years ago, less one day, that Dreamer debuted in BCW and defeated Scott D'Amore and Rhyno for the BCW championship. The surprise appearance and eventual victory is a memory still fresh in hardcore BCW fans' minds and we hope to relive that moment on 03.06.03.

Also returning to Border City Wrestling, is Joe E. Legend, who since leaving the WWE has competed all over Europe and now returns to his roots here in BCW. He is bigger, stronger and more skilled than he was when he left and we are happy to have him as a part of our regular roster.

The following are the results of the 01.17.03, 8:00 PM BCW event at the Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Showtime Eric Young defeated "The Future" Chris Sabin (01.17.03).

Tim Jim Jimbob and Christian Pitt beat Axle Williams and Castor MacPhear (01.17.03).

Dave Daulton with Miss Courteney beat Michael Von Payton (01.17.03).

King Kong Bundy pinned Ruffy Silverstein with Havoc (01.17.03).

The Hacker with Gutter wrestled El Tornado to a no-contest when Gutter interfered Tornado's partner Tyson Dux then came out, and the match became a tag team contest (01.17.03).

El Tornado and Tyson Dux defeated The Hacker and Gutter to win back the BCW Tag Team Titles (01.17.03).

The BCW heavyweight champion Johnny Swinger retained the title over Bobby Roode (01.17.03).

Hacksaw Jim Duggan beat Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart (01.17.03).
 

Carolina Wrestling Federation
The following was sent by the guys from PWE (Ontario, Canada). In Graham, NC 12.28.02, Sexton Tyler beat Stephen O'Hara, Southside Playas beat Kenny James and Xsiruis, Russian Assassins beat Chris Collins and Deacon, Kamikazi Kid beat Brad Attitude, Otto Schwanz won three-way over Dewey Cheatum and Pat Cusick, Bounty Hunter beat Malaki, Ric Converse beat Joey Silvia, Mikael Yamaha and Gemini Kid beat United Nations of Devastation, Corey Edsel beat Eddie Brown.
 

Combat Zone Wrestling
The following was sent by the guys from PWE (Ontario, Canada). In the most recent CZW show (no date given), GQ beat Hurricane Kid and Derrick Frazier, Nick Berk beat Nosawa in a submissions match, Adam Flash beat Z Barr, The Irish Drinking Team/Jon Dahmer beat Rebel and Greg Matthews, Johnny Kashmere, Ric Blade beat Jody Fleisch and Chri$ Ca$h, CZW/BJW Junior Heavyweight Champion Trent Acid beat Sonjay Dutt, CZW Champion The Messiah beat Justice Pain and Nick Gage. Next show on 01.18.03 at Corner ofsixty-first and Passyunk Ave in Southwest Philadelphia, PA.
 

Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling
Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling held another successful event on January 25, 2003 in Niagara Falls, ON. The event, named Evolution 2003, took place at the Polish Hall in front of a very vocal 453 fans. The results are as follows.

Custom Made Man defeated Johnny Adams via his Four Star Frog Splash after interference from manager Otto Bahn.

Lazzerus defeated Kris Chambers via Lazz Factor.

Primo Scordino and "Stickball" Tony Carbonie defeated Romeo Adams and "The Gnarly Hippy" Floyd Osbourne after Scordino threw powder into the eyes of Osbourne, leading to a pinfall.

TJ Harley defeated Shawn Spears via schoolboy pinfall after Tornado Mark Bartalucci distracted Spears on the ring apron.

Ruffly Perfect (Marco Malaquias and Ruffy Silverstein defeated Mucha Lucha (Los Jalapeno and "Suicide" Sean Ball) by disqualification after Commissioner Pee Wee Kastles overturned the decision by senior official Robb Myers.

The Hacker defeated Tornado Mark Bartalucci after TJ Harley distracted Referee Matt Young to allow The Hacker to use an "international object" to gain the pinfall.

"Showtime" Eric Young, "Completely" Cody Steele and JT Playa defeated "Textbook" Tyson Dux, "The King of PPV" Derek Wylde and "Fatboy" JC Owens via pinfall after "Showtime" Eric Young delivered a Superkick to the chin of Dux allowing him to get the pinfall.

The next Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling Event takes place on 03.01.03 at the Polish Hall in Niagara Falls. This event features a Ladder Match for the Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling Independent Championship featuring "The King of PPV" Derek Wylde defending the title against "Showtime" Eric Young.
 

Other: Mixed Martial Arts
The following was sent by PWE (Ontario, Canada). Perhaps this is also a sign of the times, as MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is becoming more popular by the month. Already, segments such as "The Tale of the Tape" have been appearing on WWE television programming, along with an emphasis on submission wrestling. It will be an interesting year, as perhaps a new type of "wrestling war" has started.