THE RISING

NEO SPIRIT PRO WRESTLING RETURNS TO NIAGARA FALLS.

By SAM CINO

Staff Writer

Like the phoenix, a Niagara Falls based wrestling company will rise from its ashes and return to entertaining the town on Feb 19.

Neo Spirit Pro Wrestling (NSPW) closed its doors in 2006 due to financial problems, but the company’s owner, Jesse Scott, is optimistic for the big return show.

“I was young. I was at a weird spot in my life. The shows got away from me and I didn’t know how to run a business, but I have learned from my mistakes,” he says.

Scott, who wrestles as “The King of the Bling” Tiberious King, has been preparing for the show since late December and has had his venue and roster secured since then, including some old fan favourites.

“I want to make wrestling cool again. I want the fans to come in, pay for that ticket, and leave with a “wow” factor for all the things they saw here.”

NSPW veteran Carmen Scordino, who wrestles as one-half of the tag team The Italianos as Primo Scordino with his tag-team partner Tony “Stickball” Carbonie, will be on the show and is excited for the new start.

“We were the best company then, and we will prove that we are the best again. We gave a lot of guys and girls their start here and we can do that again too.”

Jeremy Elliott, who uses the ring name Nick Vickers, is also scheduled to be on the show.

“I am most excited because I was here at the start years ago, but I took a break from wrestling to hone my karate skills. Since then I have won two world championships in karate, and I am excited to come back to wrestling to show people what I have.”

NSPW’s show is titled The Rising and will be hosted at The NSPW dojo inside Fight Club Canada in Niagara Falls, Ont.

Tickets are $20 for reserved front row, $10 general admission and can be purchased in advance. Tickets are then $15 at the door.

Main ticket locations are Pulp Comics on 4413 Queen St. in Niagara Falls, as well as United Family Martial Arts on 6824 Thorold Stone Rd.

The ticket hotline number is 289-668-3250

Scheduled matches are: Nick Vickers versus Scotty Turner, Ashley Sixx versus Sebastian Suave, Michael Elgin versus Andrew Davis, and The Italianos versus Jake O’Reilly and Anthony Darko (The Piss Beaters). In tournament action fans will see Dangerboy Derek Wylde versus Pepper Parks and Cody Deaner versus Tiberious King. The winners of those two matches will then wrestle again later that night to decide the tournament winner.

NSPWs The Rising will be located at Fight Club Canada at 4536 Portage Rd Unit 2 in Niagara Falls on Feb. 19.

Doors open at 6:30 with matches starting at 7:30.

Card subject to change.

Fight Club

Welcome to Fight Club. 

Rules:

First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club.
Second rule of Fight Club: You DO NOT talk about Fight Club.
Third rule of Fight Club: If someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over.
Fourth rule: Only two guys to a fight.
Fifth rule: One fight at a time.
Sixth rule: The fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons.
Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to.
Eighth and final rule: If this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

WTF Women!? Part Deux

Quotes from my friend, who put it better than I ever could:

"We do ANYTHING for them. We do fucking ANYTHING just to see them and hang out with them, and they still push us away at every opportunity."


"They don't get it. We don't want to play games. Aren't there any women that just want to hang out and have a good time? This cat and mouse shit is stupid."


Amen brother. Amen.

Another has said this:

We're a generation of men raised by women. Im wondering if another woman is really the answer
- Tyler Durden

Also a valid point. Which brings us to the following -


Some men just want to use you.
Some men just want "dat ass" and to "wreck your shit".

There are a few of us who are not "some men".
We are better than they are - and ever will be.

We want to comfort you for the lows and laugh with you at the highs.
We want to hold you in our arms for as long as we can.
We're just as shy as you are on the surface. Don't judge a book by its cover.
 

Why "Right After Wrestling" is terrible.

Disclaimer: I have not met these people in real life. Im sure they're all nice folks. This is simply what is wrong with their show.

This has been building for a few weeks now but I cant stand it anymore.

Hosts: Arda Ocal, Mauro Ranallo, Renee Paquette.

Arda: co-owns max pro wrestling. As a result he knows certain things and phrases which HE SHOULD KEEP OFF TV.

Mauro: The swirling cesspool of negativity. Rarely has anything nice to say about anything on WWE. Mentions he is from BC a lot.

Renee: Goldust mark. Otherwise fine.

Lets start from the top:
DONT HAVE A CONVERSATION OF INSIDE JOKES ON TV. 
WE DO NOT CARE. 
DISCUSS WRESTLING. 
YOU ARE ON A WRESTLING SHOW.


And then there is "Shine and Heat."
BZZT. WRONG. PUMP THE BRAKES.
Why are you using this lingo on television?
For those who dont read the dirt sheets they're probably confused as to what it is until you actually EXPLAIN it to them.
Keep it simple stupid! Just say PROs and CONs. It's that much easier.

Fujiwara armbar: Michael Cole disregarded the move name. Michael Cole is also a giant flaming douche.
I agree with the hosts - use the proper names.

Today they nitpicked (spent the most time on in my opinion) the Kelly Kelly/Drew McIntyre angle and why it is 'bad' because the two of them cant act.
They're using Kelly BECAUSE SHE IS A GORGEOUS GIRL that all the teens are probably pining over.
McIntyre is playing the crazy bully guy because he's (finally) earned a push in someone's eyes.

Being a PG13 product, WWE has a stand against bullying (ive seen it advertised somewhere).
Therefore, McIntyre does not get the pretty girl because he is a bully to Trent Baretta. This shows the kiddies that bullying doesnt get you friends.

Baretta is playing the role of the average guy who keeps to himself (because we never saw him on television until he started getting bullied)
IT'S THAT SIMPLE.

Mauro says: McIntyre and Kelly cant act.
NEWS FLASH: PG13 demographic doesnt care for acting ability on wrestling.

Mauro says: I dont like Baretta getting the 'slip on banana' win.
This can be showing that anyone can stop bullies dude.

Mauro says: It's rehash after rehash after rehash.
This is fresh material to the new (young) viewers that just started watching.

Carrying on...

Arda says: I didnt like the Teddy Long angle.
This is clearly setting up to include the "Corre" (which is a terrible name. Ill agree with you here.) as villains on Smackdown. Why else would they blatantly say "Hey we didnt do it."
Guilty Conscience? (Or they're going to be good guys after the rest of the story is revealed. Yeah right.)

Yes it cut into the R-Truth/Del Rio match. Bad move on WWE.

Renee says:
I forgot what Renee mentioned. Must not have been important.

Look-a-likes:
Save this tripe for the end of the show (last 30 seconds to 1 minute) and have ONE OR TWO GOOD ones that make sense.
We dont care who people think YOU look like. This is a WRESTLING show.

Thats all I have for right now. Maybe if I actually watch next week ill take notes.

In closing:
WWE isnt for what YOU (as in the smark fans) want to see anymore.
It is what is going to sell the most merchandise and hold the younger generations attention.
Ever notice how camera shots of fan reactions have children in them the majority of the time?
Wait until those kids grow up to where we are now and you might "find wrestling good" again.

also: Keep Jimmy Korderas on. He is fine.
Book Gordo Laidlaw as special guest.

Battle Brothers

There are so few of us left.

The first founding of our battle brothers, belongs to The White Knight and Myself. We added the Asian expert and the Military Veteran. A few others followed in their wake, but none stayed long.

The White Knight went west to do his own thing.
The expert moved away for a time.
The veteran has new past times.
I was alone, until I found Bravo Company.

Commanding officer Arbuthnot, seconded by Brother-Sergeant MacLellan. They led fine soldiers.
We brought war and death to our enemies and we slew them by the dozens.
I recall vividly:
Arbuthnot, providing overwatch of our allies. Brother-Sergeant MacLellan, mowing down the hordes with his belt-fed beauty. Its wretched sound; our music.

Arbuthnot was wounded while assisting our allies.
MacLellan fell after his instrument of death broke at a critical time.
We were pinned behind a transport craft. One of the enemy rounded the corner.
I turned his face to molten gore.

I too, fell.

And just as quickly as we fell, we were brought back anew.
We had lost that battle but had won the war.

I remember the time MacLellan and I infiltrated behind our cursed enemy and slew 8 of them with our blades and bare hands in under 15 seconds.

It was a glorious victory.

Now, a new enemy arises.

This one is young
Too young to participate in such horrors. Spurned on by our enemies of old. Conversions from other walks of life who have been assimilated.

And now, us old and tired souls; us old dogs of war.


...we are going back for more.

WTF women?!

Ranting.

Females:
You tell us to be ourselves, but that doesn't seem to be enough for most.
We're "supposed to be rude", but then we get 'wow hes a jerk'.
We supposedly have to text first, we pay for everything (as we should.)
We ask for one sandwich and we get slapped.

Cmon!

Back on the wagon.

Dear self. Please focus.
Remember that you are here to kick ass.
You are Awesome.

PS: Stop with the beer. You never had any before Xmas break, dont start now.

Remember what makes you better than everyone else.

Frustration continued

More troubleshooting.
Asked 5 different people. All stumped.
Thanks to DarkAngel for figuring out what to do and what was what.
Basically he agrees that the power surge fried part of my sound card which recognizes drivers.
Time for a new computer.
Strange this is I can talk to/hear people on TeamSpeak, but no other sound will work.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot indeed.

Minecraft w/o sound is weird. Actually everything w/o sound is weird.

Also, Demon's Souls is THE MOST FRUSTRATING VIDEO GAME EVER MADE. You must be PERFECT in combat vs the demons or else you are FUCKED and die in 2 hits.
The game is full-retard. You never go full-retard man.

School begins Monday...................at 8:30am.

UGHH!

Most frustrating week of life - by far.

Here is the rundown of the following trainwreck of a week.

We're renovating the basement here at the Palace of Wisdom, which means all the crap had to come out and be put into different rooms.

That being said I connected my computer to our 60 inch TV and everything worked fine.

The next day my dad got the bright idea to flip all the circuit breakers REPEATEDLY to see what power went where for safety reasons (which is fine), except he didnt think that this would harm my computer system that has ALL MY STUFF ON IT (Thousands of photos ive taken, music, videos, homework, etc).
Not only did he flip breakers, he flipped them REPEATEDLY, as I said.

The constant on/off/on/off fried some stuff on my computer, mainly it would freeze when you pressed anything on the keyboard. I have now fixed that with a new USB keyboard (old one was a PS/2 connector).

Then I discovered my sound doesnt work. Fuck.
I thought the sound was just turned down, but it was more turned-blown-the-fuck-up-and-broken.
im posting this on said computer, as a dull bzzzzzzzzzt echoes from the speakers of the 60 inch TV.
Going to photoshop my new years photos to relieve this stress, but its gonna be reeeeeallly fucking boring without tunes.

- The Greatest man that ever lived.
PS: Give this a listen, because I cant!
I think it defines me as a person, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYrz-M2Zc8E