Since I follow the Indy Scene and bring you fine readers interviews with Indy Wrestlers and Managers, and the occasional person that's wrestled in ECW, WCW or The WWF, we at The Ring Post thought I should bring you some Indy News from time to time. Today's news is about Mid-American Wrestling, The IWA Mid-South, and Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling. Dawn Marie, Simon Diamond, The Sandman, Spike Dudley, Ricky Morton and Tracy Smothers all get mentioned.

Mid American Wrestling is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and it is ran by Carmine DeSpirito, AKA The Hustler. Carmine founded MAW in 1993. The Mid American Wrestling Website is www.midamericanwrestling.com To subscribe to the MAW Newsletter, send an e-mail to
midamerican-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

MAW NEWS FOR 02/24/01
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by Stacy McMackin, Moderator

--WEB SITE ADDITIONS!!
--MORE MATCHES ADDED TO KENOSHA SHOW!!
--HARDCORE CUP TO TAKE PLACE DURING APRIL!!

Mid American Wrestling has added several new features to its website, at www.angelfire.com/wi/maw/ or the Namezero redirect of www.midamericanwrestling.com during the past week.

Added to the site is both a Chat Room and a Message Board feature (courtesy of Boardhost.Com), which makes the site more internet geek friendly! We will also continue to post extensive photo galleries from each show courtesy of photographer J. McKee.

American Online users, listen up! We've got our own folder on the AOL Grandstand for Mid American Wrestling. Let's see some activity, people! If you're on AOL right now, you can go to the direct link, which is Mid American Wrestling News & Info, or
you can simply go to Keyword: GS Wrestling, and then go to the Indy
Promotions section of the message board area.

The MAW message board on the web (available on all ISP's) is located at

http://members3.boardhost.com/Mid_American/

The next live event for MAW will take place on Sunday afternoon, March 4th at The Brat Stop (Highway 50 & I-94) in Kenosha, WI. It is the "Blood & Ice Bash." Bell time is 3pm, and tickets are $20 Golden Ringside, and $12 General Admission.

Here's what's on tap for the Brat Stop show...

M A I N E V E N T
*****Triangle of Pain/Heavyweight Title Match*****
---Broken Glass, Barbed Wire Bat, and a Bed of Nails---
[MAW Heavyweight Champion] HARDCORE CRAIG --VS.-- IAN ROTTEN --VS.-- CORPORAL ROBINSON

*****Submission Only*****
ADRIAN SERRANO --VS.-- GEORGE W. GABLE

*****Three Way Dance*****
CHUCKIE SMOOTH --VS.-- MATT LONGTIME --VS.-- JOE FUROR

DINO BAMBINO --VS.-- CM PUNK

DANNY DOMINION --VS.-- "Classic" COLT CABANA

REVEREND AXL FUTURE --VS.-- "Dysfunction" KURT KRUEGER

Bell time is 3pm! Everyone make the trip to Kenosha!!

That said, Mid American Wrestling will be holding its third annual "Hardcore Cup" single elimination death match tournament over the course of two days (dates and location to be announced in the coming weeks) during the month of April.

This year, the Cup will consist of SIXTEEN WRESTLERS (1999's tournament featured four, 2000's featured eight). Naturally, MAW will have the opportunity to bring in a variety of hardcore style wrestlers from around the country to participate in this event. Who would you like to see be a part of this year's Hardcore Cup?

Post your thoughts on our AOL and Boardhost message boards!

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR
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(All dates and locations are tentative)

3/4 Kenosha, WI @ The Brat Stop (Highway 50 & I-94) 3:00pm "Blood & Ice Bash"
April 2001 @ TBA "Hardcore Cup 2001" Two night sixteen man tournament!

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Call the Mid American Wrestling Hotline!
(414) 777-3941
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Visit the OFFICIAL Mid American Wrestling Web Site!
http://www.midamericanwrestling.com/
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Visit the OFFICIAL MAW Folder on America Online!
aol://5863:126/mB:471162
or go to Keyword: GS Wrestling (Indy Promotions section)
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Post on the MAW Boardhost Message Board!
http://members3.boardhost.com/Mid_American/
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Visit the Web Sites of the MAW stars!

HARDCORE CRAIG

DINO BAMBINO

CHUCKIE SMOOTH

C.M. PUNK

"Scrap Iron" ADAM PEARCE

"X-Rated" JASON KRONAN

DAVE PRAZAK

CHRIS HERO

"Classic" COLT CABANA

LADY VICTORIA

MAW @ DAN CURTIS MEMORIAL SHOW

The IWA Mid-South is a promotion based out of Louisville, Kentucky and
its ran by Ian Rotten. Their website is at www.iwamidsouth.com
To subscribe to their newsletter, send an e-mail to
iwamidsouth-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

IWA Mid-South Results, February 21, 2001

Harry Palmer def. Todd Morton w/ Mark Wolf as special referee when Mark decked Todd with a chain. RICKY MORTON of the Rock N Roll Express then came out and helped his little cousin Todd leave both
Mark and Harry laying until Suicide Kid made the save.

Ricky Morton def. Suicide Kid when Tracy Smothers distracted the ref after Suicide hit the Suicide Solution and Todd Morton came out and hit his finisher on Kid and pulled Ricky on top for the pin.

Paul E Smooth came out and called out Spike Dudley. This brought out 411 who chokeslammed Spike. Tracy came out to immediately start the match. Tracy Smothers wins when Mean Mitch Page came out and powerbombed Spike.

Blaze retained the heavyweight title over Rollin Hard with a small package after Rollin was thumbed in the eyes and hit Brent Blades with the samoan drop. He covered Brent thinking it was Blaze and Blaze made the three count. After Brent recovered, Blaze did the small package for the pinfall.

Cash Flo def. BJ Whitmer in a pinfalls count anywhere match. Ian stepped out of the match due to his sore shoulder. Since it was about who was a better trainer, Ian put his first graduated student in the
matchup in Cash Flo. Cash won with the Oh Shit legdrop.

Too Tuff Tony def. Mean Mitch Page. Tony stapled a bag of doritos to Mitch's head during the matchup. The end came when Spike Dudley came out and hit the acid drop on Mitch allowing Tony to get the pinfall. Thus adding Mean Mitch Page vs Spike Dudley to the 3/3 show.

IWA Mid-South is proud to announce a meet with greet with the IWA wrestlers and ECW superstars on March the 3rd. Sandman, Spike Dudley, Simon Diamond and Dawn Marie are the ECW superstars that will be in attendance as well as Ian Rotten, Harry "The Babe Magnet" Palmer and several other IWA wrestlers.

Fan Clubs members get in free and get to bring one guest with them.

If you have a ticket to the show that night you get in for $5 if you are not a fan club member.

The price is $12 if you do not have a ticket to the show nor are a fan club member.

The meet and greet will be at the Creator's House of Hardcore before the show that night. I will post the exact time tomorrow night but I think Ian said it would be from 3-5 pm.

Make your reservations on the hotline at 502-569-1701

I (Tony D.) e-mailed Simon Diamond on February 22nd and I asked him if he'd be wrestling on the IWA Mid-South show since the newsletter only said that he, Dawn and The Sandman would be at the Meet and Greet. Simon e-mailed me back on February 23rd and he said he would be wrestling at the show.

Chuckie (Chuck E. Smooth) Smooth wrestles in MAW as Chuckie Smooth, but he wrestles in IWA Mid-South as Paul E. Smooth. I have videotape of Harry Palmer from when he wrestled in MAW in 1998, and he was announced as being from "Your girlfriend's bedroom about an hour ago" which is one of the best hometowns that I've ever heard of.

ECCW is short for Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling. They are based in British Columbia. Their website is www.eccw.com and you can subscribe to their newsletter by sending an e-mail to subscribe@eccw.com

NWA ECCW Upcoming shows.
Thursday, February 22 - Chilliwack, BC - Skway First Nation Hall - 8pm
Friday, February 23 - Surrey, BC - Bridgeview Hall - 8pm w/ Christopher Daniels
Saturday, February 24 - Olympia, WA - Olympia Armory - 7:30pm w/ Christopher Daniels

Sunday, February 25 - Surrey, WA - Silvercity Guildford - 2pm
Friday, March 2 - Vernon, BC - Rec Centre - 8pm
Saturday, March 3 - Kelowna, BC - Elks Hall - 8pm

Sunday, March 4 - Langley, BC - House of Pain - 3pm
Sunday, March 4 - Oliver, BC - Community Hall - 7pm

I will have an interview posted shortly here at The Ring Post with "Tasty" Travis Lee. I am also about finished with an overhaul of my website, www.cpol.net/tonyd/ and I'll be done with that soon as well. There will be about 225 pages on my site altogether once I'm finished, which should be tomorrow for sure.