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    Let's talk FWA

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    4 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

    Watching the old FWA TV series and did Alex Shane ever cut a promo where he doesnt say "when the smoke has cleared and the dust has settled and its all said and done ..." That's some collection of clichés there. Love/want to kill myself how so many people in the early 2000s tried to be Brit-yanks.  "I've got balls the size of grapefruits, son."

    Why did the FWA keep bringing out the Dominator and not use him? Was that purely because he looked like a wrestler? He was on the Revival show and just stood there. Has to be because he was a gimmick. What happened to the Dominator anyway? Is he still around? He was like the fucking April Hunter of the UK. WOW Magazine used to put him all over its pages, yet never saw him work on big UK indies (not even All Star.)

    Still promoting EWW shows in Hastings.

    Let's talk FWA

    in UK Fan Forum

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    Just now, IANdrewDiceClay said:

    @elisarcabrera Where's Dino Scarlo these days? Also, what happened with him and Ross Gordon? Greg Lambert hinted that he threatened to have him wearing concrete shoes.

    Don’t know.

    And I have never heard that story before. Intrigued.

    Let's talk FWA

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    On 3/21/2019 at 10:04 AM, simonworden said:

    From skimming through the production values have not aged well which I don't want to be a knock on FWA as i'm sure if I went back to 2002/3 ROH it would be even worse. Shows how far things have come with better tech available and more promotions than ever using it to provide a top notch looking product. 

    Revival actually stood out watching it back as they made the venue look like a massive arena and had pretty good lighting and camera cuts, really professional looking product by the standards of the time. 

    Revival had 20k’s worth of production values. So it’s a no brainer. Of course these days it would be much cheaper.

    compare like for like and FWA had at least some production values compared to our a lot of our contemporaries who had none.

    Let's talk FWA

    in UK Fan Forum

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    On 3/21/2019 at 9:31 AM, BomberPat said:

    FWA Revival was my first "proper" BritWres show! I have no idea if it's aged well, but it was a good intro to wrestlers I only really "knew" from reading Powerslam at the time. 

    Keen to revisit that one when I get the chance.

    I did have the uncut raw footage of revival on tape. It was sadly lost in the storage fire where I lost a lot of stuff - including the Kingnof England medallion.

    Let's talk FWA

    in UK Fan Forum

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    On 3/21/2019 at 12:14 AM, DEF said:

    Probably British Uprising 1 in my book. To be fair that was my starting point unless you count WrestleXpress or Revival. (both not technically FWA) but it has some ace stuff like Jerry Lynn Vs Doug Williams, AJ Styles Vs Jonny Storm, Balls Mahoney Vs Ulf Herman and Jody Fliesch becoming a babyface legend. (in my mind at least)

    EDIT - Just had a butchers and Revival is up as well. Haven't seen that in years. Well worth watching first I'd say. A self contained story in so much as it's a tournament and of course Eddie Guerrero. Highly recommended.

    Wrestlexpress was Scott Conway promoted. Revival was creatively FWA as it was myself and Dino who wrote the show.

    Let's talk FWA

    in UK Fan Forum

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    On 3/19/2019 at 8:35 PM, IANdrewDiceClay said:

    Someone, maybe Elisar, has uploaded what seems to be the whole back catalog of the FWA to youtube this week. Like the original and the NEW AND IMPROVED MASSIVE CLASS HONEST! 2009 version of it, than ran a few shows. Madness. Going to have a took through this.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrM3g1P3kybBP4XPu-FA3vg/playlists

    It wasn’t me and I wasn’t aware until someone found it and posted about it. It’s all been uploaded by a fan called Leigh Copson who re-discovered his collection recently.

    Wrestling Books

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    18 hours ago, JNLister said:

    Death of The Territories is decent but loses its way a bit towards the end.

    Best book about that era is probably Pain and Passion by Heath McCoy covering the Stampede territory. I also like the later parts of Brisco by Jack Brisco, which is great on the experience of being a touring NWA champion, while Drawing Heat by Jim Freedman is good on the outlaw scene in that era,.

    (Semi-regular reminder I've got more than 150 reviews at http://www.prowrestlingbooks.com/reviews-z/).

    Cheers! 

    Let's talk FWA

    in UK Fan Forum

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    15 hours ago, elisarcabrera said:

    Archive alert!

    Have begun posting show photos now into a Facebook group.  So make sure to follow the FWA on Facebook and Instagram now for the early years archives:

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/FWAUKwrestling/

    Pics now on Facebook taken at:

    High School Hell

    Trick or Treat

    Back to School

    No Surprises 3

    Northern Exposure Tour Cleethorpes

    Backyard Wrestling Game Launch Night

    British Breakout Tour Acton

    London Calling

    Carpe DIem

    When Thunder Strikes

    Unknown Quantity 2

    and handful of only exisiting pics from Evil Intentions, No Surprises 1 and Black Country Chaos

    there are more from the shows listed above to be added later too

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