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* Terry Scholl - for having the 1st indy fed - Pro Wrest. International,
first to have a show on Sports Channel and predated the entire indy scene.
Introduced US to the biz.
--Notable Feuds: Dick the Bruiser
Baron Von Raschke
Scott Reynolds
Jerry Blackwell
Randy “Rocky” Brewer
--Trained by: Bob Sabre, who was Another preliminary wrestler from Chicago
who worked in the AWA during the 60s and 70s. Once was billed as George Ringo,
the wrestling Beatle. and Kevin Clayton at the American Wrestling Club in Chicago..
~~~Same training class as Tony Leone, Terry Scholl, Chuck Greenlee, Juan Sebastian,
and Mickey Shannon..
Debut: July 1980
--Titles:
P.W.I. Heavyweight title (1981 -84, 1986-89, 1990-93);
P.W.I. Tag Team titles w/The Zebra Kid (1993-98);
W.W.A. World Tag Team titles w/John Valiant (1985);
* Nicholas Headford - for showcasing the local scene on his TV show, gives everybody exposure that is
needed & is helps keep indy scene alive. One of the most respected & loved referees in the entire
Midwest & Chgoland area...Worked for PWI, PCW, WCPW, IUWA, everywhere.
* PL Myers - for being the connection that brings big name stars to the fans of this area
and also covers wrestling in depth on his Wrestling Resource TV show - for the $
of admission ticket, you get to meet people. Managed the LOD to Championships.
Brought the ECW guys to the LWF, having Spike Dudley mention on ECW TV that Chgo
was a town full of lunatics...had Keith & Tom interview the Sandman on these hotlines...
Had former ECW Champions Raven, Jerry Lynn, Sandman, Justin Credible, & Shane Douglas
work for PCW & countless others.
* Lon Grahnke - When we were little, he's the guy who's articles we'd read whenever the
Sun-Times would have an article. We got a lot of no bullshit info from him.
How did we find out about the behind the scenes stuff without Meltzer?
If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have known that R.Flair was still NWA champ in 1991
after he left the WCW and joined the WWF. The NWA recognized him as champ until
Sept of 1991..... How many results did we get from house shows in the area, like the
Rosemont Horizon, when we had no internet, nor did we have informative hotlines,
and the media, like all the TV news groups and newspapers, didn't even care to cover it for us?
Lon Grahnke, former Chicago Sun-Times TV critic, entertainment editor and suburban editor,
died at Summer's end in 2006 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 56.
Mr. Grahnke was an enthusiast of both the features and news sides of newspapers.
Playing off the gunslinger line, "We deal in lead, friend," from the film "The Magnificent Seven"
and the journalistic term "lede" for the first sentence of a news story, Mr. Grahnke liked to say:
"We deal in lede, friend."
Mr. Grahnke started his career as a copy editor in 1972 at Suburban Week, a supplement to both
the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News.
* Eddie Einhorn - part owner of Chicago White Sox, one of the richest people around...back in the 1970's,
he was the 1st to try to have a national-touring wrestling fed - the old IWA. People credit Vince, when it was his
really Vince Sr who had the idea, and Jim Barnett also had the idea when Turner expanded cable in 1976-77.
Then Bill Watts tried it, failed. Fritz Von Erich was too scared to try it. Crockett did it, & fought Vince.
WCW was able to pull it off. Only WWF and WCW were successful at it, but even though this guy didn't last,
he did it before anyone else.
IWA, which was started up by Eddie Einhorn and operated in the mid 1970s. Einhorn's IWA was arguably the
first concentrated effort to create a single, nationally-touring wrestling promotion, competing directly against
the members of the National Wrestling Alliance.
* Bob Luce - CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- — Bob Luce, a legendary wrestling promoter who reigned over
spectacle-filled wrestling shows in Illinois and Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at 78.
The Chicago Sun-Times said Luce was buried in Milwaukee. He died Feb. 8, 2007 in Wheeling, Ill.,
after a long illness.
The Chicago Tribune described Luce as a promoter extraordinaire who was ahead of his time in
the sports-as-entertainment world.
Luce showcased Andre the Giant, Dick the Bruiser, Buddy Rogers, Gorgeous George and Verne
Gagne in appearances at Chicago's International Amphitheatre, as well as his on own local
television show in Chicago. He got his start in the biz working for legendary Fred Kohler, who was
the 1st promoter to have wrestling on National TV, though he did NOT have a nat'l touring company,
he did leease out the stars he had under contract, but after he folded, the AWA of Verne Gagne
and the WWA out of Indiana, which belonged to Wilbur Snyder & Dick the Bruiser, those became the 2
groups that ran in Chicago. Rather than argue over the city, the promoters agreed to share the territory
and to use Bob Luce as the figure-head promoter in this area, like Seiji Sakaguchi, Jack Tunney, and
later Gorilla Monsoon in the WWF, and Stanley Blackburn and Joe Blanchard in the AWA, and
Billy Whack in the AAW and Stan Pain in the RGW.
first to have a show on Sports Channel and predated the entire indy scene.
Introduced US to the biz.
--Notable Feuds: Dick the Bruiser
Baron Von Raschke
Scott Reynolds
Jerry Blackwell
Randy “Rocky” Brewer
--Trained by: Bob Sabre, who was Another preliminary wrestler from Chicago
who worked in the AWA during the 60s and 70s. Once was billed as George Ringo,
the wrestling Beatle. and Kevin Clayton at the American Wrestling Club in Chicago..
~~~Same training class as Tony Leone, Terry Scholl, Chuck Greenlee, Juan Sebastian,
and Mickey Shannon..
Debut: July 1980
--Titles:
P.W.I. Heavyweight title (1981 -84, 1986-89, 1990-93);
P.W.I. Tag Team titles w/The Zebra Kid (1993-98);
W.W.A. World Tag Team titles w/John Valiant (1985);
* Nicholas Headford - for showcasing the local scene on his TV show, gives everybody exposure that is
needed & is helps keep indy scene alive. One of the most respected & loved referees in the entire
Midwest & Chgoland area...Worked for PWI, PCW, WCPW, IUWA, everywhere.
* PL Myers - for being the connection that brings big name stars to the fans of this area
and also covers wrestling in depth on his Wrestling Resource TV show - for the $
of admission ticket, you get to meet people. Managed the LOD to Championships.
Brought the ECW guys to the LWF, having Spike Dudley mention on ECW TV that Chgo
was a town full of lunatics...had Keith & Tom interview the Sandman on these hotlines...
Had former ECW Champions Raven, Jerry Lynn, Sandman, Justin Credible, & Shane Douglas
work for PCW & countless others.
* Lon Grahnke - When we were little, he's the guy who's articles we'd read whenever the
Sun-Times would have an article. We got a lot of no bullshit info from him.
How did we find out about the behind the scenes stuff without Meltzer?
If it weren't for him, we wouldn't have known that R.Flair was still NWA champ in 1991
after he left the WCW and joined the WWF. The NWA recognized him as champ until
Sept of 1991..... How many results did we get from house shows in the area, like the
Rosemont Horizon, when we had no internet, nor did we have informative hotlines,
and the media, like all the TV news groups and newspapers, didn't even care to cover it for us?
Lon Grahnke, former Chicago Sun-Times TV critic, entertainment editor and suburban editor,
died at Summer's end in 2006 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 56.
Mr. Grahnke was an enthusiast of both the features and news sides of newspapers.
Playing off the gunslinger line, "We deal in lead, friend," from the film "The Magnificent Seven"
and the journalistic term "lede" for the first sentence of a news story, Mr. Grahnke liked to say:
"We deal in lede, friend."
Mr. Grahnke started his career as a copy editor in 1972 at Suburban Week, a supplement to both
the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News.
* Eddie Einhorn - part owner of Chicago White Sox, one of the richest people around...back in the 1970's,
he was the 1st to try to have a national-touring wrestling fed - the old IWA. People credit Vince, when it was his
really Vince Sr who had the idea, and Jim Barnett also had the idea when Turner expanded cable in 1976-77.
Then Bill Watts tried it, failed. Fritz Von Erich was too scared to try it. Crockett did it, & fought Vince.
WCW was able to pull it off. Only WWF and WCW were successful at it, but even though this guy didn't last,
he did it before anyone else.
IWA, which was started up by Eddie Einhorn and operated in the mid 1970s. Einhorn's IWA was arguably the
first concentrated effort to create a single, nationally-touring wrestling promotion, competing directly against
the members of the National Wrestling Alliance.
* Bob Luce - CHICAGO, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- — Bob Luce, a legendary wrestling promoter who reigned over
spectacle-filled wrestling shows in Illinois and Indiana in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at 78.
The Chicago Sun-Times said Luce was buried in Milwaukee. He died Feb. 8, 2007 in Wheeling, Ill.,
after a long illness.
The Chicago Tribune described Luce as a promoter extraordinaire who was ahead of his time in
the sports-as-entertainment world.
Luce showcased Andre the Giant, Dick the Bruiser, Buddy Rogers, Gorgeous George and Verne
Gagne in appearances at Chicago's International Amphitheatre, as well as his on own local
television show in Chicago. He got his start in the biz working for legendary Fred Kohler, who was
the 1st promoter to have wrestling on National TV, though he did NOT have a nat'l touring company,
he did leease out the stars he had under contract, but after he folded, the AWA of Verne Gagne
and the WWA out of Indiana, which belonged to Wilbur Snyder & Dick the Bruiser, those became the 2
groups that ran in Chicago. Rather than argue over the city, the promoters agreed to share the territory
and to use Bob Luce as the figure-head promoter in this area, like Seiji Sakaguchi, Jack Tunney, and
later Gorilla Monsoon in the WWF, and Stanley Blackburn and Joe Blanchard in the AWA, and
Billy Whack in the AAW and Stan Pain in the RGW.