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Today I thought that I would talk a bit about River City Wrestling.
River City Wrestling was founded by the trio of Wayne Stanton, Dave Pinsky, and Doug McColl in early 1993, with their first show being held on May 13, 1993 at the Chalmers Community Center. From the very beginning, it was their hope to create a circuit which was similar to the New Brand Wrestling circuit which ran shows from Chalmers approximately a decade earlier, in which Stanton was also involved in their run at the club. Since that time, the group had seen several transitions of power with the result bringing about the absenses of two of the trio. Wayne Stanton assumed total control of the company now and has utilized the skills and abilities of the company to create a whole new phase in the RCW evolution.
River City Wrestling had presented many shows across the province of Manitoba. Though focusing a great deal of time and energy into shows in Winnipeg, they have also presented cards in Souris, Brandon, Somerset, and other communities. In addition to these, matches had been held at the Manitoba Developmental Center in Portage La Prairie where the wrestlers had taken time out to spend with the mentally-handicapped. As well they had performed at carnivals, festivals, and various fund-raisers at different levels.
In 1994, the promotion had programming on the Shaw Cable Network. The quality remains unmatched at the regional level even today.
To gauge the caliber of the wrestlers of RCW, all one had too do was pick up any wrestling magazine on the newsstand. In fact, they had appeared monthly in dozens of newsletters and magazines worldwide. Four members of the River City Wrestling roster were even listed in the annual ‘’Pro Wrestling Illustrated” Top 500 wrestler listing in 1994, and again in 1995.
RCW became home to many local superstars ie: Mike Stone, Brian Jewel, Bobby Jay, Buddy Wiser, Billy Blaze, Cory Diamond, Robby Royce, Vance Nevada, Madman Muir, Reggie Gallagher, Marius, Ozz, Bugsy Slugg, JJ Walker and even some of today’s local stars such as Danny Duggan, AJ Sanchez, Kevin Chevy, Don Douglas, Rick Matthews (all who went on to bigger and better things).
They held wrestling shows at various venues ie: Chalmers Community Club, Bumpers Bar, Broadway Neighborhood Center, Teddy Bobs Bar etc. If it was not for River City Wrestling, there would be tons of guys on the independant circuit that would not be in the business.
If it did start up again I think it could overtake New Brand, overtake PCW and compete with SPW. I have a question for any of you wrestling fans reading this: Do you think it is time for RCW to start up again?
The guys who worked on that show ie: Buddy Wiser, Billy Blaze, Vinny Valliant etc. were very loyal to their product, were a family and always had entertaining shows. Despite the fact that Madman Muir and Wayne Stanton have had their difficulties I think Wayne could call Muir up and ask him to come work for him because Muir could be the top heel in that new promotion.
If Muir was heel number one, you add Ike Idol as heel number 2 and JJ Walker aka Dirty Dick Walker as heel number 3, and you have got a strong start to a new promotion.
In my opinion if River City did start up again, I can think of possible people who could work for Wayne again. Here are some names that I thought of:
Buddy Wiser
Vinny Valliant
Billy Blaze
Cory Diamond
Big Cliff Corleone
Pepito
Reggie Gallagher
Psycho Banger Jerin Rose
Shadow Xtreme (wildcard)
In conclusion I would just like to say, if RCW was to begin again, I would definitly go to their shows. Heck, I entered a contest and won a video cassette called: Introducing River City Wrestling back in middle school.
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