Post by Grape Ape on Oct 17, 2013 23:13:08 GMT -5
i[/size]The first issue of the North Texas-based "dirt sheet", The SuperFan, covering professional wrestling news of the area has a cover date of 10-19-1993. A cut and paste job done on a typewriter and photocopied has all the news of Main Event Wrestling. A read through hosts a selection of spelling errors and poor grammar.
We get an intro piece by the author proclaiming himself to be wrestling's #1 fan. A verbose start to things that really tries (a little too hard) to get the point across that he really likes wrestling.
We get a listing of the area shows with dates and what cities run in. A new listing for 10-17 out of Hobart, Oklahoma i[/size] lists Damien Strange and Horace Psycopath beating Dino Hernandez and the War Dog, Dean Bon Jovi with the Head Groupie Tammy over Shane Cortez, Tribal Warfare over Ravishing Ray Evans and the Oklahoma Outlaw, Tom Jones over Don Bon Jovi with the Head Groupie Tammy by DQ and Treach Phillips Jr. over Odell Buckingham.
With no real flow, up next is a (sort of) rundown of Treacherous Phillips, father of Treach Phillips Jr., which is nothing more than a few dates and match results, most likely pilferred from an Apter mag.
A Main Event Wrestling Top 5:
Treach Phillips - Champion
1. Odell Buckingham
2. Horace the Psychopath
3. Tom Jones
4. Damien Strange
5. Ravishing Ray Evans
The next piece is titled "Miss Texoma" and is on the Bon Jovi Boys valet, the Head Groupie Tammy. We get a photo and a rant about how she is the "real" star of the Jersey bred tag team. The piece is closed out with a wish to see her in a bikini mud wrestling.
We get a pasted in copy of an ad from a Wichita Falls area TV Facts Guide. No date attached or speculation, just the advertisement. i[/size]
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- Two things here.
First and foremost, if you are familiar with my writing style, I like to throw in things that the very observant reader might catch ... the Easter Egg. In this case, The SuperFan is my rip/dig/homage to a member of another board, using poor grammar and a certain writing style.
Second, when writing in multiple places, I try very hard not to use the same material but if you read my work elsewhere, this offering will look familiar. This is just too good a resource to pass up using and as this territory is very similar to my Texas-based CWA, I had to do it. Of course, the actual material itself will be very different as the promotions have different rosters/storylines/etc.
- Hobart, Oklahoma - pronounced HoBURt. Founded on 1901 on what had been Indian reservation lands. Population of the time is somwhere between 4,700 and 4,000.
- This takes me back to my days of creating ads for TV Facts Guides, those really cheaply made and printed television listings you get free at the grocery store. The covers were always black and a single color while the insides were black and white on newsprint. Weekly books filled with listings on all the channels of the particular area as well as filled with coupons and ads for local businesses. While in my early days of pre-press, I pumped out ads for 5 different area books in the North Texas and Southern Oklahoma areas on part-time hours all while being paid lousy wages (in cash, no less which meant no benefits, vacation time, sick time or health insurance).
