MEWL: The Story of the Main Event World Wrestling Promotion

By Dale Pierce

Enter into the world of Ohio's foremost independent wrestling promotion. Meet The Time Traveler, Jessicka Havoc, Wilbur Whitlock, Shasta, Durty The Clown, Lones Oaks, Virus, Angel Dust, Christian Vaughn, Greg Valentine, Shark Boy, Jebediah Yoder, Brain Damage, Mr Insanity, Aero and many more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Apr 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781257494040

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MEWL: The Story of the Main Event World Wrestling Promotion

MEWL

By

DALE                        PIERCE

Copyright 2008 by Dale Pierce. All rights Reserved. Expanded version, 2014.

Introduction

In the beginning there was Main Event Championship Wrestling, better known as MCW, running through various parts of Ohio. The promoter was a wrestler by the name of Shasta, who migrated eastward from Georgia and established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the independent wrestling world.

One of his trainees was a Canadian by the name of Lones Oaks. For a long time, he wrestled on the MCW cards and did quite well, but behind the scenes things were not a marriage made in heaven.

As Shasta toyed with plans to retire, Oaks took off on his own, forming his Main Event World League or MEWL in Alliance, Ohio. The decision created some bad blood, yet with MCW all but out of the picture, it didn’t really seem to matter.

Thus, Oaks took over where Shasta left off and started running shows of his own. Then, in 2008, Shasta returned. Along with GQ Status, he ran in on Oaks, aided by MEWL partners Justin Diaz, Jebediah Yoder and Jessicka Havoc. Together, they tramped on Oaks and shouted out a plan to resume MCW.

While fans stared in disbelief, Shasta announced he was back in action and would crush Oaks at any cost.

The war was on.

While they still fight it out, using the Main Event World League banner for licensing purposes, the action gets hotter and heavier with each show.

Things will only continue to improve for the fans, as they see more and more exciting action, but for the wrestlers it will get increasingly ugly. That is wager betting men should take.

This book may not be the thickest or the fanciest, but it does document both the key bouts and the numerous wrestlers working for Main Event World League, either on a regular or irregular basis.

The biographies are in no particular order, appearing as I felt like writing them. Skim the text and most surely you will find your favorite.

If someone has been ignored, I am sorry, but there’s always the chance of a part two later on down the road.

Johnny Gunn

Coming from Salem, Ohio, Johnny Gunn remains an interesting and charismatic fan favorite with a number of fancy moves in his arsenal, in spite of his relative inexperience. Already, he has had some torrid bouts with the top names in MEWL and even held some of their titles.

Gunn’s being green sometimes comes through and unfortunately causes him to end up with the short end of the stick. Such an incident happened in December of 2008 during the annual Christmas show in Alliance.

While his sidekick, Richard Jeremy, distracted the referee, Justin Diaz brought a chair into the ring, but just as he seemed certain to slam Gunn with it, he instead smiled and hit the mat with the   weapon.

Confused, Gunn picked up the chair, as he looked on at Diaz and tried to figure what was going on.

He was soon to find out.

Diaz flipped backward and pretended to be knocked out. Jeremy spun the ref around and pointed. The ref assumed Gunn had brought the chair into the ring, flattened Diaz illegally and disqualified the fan favorite.

While Gunn protested, Diaz feigned injury and staggered toward the locker room with his ill-gotten victory.

This, of course, will be leading into what appears to be a lengthy feud between both combatants.

The Time Traveler

Originally starting out in Arizona as a manager under the name of Mad Dog Marcial Bovee, this uncanny individual appeared to be two bricks short of a full load right from the start. As his career went onward, his personality grew all the more warped until schizophrenia seemed to be the order of the day.

In 1986, magazine articles carried obituaries on the death of Bovee, but suspiciously enough, the body was said to have been laid to rest in Cherry, Arizona (Cherry is a ghost town with nothing but foundations remaining). A short time later, this same man showed up again, calling himself The Time Traveler and making outright denials that Bovee ever existed. In fact, he even challenged Bovee to a wrestling match while the fans scratched their heads in utter bewilderment.

Since then, he has gotten weirder and weirder. Claiming such absurdities as having magic powers, owning a Way Back Machine ( derived form the old Mr. Peabody cartoons) and a magic staircase (from the old Dark Shadows television series) which enable him to go into both past and present, have provided the fans with many entertaining moments. He has shown up dressed in gunfighter clothes, as a pirate, as a monk right out of Tomas Torquemada’s Spain and as a 1940s era boxing manager. He has claimed to have long dead wrestlers such as Jim Londos and Argentina Rocca under contract. He has announced plans to attend Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims every holiday and spend Christmas traveling with the Three Kings.

Okay then. Whatever.

From the start, The Time Traveler established himself as a manager and occasionally  a wrestler of extreme violence. In the ring he knew only a handful of holds, most notably a sleeper, a figure four and a devastating 1930s era neck breaker. Where he managed to learn this final hold makes some fans wonder if there might somehow be something to his absurd claims after all.

As a wrestler, I was a very good manager, The Time Traveler laughed, though over the years he has had a number of matches, most of which saw him either losing in short order or reverting to outright brawls. In California during the 1990s, he had some particularly bloody bouts with Hispanic wrestlers, Galeno and Spike Cantillo.

During his run prior to retirement in 1999, he managed a number of unusual wrestlers either for short-term or long term engagements. While the bulk of his action took place in the southwestern USA and in Mexico, he also made it to Ohio, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Canada for varied indie groups. People he managed for anywhere from one shot to a run lasting years included The Lumberjacks, Rocky Sorter, Joe Cagle, Hans Mueller, Malcolm Monroe, Maniac Mark Mustang, John Ringer, Superstar Billy Graham, Dr Jerry Graham, Steve Dalton, Thrillseeker Terry Zeller, CC Starr, The Grim Reaper, Rick Davidson, Steve Gator Wolf, Sergeant Shultz, Enigma, JT Law, Bull Zambrano, The Viking, Eddie Sullivan, Rip Tyler, The Interns, Donna Day, The Angels Of Darkness, Lord Zoltan, The Black Mamba, Section 8, The Roman Gladiator, Tom Ramirez, Maniac Mike Gordon and Bad Bob Elliot.

Tired of gang violence, pollution and overcrowding, The Time Traveler moved from Arizona with his wife (incredibly, he is married) to settle in Ohio. It was shortly afterward. he announced plans to leave the wrestling ring.

I was well out of it for some four years, he explained. Then these two fans realized I lived in the same town they did and just started pestering me about their newsletter. They did an interview with me and next they dragged me to two live shows and I figured I would go and laugh at them. I thought the cards would be awful, I could make fun of everything and remember why I quit wrestling to begin with. Anyway, they ended up being great shows (Jeff Cannon’s OCW and Shasta’s MCW) and I caught the fever again. Three weeks passed and Goddamn, there I was managing Durty The Clown.

In the fall of 2003, The Time Traveler was paired with the then new and equally bizarre Durty for MCW cards. Incredibly, the two were cheered at first by fans.

People back in Arizona couldn’t believe it when I told them what was going on, he explained. I told them the top fan favorites were me, a clown (Durty) who was about as funny as a prostate exam and a faggot (Diaz) I had never and mean never been cheered before out west and I had to send videos to get my associates to realize I wasn’t kidding.

The transition back to villain took place when the MEWL started running.  Likewise, The Time Traveler made limited appearances for other promotions, where he only appeared in a few situations, managing other people. Among them were Wes Fetty, GQ Status, Johnny Gargano, Joe Joe Little and Michael Cruz. As he interfered in the matches and caused general chaos, his reputation of old started to rebuild. People started to realize this was not someone to be cheered or liked, but a twisted and warped individual, worthy only of contempt.

At least now the fans are booing me again, he admitted. It took a while, but now they hate me and my clown like they’re supposed to. I’m glad for that too, as I really wasn’t used to being cheered and didn’t like it either.

Unpredictable on the microphone, underhanded from ringside and totally sadistic, he has gotten more odious with age.

So you say, responded The Time Traveler. But if you say that, you’re a fool.

Though he seems to get along well with many of his fellow villains, there is one manager he does not like.

"I cannot stand this guy called The Stud from out of Pennsylvania. I hate the little roach. He and I shared some contracts with wrestlers on the Ohio/West Virginia border and he was always screwing things up. In one card where some of us went down to Black Diamond for a charity event I did not go down for, as I was busy talking to Fatty Arbuckle about a party he was throwing. So this fool,  The Stud, managed Durty  and caused him to lose. I really do not like that little bastard at all. He  wants to come into MEWL and if I have my way the closest he will get to it is a dream at night. I have seen