Alliance Blog Podcast: Interviews with Independent Wrestlers and Wrestling Personalities

We live in a time and space where borders that once protected the sanctity of its wrestling promotions have eroded away. It's complete chaos, where wrestling titles rest upon the waist of outsiders. Pro wrestling has become Madness what's next cats and dogs being friends? All kidding aside, the boardr list era of professional wrestling will have ramifications for all parties involved and it has become quite an exciting time to be a fan of pro wrestling. 

And is it Kenny Omega's dream to usurp the lineal Worlds Heavyweight Championship? Whatever path he has chosen, let me be clear that Kenny Omega is not the first title belt collector.

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#NWAPOWERRR broke on to the scene at the end of 2019 and was celebrated by wrestling fans around the globe.  The NWA received a ton of support for the product, however, due to the Global Pandemic Covid-19, they were forced to pause their live pro-wrestling events. It has been one entire calendar year since a new episode has been taped for the phenomenon of NWA POWERRR.  

On this episode of Jay Cal's View (recorded as part of the #PrePartyWithJayCal) Jay gives his top 5 WWE released talents who could instantly impact the show.  

David Marquez partnered with Maria and Dustin Starr to produce a localized version of Championship Wrestling from Hollywood two years ago. This would be one of the United Wrestling Network's best pairings to date. The show was able to bring elements of the local area while growing the brand in Memphis. The plan was to spin-off the television partnership into a local promotion in Memphis. However, due to Covid-19 the plan was put on hiatus. 

After nearly a year of being idle, last week David Marquez along with Maria and Dustin Starr announced the new promotion Championship Wrestling from Memphis. A new website was introduced; https://championshipwrestlingmemphis.com. With the new announcement, many questions emerged.  On this episode of The Alliance Guys Podcast; Jay Cal speaks to Dustin Starr one on one, to discuss; Dustin's wrestling career, the proof of concept for CWFM, the work that led to the promotion, and what fans can expect with this new endeavor. 

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On this episode of From the Vault, Jay Cal goes back to 2012 to speak to TMDK.  The Mighty Don't Kneel were a tag team from Australia's Explosive Pro Wrestling, who found footing in the United States through EPW's working relationship with David Marquez and Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Separately the duo had traveled to the United States and achieved some success as independents.  But it wasn't until the duo became a tag team that they inevitably became one of the hottest tag teams of their time.  After holding the EPW Tag Team Titles for 245 days the pairing set forth to work Internationally.  With stops across Australia, the duo would work with the Kensuke Office in 2011, and by the end of the year, they were working regularly for Pro Wrestling Noah. A brief hiatus from NOAH would see them travel yet again to the states to work with Championship Wrestling from Hollywood, but soon they would begin to work for Ring of Honor, Ohio Valley Wrestling, and Impact.  By 2013 the pair would be almost exclusive to NOAH and would work there until being signed by the WWE's NXT in 2015.  The pair first went by TM-61, but would later change their name to The Mighty.  By 2018, Nichols asked for and was granted his release from the WWE.  He wanted to be closer to home. Nichols would go on to spend most of 2019 working with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Haste who did go by Shane Thorne in the WWE as of late has joined the main roster with the Retribution Stable and now wrestles under the name SlapJack.  

Chase Owens was slated to challenge the “Modern Day Hero” Kevin Douglas to a match for the NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Championship.  Although he  is now known as  the Crown Jewel of the Bullet Club, then Owens was called the “Real Deal.” A Wrestling prodigy that lived up to his name in every sense of the word.  Mentored by Ricky Morton, Owens had faced off against Douglas as the finals of the NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Tournament “Revival” roughly a year before this content. Douglas wasn't able to defend the title and it was decided that Matt Conard, Zac Vincent, and Owens would battle for the Championship.  Owens would go on to win that title. Owens would become a three-time NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Champion. Owen’s prowess impressed the New Japan front office, who would hire him to compete in New Japan back in 2014 and he wouldn’t look back.

On this episode of From the Vault, the Alliance Guys Podcast speak at length with Chase Owens who at the time was becoming a breakout star for NWA Smoky Mountain (Innovative Pro Wrestling).  We would talk about his mentorship with Ricky Morton, his feud with Matt Sigmon, and the showdown that never was.

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#NWAShockwave was set to debut its second episode on the NWA YouTube Channel.  The first episode of the program was well-received by an NWA audience who didn't pay for Prime Time Live.  But with the first episode encouraged growth overall to the channel.  And the NWA strategy of partnering the new releases with already released video has really helped invigorate the struggling channel.  Jay also comments on how he thinks the program could have been better and what they could have done to make it more meaningful.  

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