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Post by mremanpoffo on Jul 19, 2008 15:02:15 GMT -5
;D ;D Here’s a link to my ICW Poffo website devoted to the Poffo’s and ICW wrestling , International Championship Wrestling which ran in the mid south from 1979 -1985 . There are tons of pictures , ads and general information about the group and its participants . Give it a look see and you’ll be surprised . Randy Savage pictures and info you won’t find anywhere else . Lots of the ICW wrestlers have commented it sent them back to their youth…. Randy wrestled in St Louis many times in his career; early when he worked as Randy Poffo and for Larry Mystasik when he had an outlaw group in 1983. www.freewebs.com/icwpoffouniverse/
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Post by St. Louis Wrestling Rocks! on Jul 19, 2008 17:16:47 GMT -5
Is this the same ICW that operates out of St. Louis since 1986 since this group here ended in 1985?
And who would you be?
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Post by drcornell on Jul 20, 2008 20:04:23 GMT -5
Something you might not know about ICW--they regularly ran the A.C Braze Arena in Cape Girardeau...a building that I know a lot of people on this board have worked in at some point or another. From what I understand of ICW, it was a promotion formed by Angelo Poffo which allowed his sons (Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo) to get bookings while gaining experience. The promotion also featured such stars as Bob Orton Jr., Pez Whatley, and Ron Garvin. It was viewed as an "outlaw" by some of the established promotions, and there was notable (real life) heat with the Memphis promotion. This resulted in open challenges to the other promotions during their TV shows, and more than one ugly parking lot confrontation (there is an infamous story out there of Bill Dundee and Randy Savage getting into a confontation, and one or the other of them pulling a gun). Upon the demise of the promotion, Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo ended up going to Memphis and playing off the real life heat (which had been reported on in the local newspapers periodically) to do an invasion angle against Memphis in general, and Jerry Lawler in particular. For my money, this ended up being one of the better "invasion" angles ever done. Below is a link to a Randy Savage/Bob Orton promo from ICW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJMBQH2q9gHere is Randy Savage's first appearance on Memphis TV ("invading" during a show where Lawler is not in the building--I believe he was with his family after the passing of his father) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaUx99Z_J50&feature=related
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Post by mremanpoffo on Jul 22, 2008 19:11:48 GMT -5
Yes Cape Girardeau was one of the Poffo's main monthly stops. In the ads on my site www.freewebs.com/icwpoffouniverse/the building is listed as The Cape Arena Building . They would do a swing in Western Kentucky in Paducah then hit either Illinois or Missouri. Another town a few ICW workers did stops in Maulden Missouri which was promoted by Henry Rogers . That group seem to promote every Friday night in Maulden forever. Just wondering if that town is still " wrestling friendly" ?
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Post by St. Louis Wrestling Rocks! on Jul 22, 2008 21:56:34 GMT -5
I would imagine it really wrestling starved as is the whole state of MO.
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Post by mremanpoffo on Dec 16, 2008 20:39:12 GMT -5
I recently acquired some ICW pictures from cards the group worked and one looked to be from the Cape arena arround 1980. Did this venue have a big chandalier hanging from it somewhere prominently as these pictures showed? It looked like an interesting wrestling venue and they drew a pretty full house according to the pictures I saw. Wish I could post them here
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Post by ericloy on Dec 18, 2008 22:12:16 GMT -5
I will vouch for this site. If you are interested in wrestling history at all. Among some of the other ICW stars were Bob Roop, Bob Orton, Jr., Prof. Malenko, Rip Rogers. The Sheik and Moose Cholak made appearances, as did Ox Baker and T-Bolt Patterson.
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