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UWA Marking Out: Time to Payback the Bitch

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on June 20, 2007 by MarkEightThree

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Written by Mark Guilherme for UWA Hardcore’s Official Site
Time to Payback the Bitch: The Saga of Derek Wylde & Jennifer Blake 

Throughout the course of every man’s life, there comes a point when he must deal with the most dreadful dilemma of all – girl problems.

Sometimes you forgot her birthday, other times you cause her to be viciously gored into a steel ladder. For Dangerboy Derek Wylde, the mistakes which proved to be the undoing of his relationship with Jennifer Blake have been plaguing him since October of last year.

The seeds of mistrust were planted at Return of the Dragon, where Wylde narrowly avoided the running knees of Joker by pulling Blake into harms way instead. After Blake was viciously mauled while helping her beau during night one of the 2006 Grand Prix, the blonde vixen displayed an obvious change of heart the next night during Wylde’s four corners match. Ever the opportunist, Phil Atlas turned his attention away from the action and charmed his way into the rebounding Blake’s heart/pants and walked out of the match with Blake on his arm, much to the chagrin of Wylde.

Since that point, life has been nothing but hell for Dangerboy in the UWA. With her short-shorts and vixen-like charms, Blake has been able to send a steady stream of opponents towards Wylde, including the monster Asylum who destroyed Wylde at Infinite Glory and helped humiliate him by allowing his former girlfriend pin him.

With the former Canadian Champion MDogg20 doing her bidding, Blake became unstoppable. But unfortunately for her, the unpredictable behavior of MDogg20 led to the blowup of their union and Blake was now left alone to face the man she had been irritating for months in a street fight, granted to Wylde by the management of the UWA.

The barricades protecting Blake from the wrath of Wylde have all been torn down, and while Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, Derek Wylde might just have the fury of the devil raging inside of him.

This Friday, June 22nd, UWA Hardcore presents another great show featuring some the top indy talent from across North America. For more info and the event card, check out their official website in the links to the right.

Hour of the Dragon arrives on DVD

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on February 13, 2007 by MarkEightThree

UWA LogoAt this Friday’s UWA Hardcore Wrestling event, the Missisauga-based wrestling federation will release their newest DVD titled UWA Hardcore Wrestling: Hour of the Dragon. As a special attraction main event, the January show featured Japanese legends Black Tiger and Ultimo Dragon colliding in a great one on one match-up. Also on the card were many stars of TNA and MTV’s Wrestling Society X, including Chris Sabin, Alex Shelley, Ruckus, MDogg20, Tyler Black, Puma, Sonjay Dutt and Ruckus. UWA Hardcore always goes out of their way to put on some great events, and Hour of the Dragon was no exception. This month should be an especially big month for them as they prepare to put on two big shows, including their first ever King of the Deathmatch tournament on their old stomping grounds at the Bolton Fairgrounds.

I’ve been following and attending UWA Hardcore shows since way back on October 29, 2004, so getting a chance to work with them has been a joy for me. I’ve written for their website before, but getting the chance to design January’s DVD has been a highpoint as I really admire the work of Derek Laufman. Hopefully the fans of UWA Hardcore will notice and enjoy the extra work that has gone into the DVD, as I really feel UWA now has one of the best looking DVD packages on the indie wrestling market. Click on the link to purchase a copy.

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Sloshed at the PS3 Toronto Launch Party

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on November 17, 2006 by MarkEightThree

PlayStation 3 Toronto Launch Party

Good system launch party, not so good system.

This past Thursday, Sony held an official PlayStation 3 Launch Party at 6 Degrees Club in Toronto. Thanks to an invite through my internship, I was soon at the event bumping elbows with other prestigous media outlets such as MTV Canada, The Electric Playground and the classiest of them all Naked News.

Big props to Sony for throwing a fairly awesome event. There were about thirty PS3s on hand for the media to check out, with pretty much every launch title on the floor. Game developers from various studios were also out and about on the floor, making themselves available for interviews and friendly chats.

After taking advantage of the open bar, I had the chance to interview Activision Production Co-ordinators Doug Grutzmaker and Peter Muravez, both of which have some great accomplishments under their belts such as the Call of Duty series and the X-Men Legends series. If you’re interested in hearing what they had to say about the Wii, PSP and PS3, check out the upcoming December issue of PGZine, which should hit mid next month.

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