What's going on, guys? Welcome back to the True
New Podcast. Once again, this ugly thing is back.
As you can see in here, I don't know how or why.
I don't know. I think I said his name three times.
You left the door unlocked. This is true. I did
leave the door unlocked. But, guys, by the way,
today we are going live on YouTube and also TikTok.
TikTok, buddy! That's what I'm talking about.
TikTok. Oh, this is gonna be good. I hope so.
For me, not for you, buddy. I haven't been thrown
off the talk in a while, either. That's what
you call it, the top? That's interesting. All
right, anyways. But guys, hang on, this is episode
247. We got a special guest with us today. Hang
in there. Let's get going. Let's do this. What's
up, guys? Welcome back to a new podcast, and
today's guest special guest. He's been in here
a couple of times. He's been on the podcast a
couple of times, but he's always that baby in
the corner. I mean, Juno's not talking about
baby in the corner, right? He's always in the
corner. We keep putting him in the corner. Ladies
and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce the owner
of Combat Cold Wrestling, Mr. Eddie Garcia on
the podcast. How's it going, Eddie? How you doing,
man? I'm doing alright. I'm doing okay. Alright,
man. Welcome to the podcast. This is actually
the first podcast that we have you on here. You
were the babysitter the last couple of times
you were here. Well, not exactly because you
got your ass kicked at one of them. I think that
was all good and fun. I'm feeling better now.
Everybody had a good time. Everybody had a good
time. It's fine. He's taking chops from Pete
before us. I know he can be a little rough. There's
been other stuff. Chops from Pete? Really? I
don't think so. But we are live on YouTube and
on TikTok, so we're going to do professionally,
like we always do. We try our best. At least
I try my best. I'm sorry about you. But we try
our best to keep us staying in the green, not
in the red. My leg's coming off. I'll be here
another day. The green or the red, man. on the
podcast today. I know first of all, since it
is the first time you've come on the podcast,
we need to get to know who you are, where you
grew up, and how we got into Combat Colt. So
take it away, man. It's all you. Well, yeah,
man. Eddie Garza, born and raised here in West
Echo, Texas. You know, the journey to Combat
Colt was pretty crazy. As you all know, Pete
Payne is because you can say he's like one of
my mentors and I met Pete at uh wrestling revolution
back in I want to say like it was 2017 or maybe
even 18 um at that time you know I was aspiring
to be a wrestler you know trying to train um
did security there with wr and things didn't
really pan out you know obviously because I'm
not a wrestler right um but I always I had this
creative bone in me where I just I I like storylines
I like, putting together these narratives. And
there was one point there where I sat there,
or not sat there, I stood there. And I was like,
man, I want to get my hands in on the creator
side of things. We all kind of like think it'd
be so cool to be a wrestler and it is cool, right?
But I just didn't have the time to dedicate to
to training right time right right right even
now more so now that I have you know, my wife
and my my child But yeah, you know even at the
time I didn't really you have the time you needed
to dedicate it Dedicate to being a wrestler.
So right I told Pete one day like I think I want
to just try my hand at something creative and
Pete was doing some stuff to you know, he had
a show that he ran and COVID hit. That changed
the game for everybody. At the time, we ended
up getting the stimulus. Thank you, Daddy Trump.
We got the stimulus and I told myself I have
to make this money count somehow. And at the
time I purchased my ring. And at the time I kind
of thought maybe I could use it, set it up in
my backyard and maybe train here and there with
some guys. Backyard wrestling. Yeah. Pete was
training in another yard somewhere else at the
time too. And I'd go and show up there, here
and there. But I bought the ring thinking maybe
I can dedicate some more time to training. And
then maybe at the same time, you know, a couple
years from now, maybe get my own promotion started
because that's really where my passion is, is
the creative side of things. So, you know, I
told Pete, you know, Pete got me linked up with
some guys, Evil Masters over in Brownsville.
They wanted to rent the ring at the time and,
you know, they wanted to put their own show.
And they kind of asked me, hey, do you want to
join up on this? Do you know any wrestlers? This
and that. And, you know, I had a few connections
that I had. where I could get some wrestlers
to come down. So we discussed it, and they're
like, well, welcome aboard. So I didn't really
plan on Combat Cold happening when it happened.
I was really thinking it would happen in a few
years' time. But they threw me into Swim with
the Sharks, and here I am now. Now, Combat Cold
itself, I know That's that kind of branched out
after a Resident Revolution because you know,
the rest of the revolution was kind of the big
thing here in the RGB for the meanwhile when
This branched out. Did you figured you I mean
consider the other promotions that are out there
right now And you know, they're out there also
doing their thing Was it? Something that's like
a goal to use that you know what? I gotta I gotta
put my big shoes and I gotta do my thing now
It's more like that now at the time I was kind
of just trying to navigate how this whole you
know show works and Of course, there's still
things to learn here and there I'm always learning
but yeah, you know when I first started it was
kind of just figuring things out now I'm at a
point where three, you know close to three years
in Now I've kind of hit a rhythm where like I
know it works. I know my target audience. I know
who I'm, the crowd that I want to draw. I know
who they want to see. I know who they don't want
to see. I know, you know, the kind of attractions
that would bring some people in. And if you look
at our attendance at Cine Arre, that kind of
shows for it. We have over 100 paying customers
each show that we've had and they all love the
show. So much positive feedback saying, you know,
this show was awesome. You know, we had in fact,
we had one one fan come to us and told us like,
I didn't have very high expectations when I saw
that the ticket prices were what they were. Right.
But, you know, I would have paid $40 for that
front row seat. So that that made me think like,
damn, like we really are putting out a quality
product out here. Consider a fact. the wrestling
events are happening in the historical at Sina
Rey, that's where most of all the, did you ever
catch a wrestling match over in Sina Rey? Absolutely,
me and the beefy boys, we went to a couple of
matches there one time. And I gotta tell you,
the difference between each show has been really.
It's it's definitely like it's entertaining.
It's entertaining. It's entertaining. That's
the word I was looking at It's entertaining.
It's fun. And you know, everybody gets into it
Yeah, I can see why and consider the fact being
there being as it known as the actual place of
the birthplace of a lot of the wrestling Associations
that are in the RGB that try to get in there,
you know, what's having your promotion in there
now I mean, that's got to be a pretty good feeling,
man. It's definitely special. I think everybody
looks at seeing a ray is a like you said, like
kind of the birthplace of of everything that's
going on now. There was wrestling before that,
but I feel like seeing is kind of like the Mecca.
You know, like that's the Madison Square of the
Valley. People, you know, you talked about, you
know, your experience back in the day. You know,
people still think. wrestling happens at Tenerre,
or, hey, I remember W .R. back in the day, this,
this, and this. So it's got its nostalgic feel
to it. Honestly, sitting at a show, we've had
shows different places. We've had them here downstairs
at Suerte when it was here. We have them over
here at Señor Barba, a couple of other places.
Sitting there and seeing it. It just brings a
different feel to to the entire show It just
feels right grander, you know bigger and we already
got our one of our first guys I know Hacinto
Rivera thirds on here say what's up guys and
Hacinto saying get the guy with the sunglass
out of here Teddy chop him. That's what they're
saying, right? We'll just turn the show off We'll
chop the show off right now. Let's not do that.
Let's not do that. We can't do that, but I feel
your pain, Jacinto. I wouldn't mind, actually,
giving him a good, nice chop. I'll take my leg
off, Jacinto. I'll take everybody off. Let's
not do that. Let's not do that, buddy. We don't
want to get canceled. Or do we? Or do we? But
so doing, like I said, having your show, Encinerre,
which is like the granddaddy. I mean, to me,
it's the granddaddy, especially that place, because
it's so historical. It's so historical. I've
been to one wrestling revolution, a couple of
matches back in the day, and then when it finally
died out, we're like... it was in kind of like
a little bit of a limbo. Yeah. And then you saw,
you know, you had, you had other programs, you
got Daddy Chance making, then you had Combat
Colt make one, then you had a lot of these promotions
for Mexico jumping over and making something.
You're like, wow, it hasn't died out. It's still
going on. I think COVID just kind of put a pause
on things. I don't, I don't really think anything
died because there was people trying to figure
out how to make things happen. Right. Pete had
a show. There was Make a Difference Wrestling.
They were trying to do I believe it was some
stuff like on YouTube or TikTok. You know, people
were still trying to make things happen. New
Breed, I think, had just opened their school
around that time. So, you know, everybody was
still trying to figure out and even like on the
big, you know, the big leagues like WWE, you
know, they were still trying to make things happen.
So I don't think it died. I think people were
just trying to figure like it was COVID was just
it changed everything. It really did. I was I
was gonna say that too because like from before
COVID to today it like it's like a completely
different yeah and it was like a huge boom right
as soon as yeah like the past like yeah people
just wanted to go out and enjoy things it came
back with a vengeance yeah yeah even like in
wwe's the prime example like they were in a very
weird place. They were failing. Yeah, it was
positive. I wouldn't say failing because they
were still the juggernaut. But they weren't like
people didn't really like the show. There were
so many complaints coming out of COVID. Everything
just boomed. Everybody started liking what was
going on. I got Hasido coming up here says Eddie
gave Nikki the opportunity to perform. I just
seen her today. She treated like her WrestleMania
in the 956. Yeah, man. I mean, I've seen the
events, man. When you guys hold events out there,
it gets big, man. It gets it gets jam -packed.
Anybody who's anybody's been to a wrestling event
here in the RGB, especially if it's even if it's
at the landmark, even if it's, oh, here's Senor
Barra was downtown Wesseco or here where he used
to be here downstairs at Suerte, you know. it's
people come they want to see they want to be
entertained they want to see let's go check this
out and see if it's any good you know yeah and
they get entertained by now let me let me go
back to your actual first venue your first official
venue of combat colt oh here we go now getting
the promotions going you got it's opening night
What is going through your mind because I know
that's got to be nerve -racking bro was so take
a take a Step by step on what was going on and
what was going on your head. All right, go ahead.
So That happened at the Woodman life Ballroom
in San Juan October 22nd 2022 or three something
like that You know at the time I was a wooden
life rep it's a life insurance agency You know,
I was able to get that that ballroom, you know
for for a good price and I had contacted a few
wrestlers to get that going Evil Masters had
their part of the show Pete had his part of the
show. So it was kind of like a three -way dance
for us But yeah, you know, I didn't know what
I was doing So much, you know, I had never planned
an event at all, right? Not even so much as like
a birthday party had I ever planned so So you
know I'm making a birthday party and there's
like 90 people coming so I don't know what I'm
doing But yeah, I know the the event itself You
know, it didn't draw what, you know, we had hoped,
but it's still fun. Like the rest just went out
there. They did their thing. I think whoever
was there did have a good time. Right. But again,
like we didn't know anything about marketing
things. Right. We didn't know anything about,
you know, the date that date we ended up being
like three other shows even like in someone.
Right, right. So we didn't really think about
all of the logistics behind it. But yeah, you
know, it was it was kind of nerve wracking. We
had to figure out. I mean, I think the easy part
of producing shows. is getting the actual like
wrestlers like the matchmaking and having the
match go right about I think that's the easy
part right and that thing I think we knocked
out of the park it was all the other little intricate
things like like I said marketing and right right
and stuff like that that we didn't really put
a lot of effort into and you know we had bought
flyers and and posters and whatnot and I think
we had passed a good amount of them out right
but we still didn't make we didn't take time
to to really push that, because it does take
a lot of time. Yeah, it does. But yeah, standing
there that day, finally seeing it kind of come
to fruition, it was kind of like, okay, we got
past this one. And again, it wasn't really like
our best show, but it did teach me a few things.
It made me think, okay, I got to look at this.
whole thing from a business standpoint. Because
from there, I was kind of just being a fan and
kind of like, you know, kind of just excited
to be part of something. And that's what they
want to ask you when it's happening. I mean,
being a fan, I mean, you're like, you're running
it. But then I was like, did you get lost? Like,
oh, I got to watch this match. Not so much. Honestly,
I spent a lot of the time in the back with the
with the with the guys. Kind of just jumping
in between checking to see if the match was good,
you know going up going fine, right then going
back there to see if everybody was okay You know
at the time my wife and and even my family members
were like, hey, maybe you should just sit down
and watch Because even like Pete was back there,
right? Little like a little gorilla area Yeah,
it was kind of taken care of but I felt like
oh no, I like I have to be you know kind of facilitating
things because I this is my show, you know along
with the other guys it was right right I was
part of the show and You know, I felt like I
had to facilitate things So I didn't really get
to sit down and watch everything up until like
the main event so which is the match that I kind
of put together right and You know, I didn't
really get like I said, I didn't get to enjoy
it. But now Even the first couple of shows here
at swept there I didn't really get to sit down
and enjoy I would have wrestlers come up to me
and ask like hey What did you think of the match
and honestly guys? I didn't really get to watch
it I'm sorry. I was kind of running back and
forth, but you know we I have the video You know
I'll go to go back and watch it review it Yeah,
view it and you know I'll give you my perspective
from like a fan standpoint because I'm not a
wrestler I'm not a producer. I really don't know
right. You know what what to critique you on
this Unless it's from a fan standpoint, right?
So and even to this day like I kind of tell the
guys that even though now I have more experience
I still tell the guys like look I'm gonna critique
you from a from a fan standpoint Again, cuz I'm
still not a wrestler. I can't tell you you know,
you should have done this this and this right
but from from like just me being a fan like this
is what I Would have thought could have happened
or this is what I liked about it. So right that's
that's kind of how that goes But yeah, how many
shows do you have under your belt already man
so far? So, I mean now that what's already been
like two years already over three and a half
almost three Yeah, how many how many shows more
honestly lost count? The first year we did about
once a month So that was at least, you know ten
to twelve, I think we skipped like one or two
The second year, I think we did maybe about the
same This year, we're on our fifth show. So I
kind of spread things out on these a little bit,
just because where I've seen it, Ray, things
are a little bit bigger. There's a ton of wrestling
already going on every week, you know, here either
at the landmark or other promotions that might
be doing something. So I figured, okay, you know
what, I need to make my show a little bit different,
make it a little bit bigger, have a bigger budget
for it. And then, you know, have it maybe once
every six to eight weeks. so that way you know
it gives fans time to kind of think right to
kind of like plan for it ahead of time too exactly
so that that's you know we've i think we were
maybe like at five shows now and that's that's
i'm sorry go ahead no i was just gonna say like
i know you were mentioning like that one fan
who said oh i would have paid like 40 dollars
for a front seat what's what's been other uh
you know feedback from the fans um you know the
it's kind of hard to kind of gauge what the feedback
is, because everything is like, in the moment
that it happens that people are coming to me,
oh, this is so good, this is so good. I don't
get a ton of feedback, you know, after the fact
when people have already digested things. But
it's mostly been positive. I think kind of like
the only hiccups we've ever had are kind of like
technical difficulties. But as far as matches,
what I focus on a lot, and I say this almost
all the time, I probably even said it just a
while ago, I focus on the quality that matches.
So when these you know, our locals, that was
the whole reason for me starting Combat Colt.
I really wanted to emphasize local talent, and
I figured, what's a better way to do it? I mean,
they wrestle each other all the time, right?
They're gonna know each other, they might just
start going through the motions. Let me start
bringing some talent from out of town that can
kind of mix it up with them, and that way, it's
honestly brought out the best in them. You know,
Kika Caballero. I love Kike. I don't know if
you guys have had him on the show before. Not
yet, not yet, not yet, not yet. He's a cool dude.
He had a match with our champion Brick Savage
in... Jesus, what was it? I think March. When
you have to think about, I mean, you know, and
that's one thing I was talking to you about ago.
We were talking about in the vehicle on the way
over, he goes, it's weird how, you know, like
you said. You know, they got the stimulus check
what's ever what so have you and people go out
and buy this high caliber equipment Like crazy.
Yeah, you know, they go nuts and then yeah, let's
start our own show or let's go do a wrestling
show I want to open my own business. Yeah, and
they're doing it and it's like By the third week
they're gone, you know, and it's like I'm telling
you to write I said about consistency, right?
Yep I mean it's all about cuz consistency and
that's something that you have to be constantly
coming out with a show every week You know, and
I mean have you found that challenging for you
too? I mean, I know that being I know you've
been having shows, you know here and there but
do you feel it challenging after a while we have
to Constantly have to be you know, I gotta get
this show up and running because if I don't do
it No one's gonna do it. Yeah I think having
the six week gap, like the six to eight week
gap kind of helps a little bit. When we were
doing once a month, I felt the pressure more
there because it was like, just like you said,
like, all right, I got to get the ball rolling
on this. I got to get the ball rolling on this.
Having that gap now, you know, six to eight weeks,
it's a little bit easier, but no, like it's,
it's still, there's still pressure on me because,
you know, I still got to put the match together,
the match card together. I got to, you know,
figure out finances for it all. Budgetary stuff.
you know, sometimes some talents aren't available,
so now I gotta work around that. Sometimes, you
know, the week of the show, somebody might say
I'm not available, you know, something came up
and I'm not gonna be able to make it, so now
I gotta scramble to figure that out. So it, you
know, the pressure's definitely on there, but
now with that six to eight weeks, I have plenty
of time to, you know, start marketing, start
putting out graphics, start... you know, going
around and passing out flyers, all my social
media stuff, get the guys, you know, to make
promos or whatever it might be. So, you know,
I think having it less frequently has helped
out a lot. And I would love to get to something
like weekly shows. But I'm afraid that it might
affect the, like I said, the quality of what's
going to happen. I got you, I got you. Spread,
or not spread so much, but I'm going to have
to kind of like, OK, I got a plan this week,
and this week, and this week. So I don't have
to put that much attention into what's going
on. Maybe if I had a bigger team to help out
with stuff like that. I mean, WWE has a huge
freaking team. AEW has a team to do all of these
things. Where for me, it's kind of just me doing
a lot of the stuff and Pete and Nightmare helping
me out with, you know. some of the logistical
stuff but a lot of it's me like budgetary you
know I'm an accounting major for you know in
school right now right right so I'm doing all
the accounting a lot of the creative I'm doing
matchmaking is on me so you know having all these
hats if I were to do it you know every week I
would, I'd probably lose my mind honestly. Yeah,
I believe it. I believe it. I believe it. Yeah,
for sure. I believe you. Yeah, because I mean,
it's definitely like a moving vehicle. Yeah.
While you're trying to change the tires, you
know. No kidding, man. It's one thing after another.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, consider the fact, you
know, like this pod, you know, getting guests
to come in or you like yourself, you called us
up and say, man, I want to be when you have time.
Yeah, I love those. Those are my favorite guests
when they call in and tell me, hey, I want to
be your partner. You know what? I can do it.
Unfortunately, I'm kind of booked right now,
but I'll get you in. Yeah. But, you know, we
get that, too. We get like just now I had some
talent reach out to me and they're like, hey,
you know, we're interested in working with Combat
Cold. We're from, you know, this place, this
place. We've worked here and there. And it's
like, man, I already have like, I already have
most of my August and my October book, like I
already have plans, but I'd like to bring you
guys on. Right. So, you know, I get that a lot,
like all the time, we get tons of talent reaching
out to us, you know, that they want to work with
us. And, you know, a lot of it, it's kind of
just like I already had my plans. You know, if
somebody does drop out, then, you know, I'll
keep you in mind. But once I start planning over
because I try to plan like at a quarter of time,
you know Which ends up being like two shows now
that we're doing six to eight weeks, right? So,
you know, I try to plan ahead of time so that
way but it there's there's even like You know
some drawbacks to that because you you plan ahead
of time And like I said, some talent might say
yes now, but later on, it might be... At that
moment, they say, you know what, I can do it.
There's been like the day of that people call
me like, hey, I'm not going to be able to make
it. Oh, well. Car broke down or something happened
with the family. I'm not going to be able to
make it. I'm sorry. I don't hold any grudges.
I know life happens. It happens to me all the
time. So like I said, I don't hold grudges. You
know, we'll just figure it out on the next one
But it's kind of unfortunate because the next
one might be already booked up So, you know,
but I like I like the fact that you say you keep
you try to keep it like at least six to Yeah,
six to eight weeks apart from each other. Yeah,
which keeps the talent fresh and actually keeps
the Storyline up and running a little bit, you
know, yeah, and it keeps the manager on his on
his toes It keeps them awake But I mean consider
the fact that I mean eight six eight weeks in
between I mean For for a fan that that follows
you guys at one point. They're gonna be a little
bit of a limbo But at the same time they're like
looking forward to the next one. Yeah, what's
gonna happen next? You know so I mean have you
received have you have you had any fans come
to you and ask you that go in and say hey, man
What's going on? Why are you all taking so long
to do a match? I've had a few, not in those words,
but I have had a few that are like, hey, how
come you don't do them once a month again? Or
how come you don't try every week? And it, you
know, I don't want to like, not that I don't,
like I said, I don't want to do every week because
I would love to do something like that. But it's
just the constraints, you know, a lot of, you
know, the talent has to be available. Yeah, I
can't book my champion brick savage every week
right brick savage is is booked up, you know
Every weekend so I can't tell brick come over
here, you know For the next like three weeks
and take a week off and do it. You know, he's
right, you know bricks getting paid Right other
places too. So that's kind of the hard thing
about having independent contractors is you know,
they're not always available, right? They're
gonna take the bookings as they see fit. Yeah,
I see videos in the guy That's a big boy gives
a gives Pete paying around for his money Had
a match together Oh compete with another another
gentleman in Brownsville and I didn't get to
watch the match, but I heard you know, it was
pretty good the Titans I feel sorry for that
ring. I'm itching to see them in a match together.
I got to make that happen pretty soon. I got
it. He don't hold grudges. He just has pain squish
you. That pretty much does it. Fair. Is that
what happened to Kaka Watanabe? He hasn't been
here in a while, but don't worry, he'll be back
soon enough. But yeah, man, I mean, I've seen
this. I've seen this guy's videos. I've seen
him in action on some of the on his YouTube.
And also, I think he has a TikTok also. And I
was checking him out. I go, boy, this boy. These
guys, he's a big boy. Yeah, Brick. He's a big
boy. Brick's not signed yet, but I wouldn't be
surprised if Brick gets signed by the end of
the year, you know, or next year. It's very soon
because Brick... He's definitely contract worthy.
Very talented. Very big boy. Very talented. Brick's
gotten a couple of opportunities. You know, like
I said, I wouldn't be surprised if Brick gets
signed in, you know, a year from now. You know,
I don't doubt it That boy that's a big boy. Now
when it comes to I know you say you bring down
talent down and to wrestle with your boys down
here I know a lot of them I I've heard stories
from some wrestlers that are there in different
different organizations they tell me that I look
forward to it because it's It's like a training
method for them because these guys are They've
been around, you know, they've wrestled different
places and they talk on the feedback on that.
They go, this is the feedback they want. Has
any of these wrestlers come and talk to you about,
I mean, how to organize your wrestling matches
or what's a plan for this? What's the plan for
that? Or you say, man, I do my thing. You don't
worry about it. So I'm very collaborative. If
a talent comes to me and suggest something. I'm
open to the discussion. I'm not going to completely
dismiss it and say, well, I know what I'm doing.
That's not me. Even if I was Vince McMahon, I
think I would listen to the talent a little bit
and get their perspective on things because they
know their character. They know them as a person.
They know their capabilities, their weaknesses
and their strengths. So if a talent comes to
me and suggests something, I'll keep an open
ear to it. If I think they're and most of the
time, like 90 % of the time, they're not being,
you know, marks for themselves. You know, they're
not just doing it to, to get them to win, you
know, a championship or even a match, right?
They're kind of just suggesting things, the way
things can can go and whatnot. So, you know,
like I said, I'm open to the to the discussion.
But at the end of the day, I do have the last
say, right? what about a perhaps a business partner
if this if it gets big enough or you know, so
we've I've been in those shoes before and I was
very at the time I was very open to a lot of
the things even if I didn't agree with them.
Okay, I kind of just said okay, you know what,
let's see what happens and see if it works. If
it works, cool. If it doesn't, you know, we'll
we'll have to reevaluate what we're doing. Right.
And, you know, not everybody does think that
way though. So, you know, if you're not taking
the advice that, you know, somebody else has
given you and something fails, you know, you
do really have to kind of think maybe I should
have listened to this person. But, you know,
as far as business partners, you know, I kind
of see Pete and Nightmare in that sense. Right.
I do take a lot of their advice. You know, and
I kind of listen to it. There are some things
that, you know, they're, they're Pete and nightmare.
They're, they're wrestlers, you know, they're
wrestlers. So we're doing it this way. Don't
chop people. They're wrestlers. So they see it
a certain way where I'm not a wrestler. So I,
I'm, I'm coming from this, from a business perspective.
perspective. Right. So I might see it a differently.
And, you know, at the end of the day, we, you
know, we'll come to an agreement, you know, where
we're very, like I said, collaborative. I think,
I think being in a collaborative kind of thing
kind of is important. We've all had those bosses
before that are, you know, dictators, you know,
what they say goes and we all fucking hate that
guy. Yeah, so You know when when when I got in
the position that I am I'm very open to listening
to two suggestions But yeah, you know to answer
your question like business partner wise I try
to I Try to keep that open ear that open mind
but I still need to keep that sense of Okay,
this is this is the project that we have this
is the goal that I'm trying to accomplish with
with this business I can't deviate too much from
that. So you want to keep it independent for
a little while? Yeah, just a little bit. Like
I said, I'm open to business partners. I actually
spoke with somebody recently who's interested
in jumping in and buying a piece of the company.
And I'm open to the idea. I just think we need
to have the right mindset. We need to be able
to gel and mesh correctly. Yeah, it's the right
partner. It's just like anything else. Exactly.
Because the first time I was opened up to a partnership,
that didn't happen so much. Right. You know,
and, you know, God bless, you know, that that
company is now doing their own thing, and we're
doing our own thing. But that didn't really kind
of, that wasn't really the right fit, I guess.
Sure. And, and, you know, now, if somebody wants
to come in, like the gentleman I spoke with,
you know, we had a very long discussion, we kind
of agreed to sit down for one hour, and we ended
up sitting down for like, three hours, just talking,
yeah, just talking about business and not just
wrestling business, but business itself. And
the morning they made waffles. It was a very
good conversation and I'm excited to see where
that goes, if it goes anywhere. But at the end
of the day, this is business and if I... If business
makes sense and I do get a business partner for
that, then yeah, we have to collaborate on that.
Yeah, because the only reason I ask is because
I keep hearing how the Valley is growing and
the attendance at events like this is any indication
that yeah, I'm sure a lot of people want to jump
in right now. you know, strike while the iron
is hot. Yeah, definitely. And, you know, I was
just wondering if that's like something that's
ever come up before. Yeah, it definitely has.
And I'm sure it'll come up again. I think a lot
of what we're doing, I mean, we're only like
I said, we're only three years old. So we're
barely getting, you know, the the momentum that
we that we need. Right. And people are starting
to listen. They're starting to, you know, turn
their eye like, oh, what's going on over here?
You know, I think our product is very different
from from other products down here. You know,
I think a lot of places here focus on like family
entertainment. Sure. And not to say that we're
not family friendly. We still keep a very almost
clean show. But I figure, you know, there's there's
some stuff to be desired. There's I think. In
the 90s, one of the biggest things was ECW. ECW
was crazy. It had a cult -like following. Even
to this day, people talk about ECW. Did it do
great business -wise? No. You can sit down and
watch any ECW documentary and it'll tell you
how... you know, financially, it wasn't working.
But it's a different day and age now. You know,
we, we culturally, it had a really big impact
even on on WWE or ECW or WCW. Like, yes, they
were poaching talent from there. They were that
was kind of like a farm system almost. Yeah.
And, you know, even now, today's wrestling, a
lot of people, you know, they'll say, guys like
Sabu were their were their inspiration or Rob
Van Dam or whoever. So ECW had a Huge following
and I kind of look I don't want to say we're
ECW like at all because ECW was just it's it's
so different yeah, but I I kind of want to say
we're We're similar in that aspect where we're
kind of focusing more on the mature side of stuff
Not that we're having you know strippers at our
show or right right right that you know But we
it's more the sports side of yeah, it was kind
of the sports side of it kind of the the competition
based aspect of wrestling with a little bit of
an edgy side to it. You look at our logo and
it's a freaking reaper with a coffin and the
name Combat Colt. You can't go to a school with
that in front of kindergarteners and say, hey,
this is Combat Colt Wrestling. We're your friends.
What's a colt? Wanted to win that cool. They
offered me Kool -Aid Enough with the Kool -Aid
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here on a combat call. The owner of the... I
guess you could say, I always want to say...
Promotion. Promotion is a good word. We'll use
promotion. Write that down somewhere. Let me
write it down. Switching gears. We know there's
a big event coming up in your neck of the woods.
Oh, yeah. I think I have a picture of it right
now. Let me see if I have it here real quick.
We have a poster too. We got a poster also. I'm
gonna put this on there so they can see the QR
code real quick. Oh, you want to show the poster?
Put the poster up. Go for it. It's all you right
there. I hold it. You hold it? Okay. Anything's
better than covering Chu's face. So pick it up
a little higher than Chu. A little bit higher.
Perfect. That ugly mug is covered. I'm still
here. Talk to us a little bit about this event
coming up there. Yeah, so June 8th again at the
Cine Rey. Historic Cine Rey will be there. I
believe doors open at 4, show starts at 5. We
have some great matches coming up ahead. I do
have to unfortunately announce that Nikki Fuego
versus Tina Nix will not be happening. We had
them scheduled to wrestle and Nikki will be in
Florida. Yes! She will be in Florida. Are you
super excited for her? Hacinto reached out to
me and told me about that man. I was at awe.
I was like, oh my god, dude. And I was seeing
the list. Is that why she hasn't returned my
call? She's big timeing you now. No, she's big
timeing now. Oh my god. I saw the list of people
on this. It was like an autograph session. Yeah,
they're going to have a con, like a wrestle con.
Yeah, a wrestle con. They have Hacksaw, Jim Duggins
on the ticket. They got grand girl that's on
there. They got, what's her name, Rosa? Thunder
Rosa. Thunder Rosa is going to be there also.
There's quite a few legends that will be in there
for someone here. Well two people actually because
Thunder Rosa is from around this area also. She
wrestled here. I think she's from California.
Yeah but I mean to have one of our own homegrown
to be out there. That is that's an achievement.
Big shout out to. Big shout out to. Big shout
out to. Congratulations Nikki. Nicky Fuego, man.
Yeah. Killing it already. Exactly. Oh, and I
got a Maria A tuning in here. This is a family
show. Yes, it is. Who told you that, Maria? It's
going to be a banger this Sunday. Yeah, it is.
I hope so, man. We have some good matches ahead,
you know, scheduled ahead. We have a Chris Austin
versus Exodus Prime. If you don't know who Exodus
Prime is, you just got to look him up. He's a
hell of a talent. He's made the I believe the
PWI top 100 already. Oh, wow. You know, he's
going to tangle with Chris. They have a little
feud going on right now. Really? Each of them
has cost each other, you know, a title match
or a title match. And they have some blood out
for each other. They actually got into a nice
little bra at the end of one of our shows in
January. Do I smell a cage match coming? I would
love to have a cage match. Maybe we can make
that happen. You can be the ref. I'll even shave
my head for you. That seems to be what needs
to be done. I can imagine you in a walker, hold
on, I'm almost there, hold on. All right, let
me get on the ground. One, two. Ah, Miller! Damn
it. Uh, no, but we got, we got them going on.
We have demo diamond versus daddy, Daniel East
mile. Okay. Uh, everybody loves daddy right now.
He's, he's, uh, fortunately he moved to Las Vegas,
Nevada, but he has been making appearances here,
you know, with, with combat cold. And I believe
he went out the landmark. Uh, so, you know, he's
a fan favorite, come out and watch him. He's
going to be wrestling demo diamond. Uh, demo
actually had a really great match with Daniel's
tag partner, Mooncat Franco. uh, back in January,
um, they actually all got to mix it up in a rumble
in April. And, um, you know, unfortunately, Munkat
and Daniel weren't, weren't, uh, the winner of
that, you know, would have loved to see them
win that there would have been a cool opportunity,
but, you know, demo kind of got in the middle
of that. So, uh, because you can say this is
a little bit of a grudge match too. And then,
you know, the big match, you know, we have plenty
of them, but the big one, the main event is actually
be James Blackheart versus our absolute champion
Brick Savage. Oh my gosh. So Blackheart was actually
our absolute champion for a good while, especially
when we were here at, you know, at Suerte. He
held that title for a good while. He defended
it, lost it to Brick last September. And, you
know, he's coming back for the throne. He's going
to come. come for brick and you know brick's
been putting on some some really good matches
with some of our locals uh like i said earlier
kiki caballero and him had a really good match
right um so we like i said blackheart coming
back for the throne we'll see if he can take
it Now I know I know just a heads up for those
that are watching I should have black heart on
the pod. I think late July His full stable will
be here. So that's gonna be that's gonna be interesting
So just tune in for the late Second to the last
week of July. He will be on in the podcast on
a Thursday night. So yeah, I got another Here's
is yeah, unfortunately, they had to pull Nikki
from the event. But they but that you guys are
for the support. Thank you guys for the support.
Thanks for my cold understanding. The family
will still be in Sina. God willing. All right.
And I got another one here. I said I got a Danger
Boy 19. Let's go. Hey, right here. And then money.
Once again, if I had money, I'd put it all back
on brick. Well, You and me both, sister. No,
it's like to black heart at all because black
heart is Italian and it is all right. Yeah. Brick
is, they call them, they call brick the world
breaker. Brick is, you know, and you know, when
they had that match back in September. We had
it at a tacos and tequila fest in McAllen. You
said the magic words there. Tacos and tequila.
And wrestling. And wrestling. In McAllen? They're
going to probably do it again this year. We'll
probably be there again. All right. But no, Blackheart
actually held his own with Brick. Austin was
in that match too. Austin's having some really
good matches. I wouldn't be surprised, you know,
him and Exodus kind of still show too. But yeah,
I know. I mean, we have tons of talent here in
the Valley. uh showcasing them you know against
some of some of the best in texas you know we
got stud stash coming stud stash used to wrestle
here yes i actually want to have on the podcast
i think when we're in the first studio he was
supposed to come down but unfortunately wasn't
able to so but that's another guy i would love
to have in the pod yeah stud is awesome man um
he's been doing some really good stuff in san
antonio with united 210 uh i know they had a
little hiccup i don't you might have seen it
on like on facebook uh I know they're having
some trouble with their space where they perform.
But Stud's doing some really cool stuff. Excited
to have Stud back here in McAllen. We've had
him for one of our shows last year when we were
collaborating with another company. Reached out
to us. He said he wanted to come down again.
And you know, I'm excited to have him. Yeah,
man. I mean, he comes with that bike fender.
That bike is dangerous, bro. He'll be actually
having a match with Ethan Hunter who is right
in the top corner next to Blackheart on the poster.
Okay, Ethan Hunter is the boracho pro straight
shooter champion. I believe it'll be a non title
match. But they actually have another match in
San Antonio the following in two weeks after
our event for the title. So if anybody wants
to make a trip out to San Antonio. They'll be
having a really cool match out there with Blackbird
Pro, who will actually be collaborating with
the show. And if you guys are looking at that
poster right there right now, I have it on the
big screen right now. You're looking at that
poster, that brick right there in front, that's
actual size. That's how big he is compared to
the other ones. That's actual life size right
there. Fit to scale? Perfect. He took most of
the poster. He's really heavy too. Make sure
you get that QR code to get more information,
get the tickets, and it will be on June 8th,
this Sunday the historical Sina de Rey Guys to
get your tickets get out there and support not
only your local Wrestlers, but all these talents
that are coming down to come showcase down here.
That's that's a must guys. That's a must I got
more people come out to you. I got a Danny Boy
19 Savage is king and I got a danger boy saying
face blue wide eyes okay inside joke good point
he's got a good point all right then we'll leave
it at that because that's a chew joke uh but
but anyways so i like the fact i mean i'm gonna
tell you something right now man i like the fact
that you guys not with a lot of the promotions
here in the valley that it's uh It's an open
like I guess open campus. I'm not sure they can
use that word. Anybody know what open campus
is you're my age. Oh Open campus for you guards
here We can walk out and go to another promotion
and do that I think that's to me that's uh That's
a lot of love for a lot of promotions down here,
man. I mean do you How do you see that? I mean
as far because I've seen some of these new breed
wrestlers go Over a comic call see some of the
comic called coming a new breed. It's it's a
it's a beautiful sharing mechanism You guys have
going on right now. I mean, I know like I said
yours is basically Six to eight weeks. Yeah,
so some of these guys jump back to do their thing
and then they come back to you again I mean has
there ever been an issue where? You know, you
know what? Oh, man, I got injured over here by
a guy general on a promotion over here. Has there
ever been an issue like that? Not injury wise.
I don't not that I can recall. We have had some
instances where, you know, they're going to be
booked at one show and then another one that
ours or whatever. And not just that landmark,
but other shows. It's happened before. I'm good
with them. You know, if they're good with it,
working both shows. Uh, I believe, you know,
Danny chance over there at new breed is, is cool
with it too. Um, but as far as like, you know,
somebody, like I had somebody in advertised and
then they get injured. No, I haven't had that.
I don't believe Danny has knock on wood. Yeah,
everybody just knock on wood, knock on wood,
knock on wood, knock on a virgin. Um, but, uh,
but no, um, it, it does get a little, um, intricate
when you have to plan around these kind of things
right for both sides because you know, we we
want the guys to get The most out of you know,
the weekend that they can because they you know,
they're not gonna get this weekend back But we
also we are kind of concerned if they're gonna
get injured or not, right? So You know, luckily
we haven't run into that issue But it can get
it can get a little I Guess It can't get a little
difficult trying to to plan around these. Yeah
Like I see I can understand that yeah, so yeah
I know a lot of a lot of our local talent hasn't
been like pulled out of any any of our shows
It's mostly been like out of towners for whatever
reasons. That's good. That's good. I got Mary
A's I can't wait I already had my VIP front -row
seat Wow get the blood and sweat and tears right
right there. I got danger boy for you He put
something up here. I know what this is. It's
super chat okay 499 i don't know what that is
buddy okay he's saying let's go that's his only
fans uh celebrating my birthday with the combat
colt family and danger boys saying join the colt
combat colt yeah there you go there you go but
uh it's crazy man i mean you got you so so far
i mean i've been to a combat colt uh event uh
i know when you guys had to hear it uh close
with the downstairs man i It was interesting,
I took my boy to go watch that. I've taken him
to see the dark shows for WWE when they come
down here to the RGB and stuff like that. And
he's excited, he's great, everything. But that
one - particular event you had here, he just
lost it, man. He was going nuts. Kick him! Kick
him in the face! Hit him in the family! Look
at him like, damn boy! What's going on? But he
loved it. And I mean, it's a family, like I said,
it's a family -oriented event. You come out,
have a good time. I mean, takes me back when
I was a kid. My dad used to take me to recent
events. You know, that's what's so cool about
all these promotions here in the RGB. You miss
one, there's another one coming up. You miss
that one, there's another one coming up. you
get the opportunity to jump on most of the time
it like I said the the the transfers of different
promotions using the same you know wrestlers
and everything and you know and it's funny because
sometimes some of the storylines carry over yeah
to uh to other areas you know and one that I
watch a lot they're watching a lot I mean I'm
just gonna switch gears again here is what The
the guy I'm watching I love Mooncat. I like would
love to watch Mooncats one hell of a oh, yeah,
I love watching the rest of the guys Guys like
I'm a lot more if you'd return our phone He talks
to the moon Comes back to you yeah and The but
the one that caught my eye now the one that's
cut my all now While these promotions and he's
doing all these little skits he does It is is
uh maravilla maravilla, man. He's He's been frank
the tank frank the tank man. Oh my gosh You were
here when we all actually with quest was here
Yeah, when in the first episode we had in our
studio He came in him and uh, and uh, big uh,
big poppy were here and uh, they were all popping
uh, these little poppers that were in here this
guy This guy he's He is a great wrestler And
I hate to bring, if you guys are WWE fans, I
hate to bring this up. But he reminds me so much
of our truth. I don't know why. And right now,
knowing the fact that our truth is no longer
WWE, which I am really ticked off right now.
We want truth. If you watched Raw last night
- Last night, they were chanting it. They were
chanting it, and they had to literally - We believe
it all the audience out tone them out and just
put audio over that chat through every single
batch I mean my point is you get what the fans
want You get what the fans want and Frank doesn't
man every week he could mostly almost every week
He comes out with these little skits and they're
hilarious a lot of them. They're very entertaining
He's a very entertaining individual. Do you?
Tell your your wrestlers a man You need to do
stuff like this. We do. Have you reached out
to anyone yet? We need to start. Oh great, now
I got Hanzito Zane here. Yeah, who likes STDs?
STDs. Oh my God, really? We have to go there,
guys. Come on. He really does. Shut up. He loves
them. Your your wrestlers in your promotion.
Do you try to help kind of push a little bit
or you let them do that on their own? So I do
ask for them. I don't make a mandatory some places
do We have had a couple of we call them promos,
you know, some of the guys cut promos. Yeah But
Frank's promos, I've seen him guys wild you know
and uh when he's ready for a combat ring we'll
be there but um yeah he to that caliber i don't
there's there's maybe been like a handful that
we've had like that like with franks yeah uh
dandy daniel he he cuts some uh some very very
powerful ones sometimes right right um and uh
kike kawairo cut one not too long ago before
his match with brick That one was pretty cool,
too. And we don't really implement them a lot
on our social media as much as we do on our match
episodes. So we upload our matches on YouTube.
Right now, I believe we're barely starting our
matches from March. But we try to implement any
promos that the guys put on there. We let them
post it on their social medias. We don't really
post it on ours. But as soon as our YouTube videos
drop, that's normally where their problems will
be. So that way, the audience who I was watching,
who might have missed the actual show or wasn't
on social media or looking at our stuff at that
time, if they're watching our YouTube videos,
they can kind of see what... What transpired
before to get to that right right to get to that
match? So yeah, cuz every time I see him I just
like the way he starts off Frank Is there fun
to watch and I need it I need to step into you
some of the guys he did you promote for your
oh, yeah, you're I keep saying sponsorship But
uh, you know, I've seen I've seen those man there
and they're so entertaining man. I love watching
good promos like that Yeah, they're fun to watch.
I feel like that's what's missing. Honestly between
you know, you know Frank puts them out you know
a handful of other guys do too, but if you look
at wrestling in the big leagues like WWE's and
AEW's their promo work is different like it's
it's up there and that's what connects with people,
you know You're gonna get in the ring. You're
gonna you know you're gonna get people to to
cheer for you or whatever right right but let's
just say you're a new fan you know and and you
say hey this combat colt thing looks pretty cool
let me go on their social medias or let me go
on youtube to see what they're about you know
and they see let's just say you know a daddy
galvan you know who's this guy i don't know he's
he's holding up his finger you know on the poster
but i don't know who he is right well Let me
watch this little clip. That's going to tell
you who that wrestler is. That's going to tell
you why they wrestle for, you know, for what
they wrestle for. What promotion exactly or what's
going on in that promotion, why they're going
to even have that match. Right. You know, I think
promos are very important. I don't tell the guys
to shoot them because I want more content, which
it does help. Right. But I want them to one,
I want them to, to exercise that. that muscle
in them, you know, right? You know, if you're
not cutting promos, you're not getting better
at them. Right. And if you want to you want to
be anywhere, you're going to have to cut these
eventually. So I want them to practice that.
And I want them to be able to explain that narrative
before the match. So that way, when the match
happens, it's it makes it that much clearer.
I got you. Maybe if there's any up and coming
media consultants that want to help them out
with that, bro, bro. Maybe. I don't know, bro.
Maybe. I see it. You see, the way I see it, I
would do promos like back in the 90s, though.
He used to do short promos. Yeah. Just like DDR
and X used to do the promos. Stuff like that,
man. Just watch it. Our old 80s, too. Those were
awesome. The guy with the little microphone.
What do you want to say? Yeah. Mean Geno. Mean
Geno. Mean Geno. But you know. that's the cool
thing about a lot of the valley talent man they
have so much talent they don't the people need
to come out and see these shows man yeah you
see these shows and be and be associated be a
fan be a huge fan to keep this wrestling scene
alive and and they're doing it and they're doing
it yeah social media is where they can follow
you they're ready uh if you're on instagram and
tiktok which we don't really use a lot uh instagram
tiktok and facebook we're at combat cult wrestling
If you're on Twitter slash X we are at combat
colt fight, right? And I got you holding up the
hold on sorry wrong picture right there He's
only not that bad boy heat. That's cute QR code
right there. So you can find out what was that?
What's going on? I have his another QR code right
there for combat cold wrestling for upcoming
events Hit them up man. They got some great stuff
coming on great stuff coming on You do not want
to miss but there you go, man. Are we going exit
all that stuff out here? but uh hold on i got
some more people tuning in real quick let me
get this real fast so it's almost over read that
he goes and i got another one here he goes since
nicky versus tina has to be uh pulled uh how
about chu and eddie really chu and eddie and
i guess i think i got five minutes to kick someone's
ass i've rolled with pete before so i think i
can hold my own yeah yeah i love the comment
I am a purple bull. I am going to scratch your
eyes out so hard. So why? I can't believe you,
buddy. Pass me the leg. Eddie, I want to say
thank you so much for coming on the podcast,
man. I mean, continue doing what you're doing,
bro. Keep your dream alive and all these young
wrestlers that are coming into your area alive.
Is there anywhere they can reach out to you if
they want, you know, try to get on your promotion
or anything like that? Follow the Combat Cold
page. Reach out to me. You know, just introduce
yourself. Tell me what your goals are and we'll
try to make it happen. Don't show up cold. Don't
just show up to like see me Well, you can that's
great to a lot of people shy away from that.
No show up to the show introduces That's what
I did. I showed up to WR introduced myself and
you know, I am where I am now, right? But don't
show up to this show. I'm sorry. Let me elaborate
don't show up to the show in trucks i'm ready
to go in there yeah bring your gear but no don't
do that don't jump into the ring like that bring
your gear ask if you can and you know we'll see
what happens but if if you if you want if you
are talent that wants to like possibly join the
show then then you know you Contact through the
contact right through the socials. I got has
it don't tell me what it's it hasn't been an
hour yet I got danger boys saying we want Martin
and come back Come back cold. Yeah, you know
what guys is he old enough? I think so Guys if
you watch that in particular remember what I
said Remember what I said guys the cameras right
on me right now remember what I said in that
episode. He is a Okay, what's the word I'm looking
for he's an opportunist the guy's an opportunist
he was he clarified it on our show That he was
an opportunist now. He also said if talks go
got that belt his best friend Quotes his best
friend got that belt He would be happy in the
happiest guy in the world for him. Remember Business
is business. That's all I'm gonna say to you
guys. Bullshit! No. Oh my gosh. No one stands
on business when they're on the bottom, dude.
I'm sorry, no. But anyways, Eddie, once again,
thank you so much for coming out and having some
fun with us, bro. All I can say is nothing but
best wishes to you, man, and hopefully it all...
comes together like a pair of butt cheeks and
uh works out for you bro because it's it's it's
there man well we are the shit so there you go
oh i was waiting for that one yeah ladies and
gentlemen that is our podcast for the night thank
you so much for watching uh we will be back thursday
night next week at 7 30 with a young gentleman
who owns a ranch horse stables deep yep horse
stables horse stables it's gonna be an issue
a young gentleman he's not even 21 yet and he
owns there's gonna be a pony in the studio isn't
it no not funny for you buddy trust me not funny
for you not my little pony you little jabroni
nothing like that but uh ladies and gentlemen
thank you so much for tuning in true any last
words because you've been requesting so much
The leg's coming off. No, we're going to take
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buddy.