{"id":16211,"date":"2018-03-28T21:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=16211"},"modified":"2018-03-28T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T01:01:29","slug":"leaving-reseda-pwg-moving-to-new-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/28\/leaving-reseda-pwg-moving-to-new-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Reseda: PWG Moving To New Venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2008, PWG is moving its homebase. <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla<\/strong> announced tonight on their Twitter that after a decade in Reseda, California at the American Legion Hall, PWG is moving on to a new hometown.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PWG says goodbye to Reseda. The final three shows at the American Legion Hall will take place on April 20th\/21st, and May 25th!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PWG (@OfficialPWG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPWG\/status\/979149242081005568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>PWG is kind of like a hermit crab promotion &#8211; it finds its comfortable shell of a home and once it&#8217;s outgrown its size, it moves onto the next one. It spent 2003, its first year, based out of Los Angeles (primarily at the <strong>Westside Jewish Community Center<\/strong>), where it was averaging about 125 people per show. In 2004, they moved to <strong>Elks Lodge<\/strong> in Santa Ana, California, where they began to push nearly 200 fans. By the end of the year, they&#8217;d moved back to LA, and\u00a0<strong>Hollywood-Los Feliz Jewish Community Center<\/strong>, where they began to best 200 people on a regular basis. By the fall of 2006, they were starting to burst at the seams, pushing past 300. For the second annual <em><strong>Battle of Los Angeles<\/strong><\/em>, they relocated to <strong>American Legion Post #308<\/strong> in Reseda, where they began bringing in over 400 people on a regular basis. They briefly tried a few other spots in short runs &#8211; the Armoury in Van Nuys, then the Armory in Burbanks for <em><strong>BOLA &#8217;07<\/strong><\/em>, but from June 2008&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>It&#8217;s It (What Is It)<\/strong><\/em><em>,\u00a0<\/em>Reseda won the courtship and American Legion 308 became PWG&#8217;s <strong>Madison Square Garden<\/strong> or <strong>ECW Arena<\/strong>. Since then, only their three <em><strong>Kurt RussellReunion<\/strong><\/em> shows (held at LA&#8217;s Los Angeles Airport Westin Hotel) and 2014&#8217;s <strong>CZW\/PWG<\/strong> Supershow over <strong>WrestleMania<\/strong> weekend in 2014, have been held outside of the Legion in Reseda. Until this month&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/03\/19\/preview-pwg-time-is-a-flat-circle-3-23-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Time Is A Flat Circle<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Time Is A Flat Circle<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>was originally slated for the American Legion, just like every show had been for a decade, but at the end of February, PWG suddenly announced &#8220;an error with PayPal&#8221; that caused them to oversell the show. Instead of refunding ticket holders, they just decided to rebook the show somewhere else instead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to an error with PayPal, front row and general admission tickets oversold for Time Is a Flat Circle. Rather than refund everyone, the show will be moving to a bigger venue to accomodate everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PWG (@OfficialPWG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPWG\/status\/969057843247591425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That somewhere else was <strong>The Globe Theater<\/strong> back in Los Angeles &#8211; a venue that has a capacity of nearly 1700 people. A far cry from the 500 or so they were pushing with ease in Reseda. And while the official attendance for the show hasn&#8217;t been announced, PWG was surprising ready for the new larger venue. Photos soon emerged of PWG&#8217;s brand new stage set up, which was a remarkably modern upgrade compared to its regular look. And to begin the new era of PWG, <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/03\/24\/andnew-keith-lee-wins-pwg-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they crowned a new PWG World Heavyweight Champion in Keith Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16215\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16215 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/PWG-Pentagon-Jr-e1522284425314.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PWG BOLA 2017, the old entrance ramp in the back behind Penta El 0M (Photo: Mike Nolan \/ facebook.com\/MikeyNolanPhotography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New PWG set is pretty awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DGh7VF7h93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/DGh7VF7h93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jacob Cohen (@MrJacobCohen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrJacobCohen\/status\/977367661721001984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With a slicker looking set and moving to a better looking (and bigger) venue, one would wonder if they were upgrading appearances for something to do with film &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/16\/pwg-falling-behind-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">perhaps moving to a more up to date streaming service<\/a>. Either way, the new venue looks very chic and its buzz is pumping some new blood into the PWG legacy.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryansatin\/status\/969061612345729024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>While the new venue and location of the homebase has yet to be confirmed, most assume that it&#8217;s most likely The Globe Theater in LA and that <em>Time Is A Flat Circle\u00a0<\/em>was a test run. Whether it&#8217;s at The Globe Theater or another larger club in California, they&#8217;ve got a new set and desire to press forward, which is great to see in any promotion.\u00a0It&#8217;s also a clear sign that someone has <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2016\/10\/30\/super-dragon\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awoken the <strong>Super Dragon<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; hopefully enough to see him in the ring one more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2008, PWG is moving its homebase. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla announced tonight on their Twitter that after a decade in Reseda, California at the American Legion Hall, PWG is moving on to a new hometown. PWG says goodbye to Reseda. The final three shows at the American Legion Hall will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":16216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,9],"tags":[2419,95,2418],"class_list":["post-16211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","category-pwg","tag-pro-wrestling-guerrilla","tag-pwg","tag-reseda"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}