{"id":3257,"date":"2017-03-20T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2017-03-20T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:02:18","slug":"southpaw-regional-wrestling-last-great-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/03\/20\/southpaw-regional-wrestling-last-great-territory\/","title":{"rendered":"Southpaw Regional Wrestling: The Last Great Territory"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 1987, and it was the final days of the territories. One Southern promotion was determined to bet the bank on it’s biggest event of the year, The Lethal Leap Year<\/strong><\/em>, as it battled for the viewership against the WWF, AWA, NWA and more. But the tale of Southpaw Regional Wrestling<\/strong> is one that would live on in infamy. Sort of.<\/p>\n

Wrestling fans were treated to a rather unique spectacle from the WWE last week, when a rather bizarre trailer dropped, seemingly showing lost recordings from a Southern US territory known as Southpaw Regional Wrestling, finally aired for the first time ever. Of course, a simple glance of the teaser trailer indicated it was a fabrication of the WWE itself, with current stars portraying characters set in the wild and crazy days of the regional promotions who made up the territorial battles of the 1970’s and 1980’s.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uaQPgu6HaVE<\/p>\n

The teaser peaked the interest of eyes from the WWE faithful to the most cynical of skeptics and by the time the world had watched all four episodes – clocking in at approximately 25 minutes in total – the result was nearly unanimous. This fictional promotion may not only have been the funniest thing the WWE had created in decades, but the truest and most honest. For although the initial concept was the brainchild of WWE digital guy Brian Pellegatto<\/strong> (formerly of ESPN), according to Luke Gallows<\/strong> (who portrays one of the protagonists, Tex Ferguson<\/strong>), the characters themselves have been long standing backstage personas for years. As Gallows told FoxSports<\/a> just before the WWE series aired on YouTube:<\/p>\n

\u201cSouthpaw Regional Wrestling is a concept of this \u2026 basically 1980s southern regional wrestling promotion or territory, and it\u2019s a lot of stuff that the guys have been doing for years backstage to entertain each other. I know my character in particular has been an ongoing thing for the better part of a decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was really us getting to kind of take the gloves off and use our\u2026 comedic style, if there is one. You\u2019ll get the chance to judge for yourself, but you\u2019ll see a lot of people step outside of the realm of what you\u2019ve seen them do, character-wise, and as in-ring performers as a part of WWE. So it\u2019s kind of a chance for everybody to let their hair down. I didn\u2019t get to because I don\u2019t have any, but everybody else. And we had a blast doing it, man.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Without further adieu, here are the complete four episodes of Southpaw Regional Wrestling.<\/p>\n

EPISODE 1<\/p>\n