Tag: OVW

Left My Wallet: The ongoing life and times of ‘Hustler’ Rip Rogers

Posted on by Antonio Garza

Happy Thanksgiving as “Left My Wallet” returns with the one and only “Hustler” Rip Rogers!

Rip is the man responsible for training such stars as John Cena, Batista, Brock Lesnar, and all the OVW stars who went onto WWE stardom over the last 15 years. He is well known for his entertaining and honest tweets and in this hour long talk, he brings some of those sentiments to life! We discuss his friendship with Randy Savage, shooting hoops with Savage and the University of Kentucky basketball team, some inside stories on Savage’s minor league baseball career, his day as a Washington General and playing against Meadowlark Lemon and Curly Neal, his boxing career, his friendship with former UFC champion Pat Militech, wrestling psychology and a ton more! 

As always, he pulls no punches in this candid and entertaining talk that ranges from sports to wrestling to great stories, and, of course,a few f-bombs from one of the best wrestling trainers anywhere.

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Wrestling Weekly: HWA & OVW veteran Trever Varney

Posted on by Victor Sosa

Les Thatcher and Victor Sosa has a different show this week as they are joined by Trever Varney who spent eight years in the business and got his start with Les in HWA. 

Trever worked in a number of places including OVW and had quite a few dark matches in WWE before stepping away from wrestling and becoming a successful entrepreneur. 

The conversation ranges from his start in HWA at the age of 18, calling matches on the fly, working with Dean Ambrose, living with Daniel Bryan, a very interesting look at CM Punk, what led him to leave wrestling to go into business for himself and how well that has worked out for him thanks in great part to what he learned during his time in wrestling.

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Ohio Valley Wrestling sold, new owner(s) announced Wednesday

Posted on by F4W Staff

Ohio Valley Wrestling, the brainchild of Danny Davis, which produced many of the biggest stars of modern wrestling including Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, and, to a degree, John Cena and Dave Bautista, is being sold.

Davis, who started the promotion in 1993, announced the company was being sold to a private investor, who was not named. Several years after the company was founded, it became the main developmental territory for WWE with the help of Jim Ross and Jim Cornette.

“I have been searching for the perfect person to carry on OVW’s legacy and I believe I’ve found them,” Davis said in a post on their website Tuesday. The new owners will be announced at the company’s television tapings Wednesday night at the Davis Arena in Louisville.