Show: Wrestling Epicenter Guest: Zamaya Date: 07/07/2024 Your Host: James Walsh
Phoenix Championship Wrestling is Arizona’s fastest growing independent wrestling promotion. As a guy who grew up in New Jersey just over the river from New York City, we were spoiled for choice when it came to pro wrestling. If we didn’t have WWE wrestling at the Meadowlands Arena (later known as Continental Airlines Arena and the IZOD Center) or Madison Square Garden, several local independent promotions ran every weekend in nearby towns that were a hop, skip, and a jump from home. When I moved to Arizona in 2000, that was not the case. Frankly, there was no measurable independent scene in Arizona. Impact Zone Wrestling ran by Navajo Warrior sprang up in about 2005 and I, with the Arizona State University radio station, did some promotions with them. But, in 2024, the scene has …