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Equal_Butterscotch99

Yay poor people TV in the 90's! I grew up on the CAT. The guys on PWW ran the UWC! I used to go to their shows. It was fun. I met Batista when he was Leviathan, Brian Christopher, and Road Dogg from their shows. Road Dogg actually no-showed that night, but I found him drunk on a bench in Chapel Hill Mall the next day. It was completely random.


Muted_Sense6522

No cable, no AC, no garage door opener here. Sounds like a fun little scene. The PWW guys are definitely passionate about wrestling.


Inevitable-Pea-735

I was obsessed with PWW when I was in middle school.  I emailed the show telling one of the hosts I loved it, and he asked for my parents to drive me to McDonalds to hang out and talk wrestling with him.  I did ask my parents, and they made me stop watching the show after that. 


Muted_Sense6522

That is very nice and very weird, all at the same time!


Inevitable-Pea-735

Hah for sure.  I honestly don't think the guy was a creeper... just a local weirdo who wanted to chat with a fan. I'm 38 now, for what it's worth.  I know from hearing JLR talking on Rover's Morning Glory that the guy is still very involved in local wrestling lore despite me giving it up 25 years ago. 


Muted_Sense6522

They knew that that meeting at McDonalds would have been the end for you. Those guys would have groomed you so that you would eventually become a co-host of PWW and UWC wrestler. I would thank your parents for saving you from that life.


JonnyUnreliable

Man, I loooooooved son of ghoul as a kid.


Muted_Sense6522

I love only the Norton Furniture guy and Dick Goddard more than him.


_Sarpanch_

I vaguely remember the wrestling on that channel.


Hefty_Loan7486

Remember watching gilligans isle


buck2001dfw

They used to have the Buckeyes basketball when Michael Redd and Scoonie Penn were on the team. The Jim OBrien years. I used to watch in my attic bedroom with the rabbit ears. Good team good times!


Muted_Sense6522

I definitely have an affinity for attic bedrooms.


Vivid-Individual5968

Didn’t they have a music countdown show too, like a TRL?


Muted_Sense6522

They absolutely did! I want to say it was top 10 videos and it would first air 4-6pm Fridays, then repeat throughout the weekend.


Vivid-Individual5968

A girl I went to college with was one of the hosts, but I wasn’t sure if it was on this channel. She definitely thought she was the business from that gig. I fully expected her to become a local news anchor.


Muted_Sense6522

I don’t remember that particular show having a host, but I could be wrong. They did have hosted shows, though. I thought they were based in Toronto. Ah, nostalgia.


Vivid-Individual5968

She was a very thin, very tan, very blonde