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Age of Rage Wrestling; Toronto's upstart territory
Topic Started: Apr 28 2017, 02:28 PM (111 Views)
dalbellorage
Carl Brutananadilewski
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AGE OF RAGE WRESTLING


In 2012, the UWF folded, leaving Toronto and eastern Canada devoid of a wrestling centre.

Enter Samantha Rage.

The third-born child of infamous wrestling outlaw Adrian Rage, known affectionately as “Mantha”, never stepped in the ring to compete, but she learned from her father’s mistakes and developed a keen business sense on how to run a promotion and how to plan financially for the present and the future.

Mantha Rage marshalled together her family’s fortune and ring expertise to open a Toronto-based promotion, Age of Rage Wrestling.

With a home base out of the Ricoh Colosseum in downtown Toronto, Age of Rage Wrestling promotes touring shows from Toronto through Quebec, the Maritimes and does four shows annually in Brooklyn, New York. They tape a weekly show once a month out of the Ricoh Colosseum.

Mantha created a wrestler friendly environment, developing talent to be launched to national promotions. Wrestlers are given guaranteed contracts, requiring they be present for TV tapings and are free otherwise to take TV bookings in exchange for a percentage of their earnings while under contract. This plus the money made on tour creates a relatively good living for a beginning independent wrestler.

Age of Rage focuses as much on promoting the women on its roster as it does the male wrestlers.

The Promotion was known for some of its intense storylines based.

The Schism was an early dominant storyline. As the promotion opened, Lauryn Rage came home to wrestle and expected to be treated like royalty by her family. She demanded to be handed the Women’s championship. She was shocked when Mantha declared that she would have to earn it just like everybody else.

The Rage family took sides, with the Misfits, Dalbello and Godiva Rage, standing by Lauryn and Mantha, Sierra Browne and Hall of Famer, Medusa Rage, taking a stand against nepotism. Lauryn was incensed that her family wouldn’t all stand behind her and crown her. She said it was because some people couldn’t handle that she was the smartest and best of them.

Lauryn began to back up her claim by beating Mantha’s handpicked competitors. Lauryn even beat Medusa in a match to prove that it was nothing but jealousy that fueled their refusal to crown her champion.

Lauryn then matched up with AoR newcomer, Guylain Chouinard, out of Montreal. Chouinard upset Lauryn in their first meeting. Lauryn flipped out and said it was a fluke. The rematch went no better. Lauryn was apoplectic. The big reveal was that Chouinard was secretly trained by the Misfits, who also didn’t believe in Lauryn’s spoiled brat ways and had her set up to see if she could really fend on her own. In a final match, Lauryn beat Chouinard to earn the respect of her fellow Rages.

On the men’s side the featured attraction was British Columbian, Logan Smith. He came to the Toronto territory with a Wolverine loner gimmick, brashly claiming to be the best in the business of fighting. He didn’t talk much outside of claiming to be the best in the business and the fans enjoyed his take-no-prisoners style.

This had him on a collision course with Arawak Jack Velez, the promotion’s stiffest fighter. Velez had the size, the mean streak and the pop up powerbomb that had laid everyone out. Both men would appear at each other’s matches, enter into staredowns and Velez struck the first blow, putting Logan through a table with the pop up powerbomb.

The blowoff of the feud was a loser leaves town cage match. The fight lasted 60 minutes and is a legendary episode of AoR television. The war of attrition saw Logan Smith emerge the victor when Velez couldn’t answer a referee’s ten count. The ring mat was stained red that night.

But Logan Smith wasn’t the only violent feud in the fed. The Serpentines, then known as Rock Oliver and Lourdes De La Cruz Guzman, debuted, running roughshod over the women’s division. They claimed to represent the last and best of Medusa Rage’s once infamous stable and were out to claim her favour by showing everybody that they were more violent than any tag-team Medusa had been part of. They matched up against an athletic, appealing team in the Scarlet Ibises and their matches were touted around the horn as the match up of brute force versus speed and agility. Eventually the Irises won the feud at a Brooklyn show with Medusa in attendance at ringside.

Medusa also found the face of AoR in a young, wild Tennessee wrestler named Victoria June. Introduced in a contest to see who could hang with the “Toughest Chick on the Block” Jessica Tynes, June climbed out of the crowd into the ring and took a beating until she knocked out Tynes with a dramatic headbutt. The kid from Tennessee was a hit with her freckles, big blonde afro and green eyes and her eccentric Afro punk style of dress. She was terribly green in the ring and the fans got behind her as they watched her improve until she became the AoR women’s champion.

Turning on AoR wrestling now and you can see Victoria June battle Maylo McCormick and Amber Neves for her title while men’s champion, John Kotto, faces off against veteran “Pitbull” Paul Phillips and Luc Desjardins. Logan Smith is being challenged by Omar Khalid for the title of best in the business.

The next big thing may come out of AoR. Stay tuned.

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dalbellorage
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Guys feel free to add to the history or connect wrestlers to the territory if you wish. I'd love this to be a living document instead of just a vanity project for me. :)
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Career undercarder "Hapless" Harry Colston made a plea to the Rage family to allow his daughter Dani Colston a chance to ply her craft in AoR. Mantha agreed, airing a vignette about the upstar grappler from Vancouver.

In it, Dani revealed that she was determined to prove herself and not be a career undercarder like her beloved father. There was also some footage of her training with mentor and Vancouver legend Corey Irons, who gave glowing praise about her determination to always improve.

There was a caveat, however. Dani Colston would have to prove herself in a series of tryout matches before she'd be allowed onto the roster. The first of which was a blowout loss, which left Dani in tears. The second match was also a loss, but one which was much closer. Next came a close win, followed by a more convincing victory.

Seeing her gradual improvement from match to match, Mantha Rage agreed to give the rookie a chance on the main roster. Age of Rage Wrestling was returning home to Toronto after a successful visit to Brooklyn, and Dani was scheduled to kick things off, but she vowed to do her best and hopefully make an impact. Standing at the gorilla position, Hapless Harry at her side psyching her up, "Unbreakable" by Fireflight cued up over the Ricoh Colosseum's speakers. It was time to show the Toronto faithful what she was really made of.
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