Wrestling Merch I Saw Junking

In 2025 my wife and I had the house sided and did a lot of work on the inside.  To help decorate the house we've been going junking at flea markets, antique malls, and even yard sales.  We see a lot of cool stuff and sometimes I find wrestling stuff and I thought I would share on the blog some of these items.

We went to a big vintage sale at the Union Fairgrounds in Union, Maine.  It was mostly clothes with little of anything else, but I did see these items at a one booth.

Hulk Hogan t-shirt from 1989 that they were asking $98 for it.  I thought it was a bit ridiculous until I looked it up on ebay and saw one for $200 and poshmark for $500.  I had some Hogan shirts back in the day, I even still have my No Holds Barred shirt that I bought at my first WWF show in 1989, it's signed by Hogan as well.

I had both of these NES: Nintendo Entertainment Systems games when I was a kid.  Released in January 1989 WWF WrestleMania was the first WWF video game released on a home gaming console.  You could be WWF Superstars: Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Bam Bam Bigelow and The Honky Tonk Man.  Bam Bam did a cartwheel which was bad ass!

Tag Team Wrestling was an arcade game that came out in 1983 in Japan.  I remember playing it at the arcade back in the day, and even now you can at Fun Spot in New Hampshire.  It was later made for the NES game console, and others, being released in October 1986.  

We stopped at a new antique store in Pittston on Route 27, this poster was not for sale but was very cool!  The show on the poster is at the Portland Expo on Tuesday August 10th.  It doesn't list a year however in the years that Bruiser Brody wrestled of those years that August 10th fell on a Tuesday were in 1971, 1976, & 1982.  Using that data I could find no results on Cagematch, however on History Of WWE I found this listing:

WWWF @ Portland, ME – Expo Building – August 10, 1976 (1,600)

Kevin Sullivan pinned Rocky Tomayo at 11:03

Johnny Rodz fought Johnny Rivera to a 20-minute-time limit draw

SD Jones defeated Doug Gilbert via disqualification at 14:00

Chief Jay Strongbow, Billy White Wolf, & Ivan Putski defeated Bruiser Brody & WWWF Tag Team Champions the Executioners in a Best 2 out of 3 falls match

Also at this shop they had this Goldberg figure.  I actually had this and even remember pre-ordering it at Kaybee Toys when it was announced.  Released by San Francisco Toymakers in 1998 this 12 inch was a lame because it was not to scale with other WCW figures. 

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I went to 3 Wrestling Shows in 6 days in 3 Different States

I went to three wrestling shows in 3 different States in 6 days earlier this month.  Sunday July 12th in Manchester, New Hampshire to watch GCW Melee in Manchester.  Thursday July 16th in Boston, Massachusetts for AEW Collision at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway.  Lastly, Friday July 17th in Westbrook, Maine at the Armory for Limitless Wrestling Crunch Time.

There where two constants at all 3 shows, my buddy Mikey went to all three shows with me and we saw Bustah & The Brain: Alec Price & Jordan Oliver wrestle on all three of them.

Sunday the 12th we made a day of it going to Nashua, NH first for MonstahXpo where I met Tiffany Sheppis, a B Movie Scream Queen that I've been a fan of for 25 years who was amazing.  She actually was originally cast for David McLane's Women of Wrestling during their first season in 2000.

She was to play Madison, a million dollar man type character, but she left before the initial show for her own reasons.  She told me why, but I will let her share that.  She also told me an interesting story about the time she met "Mouth of the South" Jimmy Hart.

We then went to a baseball game, Manchester Fisher Cats vs. Portland Sea Dogs which the Dogs lost back 10 - 3.  I had never been to that stadium before, it's a nice ballfield.

We then made our way to the Bishop Leo O'Neill Youth Center.  There is no air conditioning in the venue so it was 105 degrees in there!  The show was great, a nice surprise to hear Rich Palladino ring announce a few of the matches, Bustah & The Brain vs. Star Struck II was, once again, tremendous, and Atticus Cogar grabbing Dijak's very young daughter by the hair and threatening to skewer her was WILD!

That Thursday July 16th I went to my second AEW show of the year, 11th AEW show overall, and it was an AEW Collision taping at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway.  I LOVE watching AEW shows at these unique non-arena venues. It's such a fun and different look on TV and especially in person.

We got 1 preshow ROH match, then Collision was taped and then they taped several more ROH matches for a Beantown Beatdown ROH YouTube special.  It was a decent show, I mean we had fun, but it wasn't the best AEW show that I've been to.

The final match of the night was an 8 man tag that saw Bustah & The Brain: Alec Price & Jordan Oliver and ROH Six-Man Tag Team Champions: The Outrunners: Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd defeated The Premier Athletes: Tony Nese & Ariya Daivari with Mark Sterling and The Swirl: Blake Christian & Lee Johnson when Jordan Oliver pinned Daivari.

Friday was my third and final wrestling show of the week, Limitless Wrestling Crunch Time at the Westbrook Armory.  Main event was a six man tag that saw The Limit: Limitless World Champion: Donovan Dijak, Anthony Greene, & Channing Thomas with Sidney Bakabella defeat Bustah & The Brain: Alec Price & Jordan Oliver and Leedz Lewis when Dijak pinned Lewis

This was a tremendous show overall, and yes I'm biased because Limitless is my home.

Lewis Leedz is awesome and has a remarkable future.  I saw him wrestle Joey Janela at GCW in Manchester and that was excellent, and then in the six man at Limitless he was right there step for step with everyone else in the match.

It was an awesome week, but a long one with several late nights.  After Saturday night at home, Sunday night a bunch of us went to the "Weird Al" Yankovic concert in Bangor.  I don't normally have this much crammed so close to each other.  It was a blast, tiring, but a blast! 

Until Next Time!

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Brian Hardy and United States Wrestling

June 27th to July 4th we were on our family vacation to Ocean City, Maryland.  My wife's aunt owns a condo and lets us use for a week each summer.  You can read all about this current vacation and past ones over at my my blog: 2026 Ocean City Adventure

On Sunday June 28th the weather was not the best with on and off rain and overcast all day.  We decided to hit up a few antique stores and antique malls and do some junking!  We were in Laurel, Delaware to go to the Out of the Attic Antique Mall.  I never actually made it into this antique store as in the same mall I saw a store front for USW: United States Wrestling, which I didn't know was there.

Whenever I travel somewhere for even 1 night, I'm always looking to see if there happens to be any wrestling shows, or really anything related to pro wrestling for me to check out.  That's how I ended up going to 1CW in 2023 when we were down in Ocean City for the week.

In researching this year I discovered USW but they had show the week prior to us coming down.  I had no idea about the store front so that was a tremendous surprise!

The owner / promoter / wrestler is second generation wrestler Brian Hardy, who was in the store front this day.  Brian has been wrestling for the better part of two decades and running his own promotion for over 15 years.

When you walk in the store the first thing you notice on the far end is the wrestling ring, hard not to!  They run the USW Academy here as well as monthly TV tapings for their weekly YouTube show USW Justice.  They have a second show that just started up, called USW Call Time, a behind the scenes style show.  Also on their YouTube page you can find their PPV shows.

The shop also has various wrestling merchandise from magazines, to action figures, and trading cards.  USW has their own series of trading card as well, I picked up a signed one from Brian from their series 9 set of cards.

Brian and I had a fantastic conversation about what we both love, pro wrestling.  He told me all about USW, we chatted about what we love about wrestling, the different brands and flavors of pro wrestling and what it means to us.  We even have friends in common!  This is one of the many reasons that I love pro wrestling, you can meet a complete stranger and walk away friends after a brief conversation thanks to pro wrestling.

One things I noticed behind the counter was a custom Jay Briscoe Ring of Honor World Championship title.  I asked Brian about it and he told me that he was close with Jay, that at 14 he would help them set up and tear down the ring.  After Jay's passing a mutual friend gifted Brian the belt, to display in the store.  USW is in the Briscoe's hometown of Laurel, and Jay's passing hit the community hard.

You can follow Brian on all his social media pages and catch him this August in Japan for Kanjuro Matsuyama's Matsuyamaza Pro Wrestling based out of Osaka.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialbrianhardy/

Follow USW on their social media pages: 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheOfficialUSW/featured 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedStatesWrestling 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theofficialusw/

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Until next time!