NWF Kids Pro Wrestling | Wrestling With Wregret 

I'm still waiting for a face turn for Old Man Tronson.

All jokes aside I’m waiting for the Dark Side of The Ring on NWF.

Wrestlemania 33 main event: old man tronson vs stunt granny hell in a cell. Book it lol 😂

It's like somethin outta South Park lol

Ya know... all of this sounds ... amazing. These kids manage to make a wrestling company, get funding, get material for a wrestling ring, beat a public access tv manager, produce a handful of supershows, get conned by some adults, get the law involved, get the property back and do all of this before bedtime. VINCE MCMAHON EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Old Man Tronson sounds like the name of someone who would dress up as a monster on Scooby-Doo, which wouldn't surprise me if Steve was really Tronson in disguise. *NWF Kids pull off Steve's mask*: "Old Man Tronson?!!" Old Man Tronson: "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

Tronson...You just made the list!

I actually have a fair amount of respect for these kids and it is such a different time back then, children were actually encouraged to follow their dreams back then.

Tronsen 3:16 says "I am standing next to a light switch and I know how to use it"

"looking back on it it was pretty childish on our part" Well technically... you were kids so its pretty understandable

"Old Man Tronson!" is now one of my fucking favorite things, lmao.

I'm going to be honest here. I was actually relieved when I heard that those two men stole the ring and money and nothing else. As soon as the video brought up that the 16 year old was actually 26, I thought it would end with a bad touch. "You kids want to be stars, don't you?"

I find it cool that they actually went on to do what they dreamed. That gets respect. The 26 year old part was so weird you'd think that guys gimmick was Jared Fogle lol

10 years since this on, damn time flies

I nearly pissed myself laughing, OLD MAN TRONSON!

Thank god they didn't have a women's division

8:51 even all these years later the way you flatly say "He killed Mr Daniels." gets one of the biggest laughs out of me because it's the exact kind of joke I make all the time

"Between the creepy old naked man and the two potheads that talk about why weed should be legal" This was the entire lineup of Portland Cable Access for, like, twenty years...oh, and Dutch Savage's gospel program.

ECW folded because they couldn't get a national TV deal. Yet somehow the NWF had one. Bizarre.

I can almost hear what old man "Old Man" Scott Tronson" would say to them: **Turns Out Lights** ""Kids...!!! Your time is UP my time is Now!"

it's amazing to me after being a wrestling fan for years, "grown ass man pretends to be 16 to steal a bunch of childrens' ring" ranks so high on my "scummy wrestling stories" list. that is just low...wonder what happened to them..

LOL 26 year old shows up and is like "hey my fellow teens...how bout that He Man show"

Ironically, "The two potheads talking about why marijuana should be legal" was the only part the auto-captioner got right.

9:45 Adults cheaper than children. Interesting.

Why is this so funny to me. I think this reminds me of that south park episode.

Little did Brian Zane know that he would one day pay for mocking The Annihilator. He would suffer a fate worse than death.

So if you go to the website www.nwfwrestling.org/index.html, they now have a hall of fame. This story gets better and better every time I hear it

I *almost* pitched an idea like this to my city's mayor at 17, then thought "WHAT THE FUCK AM I THINKING?!"

Shawn Crossen for the WWE Hall of Fame

“He killed Mr Daniels,” May have been one of the best one-liners you’ve ever done Brian (current date: 3/25/19)

The most insane part of this video is how hard these kids worked and never gave up. When I was 15 and really anticipating a magazine in the mail, if it was raining outside that was too much for me and I'd just wait until the next day or for someone else to check the mailbox. These kids make me feel lazier than Kevin Nash.

I might be the odd ball on this but I think nwf could still work or a kids wrestling show, but I would have it rin different. 1. Parents would have to sign a waiver. 2.I would expect them to know the basics. 3.Just like WWE Saturday Morning Slam, no head shots. 4.They would need to be watched closely.

The fact that the parents didn't do anything about the kids wrestling until it threatened their insurance policy is a good way to remember what boomers truly value.

"Where were the parents?!" That is the same question I have for the show "Cuties."

Wasn't this the plot of a South Park episode? Like... damn near shot for shot?

I went to that school .. Crazy to know wrestling was video taped in my town and school.

You should consider writing a book called “Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned From NWF Kids Pro Wrestling”

"His balls have dropped and everything" Lost my shit ahahaha

I could easily see a kids' promotion working if they have enough of a budget right at the beginning for: -A proper ring -On-site medical personnel -Actual trainers -At least two cameras and people skilled to use them -At least two wireless microphones with at least 100ft range, and speakers in a position within that range -A DJ and a deck to play and cut music appropriately -An in-house composer for original music Everything else that even the most barebones indie promotion has can come later when the promotion has more money. Hell, you might even be able to cover that with a crowdfunding campaign.

Becoming an adult is realising Old Man Tronson was the only Face in this entire story.

I swear Shawn Crossen can get away with anything, he's like a real life Zack Morris

This is great because you know kids who grow up famous and chasing the high of performance never have any issues growing up and are always well adjusted.

Brian, you should really talk to these guys again, this would make a perfect modern day kids Disney movie in the style of like Super 8 or Stranger Things. You could help them pitch it to some movie studios.

"There was one gentleman, who always seemed to make trouble for the wrestling show.." ..Phil Mushnick?

Where is your total opposition to this coming from? I wrestled my friends on a trampoline and on hard dirt and grass my whole childhood. You should be coming at this from a different perspective. These kids learning to produce their own show and even keep it going is amazing.

They should've got old man Tronson involved in the shows as a heel. Ala Vince McMahon. He could've been the kayfabe owner.

The parents weren't around because they were reverse vampires

I tell you what, these kids went a long way in such a short time. I didn't get to step foot in an actual ring until I was 16. And I have yet to be on tv in any capacity lol Sure, they were uneducated in the business sense, but they had a dream, relentlessly pursued it, and had some success.

The way the kid says the word "jackoff" & stretches it out I Love It!!! LMAO!!!

"How would I know that, because I have eyes" best and funniest line in the review nice work

Tronson was the original heel authority figure

nobody said parents we'rent watching off camera. Maybe they we'rent concerned too much because the kids aren't really hurting themselves.

5:58 The Annihilator everyone. Surely he won't be a huge problem later. Of an ultimate variety.

Old Man Tronson would have probably ruined kayfabe anyway

And that folks, is how Omega was conceived

Makes you wonder how big they could’ve gotten if they had stuck with it. These guys could have went on to have successful careers in the wrestling business as promoters, bookers, and wrestlers!

OLD MAN TRONSON!!!

as a member of this as a kid, basically adults were rarely around and no one thought it seemed strange or unusual. As an adult now that is an interesting question, but as a kid, adults would have killed all the fun of it. Answering his question, my parents at least really had no clue what we were up too.

That "16 yr old" who turned out to be 26 actually looks 46

Man, this would make the basis of a hell of a coming-of-age teen comedy movie.

"He killed Mr. Daniels." Ha! That caught me off guard.

8:43 I can totally imagine Mr Daniels & Old Man Tronson being friends, drinking at a bar while discussing their next plans to ruin the NWF 😂

It's a shame Shawn and Old Man Tronson never got along. If they did, they could've formed the Crossen and Tronson Connection

Like you mentioned below, I'm truly impressed by how savvy these adults were as kids, to be able to take their unlikely idea to ever-growing levels of exposure. Back in the Eighties, when I was between 10 and 18 or so, I really would have loved to have my own cable-access TV show. I would watch with envy at the lucky few who did have their own wacky shows on our local Access 10, even if their programs had virtually no worthwhile content and lasted just one episode. One (two episode-lived) half-hour comedy show devoted ten minutes of the first ep to an onscreen game of Intellivision Baseball, along with goofy narration. (The longest-running "series" was a weekend-long broadcast of music videos and top 40 songs, with phoned-in messages and dedications displayed onscreen in a spool of Chyron text. Everybody loved it, as did I.) I had some friends who likely would've been more than happy to join me in some crazy, pointless variety/sketch thingy like the ones we saw, but getting to the studio was nigh-impossible at that tender age, and there'd be adults to contend with with our bizarre notions, and a bit of a learning curve to the technology before whatever it was that we could cook up would grace the local airwaves. Ah, to be young and ambitious again... These guys went light-years further than any dumb thing I could have ever dreamed up, and despite the obvious problems of kid pro wrestling ("...THE PARENTS?!"), I applaud them. Well-done promotion all around, and just plain ballsy to boot.

6:57 classic russo

I used to do what those kids did! Me and my brother used to wrestle on our parents bed, reenacting our favorite matches. It's one of the main reasons why I'm a wrestler today! I think these kids were way ahead of their time.

There's also a book and it goes deeper into detail then the documentary

There was another wrestling organization run by kids that used to be popular, it was called Wrestling Takedown Federation (W.T.F.). It was created by four kids from Colorado and I think there name was Stanley, Lyle, Derek, and Lenny (who died during their final show, but that wasn't the reason the show was over).

Not gonna lie, that cartwheel kick early on in the show was pretty cool

My very first Wrestling With Wregret video which I watched on an old account that doesn't exist anymore a week after it debuted since the thumbnail looked so interesting.

This was my childhood dream and these kids did it. Crazy.

People watched anything in the 80s. You had shitty primitive video games and no internet----the only options for decent entertainment were movies and any unfiltered crap on TV.

10:23 "They would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for that meddling Old Man Tronson."

Tronson was a building?

“He killed Mr. Daniels.” That really got me

I can see Scott tronson doing the Vince mcman swagger walk telling the kids their time was up

5:58 hey imagine the Anniolator coming back 8 years later for a movie series called "ultimate death match"

Still better than TNA

This is fucking amazing! lol..sure the wrestling sucked..but imagine if one reasonable adult would have stepped in and hired them a legitimate trainer to teach these kids how to actually wrestle...fuck man that would have been awesome!

BECAUSE I HAVE EYES!! Lol.

Being alive in small town America in the 80's was indeed great. Born in 76 and it was great

Never heard of this before, sounds fascinating.

5:59 who's here after the ultimate deathmatch 3 review

I think Brian's take on this was well done and found myself laughing more than once. He is certainly entertaining and put a lot of effort in this production. I don't have a problem with it, not that it would matter anyway. It's all entertainment.

The story itself is very interesting; I've never seen the actual DVD / documentary, but there's also a book about this entire thing that I stumbled across back in high school that talks about it in a lot more detail from what I'm seeing here, as well as talking about the reactions of some of the parents. According to the end of the book, Shawn Crossen actually went on and tried to wrestle for real after all of this, up to and including having a match in a local fed with a very young Sean Waltman, but something happened involving a promoter and he decided he wasn't going to pursue it anymore. I remember being fascinated by this story ten years ago; now that I'm a lot older I definitely have a lot of the same questions you do, lol. It's pretty insane how much times have changed compared to a time where something like this was allowed to happen.

Hey! You forgot the first rule of living in Oregon; Don't talk about Jim Spagg.

So many great comments on here I have to say. I read one where someone said they couldn't wait for the Tronson face turn LoL awesome

Parents don't often understand the nitty gritty behind what their kids are into, at least not during this time. Their parents probably thought, like many others ignorant about pro wrestling, that because it's all a work, that there was no chance that wrestlers could get legit hurt. A lot of people who look down on wrestling today still think that way: because it's a work, it can't possibly be dangerous.

2:03 Dude does a cart wheel that ends in a face kick. Someone out there has to have something similar as a finisher. I so wish things were like this again. Kids allowed to be kids.

Well, to be fair, MST3K got its start on KTMA, a Minnesota public access station in the early 1990s

Holy shit the 80s were ridiculous lmao. I wonder if something like this is happening right now.

The narrator of the documentary sounds like Keith Morrison from Dateline 😂🤣😂

This brings back some memories. I was not in NWF but in a similar promotion in Oklahoma. I wrestled from the age of 12 to 16 and did some stupid stuff. I got my fair share of injuries but it is a miracle I'm not dead or paralyzed. I'm now deaf in on ear and have suffered a brain hemorrhage. Seriously kids when you see the words "Don't try this at home" You should listen. I'd love to get back into wrestling, and I've been working with IPW in northern Iowa trying to get back into it.

"KAYFABE KAYFABE!!" I almost pissed my pants

I actually live in Minnesota and I can verify that there are these shacks with wrestling rings and you can go in at any time and wrestle whoever you want.

Anoka is home of Michele Bachmann and is famous as Halloween Capital of the World. Does anything more have to be said to explain what kind of parents these kids had?

props to them for getting paying crowds.

Holyshit I just realized I've been watching this show for 7 years

I am impressed you manage to turn this into a 15 minute video. Kudos!

Actually, in Manitoba, we DO have multiple public access cable stations.