The mouth of the North and South, the best of the East and West. The man with the master plan. The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be.
The founder of the EWA, Hollywood Pinto has had the most runs as EWA Champion in history.
At a very young age Joey “Hollywood” Pinto was a huge wrestling fan. He was famously always out looking for a fight, and as his reputation grew, so did the challengers. Things progressed from innocent schoolyard messing around to knock-down, drag-out, I-quit matches.
People started showing up at Joey’s bedroom window to challenge him to fight down the street from his house, and spectators began to bet. Once he was established as unbeatable, the practice morphed from backyard brawls into a more organized system, with rules in place so that nobody really got hurt or in trouble.
At around the age of 16, Joey met the two other founders of the EWA: BlockBuster Dave and Big Daddy Kutz. That’s when the first wrestling ring was built and the PWF, Pinto’s Wrestling Federation, was born.
- Status
- Current EWA Champion
- Role
- Founder; producer, writer and editor of nearly every episode
- First title
- PWF Championship, won in a ladder match after a jump from a two-story fire escape
- Named for
- The NWO and his childhood hero, Hollywood Hulk Hogan
Rivalries
- The ZeitgeistA series of matches that came to define backyard wrestling, mixing extreme violence with technical precision.
- Christopher AnthonyAs Big Daddy Kutz, the PWF co-founder who finally took the title from Hollywood in a rematch.
- Steven “The Punisher” PintoHis own brother, including a Season 1 ladder match for the EWA Championship.
Seen on the card
- TNT S1 · Ep. 1Hollywood & Creepy The Clown vs. Claudio Cacciatore & Big Daddy Kutz (tag team elimination) / Hollywood (c) vs. BlockBuster Dave (EWA Championship)
- TNT S1 · Ep. 2Hollywood (c) vs. The French Wonder (EWA Championship)
- TNT S1 · Ep. 3Hollywood (c) vs. The Punisher (ladder match, EWA Championship)
- TNT S1 · Ep. 4Flashback: Hollywood (c) vs. Big Daddy Kutz (special guest referee: King Bizzy, EWA Championship) / Hollywood (c) vs. Hillbilly Man
- TNT S1 · Ep. 5Hollywood vs. The Mayor (over-the-top-rope rules)
- TNT S1 · Ep. 7.5Hollywood vs. The Punisher (EWA Championship)
- TNT S2 · Ep. 17The Pinto Bros. vs. Jim Lyon & Christopher Anthony
- TNT S2 · Ep. 18The Pinto Bros. vs. Chaos & The Prophet
- TNT S2 · Ep. 19Hollywood & Christopher Anthony vs. The Underworld (tag team main event)
- TNT S2 · Ep. 20The Punisher vs. Hollywood (EWA Championship)
- The Condiment WarsHollywood Pinto vs. The Punisher vs. The Zeitgeist