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BYW IN THE NEWS
CityTv from Toronto does a great segment on local legends Back Yard Wrestling Federation (BYWF) in 1998!
Watch today!
HCW Maryland is featured on the city news in 1999!
Amazing find! Check it out!
Featuring future CZW Heavyweight Champion Ruckus!
Melanie Moon reports on St. Louis-area backyard wrestling in July 2000.
Includes backyard match footage of future WWE and AEW superstar Evan Bourne/Matt Sydal (aka Lance Sydal).
The EWO from Australia got featured on their own segment on the Today Show back in 2002!
One of the more "fairer" reviews of backyard wrestling I've seen.
Steve Jabroni and his unnamed backyard wrestling fed from Altoona, PA are featured on this news segment in 1999, which also featured independent promotion Nittany Wrestling Federation.
In Mexico, backyard wrestling looks a lot different. There they have "freestylers" or "amateurs" that put on live backyard-like short matches for fans. Here is a news segment from Ruptly in 2020 covering the phenomenon.
A fed from the Best of BYW tapes is features on Maximum Exposure's "World's Dumbest Guys" television show! Great segment! Absolutely hilarious!
Community television station "LMU" produces an interesting segment on a local backyard wrestling group.
Does anyone know the fed involved in this one? Send us some details!
The Trampoline Wrestling Association was featured on Cleveland's Fox News 8 in 1998 in a multi segment!
You might remember these guys as one of the stars of the Best of Backyard Wrestling video series!
Backyard Wrestling In The News Featuring SCWA | FOX 11 Los Angeles Ch. 11 News (1999)
Fox News "investigates" the new backyard wrestling craze by attending a show in San Pedro, Ca. Featuring SCWA. Date: April 1999
Backyard Boot Camp - Ricki Lake Show
Backyard wrestlers are put to the test by indy and pro wrestlers in this classic day time talk show full length episode. Featuring guest WCW's Stevie Ray.
Right This Minute (2017)
Toms River Wrestling Federation is featured on this segment by backyard wrestling fan Steven, at the Right This Minute show.
Backyard Bloodbath! - Ricki Lake Show, September 13, 2001
Check out the video Ricki Lake wants off the Internet! I was unable to upload this video to YouTube but the full-length video is available here and clips of the video are available here
This documentary short from CurrentTV provides a peak behind the gates of a backyard wrestling federation, UGWA, in San Jose, California.
Anyone know where to find the full documentary?
German television show SpiegelTV includes an obscure backyard wrestling fed in their multi-topic documentary.
Fantastic footage of this hardcore fed! I wish there was more!
Deathmatch wrestling in the backyard is featured on the TV show 1000 Ways To Die!
Anyone know the incident this is referring to?
A backyard wrestler is featured on the "Web Redemption" segement of the Tosh.O TV show!
Featuring future AEW superstar, Scorpio Sky!
Hilarious!
CNN investigates Insane Backyard Wrestling of New York in this great segment from 2006!
This was a very hard video to find. If anyone has a high quality version please upload it and let us know.
Death Versus Luke Hadley is featured on Whacked Out Sports Videos! Check out the clips here and here.
If you didn't go through the 90's, you might not know that DVLH was all over the Best of Backyard Wrestling videos and involved in documenting the American deathmatch scene
DVLH is back with another light-hearted segment featuring their Jackass/Backyard Wrestling inspired clips, this time on America's Funniest Videos.
I have to admit, I will always appreciate a good suplex on a jagged tree trunk.
Keith Sterling investigates the Extreme Wrestling Alliance from Manning, South Carolina in this hard-to-find segment from 2001!
Featuring Triple H!
The most famous backyard wrestling stunt-man to ever exist is featured on the notoriously funny "Web Redemption" segment of the Tosh.O show.
Long Live Super Huuman! Woot Woot!
Stephen Parr from Channel 7 NEWS in Tyler, Texas tries to bury the International Wrestling Alliance in this vintage segment.
If you watch closely you will see that this very website was mentioned in the segment! What a gem to have found!
Real TV featured a segment with the boys from AHW, strangely called "Party Animals."
Check out this interesting piece featured on the AHW short documentary "Beyond the Backyard."
Step into the backyards of Spokane Anarchy Wrestling in this wonderful news report.
Unlike many news pieces this one is in high-definition and treats the wrestlers fairly! Come check out a piece of backyard wrestling history today!
Longview News Journal does an interesting segment on Kilgore, Texas fed "Backyard Craziness."
Co-founder and wrestler Wayne Williams walks us through how the group got started, how they found success and what backyard wrestling means to them.