Welcome!
To the website of Buffalo Manic Wolf, this will serve as a disclaimer as well as how to navigate the site. All blog/opinion pieces are mine alone. If there is anything that needs to be sourced, will be at the footer of the post. Here you will find my thoughts and opinions, potential podcast episodes and clips of radio programs I guest on. I participated in professional wrestling for almost 20 years so any matches, posters, etc will be located in the my wrestling page. Finally, I have also done a lot of historical wrestling research so you will find all of that here as well.
Update 12/20/24
I have updated the following sections: Matty Matsuda Record Book, Review Added for Master Detective Files: Raincode and updated the last five radio guest hosting clips I was on. More to come.
Who I am
Hello everyone, my name is Drew, though I was nicknamed Wolfgang when I was around 8 years old. I grew up a huge wrestling fan with the first wrestling event I watched being Wrestlemania 3 and the first event I attended was on June 2nd, 1987, the night Honky Tonk Man defeated Ricky Steamboat for the Intercontinental Championship. At one point I had over 500 VHS tapes of wrestling content from all over the world.
In 2002, I entered the world of professional wrestling at 16 as a referee. This was to learn how to listen and learn about ring awareness until I started the standard pro wrestling training. It was anything but traditional as there were no wrestling schools in the area at that time. I would train before shows or leave Buffalo NY and travel to Welland, Ontario Canada and train inside a barn where cows were slaughtered and the barn smelled like death.
***Photo is from February 2003. I am the referee.
During all this, I realized I would never make it as a pro wrestler but I kept that dream alive. All I ever wanted was just one run as an actual pro wrestler and settle in to a backstage role. The run never happened but I worked a lot backstage whether it was working in production, as an agent, part of the booking committee, etc. My one major influence in pro wrestler, owner of Buffalo Championship Wrestling, Pasquale Maggiore often says I am the "utility man" of the promotion. I really like that phrase and it has never been more true.
My second love was history, specifically United States History. I wanted to write my Masters thesis on professional wrestling in Buffalo NY but was told that simply was not possible because there was no expert in the field that can validate my work. So instead, I started doing some research on my own, whether it is results and stories from specific territories or biographies of unknown professional wrestlers of the past.
**Photo is from April 2012, with Shane Douglas.
I was in professional wrestling off and on from 2002 to 2024 with a break from 2012 to 2018 after a botched knee surgery. One of the things that nobody realizes is that when you are the DeFacto second in command of a wrestling promotion you are always the first one there and the last one out. Days went from being there for a few hours to being there an entire day. 12–14-hour days simply lost their luster. Whether I return to pro wrestling has always been a thought of mine but in 2025, I turn 40 years old and am not sure I can even do it anymore. Whether it be wrestler, referee, manager or simply in the office. I am leaving that open for now.
At this point what you will find here are a bunch of random things. A collection of videos, a collection of radio/podcast clips, historical research I've done on professional wrestling and just for something different, a blog that I will hopefully be consistent on with my random thoughts and musings. I hope you enjoy visiting my site and become a regular visitor!
***Photo is from July 2024.
