In the mid-to-late 2010s, a video was uploaded to UK based Preston City Wrestling's YouTube channel that showed company promoter Steven Fludder arriving at someone's house while accompanied by wrestler Chris Masters.
Steven knocked on the door and the homeowner was surprised to see him. It became clear as the video went on that the person was bootlegging PCW DVDs (I think via the UK Fan Forum, a popular wrestling message board at the time) and Steven was there to threaten the guy into handing over his bootleg copies of his company. The fan did so while looking worried as Steven ranted about the effect bootleggers had on his business and the video ended with Chris Masters giving the cameraman a thumbs up.
The video has long since been removed from YouTube likely due to the less-than-positive reaction from fans at seeing a promoter showing up to intimidate someone at their own home, the possibility that PCW had doxed someone and/or people simply taking the piss out of everyone involved.
Annoyingly, no-one had thought to download or archive it elsewhere before it was removed so the only things that still exist from it are two screenshots of the miserable looking fan and Chris Masters' thumbs up.
Anyway, it still gets mentioned by UK wrestling fans a decade later (mostly in disbelief) but we hope that someone maybe possibly saved it.
PCW's YouTube account
3PW was a Philadelphia wrestling company owned by The Blue Meanie and financed by Jasmin St. Clare. The company ran from 2002-2005 and was one of several companies that attempted to fill the gap ECW left in the area.
Sadly for Meanie, 3PW was one of many promotions with the same idea so the Arena became over-saturated with CZW, XPW, Chikara, ROH, MLW, NEXT, JAPW all joining in.
Due to this, 3PW suffered from low attendance and interest compared to it's rivals. It also didn't help that Jasmin St. Clare had a bitter falling out with Meanie which resulted in a few shows where wrestlers were either paid later or not at all. Even during the period where Blue Meanie showed up at ECW One Night Stand and got legit attacked by JBL was not enough to restore interest and the company held it's last show 06/18/2005 and hasn't been talked about much since (compared to the other Philly indies). Nothing to be ashamed of, there's plenty of wrestling companies through the years that have tried, failed and moved on with their lives.
So what's the deal?
I had a mild interest in 3PW because the events were covered in grizzly detail by Powerslam Magazine back in the day so I tried to find the shows on tape trading forums but could rarely find shows from 2005. Due to a lack of interest, the last remaining shows simply never appeared on trade lists because so few fans gave a damn near the end. Which is crazy as it's so rare to find a show that NO-ONE has a copy of in those communities because wrestling fans record *everything*. MST3K fans have nothing on rasslin fans.
(To clarify, it was available to purchase online at the time on VHS and the site can be found via waybackmachine but by the time nerds like me *were* interested in it, the site was no longer functioning. So whether or not this counts as "Lost Media" is debatable, but there isn't a reddit for "hard to find stuff that no gives a shit about" so here we are.)
Fast-forward to 2026 and username wstan aka Indy Wrestling Flashback is also posting online about the last show to be un-found: the penultimate 3PW show Mayhem. Because even the last last show had more interest and availability than the second-before-last one.
Whereas my strategy was to find aging communities and see if anyone had a copy lying around, wstan's strategy was much simpler: Keep on bugging The Blue Meanie about it.
You'd think that would be stepping over a line (Meanie is a cool dude with a good rep for being approachable so it wasn't like he was being a dick) but Meanie revealed he did in fact have a copy of the show and took a photo to prove it.
After googling "how to use dvdshrink", Meanie finally uploaded what may have been the only surviving copy onto YouTube where it can be enjoyed by everyone who gives a damn about the Tiny Tim of 2005 Philly wrestling.