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The Pro Wrestling Report (PWR) is the world's most watched professional wrestling program. Hosted by Dameon Nelson along with co hosts "Meathead" and Frank "The Coz" Cossentino. Beginning on March 18, 1998, the PWR show was the first pro wrestling news show in history.
Hosts
Dameon Nelson Born October 26, 1976, Dameon Nelson has hosted the show since the beginning in 1998. He has always been a huge wrestling fan and claims to be just that, a fan. Dameon is a self proclaimed WWE mark and has attended many Pro wrestling events including World Championship Wrestling, Ring of Honor, Ohio Valley Wrestling, TNA Impact/PPV's and 5 WWE WrestleMania, not including the dozens of independent events he has both watched and commentated.
Dameon is also a great supporter of the Democratic Party and an endorser of Barrack Obama.
Meathead
Meathead has worked alongside Dameon since 1999. He has commentated many independent wrestling shows including the Great Lakes Championship Wrestling.
Meathead's passion in wrestling is only surpassed by his love for females, especially that of WWE Diva Mickie James. Meat is also known for being passionate about video games and various other sports. Meat is known for being controversial and can get under anyones skin when trying. This is widely through his attacks on Dameon over Wrestling and often political views, with Meathead being a Republican. Although Meat can be silly at times, when it's time to get serious and talk about business, he puts on his game face. Also Meathead is well noted for his use of gimmicks during shows, most famous is the megaphone( used when saying wrestler Mr Kennedy name). Meathead describes himself as a WCW mark and often gets in battles with Dameon over the two companies always ending in Dameon stating Vince McMahon's immortal words"I went out and bought my competition".
Meathead has alleged to have beaten star Chuck Norris in a game of poker.
Frank Cossentino
Frank Cossentino is "The Man in the Middle" and his job is to keep order on the show when Damion and Meat get into arguments. Cossentino has been with the show since late 1999. He does his best to make every show, but appears about once or twice a month.
He has commentated matches along with Dameon. He spends a great deal of his time working on his ESPN Radio show in Milwaukee on Saturday mornings with Meathead.
History PWR PWR Debuted on March 18, 1998 from Milwaukee. Hosted by Dameon Nelson and Carl Love, the show was a 30 minute live call in show. The show was an instant success and moved from it's bi-weekly schedule to a weekly schedule by 1999. Meathead occasional joined Nelson and Love for reports on video games.
PWR moved to new studios January of 1999. The show also increased to an hour and went to a pre-taped format which continues to this day.
Full Force In 2002 PWR was re-branded as "FULL FORCE" covering all Sports including Wrestling. When Dameon Nelson left the show in 2004 the show was taken over by Frank Cossentino and was again re-branded.
Maxsports In 2005 Dameon Nelson returned the show was again re-branded as MAX SPORTS. Dameon, Meathead and Frank Cossentino hosted the 30 minute show to the Milwaukee sports community. Max Sports launched its web casts in early 2005.
PWR News
==Back to "PWR"== PWR Weekly The three host a weekly show to discuss news and opinions. This show is regularly on a Friday on cable in Milwaukee and available online across the world. The weekly shows online began as Maxsports in early 2005 and have begun to grow since. The show generally last for about an hour and has been running since 1998.
PWRinteractive Every Monday directly after WWE Raw, The PWR staff does a live interactive show on via the Talkshoe internet service. They review the show and take callers to talk about any wrestling subject. In the past PWRinteractive was also a weekly show, not live, and was produced just like PWR Weekly. It was Dameon and Meat, reading directly off the PWR Forum via laptop, responding to what the wrestling fans thought of the current state of the business.
Interviews PWR pride themselves in having had given their viewers many great insightful interviews in their 10 year history. The PWR crew have conducted interviews with numerous former and current ROH, TNA and WWE talent. From the first with The Headbangers to recent ones with Chris Jericho, The Iron Sheik, and
PWR Honours PWR has proudly given their internet supporters the chance to vote on the years wrestling since 2006 in the PWR honors. The show announces what they describe as the real fans view on the best and worst of wrestling in that given year. Its most important award is given to the Wrestler of the Year. This award is currently held controversially by John Cena.
PWR Forums PWR is know for having one of the most free, non controlling, wrestling forums in the world for no cost whatsoever. It is also known for being very organized and easy to learn. All 3 members of the PWR staff actively use and check the forum while hundreds of fans from around the world can interact with the hosts and each other about any wrestling topic they can think of.
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