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Tommy Cairo on Force One's Anniversary Show on May 3rd
I'm sitting in my office as I write this, an office filled with old wrestling magazines with guys like Dick the Bruiser, Dusty Rhodes, and Nick Bockwinkle on the cover. A small TV/VCR/DVD combo sits on the shelf, playing our DVD from the last Force One show.
Other DVD's from many other decades and locations lie on the shelf, next to my NWA North American title belt. As I take all of this in, I reflect on the past year at the Force One wrestling promotion (our school is over 15 months old now).
I look at the match lineup from our first show, called "Pledge of Allegience", and look at the poster for the upcoming show on May 3rd (called "Plede of Allegience II), and I'm proud of all the changes we've been through this past year.
When we first started, I dicussed with my partner Phil Varlese the fact that as a new promotion, we were unable to recruit everyone we wanted to work our first show. Obviously, the fans in Egg Harbor City didn't mind, as they showed up en masse to see what we were going to do. Today, they come as wrestling fans, obviously entertained by the product we present to them each month.
We've changed our roster, not dramatically, but enough to improve the quality of our shows. We do that because the fans have come to expect the very best from us. They have forced us to raise the bar, and as our popularity grows, workers are now coming to us, looking for bookings, the exact opposite of when we started!
We have a former WWE star (Danny Doring) defending the Force One Heavyweight belt on May 3rd, against the FORMER champion, Breaker Morant. Doring is a quality worker, the WWE missed the boat in letting him go. Breaker is an up and coming star, capable of making it to one of the "bigs" at any given time.
Same is true of our Junior Heavyweight Champion Judas Young, who will be working the WWE Smackdown show in Atlantic City on April 29th. He'll return to defend his Junior Title on May 3rd in Egg Harbor against "Sure Thing" Ryan Wing, who took several years off from the business (like me), but looks like he never lost a beat. Right now he is the most hated wrestler in Force One, and May 3rd could prove to be the night he takes the Junior Belt from Judas.
May 3rd marks the debut of two new talents in Force One. The first is Dianny (Inferno) Giamondo. Danny is a former WWE developmental talent, and no stranger to the indies, having worked for Dennis Coraluzzo back in the day, and also worked the original "Super 8" tournaments for Jim Kettner's ECWA back in the 90's. He comes in moving right to the top echelon of talent, taking on indy veteran Patch (with his manager Jaden) the evening of his debut.
That night also marks the debut of Ring of Honor's Ricky Reyes. Reyes is another "Super 8" veteran, working that elite show back in 2004. This guy has a great pedigree in the business, as a partner in the great tag team "The Havana Pitbulls", and later working solo both in CZW and PWU. He has his hands full on our show as he takes on another guy who's working the WWE Smackdown show on the 29th, Nick Berk (aka Nicky Benz).
We're debuting a new title on this show, the Force One Iron League championship (named after me). Again, the two opponents for this belt deserve the accolades they are getting for their work. Tommy Force, a student of the great Iron Mike Sharpe, has come on strong this past year, and stepped up his game. His opponent, Mike Reed, is an alumnus of the legendary Monster Factory, and has appeared on RAW (against Kurt Angle), and has garnered interest from many prestigious wrestling organizations.
I'm really proud of what we've accomplished over the year. Our in house trainers, Pat "White Lotus" DeGiacomo, and James "Diego DeMarco" Pillman have done an excellent job in bringing along our young students like Carlos "Razor" Rivera, and Ryu Lee. They continue to rave about our other talented students like Josh "The Hybrid" Adams, and others. I can't wait to debut them all on future shows.
I'm not going to go into the rest of the card, because it would look like a promo, which it would be. I'm only asking that you be at Hamilton Hall in Egg Harbor City on May 3rd to see what everyone is talking about. It's been eight years since Phil Varlese and I closed down The Outlaws of Wrestling. Force One will eclipse our previous efforts, I promise.
Remember, May 3rd, Hamilton Hall, 528 Philadelphia Avenue in Egg Harbor City. Tickets are only $12, available at the door. Bell time is 7:30........Okay, there's the promo! For more info, go to http://forceoneprowrestling.com
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