Chris Graham: Days in the rasslin’ business
Kevin Nash was supposed to tear up Augusta Expo. That he didn’t is still a mystery to me.
One thing I’ve learned in my year in the pro rasslin’ business is that the other business that I commit a lot of my time to – the politics business – is a lot less political.
In politics, at least, you’ve got two main teams, the Democrats and the Republicans. In rasslin’, there’s no I in team, but there are enough Ms and Es to go around to make life difficult for anybody trying to make sense of it. Read more
AFP produces DVD for Awesome Wrestling Entertainment
The Awesome Wrestling Entertainment Night of Legends two-disc DVD set is now available for purchase after a successful project led by Augusta Free Press LLC.
AFP produced the DVD from footage and commentary from the AWE live pay-per-view event emanating from Augusta Expo in Fishersville on Oct. 15. AFP President Chris Graham, who appeared on the pay-per-view telecast as a commentator, led the effort to integrate the footage from the live broadcast with footage from an hour of matches that were contested before the broadcast began.
AFP Vice President Crystal Graham was in charge of packaging, including design of the DVD jacket and the slip cover for the discs, and oversaw production and delivery of the finished product.
AFP is now working on contract with AWE to market the DVD and handle sales and delivery of the product to consumers.
Night of Legends DVDs in hand: Shipments going out this week
The AWE Night of Legends two-disc DVD set is in hand at the Awesome Wrestling Entertainment offices in Waynesboro, Va.
Presale orders will begin shipping this week. Order your copy today – just $24.95 plus $3.95 shipping and handling.
Ordering information: Click here. Read more
Sonjay Dutt: Risk and reward
Sonjay Dutt may have fallen short with Jamin Olivencia getting the pinfall at the AWE Night of Legends pay-per-view, but considering the buzz that both have gotten for what many are calling the match of the night on the star-studded card, well, it’s hard to say either guy really walked away from the show with an L.
“It feels great to hear everyone praising our match. I know that this was really a chance for us to shine, and I know I really stepped it up in there, and by the tough fight that I was given, it’s obvious that Jamin also brought his best,” Dutt said. “Truth be told, it’s my goal to always have the match of the night no matter what card I’m on. It’s just that competitive spirit in me, and what better avenue to showcase that but on pay-per-view.” Read more
AWE at the Waynesboro Y Friday night
The Superstars of Awesome Wrestling Entertainment will make a special guest appearance at the Waynesboro YMCA on Friday night to take part in the Annual Halloween Festival and Friday Night Basketball.
Short Sleeve Sampson, Alex Silva, Jamin Olivencia and a surprise guest or two will be on hand at the Y beginning at 8 p.m. The wrestlers are in town for a live, nationally-televised pay-per-view extravaganza, the AWE Night of Legends, at Augusta Expo on Saturday night.
The wrestlers will be available for autographs and photos at the Y Friday night.
AWE has donated four tickets to Night of Legends to the Annual Halloween Festival raffle. Short Sleeve Sampson will present the tickets to the winner of the raffle Friday night.
For more information on the AWE Night of Legends show, go online to www.AWEonPPV.com.
Duggan ready to defend good ol’ USA
Now, more than ever, Americans desperately need flag-waving, 2×4-wielding “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan to lead their patriotic charge against foreign enemies of this country.
Duggan will go to war once again on Oct. 15, confronting the hated Arab-American oil magnate Mohammad Akbar, on the AWE Wrestling: Night Of The Legends pay-per-view extravaganza, live from Augusta Expo in Fishersville, Va.
Former WWE and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Kevin Nash, along with his mystery tag-team partner, takes on the former three-time NWA Tag Team Champions, The Rock-n-Roll Express, Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson, in the featured match of the evening. Nash and Morton make the Hatfield and the McCoy feud look tame by comparison. The decade-old skirmish promises to be settled once and for all in their Oct. 15 grudge match, in front of a live national television/Internet audience and a packed live house in Virginia.
After 32 years in professional wrestling, “Hacksaw” Jim hasn’t slowed down a step. His quest is to protect freedom in the wrestling ring. “For the past 25 years,” Duggan said, “I’ve proudly carried the American flag into the ring. I’ve done that in 20 different countries around the world. It’s an honor and a privilege to represent our great country, especially now with so many men and women protecting us around the world. I have never tired of people chanting USA as I go into the ring.
“I fight a lot of guys like Akbar who want to make a name for themselves by fighting me. They may be younger, faster and stronger, but, you can’t measure the heart. When I come into the ring with everybody chanting, ‘USA,’ I can’t be beat, especially by somebody like this who is anti-American.”
The Awesome Wrestling Entertainment extravaganza will be available for live viewing at 9 PM/ET – 6 PM/PT on both cable and satellite pay-per-view via iN Demand, DIRECTV, AT & T and Verizon in the United States, as well as Bell TV in Canada, for a suggested retail price of only $24.95. The broadcast will also be available live on an Internet pay-per-view basis at www.AWEonPPV.com and www.GFL.TV.
Legendary warrior Terry Funk faces his protégé, former ECW superstar Tommy Dreamer, to determine who the true King of Hardcore wrestling is in 2011. A two-time ECW and NWA heavyweight champion, Funk is a Hall of Famer in several organizations who has mentored Dreamer for many years. The tough Texan isn’t quite ready to pass the “hardcore” baton just yet. Despite looking up to Funk as an extreme combat fighting icon, Dreamer, is a 14-time WWF/WWE Hardcore Champion and two-time ECW world title-holder, on a mission to send Funk into permanent retirement.
Other wrestling icons among the 30 all-stars being showcased at the AWE Legends event include Diamond Dallas Page (“DDP”), Fit Finlay, Amy “Lita” Dumas, Perry Saturn, and many more.
Perry Saturn returns to action after nine years on the sidelines, marking the most significant comeback in wrestling history, versus nasty enforcer CW Anderson.
Also scheduled to be in action are former WWE and WCW title-holder Fit Finlay, who accepted the challenge to fight 21-year-old rising-star and the ultra-promising AWE World Heavyweight prospect, “Loose Cannon” Alex Silva. “Nature Boy” Buddy Landel will lend his experience in Silva’s corner.
Former three-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion Diamond Dallas Page (“DDP”), Amy “Lita” Dumas, former World Tag Team Champion and “Four Horsemen” member, Tully Blanchard with Baby Doll, Midnight Express, Ivan Koloff, Tommy “Wildfire” Rich and Sonjay Dutt squares-off against Jamin Olivencia on the action-packed Awesome Wrestling Entertainment card.
All wrestlers and matches are subject to change.
Ringside tickets are already sold-out but $20.00 general admission tickets are available to purchase at The Augusta Expo (540.337.2552), Crossroads Music in Staunton (540.885.3612 and Waynesboro (540.943.3613), or order online at www.awesomewrestlingentertainment.com.
Go online to www.awesomewrestlingentertainment.com for additional show information and to sign-up to watch the event on the Internet. Contact your pay-per-view provider to order AWE Wrestling: Night Of The Legends.
Rock-n-Roll Express: One more time?
Ricky Morton has seen it before. Kevin Nash comes in, immediately becomes the main-event guy and sucks all the air out of the company.
“Kevin Nash, you know the history between me and you. And what is all that about? You coming in someplace, invading it, taking all the money, shutting the place down and running off to somewhere else,” said Morton, whose long-running beef with Nash dates back to their days in WCW.
From Morton’s perspective, his tenure in WCW came to an end because of Nash and his New World Order faction taking over the top spot from WCW long-timers like The Rock-n-Roll Express.
That’s what he and Robert Gibson are fighting for at the AWE Night of Legends pay-per-view on Oct. 15.
“You see, buddy, right here, we stand for the AWE. And one thing I’m not going to let you do is do it to me one more time,” Morton said.
Funk: One last lesson from the teacher
Terry Funk even catches himself asking the question.
“Do you think that you could honestly go back into the ring again?” said Funk, who will face Tommy Dreamer at the AWE Night of Legends pay-per-view on Oct. 15.
They say you’re as old as you feel, “and I feel about 105 right now,” Funk said.
“But, dadgummit, I thought about it, and you’re as old as you feel, that’s for sure, but they say that the older you get, the meaner you get, and I’m getting pretty dadgum mean,” Funk said.
Funk asked for the match with Dreamer, a long-time student of Funk, after going down his options on the AWE roster.
“I’d love to step back into the ring. Maybe not with Diamond Dallas Page. Maybe not with Kevin Nash. Those boys are pretty big boys. Maybe not ‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan. I need somebody that’s pretty crappy to get in the ring with. I was kinda thinking that would be Tommy Dreamer. I knew him when he was sweeping out the dressing rooms in ECW years ago. I’d love to get in the ring with a guy about the caliber of that Tommy Dreamer. I’m thinking I can still whip ol’ Tommy,” Funk said.
Jamin: Call me, Kevin Nash
OK, it’s a bit of a stretch, but …
“The biggest player in the game will be there,” said Jamin Olivencia, appearing to get off the phone with Kevin Nash.
Nash, of course, is looking for a partner for the main event of the AWE Night of Legends pay-per-view on Oct. 15.
Right now, the identity of the partner who will team with Nash against The Rock-n-Roll Express is a mystery.
Mystery solved?
More on the AWE Night of Legends pay-per-view at www.AwesomeWrestlingEntertainment.com.
