By Daniel MacMillan
The animosity between Brittney Savage and Alicia has reached a fever pitch! The pair have taken to fighting in 'Empty Arena' matches to settle the bad blood. It's hard to imagine that the two were pretty close once. It's even harder to imagine that it was only last year that the two held WSU tag team gold!
After exchanging the WSU Spirit Championship a few months back, Alicia had decided that there was nothing left to prove with Savage. It was all about Mercedes Martinez and the big tent now. But for some reason these two are drawn together once again, just in time for history to repeat itself. On a WSU/NWS co-sponsored event, Alicia took the Spirit Championship off of Brittney during a three way with another Brittnay- Force. Not the race car driver silly, the professional wrestler!
Things didn't get any better in the back, as Savage almost destroyed the entire locker room, demanding a rematch. WSU officials eventually caved in to Savage's demand, as it stated clearly in her contract that, should she lose the championship, she would receive an immediate rematch within 10 days.
Not one to keep quiet during matters, Rick Cataldo, boy diva of the Cosmo Club group, and resident loud mouth, called for the Empty Arena match.
When someone, anyone says empty arena match, my thoughts wonder off to Lance Russell lighting up a cigarette in an empty arena, and then quickly putting it out when he sees Terry Funk coming...or Russell admonishing Funk for using profanity, while lamenting that the footage wouldn't air if Funk kept cursing.
The other thing I think of when someone says something like an empty arena match, is the violence that ensues in a bout of that type. The empty arena match between Terry Funk and Jerry Lawler isn't known on the account that it was a 'fun' match. Not because it was a nice little competition between two southern brutes. Funk got his ass kicked in that match- and it wasn't pretty! In fact, it was a down right scary way to end a feud. Not a match that you would imagine two women getting themselves into.
But got into it, they did. Alicia was the first one in the ring, calling for Savage, who eventually sauntered in slowly from the locker room like 118 pounds of warm smoke. She walked in with the nice easy swing of a satisfied leopard - and for a smaller leopard, she had pretty good spots too.
So what started inside the building, found itself finishing out on the black top in nasty fashion. It's not hard to get to that level when there's that much hatred involved. And for Brittney Savage and Rick Cataldo, who are full of hate, it's easy to see why they would want to drag Alicia through the parking lot. Things would get worse when Savage threw her opponent into a seated Angel Orsini, who just happened to be lacing up her boots by the back door. The bad blood between Alicia and Angel is no secret. Especially after Alicia dropped Orsini on her head at "When The Tigers Broke Free", when she special delivered her patented finisher, "The A Bomb", administering the maneuver while Orsini was fending off the Cosmo clan, common enemies.
While Angel lifted herself off the ground to get the license plate of the truck that just ran her over, she noticed Alicia laying right there next to her. Bad sign. Needless to say, Alicia got a receipt for that A Bomb the week before. A few seconds later, Brittney Savage was getting her hand raised, and Boy Diva was drooling over the Spirit Championship once again. Class acts.
The whole thing is available at inasec.tv for your viewing, and guess what? It's free!
Big news out of Delaware- Jim Kettner, East Coast Wrestling Association(ECWA) promoter for the past 43 years is calling it quits. This announcement came out of the blue, as no one saw it coming. Kettner, the quiet type, made the announcement to the troops via electronic mail (that's mail sent electronically!) It's hard to write anything about Jim Kettner, or the ECWA for that matter, without mentioning a certain world renowned tournament that goes on once a year in those parts. Well, despite the popularity of that annual awesomeness, Kettner will be remembered for so much more. A class act who kept his business very tightly protected, and well guarded. Something akin to holding the KFC recipe in his breast pocket. Well good luck to Mr. Kettner in all of HIS future endeavors.
The reigns of the promotion have been handed over to Mike Tartaglia, head muckety muck at the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance(TWA). Tartaglia's right hand man, Joe Zanolle, will be lending a hand in the day to day operations of ECWA. Joe's will be a familiar and comforting face in the ECWA locker room, as he's been the man at ringside for the past 12 years, snapping away with his Canon EOS for the Stanley Weston group of national magazines. It's going to be an exciting time for ECWA, with new blood and new ideas. Good luck to those guys.
Man, September is here...It's been a long, hot summer- and I'm looking forward to some cooler weather! It's been a busy, busy summer as well for professional wrestling. This has been the busiest summer I can remember. It seems like there were 2-3 shows every single weekend. So much for not running in the heat. EVOLVE and DG USA and WSU were unbelievably hot. I asked EVOLVE/DG USA booker man extraordinaire Gabe Sapolsky about running in the heat. "Keep the action moving, and they'll hardly notice it", and he was right. Two of the best shows I've EVER witnessed live. If I hadn't already said it 1000 times- it's a great time to be a wrestling fan, and now with the cooler weather, you'll have no excuse to miss a show!
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