WHY does this not exist in Boston?????
A group called Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling has for six years packed bars around this city with its lampoons of World Wrestling Entertainment, the pro league. Cast members have included a husky everyman who likes to tick off environmentalists by boasting about chopping down trees, and Ronald McFondle, a raunchy rendition of a clown character, who finishes off his opponents with a lewd gesture. They grapple on foam pads placed on stages in bars, not in rings.[...]
The Seattle league calls itself “fight cabaret” — in essence, theater with singlets, suplexes and sweat, as unworthy of regulation as a Shakespeare play. “It’s a bunch of grown men and women in costumes pretending to be professional wrestlers,” says David Osgood, the league’s lawyer. “It is to wrestling as ‘West Side Story’ is to actual gang relations.”
Read the rest of the article here, including pictures of the wrestlers (McFondle is #4).
And visit the Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling website, which also includes pictures and bios of the wrestlers, including McFondle.
Tags: Ronald McFondle, Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling
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One Response to “Seattle Semi-Pro Wrestling”
March 25th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Actually, I remember a bar called The Pour House many years ago that used to do something similar during Monday Night Raw.
And, years later, when I had a chance to join Seattle Semi Pro, I remembered that.
Plus, you guys have Big Battel!
Spread the word of what we do! We may come to Boston to entertain you! (And get some Harpoon and Dunkin’ Ds!)
Love,
Evil Kimmel
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