Wrestlemania is running wild in Ballymena!
Thursday, 25 September 2008
One of the highlights of the November event will be the appearance of Canadian Pierre Carl Ouellet.
Tickets for the wrestling night in The Braid Theatre (Town Hall) on Saturday, November 15, - featuring the Superstars of America on their Invasion Tour - are currently on sale!
Costing £13 they are now available at The Braid box office (25635900).
The Braid will be transformed into an exciting fighting arena where some of the best wrestlers from the USA, Mexico and Europe will be lining up to produce the thrills and the spills expected from major league wrestling.
It promises to be the event of the year as the heroes and villains of the squared circle go one-on-one using a combination of strength, skill and expertise, often defying gravity, to bring us wrestling with a capital E - that's E for Entertainment.
The old Town Hall venue in Ballymena staged regular wrestling events throughout the 70's and 80's and some of the biggest names in British Wrestling appeared there.
Now the new Braid venue is set to host a brilliant night's entertainment.
One of the highlights of the November event will be the appearance of Canadian Pierre Carl Ouellet.
Ouellet will be familiar to all wrestling fans as Pierre LaFitte - one half of the three time WWE World Tag Team Champions The Quebecers.
Also seeing action at The Braid will be 'The Highlander' Drew McDonald. Drew has many years experience in the ring and has wrestled all over Europe, many of the African countries and all over the Middle East.
McDonald has just recovered from a torn bicep injury but he assures us that he is now fighting fit again and looking forward to causing mayhem in the ring once more.
A new name on the wrestling scene is that of The Celtic Warrior.
He bears a striking resemblance to the WWE's Batista.
He was recently offered a contract to be one of the gladiators on the new series of The Gladiators which is currently being filmed in London. It was a very tempting offer but he felt it wouldn't have helped his wrestling career.
Another new name on this side of the Atlantic is the Mexican Del Rio.
Del Rio comes out of the same mold as Rey Mysterio and is sure to have the fans on the edge of their seats with his high flying style of wrestling.
Negotiations are still ongoing in an effort to bring yet more of the wrestling World's superstars to Ballymena in November so watch 'Guardian Sport' for all the lastest news on this!
