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By Stephan MacLeod

I can't think of a better way to spend a Thursday night than at the Civic Center watching guys beat the snot out of each other and insulting the

cheers or jeers much like the audiences on the Monday night wrestling television shows.

A few local talents showed how the Maritimes could produce wrestlers

only did the big guy perfectly execute all his moves; he did it with a lot of cha- risma.

The highlight for the evening had to be the hardcore match between the Notorious TID and Midnight Mass. These guys came to

pulled out a table from underneath the ring, but a lot of things seemed to go wrong at this point. The referee helped Midnight drag the table into the ring, but he accidentally dropped part of it on TID's head (this was obviously not in the script). And when

audience. No, I as good as any- the ring with a Midnight Mass didn't go to an where else. New- garbage can filled attempted to Abbies hockey comer, Mike with bizarre house- powerbomb TID game. Real Action Hughes, from hold items and used _ onto the table his Wrestling was in Charlottetown them in a most leg buckled and he town. started wrestling original, painful dropped him with- earlier this year and way. A slab of out breaking the

Featuring a roster of hard-hitting inde- pendent wrestlers, RAW wrestling had

has improved a great deal. He turned heel when he grabbed the

drywall, a paddle for a boat, a fishing rod, a Poison record, and a com-

table. He limped

backstage, with the help of the ref, after the match was over.

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as much talent and microphone and puter keyboard all TID got up after the Pee UC energy as the major expressed his anger _ found their way on beating with a head t at Prince Edward either wrestlers full of blood and

wrestling organiza- tions. The hardcore,

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head. TID was

raised his own hand

weapons match had __ supporting him. bleeding after in victory. It was more bumps and And the giant, Midnight Mass painful to watch Raed blood than most former WWE downloaded the some of that match, ei

pay-per-view events. And the mic skills of some of the wres- tlers motivated the crowd into loud

superstar, Kurgan, who hails from NewBrunswick, dominated a free for all match. Not

Former

keyboard to his face.

The crowd went nuts when they

WWF Superstar

but the wrestlers seemed to enjoy the crowd's reactions.

When the main event was over, the announcer promised Real Action Wres- tling would return on November 25th. I recommend going to the next event because this type of entertainment doesn't usually come to Charlottetown. Most wrestling tours do not include the Maritimes. Wrestling fans

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