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- Main event signed for SHIMMER 91 in Orlando!
- Dulce Garcia added to SHIMMER 91 talent lineup!
- SHIMMER & RISE notes from California!
MERCEDES MARTINEZ VS. CANDICE LERAE SIGNED FOR SHIMMER 91!
The yearly tradition of SHIMMER presenting a live women's
pro wrestling event as part of the WWN Live Experience
festivities continues in 2017! SHIMMER 91 will take place on
Saturday afternoon, April 1st, at the Orlando Live Events
Center (6405 S. US Highway 17-92) in Fern Park, FL. Bell
time is Noon Eastern time. First and second row seating is
already sold out. Third row reserved ($50), fourth row
reserved ($40), and general admission ($25) tickets are
still available. If you'll be in town that weekend, don't
miss SHIMMER live! Visit www.MoreThanMania.com to purchase
tickets. If you're unable to attend in person, the event
will also be available as a live streaming iPPV at
www.WWNLive.com.
The main event for SHIMMER 91 has been signed! It will
feature Candice LeRae challenging Mercedes Martinez for the
SHIMMER Championship! Visit the YouTube link below to view
Candice's comments about the match.
Candice LeRae Promo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwzeOiY1d4
Also announced during this past week for SHIMMER 91 in
Orlando is the return of Dulce Garcia to SHIMMER
competition! Dulce is one of the most accomplished female
competitors in lucha libre. In the process of establishing
her own identity without a mask, Dulce made her SHIMMER
debut this past November in exciting bouts against LuFisto
and Mercedes Martinez. We're pleased to now include Dulce on
our Orlando card as well!
Other competitors already announced for SHIMMER 91: Mia Yim,
Tessa Blanchard, Leva Bates, Jessicka Havok, Shayna Baszler,
Cherry Bomb, Kellyanne, Santana Garrett, Veda Scott, and
Britt Baker. Look for more competitors to be officially
added to the SHIMMER 91 talent lineup during the coming
weeks!
SHIMMER 91
Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 12PM ET
Orlando Live Events Center
6405 S. US Highway 17-92
Fern Park, FL 32730
Tickets at www.MoreThanMania.com
On sale now
TWO DAY TICKET PACKAGES FOR SHIMMER 92-95 NOW ON SALE!
SHIMMER and RISE will present a weekend of live events in
the Chicago area during the weekend of July 7th through July
9th, 2017! All three days of events will take place at the
Berwyn Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL. Two day ticket packages
for SHIMMER 92-95 and RISE tickets are now on sale! Visit
www.SHIMMERwrestling.com for SHIMMER tickets, and
www.WrestlingPipeline.com for RISE tickets. Single day
tickets for the SHIMMER events will be made available
beginning Sunday, February 19th.
RISE - Developing Tomorrow's Women Athletes
Friday, July 7, 2017 at 8PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.wrestlingpipeline.com
Tickets now on sale!
SHIMMER 92 & 93
Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 2PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
Two Day Ticket Packages - Now on sale!
Single Day Tickets - On sale Feb. 19
SHIMMER 94 & 95
Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 12PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
Two Day Ticket Packages - Now on sale!
Single Day Tickets - On sale Feb. 19
Mark your calendars, and make your plans to see us live!
SHIMMER & RISE NOTES FROM CALIFORNIA
(Notebook entry from 1/29 by Dave Prazak)
It's the very early morning hours of Sunday, and as
ShimVirus: West Coast Edition begins to fully take hold and
I can't seem to fall asleep, I may as well put down a few
thoughts as it pertains to this weekend's events out here in
South Gate, CA.
For those unaware, this past Friday was the second session
of RISE: Developing Tomorrow's Women Athletes, the talent
development project spearheaded by SHIMMER producer Kevin
Harvey. The concept is fairly simple. As the name suggests,
the goal is to provide multiple ways for female professional
wrestlers to make further career progress, through
scheduling a series of training camps with a host of
different established instructors from around the wrestling
world, in combination with providing talent with more live
wrestling events to appear on, in addition to their current
schedule across the independent circuit. Roughly twenty
wrestlers of varying degrees of overall experience
participated in a full day camp with both Colt Cabana and
Saraya Knight on Friday, as well as a live event that
evening at the American Legion in South Gate, home of Bart
Kapitzke's AWS promotion. Also on Saturday evening, a
considerable number of those same wrestlers were a part of
Bart's AWS event at the same location. A big thanks to all
of the fans in the area who filled the seats on both nights!
It's great to see so many talented performers looking for
further opportunities in the industry, eager to grow as
overall athletes by learning from a variety of additional
sources of wrestling knowledge, to build upon their
respective initial training backgrounds. With only two RISE
camps & live events in the books thus far, it's clear that
this will be a very helpful method of not only the wrestlers
improving their skills, but also management from SHIMMER,
Bellatrix, AWS, and a host of other companies effectively
scounting talent and tracking their progress. Only so much
can be displayed to a potential promotion through an
aspiring talent sending YouTube links of their matches in an
attempt to line up bookings. Doing that only gets across one
aspect of what that wrestler has to offer. It is so much
better for us to be able to evaluate talent through
interaction during the training process, as well as working
with each talent on live events, providing feedback, and
learning what each wrestler's specific goals may be going
forward.
It's an exciting time of change across the women's pro
wrestling landscape right now, with more and more
opportunities coming along for talent all over the world. In
the process, we at SHIMMER have been among the promotions
which have experienced the need to prepare more talent for
our future, due to several changes to our available talent
roster, particularly during the past year. Four of our main
roster talents were signed to WWE deals during the second
half of 2016, meaning there are roster voids to be filled.
Additionally, we as a promotion have also felt the effects
of the always inevitable setback of key performers
sustaining injuries which sometimes put them on the
sidelines an extended period of time. Now, more than ever,
we need to be sure to focus on having several talents
waiting in the wings, should we need them to step up to the
plate in the months and years to come.
This weekend's seminar and live events have been an
essential part of the entire SHIMMER team discovering who's
out there, and who is hungry for opportunties. As Kevin
announced on Friday evening, six women have been named
official RISE roster members going forward, meaning they
will be regularly appearing on events promoted by RISE, in
addition to RISE affiliated matches on independent events
around the world in the future. Angel Dust, Delilah Doom,
Britt Baker, Chelsea Green, Shotzi Blackheart, and Kikyo are
those first six. Going forward, the RISE events will
continue to feature established SHIMMER stars, plus the RISE
roster members, and the standout competitors from each
future training seminar. We had wrestlers of varying degrees
of experience participate in the first two RISE seminars,
from competitors with only a handful of matches under their
belt to ten year veterans, all looking to continue to learn,
network within the industry, and fine tune their skills.
Fans will absolutely see several of these talents given
opportunties in the SHIMMER ring during 2017 and into the
future, as each competitor makes their own progress as
overall performers.
Having promoted SHIMMER for over eleven years now, there's a
sense of pride reflecting back on how many young, developing
talents were able to make use of whatever opportunities we
were able to assist them with through being a part of our
roster for a stretch of several years. Wrestlers like Portia
Perez, Nicole Matthews, Mia Yim, Kellie Skater, and so many
others arrived in SHIMMER during their early, formative
years and developed into some of the very best female
wrestlers in the world through their hard work,
determination, and the drive to constantly take their skills
to the next level. It's exciting for myself, Kevin, Allison
Danger, Saraya, and everyone else at SHIMMER and RISE to see
a new crop of young talent, with a world of potential, who
want to follow in their footsteps and do the very same thing
during the years to come.
The next seminar will take place on Saturday, March 25th in
Berwyn, IL, with Saraya Knight and Chicago veteran trainer
Ace Steel handling the training duties. That particular
seminar is open to both male and female wrestlers, and will
be accompanied by a GAIN live event at the Eagles Club. Ace
Steel is one of the men responsible for training wrestlers
such as Cabana and CM Punk at the Steel Domain school in
Chicago during the late 90's. There will be another RISE
camp for female wrestlers prior to the SHIMMER 92-95weekend,
again with a live event during the evening. It will take
place on Friday, July 7th in Berwyn, this time with
legendary trainer and wrestler Dr. Tom Prichard lending his
knowledge to the proceedings. Kevin can provide details to
any wrestlers interested in taking advantage of the
opportunties offered, by shooting him an E-mail at
kevin@wrestlingpipeline.com.
Fans will see some new faces added to the SHIMMER mix during
our upcoming events on 4/1 in Orlando, as well as 7/8 & 7/9
in Berwyn. We hope you like what you see!
OWN SHIMMER ON DVD!
Visit www.SHIMMERwrestling.com to purchase SHIMMER DVD
releases online. If you would like to purchase SHIMMER DVDs
via money order, E-mail shimmernews@yahoo.com for mail order
instructions.
SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 75 (DVD)
Description:
1. Shazza McKenzie vs. Marti Belle
2. Crazy Mary Dobson vs. Miss Natural
3. Kay Lee Ray vs. AKINO
4. Jessicka Havok vs. Melanie Cruise
5. Xandra Bale vs. Courtney Rush
6. LuFisto vs. Misaki Ohata
7. Athena vs. Tessa Blanchard
8. Mia Yim vs. Nicole Savoy
9. Candice LeRae vs. Cheerleader Melissa
10. SHIMMER Tag Team Championship Match: Kimber Lee & Cherry
Bomb vs. Heidi Lovelace & Evie
11. Madison Eagles vs. Saraya Knight
12. Tomoka Nakagawa's Retirement Match: Kellie Skater &
Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Nicole Matthews & Portia Perez
Price: $15.00
Order at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 74 (DVD)
Description:
1. Crazy Mary Dobson vs. Portia Perez
2. Thunderkitty vs. Angelus Layne
3. Mia Yim vs. Kimber Lee vs. Kay Lee Ray vs. Saraya Knight
4. Yumi Ohka vs. Nicole Savoy
5. Shazza McKenzie vs. Melanie Cruise
6. Candice LeRae vs. Cherry Bomb
7. Jessicka Havok vs. Veda Scott
8. Heidi Lovelace & Evie vs. Courtney Rush & Xandra Bale
9. Athena vs. Vanessa Kraven
10. Cheerleader Melissa vs. AKINO
11. SHIMMER Championship Match: Nicole Matthews vs. Madison
Eagles
12. Kellie Skater & Tomoka Nakagawa & Hiroyo Matsumoto &
Misaki Ohata vs. Aja Kong & Mayumi Ozaki & Dynamite Kansai &
Kyoko Kimura
Price: $15.00
Order at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 73 (DVD)
Description:
1. LuFisto vs. Marti Belle
2. Crazy Mary Dobson vs. Melanie Cruise
3. Thunderkitty vs. Cheerleader Melissa
4. Mia Yim vs. Kyoko Kimura
5. Kay Lee Ray vs. Saraya Knight
6. Kellie Skater vs. Evie vs. Nicole Savoy vs. Allysin Kay
7. Athena vs. Tessa Blanchard
8. SHIMMER Tag Team Championship Match: Kimber Lee & Cherry
Bomb vs. Courtney Rush & Xandra Bale
9. Heidi Lovelace vs. Misaki Ohata
10. Madison Eagles vs. Portia Perez
11. Tomoka Nakagawa vs. AKINO
12. SHIMMER Championship Match: Nicole Matthews vs. Jessicka
Havok
Price: $15.00
Order at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 72 (DVD)
Description:
1. Jessicka Havok vs. Cheerleader Melissa
2. Courtney Rush & Xandra Bale vs. Taylor Made & Allysin Kay
3. Thunderkitty vs. Vanessa Kraven
4. Misaki Ohata vs. Nicole Savoy
5. LuFisto vs. Miss Natural
6. Shazza McKenzie vs. Veda Scott
7. AKINO vs. Portia Perez
8. No Disqualification Match: Evie & Heidi Lovelace vs.
Saraya Knight & Mayumi Ozaki
9. Madison Eagles vs. Yumi Ohka
10. Two Out Of Three Falls Match: Athena vs. Mia Yim
11. SHIMMER Tag Team Championship Match: Kellie Skater &
Tomoka Nakagawa vs. Kimber Lee & Cherry Bomb
12. SHIMMER Championship Match: Nicole Matthews vs. Kay Lee
Ray
Price: $15.00
Order at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 71 (DVD)
Description:
1. Evie vs. Portia Perez
2. Candice LeRae vs. Nicole Savoy
3. Nikki Storm vs. Cherry Bomb
4. Kay Lee Ray vs. Kimber Lee
5. Athena vs. Mia Yim
6. Jessicka Havok vs. Cheerleader Melissa
7. Second Round Tournament Match #1
8. Second Round Tournament Match #2
9. Second Round Tournament Match #3
10. SHIMMER Championship Match: Nicole Matthews vs. Tomoka
Nakagawa
11. Three-Way Elimination Tournament Final Match
Price: $15.00
Order at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
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