Old Time Wrestling made it’s return to Stockton University this past Thursday, October 4, 2018, for their annual show Fall Slam at Stockton University Sports Center. This is the second time this year that Old Time Wrestling performed at Stockton University. The first show was held this past January at the Campus Events Center. The Student Veterans Organization welcomed the audience to the show before the event began. Here are the results of the show.
OTW Heavyweight Championship Match: Adam Chandler the Great defeated “The Meanest in the Game” Justin Pusser to retain the OTW championship
OTW Classic Championship Battle Royal Match: Wesley Andrews was crowned the new champion with help from Patrick Richard Ream. After the match, OTW President Jim Molineaux booked a title defense match between Andrews and the runner-up of the battle royal, Ty Thomas. Ty Thomas would go on to defeat Wesley Andrews to win the OTW Classic championship
Nikos Rikos and Delroy Alexander defeated The Beach Bums
“The Natural” Eddie Hawkins (with Patrick Richard Ream) defeated Stockton’s Nate Mustang
“The Marvelous” Miss Jasmine defeated Damaris
#1 Contender’s Match: Ike Phillips and former WWE wrestler and Atlantic City’s Tank Toland defeated Elia Boratz and “The Dagger” Mik Drake to win a future title shot for the OTW Tag Team Championship
Overall, the show was outstanding, and one of the best aspects about it was the interaction between the wrestlers and the fans. The wrestlers were high fiving the crowd around the arena, and fans were interacting with their cheers and boos. Wrestlers performed some moves that the fans were encouraging them to do. The interaction between the performers and fans is something you do not see in the big wrestling leagues too often.
Personally, after having attended many wrestling events, this event had talented, athletic performers that packed the show with amazing stunts. Going to an independent wrestling show is a unique experience because the wrestlers are trying to make a name for themselves. Some are early in their careers, and some have wrestled in the big leagues and are returning to their roots. Some of these wrestlers will likely go on to wrestle in the big leagues like ROH, WWE, NJPW to name a few and when that happens, feel fortunate to have seen them perform.
The only downfall was that there were plenty of empty seats throughout the arena. So many people missed a good show. Stockton University could have done a better job at promoting this event because wrestling is still popular and there are a ton of people who are wrestling fans that probably didn’t know that this was event was taking place. It would have been nice to see a drawing for free tickets or a giveaway of t-shirts.
If the University did heavily promote this event, there would’ve been more people at the show. Again, congratulations to the Student Veterans Organization, Old Time Wrestling and the wrestlers for putting on an exciting show.
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