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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Ringpost from DMV Wrestling. Thanks to all our subscribers. Do you have comments or suggestions? Do you want to write for us? Drop a line to jeff.quinton@gmail.com and let me know. Also, please follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Also please update your bookmarks and browsing habits to use our new domain name - www.dmvprowrestling.com. Please feel free to forward this email to all your friends who might be interested.

Indy News

• WUSA 9 in Washington, DC recently featured a news report on Fight Club Pro Wrestling and their mission to promote black wrestlers at the Edgewood Arts Center in DC.

• On 11/29, C3 Wrestling is participating in the 3rd annual Halloween in the Square event in Lexington Park, MD. TNA star Moose (a.k.a. former NFL player Quinn Ojinnaka) will be wrestling at the event, which features a Halloween trail and free candy for children and many other free services for children and families in attendance.

• Pro Wrestling VIBE will be holding their Prime Time Vibes event on November 6 at DC Brau Brewery in Washington, DC. There are currently seven matches on the card.

• On November 12, 1CW Pro Wrestling will hold their Fight Against Alzheimers event at the Houston Volunteer Fire Hall in Houston, DE. Admission is free for all veterans for this show.

Wrestlers

• Baltimore Celebfest 6 will take place in Westminer, MD in February. They announced Trish Stratus and Christian Cage as their first two headliners for the event.

• I also noted this past week that Velvet Sky, former TNA Knockouts Division champion and current NWA announcer, will return to Baltimore on November 5.

• November 5 is the date of the Maryland Toy Expo in Timonium, and the wrestlers appearing there include Mike “Speedball” Bailey, Ace Austin, The Rascalz (Trey Miguel and Zachary Wentz), Jordan Oliver, and Velvet Sky.

Founding Patrons

I announced a crowdfunding effort recently to contribute to the ongoing success of DMV Wrestling.

I wanted to publicly announce that our first two Founding Patrons are W. Thomas Smith, Jr. and Scott English. Additionally, Scott English will be a producer on the upcoming podcast.

You can also contribute to the effort and become a Founding Patron of DMV Wrestling, and depending on your contribution amount, credit as a producer of the upcoming podcast. Please chip in with what you can afford to help make DMV Wrestling even better.

There’s a decent chance you might not be reading this newsletter now if I hadn’t been a long-time reader of Mike Mooneyham. His column at The Charleston Post & Courier is the longest-running wrestling column anywhere in the country (since 1989). His first byline in a national wrestling magazine was at the age of 11 and he was later sports editor of the Post & Courier.

I recently have written about his four-part series on the Mulkey Brothers and “Mulkeymania”, with the last part of that series published this weekend and the link to his column is in the sidebar of my site.

I consider Mike a friend and even if he doesn’t know it, he has been a mennd inspiration for some of the things I am trying to do with DMV wrestling. I have bounced ideas off of him for this site and my podcast, as well as other possibilities I have explored writing about pro wrestling.

Mike has been inducted into the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, the South Carolina Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes. The College Today (at the College of Charleston) wrote about him in 2016 and it sums his career up well.

Mike is co-author of The New York Times bestseller Sex, Lies, and Headlocks: The Real Story of Vince McMahon and World Wrestling.

He is also author of Final Bell: Legends of the Mat Remembered.

I would encourage you to buy either of these books or others that he has authored or co-authored and read his weekly column.