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LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas will toggle shape into a pro wrestling fan’s paradise for a fewer days pinch WrestleMania 42 being nan main people for astir group who will alert into nan metropolis from astir nan world.
WWE will beryllium sharing nan spotlight.
Dozens of pro wrestling companies will beryllium featured passim nan week astatine various venues each complete nan city. Imagine arsenic if each assemblage shot convention was hosting its title crippled each time from Wednesday to Sunday pinch nan NFL’s Super Bowl occurring astatine nan end. It’s nan aforesaid emotion that will encapsulate pro wrestling fans complete nan people of nan week.
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A West Coast Pro wrestling show takes spot extracurricular nan Chase Center successful San Francisco. (West Coast Pro)
West Coast Pro will beryllium 1 of nan promotions hosting a show pinch respective wrestlers connected its roster participating successful aggregate matches for different companies arsenic well.
In a oversea of independent shows, West Coast Pro proprietor Scott Bregante told Fox News Digital that his promotion offers fans a chance to spot nan athletics successful its purest form.
"I deliberation what separates West Coast Pro isolated is we person an personality of like, we're very proud to beryllium from nan Bay Area. We're very proud to still showcase pro wrestling for what pro wrestling is and not what it could be," he explained. "I deliberation a batch of group want to travel successful and reinvent nan wheel. I deliberation wrestling is beautiful successful its rawest shape and that is telling stories, putting a spotlight connected up-and-coming people, getting group emotionally involved, conscionable successful nan basics.
"I deliberation we commencement truthful acold distant from it arsenic an manufacture wherever you person to person an influencer now aliases personification that's celebrated connected to it. For us, we've ne'er really folded connected that. It's ever been, like, we person really, really bully wrestling. We person really bully stories. Our crowd is incredible. The vibe is there. All nan things that would make immoderate institution great, we've leaned into it and conscionable ne'er mislaid what made us, us."
Bregante said immoderate of nan industry’s apical stars person travel done West Coast Pro, including WWE’s Royce Keyes and Jacob Fatu while others person been featured astatine All Elite Wrestling, Total Nonstop Action and successful Japan arsenic well.
"We person group each complete nan spot that travel retired of West Coast, Pro, aliases had a footprint here," he continued. "And I deliberation that that stands nan trial of time. ... And I really deliberation that’s what makes us. And I deliberation that's really what makes america a measurement distant from everybody else. We are conscionable pro wrestling, you know? We're not sports entertainment, we're not an influencer, thing for illustration that. We're pro wrestling astatine its core."
One of West Coast Pro’s rising stars is nan company’s world women’s champion Johnnie Robbie.
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Danny Orion enters nan ringing for West Coast Pro. (West Coast Pro)
Robbie is simply a Los Angeles autochthonal who has leaned into her Latin American inheritance and brought her ain spirit into nan ringing – and it’s made a resounding effect pinch pro wrestling fans.
Bregante told Fox News Digital that Robbie’s expertise to subordinate to fans has made her incredibly popular. Couple that pinch her skills successful nan ring, and nan manufacture has a rising prima to contend with.
"Incredibly relatable but not to nan constituent wherever group spot her arsenic an equal, they spot her arsenic personification to look up to," he said of Robbie. "I deliberation that's a batch of things that are mislaid wrong pro wrestling wherever a batch wrestlers resonate pinch fans by being fans, wherever Johnny Robbie is simply a measurement above."
Bregante said that Robbie’s profession was astir ended because of a superior cervix injury, but her expertise to recover, support her momentum pinch fans and being capable to put connected banger lucifer aft banger match. It’s that portion of Robbie’s journey, Bregante said, that makes her moreover much special.
Johnnie Robbie hits Persephone pinch a crossbody from nan apical rope. (Courtesy Marc Blair/Instagram @punchesandpins)
"I deliberation that's a very, very important portion that group hide of why, you know, if you're conscionable proceeding now who Johnnie Robbie is but you perceive everyone that's been astir for a while to opportunity like, ‘Yeah man Johnnie Robbie,’ these are these are very important specifications of a travel pinch somebody, and her in-ring activity speaks for itself," he said. "She is 1 of nan astir sought-after wrestlers, man aliases female aliases otherwise. A batch of group opportunity like, ‘Oh, champion unsigned talent,’ I don't look astatine it that way. I deliberation Johnnie Robbie, if you put her up lb for pound, she’s apical 20 successful nan world period.
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"You can't really spell and say, ‘Hey, man, I watched nan Johnnie Robbie match. It was conscionable OK,’ 99.9% of nan time, whenever you watch nan Johnnie Robbie match, you spell distant pinch thinking, ‘OK, well, I deliberation this female is redefining what women's wrestling could be.’ And erstwhile I look astatine her and opportunity this is what it should be. There's a logic why I person her main eventing complete everybody else. And it's not because it's her gender aliases thing for illustration that. It's because she has nan passion, she has nan look. She has nan effort and nan accomplishment group and nan wide intermezo worth to main arena immoderate show that comes retired of West Coast Pro. And West Coast pro has a modular and for her to beryllium astatine nan apical of that modular should opportunity enough."
West Coast Pro is group to put connected a show successful Las Vegas connected Thursday, April 16. (West Coast Pro)
West Coast Pro’s "West Coast vs. The World" paper looks for illustration this:
- Johnnie Robbie (c) vs. Mio Momono for nan West Coast Pro Women’s Championship
- Vinnie Massaro (c) vs. Thomas Shire for nan West Coast Pro Championship
- Senka Akatsuki vs. Dani Luna successful a singles match.
- Alan Angels and Aaron Solo (c) vs. Cajun Catch Revival for nan West Coast Pro Tag Team Championships.
- Miko Alana vs. Aja Kong successful a singles match.
- Andrew Cass (c) vs. Adam Brooks for nan West Coast Pro Golden Gate Championship.
- Alpa Zo vs. LaBron Kozone successful a singles match
- Starboy Charlie vs. Adam Priest successful a singles match.
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The arena will return spot Thursday nighttime astatine 7 p.m. PT astatine nan Bizarre Bar successful Las Vegas.
Ryan Gaydos is simply a elder editor for Fox News Digital.
