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VENDETTA WRESTLING NEWS AND NOTES

By Mike Johnson on 3/27/2016 8:47 AM

Vendetta Pro Wrestling is presenting two big events in April!

First, Friday, April 8, 2016, Vendetta Pro Wrestling presents April Cruels Day 2016! "Radisson Square Garden", Santa Maria, California. This event will be broadcast live, worldwide and for free via Ustream at vendettaprowrestling.com, starting at 7:35pm Pacific.

SoCal Crazy will make his first defense of the Vendetta Pro Wrestling Heavyweight Championship since defeating Little Cholo (a.k.a. Mr. Cisco) to become the Undisputed Champion. His opponent? The man who Crazy defeated for the Interim title, "Wrestling Personified" Rik Luxury. Luxury and his manager, "The Voice" Donovan Troi, not only filed an injunction to get out of his match at Februtality, but also filed a lawsuit against Vendetta Pro, Commissioner Joseph Duncan personally, and the National Wrestling Alliance because he didn't get his rematch immediately after losing it to SoCal Crazy at Reflexion in January. The case was nearly dismissed when Duncan pointed out that the contract stipulation for the Interim Vendetta Pro Wrestling Heavyweight title was that when the rightful titleholder, Little Cholo, returned to action, that Cholo would immediately defend his title against the holder of the Interim title to once again crown an undisputed Vendetta Pro Heavyweight Champion. However, the case was settled out of court when Duncan agreed that Luxury should indeed have his rematch clause honored, so at April Cruels Day, Luxury and Crazy will go at it one more time!

The NWA World Tri-Force Championship will be at stake, as the bad blood boils between titleholder Mike Rayne and former Tag Team Champ Greg Hernandez. A few months ago, Hernandez was one of the challengers for the Tri-Force Championship along with Rayne when they both were looking to take the title from then-Champ Sunami. Sunami had a bit of bad history with Rayne at the time, but managed to successfully defend his Tri-Force title. Following the match, an upset Rayne couldn't get his hands on Sunami, so instead, he assaulted Hernandez, and put him out with the Piledriver. Since then, Rayne has become Tri-Force Champion, and "The Game Changer" Greg Hernandez is looking to get revenge on Rayne while taking his title, adding insult to injury. However, as the Tri-Force title must always be defended in three-way contests, the 2015 APW Young Lions Cup winner "The Real Deal" Will Roberts, is looking to play spoiler and make certain that neither Hernandez, nor the "California Black Sheep", leave Santa Maria with the title.

The NWA Western States Heavyweight title will be at stake, as once again, the Champion "The Last Temptation" Ricky Ruffin will defend his title against "The Punk Rock Powerhouse" Brawlin' Bo Cooper. These two went at it in a title match at Februtality, booked by the National Wrestling Alliance. However, the NWA matchmaker who put that contest together only set it up for a mere ten minute time limit. The bell rang, and the time limit had expired just as Cooper had delivered the Spicolli Driver and was attempting to put Ruffin away. Amidst the confusion, Vendetta Pro Commissioner Joseph Duncan declared that the match was a time limit draw. Cooper, perhaps being rightfully upset at the decision, picked up the champion and went to shake his hand, but instead assaulted the Champion and well as NWA official D.C. Brown, and then stole Ruffin's NWA Western States title belt. Days later, Duncan personally booked the rematch at April Cruels Day with the standard sixty-minute time limit for title matches. Fines were also levied against Cooper for his actions Ruffin plans on dealing out further consequences against the 300-plus pound Veteran Bo Cooper for his assault as well as for the theft of his title belt. While Cooper has the size, strength, and experience advantage over Ruffin, he may now have given up the motivation advantage, which has been known throughout history to often be the deciding factor.

Santa Maria's own Vendetta Pro Wrestling and San Luis Obispo's Cen-Cal Professional Wrestling will once again battle in an unsanctioned Inter-Promotional contest, as Sunami and Kadin Anthony--collectively known as SU/KA--once again represents Vendetta Pro to take on Cen-Cal's Creepshow--J.D. Horror and Sledge. These two teams went at it at Februtality, in a match that was decided by the outside interference of Cen-Cal's "Mutant Cyberpunk" Diskord. SU/KA challenged them to a rematch, but this time, since Creepshow doesn't want to play by rules, neither do they! SU/KA asked for, and was granted, a no-holds-barred House of Horrors Tag Team match! The only stipulation is that Diskord is banned from entering any part of the Radisson Hotel Santa Maria. These same two teams went at it in this same type of match back at September To Remember 2013, which went on to win the Vendetty Award for 2013 Vendetta Pro Match of the Year. Back then, while the rivalry was heated, it was about respect and professional achievement. All of that is out the window now, this is strictly personal between not only the two teams, but the two organizations in which they now represent.

The battle between the NWA Western States Tag Team Champions Vintage Dragon and Cyanide--The Von Dooms--and Shane and Shannon Ballard was supposed to be settled at Februtality. However, with the match ending in a Double Countout, nothing was settled. In fact, things have only gotten even more heated as Apostle Judah Mathew has joined forces with The Ballard Brothers. To counter, The Von Dooms enlisted Stryder to their side. Now, these two forces will engage at April Cruels Day in a Six-Man Tag Team contest!

The Vendetta Vixens will be in action as the lovely Samara makes her debut, while Tab Jackson plans on welcoming the newest Vendetta Vixen to the roster with a Superkick Party!

The former "Shogun of Harlem" Jimi Mayhem will join the man who tricked him into signing his contractual rights over to, Alexander G. Bernard, to take on Billy Blade and Richie Slade of The Midnight Delight. At Februtality, Bernard went one-on-one against Slade, and picked up the victory thanks to the outside interference of him unwilling-yet-indentured servant, Mayhem. Now, Slade will have his partner Blade as a legal competitor to counter Mayhem.

Advance tickets for this event are available at Santa Maria Billiard Lounge, Leisure Time Games in the Santa Maria Town Center Mall, Evergreen Video in Orcutt, La Miramar all locations, The Shack and Battleground in Lompoc, Cheap Thrills Records in San Luis Obispo and online via Brown Paper Tickets at www.vendettaprowrestling.com. Tickets available at the door for an additional $5.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Radisson Hotel Santa Maria

3455 Airpark Drive

Santa Maria, California

Doors Open 7:00pm Bell Time 7:35pm

In addition to the April Cruels Day event in Santa Maria, California, Vendetta Pro Wrestling is returning for a big two-night event in Las Vegas!

Vendetta Pro Wrestling, in association with Gold Rush Pro Wrestling, The National Wrestling Alliance, Pro Wrestling Bushido, Big Valley Wrestling, Alpha Omega Wrestling, Stardom USA and Smash Mouth Pro Wrestling present, Casino Royale 2016!
In conjunction with the 51st annual Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion. April 10-11, Gold Coast Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Sixth-Annual Casino Royale Rumble will close out night one. Night two will begin with the Second Chance Battle Royal! The winners of the two will face off in the main event for the 2016 Cauliflower Alley Cup!

The women will also be involved as they battle for the 2016 Luna Vachon Memorial Lunacy Cup!

The NWA World Tri-Force and NWA Western States Heavyweight titles will be at stake at Casino Royale, pending the results of April Cruels Day! Plus, Vendetta Pro Wrestling is hard at work at bringing the NWA World Heavyweight and NWA World Tag Team Championships to Casino Royale, pending the results of the NWA Parade of Champions event on Thursday, March 31st in Fort Worth, Texas. More information about that event available at http://www.nwapoc2016.com/. A number of other regional championships will also be at stake, including the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight, NWA Pacific Northwest Television, NWA Continental, NWA Circle City Midwest and Television titles, and the NWA Heritage title--and that's just in one match! The Smash Mouth Wrestling Bull of the Woods Championship will be at stake as "Mr. Money's Worth" Sammy Guevara will defend against "Absolute" Ricky Starks!

More exciting matches will be announced in the following couple of weeks leading up to this huge two-night event in Las Vegas!

For the latest information on Casino Royale, follow the event on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/events/1561122857512454/

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(This event is held by a private organization and is in no way paid for by the Cauliflower Alley Club, a Non-Profit Organization.)