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STAR STUDDED EVENT TO BE HELD IN NIAGARA FALLS
Former WWE superstars Hardcore Holly and Santino Marella to appear alongside
local wrestling talent
Empire State Wrestling (ESW) returns to Frontier Fire Hall, 2176 Liberty Drive, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
on Saturday, November 25, featuring former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) superstars
Hardcore Holly and Santino Marella, as well as current Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling superstar
Braxton Sutter and Cruiserweight Classic participant Tyson Dux. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with a bell time
set for 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $30 for front row, $20 for second row and $13 for general admission. All
tickets increase $5 at the door.
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Holly is most known for his rough-and-tumble style, which led him to winning the World
Wrestling Federation (WWF) Hardcore Championship on six occasions. He is also a three-time WWF Tag
Team Champion and former National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Tag Team Champion. ESW
commissioner Jimmy Olsen allowed Ron Falco to handpick Holly to face Big Cat Lemmer at the show, in
retaliation for Big Cat throwing Falco’s son, Jordan, into a match last month versus Asylum.
Marella accumulated numerous accolades while wrestling for WWE, as well. He held the WWE
Intercontinental Championship twice, the WWE Tag Team Championship and the WWE United States
Championship. He is famous for utilizing a humorous cobra sock puppet to finish off his opponents.
Sutter, formerly known as Pepper Parks, grew up in Western New York and has wrestled for
several of the top independent wrestling promotions in the United States, Canada and Japan. Prior to
signing with TNA, Sutter wrestled for Ring of Honor (ROH) and Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW). He also
held the National Wrestling Alliance National Heavyweight Championship and was ranked No. 159 in Pro
Wrestling Illustrated’s PWI 500. Sutter is no stranger to success locally, as he previously held one half of
the ESW Tag Team Championships.
Windsor, Ontario, Canada’s Tyson Dux returns to ESW after participating in WWE’s
Cruiserweight Classic tournament this past summer, facing off against the United Kingdom’s Zack Sabre,
Jr. Dux has wrestled in promotions around the world, including TNA, ROH and Pro Wrestling Zero1 in
Japan.
Two natives of the Cataract City are set to square off. Former friends, now bitter enemies Matt
Milan and Vince Valor look to settle their feud in a last man standing match – a match in which the only
way to win is via knockout.
The show will also include some of the top local wrestling talent in the area. Newly-crowned
ESW Heavyweight Champion Bill Collier will be in action. The Ilio DiPaolo Cup scramble match will take
place with Erie, Pennsylvania’s John McChesney announced so far as one of the participants. Among the
other ESW regulars scheduled to appear include Canadian stars Asylum and R.J. City, North Tonawanda’s
Kevin Bennett and Gregory Iron from Cleveland, Ohio.
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ESW promotes eight shows a year, primarily held at the St. Johnsburg Fire Hall in North
Tonawanda, N.Y., boasting crowds of over 400 wrestling fans, who come to cheer the good guys and boo
the bad guys of the sport. Twice a year, larger “super show” events are held at the Kenan Center in
Lockport, N.Y. and the Frontier Fire Hall in Niagara Falls, N.Y., drawing crowds of up to 1,000.
Founded in 2002, ESW is an independent professional wrestling promotion run by Brett Stymus
of Lockport. Over half of the performers involved in ESW reside in the Western New York area
