That Nerdy Chick goes wrraasstttliinnnnnn ...

A few weeks back, I got a tweet from @ASWFLTweetTeam regarding Wrestlemania. I was all dude! Don't even go there ... I grew up watching wrestling with my brother and his friends, and even met most of those guys in 93 or 94 when they came to Bristol Central High School, in Connecticut.

THEN! Come to find out they are based in Florida, so I tweeted them saying that I was going to be there for 2 weeks and we should totally hang out. They graciously accepted, and after some passing of time ... this happened, cue 4sq checkin:

ASW stands for All Star Wrestling, and is an amateur league of wrestlers based in Tampa, FL. See, these are the peeps that are working the hustle pre WWE and TNA. They put on a show once a week at Strokers Billiards ... and I'm not gonna lie, I enjoyed myself. It started off a bit shaky as the culture shock was a bit jarring ...

All that aside, these guys put on a pretty gnarly show. It lasted about 2 hours, and consisted of about 5 matches - with the final match being a 5 team tag team event.

Wrestling is an interesting sport; it's a hybrid of athleticism displayed in a dramatic way. It's acting, meets dance, meets boxing, meets who knows. There were obvious times when my brain wanted to say, that makes no sense! If he was hit in that direction his body wouldn't respond by falling in that manner. But the show was overall so good, that I just stopped caring.

Major Kudos to the guys that run the event, and special thanks to Michael for the invite. I had a blast, and hope to make it back again soon.

The fro meets the spirithood!!

PS. Apparently the event costs $5 to get in? I had no idea ... I very literally just walked in through the door, and no one stopped me. Confidence, nerds ... gotta have the confidence ... =)

Click here to check out ASW wrestling for yourself.

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