BWP again had media attention last week after the hugely successful wrestling show in Llanwrtyd Wells, South Wales. The featured article is printed below:

WRESTLING EVENT PROVES BIG HIT 
By Daniel Johns – Brecon & Radnor Times

Sports fans finally got the big wrestling event they craved for, as the UK’s heavyweights made their way to Powys.

Llanwrtyd Wells has long been synonymous with such crazy events as Bog Snorkeling, Chariot Racing and the Man v Horse Marathon, but it was wrestling that took centre stage on Saturday, March 14.

It ended a near five month wait for the town’s fight-hungry fans, who were left disappointed when a charity wrestling event was pulled at the last minute back in October due to an administrative blunder.

Rapturous wrestling fans packed in to the spa town’s, Ysgol Dolafon for the Britannia Wrestling Promotions action-packed spectacle in which hometown hero Texas Joe Savoldi – who grappled with wrestling icons Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks in his heyday – stole the headlines as he rolled backed the years and left the crowd spellbound.

Texas got the better of all the bill’s brawlers by ousting them in the ‘Over the top rope’ Royal Rumble-style challenge-much to the delight of the vociferous home crowd.

Organiser Steve Saxon of Britannia Wrestling Promotions, said ‘It was a good event, particularly with home favourites Texas Joe Savoldi and the Awesome Aaron Adams on show.  The atmosphere was electric.’

‘I’d like to think we’d be able to bring the event back in the future, say in 12 months time.  It was perfect for wrestling, the ideal set-up’.

On Friday 3rd April 2009, the BWP will host a show in Silverdale, Stoke on Trent, the town that BWP Owner, The Sax Man, grew up in.  We caught up with Sax recently and got these comments from him:

12 years ago I left Silverdale, Stoke on Trent with my parents as a 15 year old boy who was known throughout my life until that point, as ‘Hambo’.  My family called me Hambo, my friends called me Hambo … even my teachers called me Hambo!  I was the kid that most people knew personally or knew of, for different reasons.  On the 18 October 1997, I moved to North Wales with my parents due to my Fathers work commitments, this is something I resented my parents for, just for a short while, because I had left a lifetime of friends and family over 80 miles away, that for a 15 year old may as well be 1,000 miles away.  I left my home, where everybody knew me and I knew everybody!  The most important thing to me back then, 12 years ago were my friends and family, and to this day that moral remains the same.

The reason for that brief history was because now, 12 years later, the artist formerly known as ‘Hambo’ returns to his birth town, Silverdale to host in front of family and friends, both old and new, for the first time in over 2 decades, an evening of Professional Wrestling!

This night will be special for a number of reasons:

1) Any night that is hosted by Britannia Wrestling Promotions is special.
2) I personally will be re-united with my old school friends, along with their new families
3) To showcase the extraordinary spectacle that is the BWP – the baby of The Sax Man
4) The Superstars of the BWP will remain in Silverdale after the show ends, to socialise with the locals …. of course this is an opportunity for all of my old friends and family yo buy me, and my lads, a drink or 2 (or 3,4, 5,6 ,7 …….)

I am really looking forward to going home to Silverdale, it is an honour to be able to showcase my lifetime dream and ambition in real form, to the people that I grew up with.

The Llanwrtyd Wells show is LIVE this Saturday 14th March 09 at Ysgol Dolafon.

Tickets are on sale at the town’s I.T. Centre as well as being available on the door on Saturday Night.

Doors open at 6.30pm
Show commences 7.30pm