
This month we look back in BWP history at : SATURDAY 14TH MARCH 2009
LLANWRTYD WELLS, SOUTH WALES welcome Britannia Wrestling Promotions to their Welsh village, home of legendary Texas Joe Salvoldi and his son, up and coming young wrestler Awesome Aaron Adams. The hometown boys received a deafening reception from their own in what would be both of their final matches for the BWP.
Both men were entered into the 4 Man Parade match where the audience members selected who would face who – the winners of both matches would proceed onto a match with each other to declare the winner of the Llanwrtyd Wells tournament. Their other two opponents were in the form of ‘The Lethal’ DCB and Brad Matthews.
Texas Joe Salvoldi made light work of Brad Matthews and picked up the win for his place against the winner of the match between his son and DCB. Triple A gave DCB a run for him money with the fans undivided support for the youngster behind him, but the rookie fell short against his more experienced masked opponent as DCB finished him off to secure his spot against the hometown legend Texas Joe Savoldi.
The South Wales show also saw the debut of brothers Jim ‘The Metal’ King and Marcus King as tag team duo ‘SuperNatural’. The fresh faced brothers battled the Russian TranSiberian Express, picking up a victory in their debut match for BWP. This was a long time before SuperNatural, and any brotherly connection disbanded, as later on in 2009 SuperNatural won the Tag Team of Year award.
This show was also the debut of Rudy Wynne to the BWP as a fumbling referee. Rudy’s incapability of keeping up with the in-ring action led to him to later look for other roles in the organisation and eventually became the first BWP General Manager, the rest, just as this, is history!
Later in the night the winners of the first rounds of the 4 Man Parade KO tournament went head to head – the local legend Texas Joe Savoldi against the Superstar who had earlier beaten and humiliated Tex’s son, ‘The Lethal’ DCB. With the audience behind him, as well as both size and vast-experience, Savoldi dominated the match from the offset, utilising his power advantage over the masked DCB. However DCB and his then Manager McGrou did what they did best and outsmarted both the referee and Texas Joe Savoldi and cheated their way to a victory for ‘The Lethal’ DCB.
With both of the home boys beaten they went straight into a 20 Man Rumble – Texas with revenge in mind as he literally battled through each and every participant – and when later confronted once again by the man that beat him, Tex beat him not just inside the ring but all around the venue before eventually tossing him back into the ring, and then straight over the top rope crowning Texas Joe Savoldi the winner of the Main Event of the evening.



