Mayor's Cup High School Wrestling Championships (NYC)
The New York City Sports Commission
had the Second Annual Mayor's Cup High School Wrestling Championships
at Hunter College
on 02.11.06 (regardless of the snowstorm that the city had). Forty high schools
from the New York City
area sent their finest wrestlers from every weight class ranging from 96 pounds
to 275 pounds to determine a city champion. Among the competitors were the top
four wrestlers from each of the PSAL,
CHSAA
and Independent Schools Association.
PSAL
wrestlers captured gold medals in 12 of the 15 weight classes. Curtis High
School led the PSAL
championship parade with three gold medals. Angel Mercado was especially
impressive with his technical fall over Tottenville's Jesse DiOrio at 140
pounds, while Vincent Vitadamo (125) and Jake Villaret (135) also claimed their
first Mayor's Cup titles.
World Wrestling Entertainment
I guess that the only thing
worth pointing out this month regarding the WWE is that Stephanie McMahon is
expecting her first child if anyone cares about the gossip.
Total Non-Stop Action
Christian Cage (known simply as
Christian in the WWE) won the NWA world championship from Jeff Jarrett (Against
All Odds PPV, 02.12.06). During the same PPV, Rhino defeated "The
Monster" Abyss. Samoa Joe defeated AJ Styles and "The Fallen
Angel" Christopher Daniels keeping the TNA X-Division championship. Team 3D
(Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric
Young).
Samoa Joe has been undefeated
since he signed with TNA. He will face the two men he faced at the Against All
Odds PPV, AJ Styles and "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels in a
Ultimate X Match (steel cables crossed over the ring) on the Destination X PPV,
03.12.06. Because of Samoa Joe's weight, the Ultimate X cable setup will be
reinforced. It wouldn't surprise me if Samoa Joe loses the
X-Division title
in order to push him for the NWA world title.
TNA is selling the story of
Sting's retirement.
Jeff Jarrett showed video footage of Sting picking up his children from some
location to their home (Impact, 02.25.06). The story is annoying and only makes
me wonder when Sting will return to the ring.
On 02.06.06,
SpikeTV
announced that it would move TNA Impact to Thursdays at 9:00 PM, ET/PT, starting
04.13.06. This is
the old time slot of WWE (known as WWF then)
Smackdown before moving to Fridays and WCW Thunder before moving to Wednesdays.
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