[shimmerwrestling] SHIMMER TICKETS AT AAW TONIGHT IN BERWYN

SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES News for 05.19.07

Upcoming Live Events:
- Friday, June 1st @ Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL (Title Tournament Night 1)
- Saturday, June 2nd @ Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL (Title Tournament Night 2)
- Sunday, July 1st @ Citrus County Auditorium in Inverness, FL

Headlines:
- AAW tonight in Berwyn; SHIMMER tickets available at intermission!
- Less than two weeks until the SHIMMER Champion is crowned!
- Tickets now available; make sure you don't get shut out!
- Volume 7 DVD now available at ROHwrestling.com!


AAW TONIGHT IN BERWYN - SHIM TIX AVAILABLE!
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All American Wrestling is back at the Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL tonight, 5/19 for "Defining Moment." Below is all of the information on the card.

If you don't have your SHIMMER tickets yet for the Title Tournament double shot weekend (6/1 & 6/2), we'll have them available at intermission tonight in Berwyn!

AAW HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE- 2 OUT OF 3 FALLS

MAREK BRAVE(c)
vs
JERRY LYNN

Since winning the AAW title in November of last year Marek Brave has been without a doubt the most fighting champion in the company's history. Brave has defended the belt across the midwest in recent months and continues to add prestige to the title. Last month Jerry Lynn challenged Brave to a 2 out of 3 falls match to see who the better man truly is after their previous encounters have been marred with interference and controversy. After narrowly pulling off a win against Jay Ryan in April, Marek Brave has accepted the challenge and if he can defeat a star the caliber of Jerry Lynn twice in one night it will most definitely be the defining moment of his AAW career. These two men have been in the ring before and this may be one of the most closely contested title matches in AAW history.

6 MAN TAG

ERIC PRIEST, RYAN BOZ and DAN LAWRENCE
vs
DP ASSOCIATES- BERWYN BRANCH
BJ WHITMER, TRIK DAVIS and CONRAD KENNEDY III w/ Dave Prazak

Former tag team champs Boz and Lawrence team with the current Heritage champ Eric Priest to take on one of the most dangerous stables AAW has ever seen. Boz and the "Party Danimal" have had their problems with Trik and CK3 in recent months and after Priest and BJ Whitmer locked horns last month DP assocites triple teamed "The Gold Standard". Priest has made it clear he doesn't need any friends in the lockeroom to have his back but he shares a common enemy with Boz and Lawrence as they all want to get their hands on Dave Prazak's trio in the worst way.

CHRISTIAN YORK MAKES HIS AAW DEBUT

York makes his return to the Chicagoland area for the first time in years and has an open contract for this Saturday's event. Who will step up and challenge the former ECW star?

NO DQ- GRUDGE MATCH

JAYSON REIGN
vs
CHANDLER McCLURE w/ Jim Jesus and Ms. Mattano

Jayson Reign has been waiting for months to get his hands on JJ Inc's Chandler McClure. There's no where to run now as the arrogant youngster must face Reign in a no DQ anything goes match up. Reign is sick and tired of McClure trying to make a name for himself at his expense and has promised to show the AAW fans a side of himself rarely seen. This will be an intense match up where two men mostly known for their technical wrestling skills will fight it out and try to get a win by any means neccesary.

TAG TEAM CONTENDER'S MATCH

THE MICHIGAN INVASION
TRUTH MARTINI and N8 MATTSON
vs
BRYCE BENJAMIN and SHANE HOLLISTER

The MII was stunned last month when they dropped the tag titles to the unlikely duo of Zach Gowen and Krotch. Hollister and Benjamin are in the middle of a heated rivalry with the Phoenix Twins and Joey Eastman. Neither of these teams are in the best of moods and both need a win to get back on the tag team title hunt.

6 MAN TAG

DEREK St HOLMES, "KILLER" KRIS HYBRID and BONEBREAKER BROOKS
vs
"GRINGO LOCO" TYME PAIGE, CHARLIE MANSON Jr. and TONY RICAN

St. Holmes leads his new students into battle against the lucha specialsts Paige and Manson Jr with their partner Tony Rican. Rican has had several impressive showings in pre-show matches and has been called up to the main show. St. Holmes protege's will look to finally get in the win column.

Also:

What will be the next chapter in the Danny Daniels / Tyler Black issue?

What is Joey Eastman's next move as he guides the careers of the impressive Phoenix Twins?

Jay Ryan came up short in his title match against Marek Brave. What is next for the man from Cut n Shoot, Texas?

Krotch and Nikki will be in the building. What's on the horizon for one half of the unlikely tag team champions?

Skullkrusher had the AAW fans in a frenzy last month. Who will he have his sights set on this Saturday?

Silas Young has turned his back on the AAW fans. He will be in action but may be booed out of the building.

The impressive youngster Phil Atlas will also be in action.

All this and more as the road to Scars and Stripes III contines this Saturday night. Don't miss "Defining Moment" and see why AAW is….

"Professional Wrestling Redefined".

AAW - Professional Wrestling Redefined
presents
"Defining Moment"

Saturday, May 19th
7:30pm
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 W. 26th St.
Berwyn, IL

Doors Open at 6:45pm
$15.00 Front Row
$12.00 General Admission
$1.00 Beers at the bar



TITLE TOURNEY LESS THAN 2 WEEKS AWAY! GET TICKETS NOW!
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We are less than two weeks away from SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES crowning its first champion during two consecutive nights of tapings in the Chicago area. The last taping sold out, and we had to turn people away at the door. Do you have your title tournament tickets yet?

SHIMMER returns to live action on Friday & Saturday, June 1st & 2nd, at the Eagles Club (6309 26th Street) in Berwyn, IL. Bell time on Friday night is 7:30pm (Doors 7pm), and on Saturday night is 4pm (Doors 3pm).

Featured during the course of the weekend will be the 2 night, 16 woman, single elimination tournament to crown the SHIMMER Champion! The tournament will begin on Friday night, and conclude during the first half of Saturday's taping. After intermission on Saturday, we will then film another DVD release in the SHIMMER series!

Already signed to appear during the course of the weekend...

"The Jezebel" EDEN BLACK
CHEERLEADER MELISSA
ALLISON DANGER
SERENA DEEB
"American Angel" SARA DEL REY
LEXIE FYFE
DAIZEE HAZE
MALIA HOSAKA
JOSIE
LACEY of "The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew"
"Your Soul's Tormentor" MsCHIF (with DAFFNEY)
PORTIA PEREZ
PORTUGUESE PRINCESS ARIEL
RAIN of "The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew"
TIANA RINGER
"The Definition of Technician" CINDY ROGERS
NIKKI ROXX
ALEXA THATCHER

Sixteen wrestlers will appear as part of the tournament itself, with additional talent involved in non-tournament action on just the Saturday show. One of the sixteen tournament slots will be filled by a wildcard entrant. You will see some undexpected, unadvertised new faces added to the SHIMMER mix at the tapings as well!

Front row 2 night ticket packages are SOLD OUT. General admission 2 night ticket packages are still available at $30 each ($15 per night). You can either make payments via PayPal or via mail order (check or money order). To order tickets by mail order, email us at shimmernews@yahoo.com for details. To order tickets by PayPal, send payment to the DavePrazak@aol.com PayPal account, or use the Buy Now buttons at...

http://www.freewebs.com/shimmerwomen/tickets.html

We will also have ticket packages available at intermission tonight, Saturday, 5/19, at the All American Wrestling event in Berwyn, IL.

If any tickets remain on the day of each event, single night tickets will be offered for $15 at the door each night. We are not selling single night tickets in advance.

Mark your calendars! The first SHIMMER Champion will be crowned June 1st & 2nd in Berwyn!

Discuss the upcoming events in the following thread at The SHIMMER Forums...

http://shimmerwomen.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=shimmer&action=display&thread=1175581119



PRODUCTION NOTES & MORE FROM FLORIDA
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Entry dated 05.17.07

I'm sitting in the production studio in Tampa right now, as we work on Ring of Honor's debut pay-per-view, "Respect Is Earned." This is a very exciting, and somewhat stressful time for all of us at ROH, as well as everyone at SHIMMER. Both companies are in the midst of their own stages of growth, with ROH moving to PPV and SHIMMER holding its first double shot weekend of live events coming up on 6/1 & 6/2 in Berwyn, as well as our first live show in Florida on 7/1.

There's some positive news and some negative news regarding SHIMMER DVD production at the moment. The negative news is that, with all of the hours we're putting into working on the ROH PPV edit, as well as several ROH DVDs shot during the month of April, I'm not going to be able to sign off on the final edit of the Volume 8 DVD in time for us to have copies on the merch table on 6/1 & 6/2. I'm very picky about the editing of our DVD series, and I didn't want to rush Volume 8 through without screening the final version myself first and making any final changes. As much as I would've loved to have 8 on the table tourney weekend (we could use the merchandise money!), it just wasn't in the cards with everything we have on our plate at the moment.

Since we get actual DVDs pressed (they're not just DVD-Rs we can burn immediately), there's approximately a two week process as far as getting our order completed, plus the time it takes to ship the boxes of DVDs after they are done being made. It's looking like we'll just barely miss the tourney weekend, and Volume 8 should be available the following weekend through ROH.

On the positive side of things, we now have a separate editor that will be focusing on the SHIMMER DVD series for us. Up until now, the ROH, FIP, and SHIMMER DVD editing has been done by one individual, and obviously the ROH shows take priority over its sister companies. A big part of why SHIMMER and FIP DVD titles have been released several months after they were filmed is because the ROH workload has been so huge that it left little time to get SHIMMER and FIP projects completed. Now that we have our own editor, the SHIMMER titles will be able to be edited and released basically at our discretion.

As soon as we complete "Respect Is Earned," I'll be able to sign off on Volume 8 and get that sent off for the DVDs to be made. We'll be working on the Long Island and Edison ROH DVDs on Thursday night, and I fly back to Chicago on Friday. This Saturday, I'll be at the AAW event in Berywn at the Eagles Club (and for those interested, I will have General Admission ticket packages available at intermission at the AAW show).

Early next week, Volume 9 will begin production. Next weekend, we're back here in Tampa for two FIP events, plus production on ROH's St. Paul and Chicago DVDs. That following Monday, Danger arrives in Florida and we put the finishing touches on the edit of Volume 9 and fly out Tuesday morning. The plan is to send off Volume 9 to be made as soon as the edit is complete. Some final local promotional work in Chicago will occupy the days that follow, until Friday and Saturday in Berwyn for the title tournament.

As you can tell, it's a very busy few weeks for us, and we have a ton to get accomplished during that time period... but we're doing our best to keep giving you a product you can be proud to support.

All of the tournament participants are set for their travel and are ready to head to Chicago for 6/1 & 6/2. Additionally, several other wrestlers will be involved in non-tournament matches during the course of the weekend, including some unexpected new faces appearing for us for the very first time.

For those wondering (and I know you're going to hate me for this), we're not going to be announcing the tournament participants or bracketing officially before 6/1 arrives. As we all learned through Jazz's family emergency last taping, things do happen that wind up changing the card at the last minute, and with over 20 wrestlers all traveling to Chicago that weekend, if we are forced to make any last minute changes to the bracketing and such, we need to have that flexibility to do so on the day of the show.

For the Volumes 9 & 10 taping, you showed such faith in our product that with only one announced match, we were able to sell out the Eagles Club for the live event. Tickets for the title tourney weekend are moving just as fast with no matches announced this time, and we're very appreciative of your confidence in us to deliver.

Look for a brand new SHIMMERwrestling.com web site to launch during the next few days, and if you don't have your tickets for the title tournament weekend yet and plan on attending live, make sure you get them while they're still available. Thanks everybody!

dp



GET FREE GLOSSY SHIMMER FLYERS BY MAIL!
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Much like we did before the Vols. 9 & 10 taping, we're sending out FREE full color glossy double sided flyer cards to everyone who is on the SHIMMER snail mail mailing list. If you received the mailing from the last taping, that means we have your address, you're already on our mailing list, and you will also receive this mailing. Yes, this offer is also open to SHIMMER fans that live outside of the United States.

If you have yet to send us your snail mail address, and would like to be added to the mailing list to get the free flyers, just E-mail your full name and address to us at shimmernews@yahoo.com and we'll get them out to you right away!

Also, if any of you are in the Chicagoland area and would like to help us spread the word locally about the Vols. 11 & 12 tapings by distributing a large amount of flyers in your area, please E-mail us and let us know, and we'll hook you up with tons of flyers if you think you can get 'em all distributed. Thanks everybody!



NEW OFFICIAL SHIMMER WEB SITE ALMOST READY!
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We're about ready to launch the brand new SHIMMERwrestling.com. Keep your eyes peeled to the web site during the next few days to check it out!



MsCHIF ARTICLE ON SLAM WRESTLING
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Jamie Melissa Kreiser's article on MsChif is up on the SLAM! Wrestling web site for everyone to check out...

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/04/16/4044063.html



VOLUME 7 DVD NOW AVAILABLE FOR WORLDWIDE SHIPPING!
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The seventh DVD release from SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES is now available for immediate worldwide shipping at ROHwrestling.com! Volume 7 features several first time ever matches, including a hard hitting battle between the "Latina Sensation" Mercedes Martinez and "The First Lady of Hardcore" LuFisto, as well as Nikki Roxx vs. Lacey! Calgary's Nattie Neidhart faces "American Angel" Sara Del Rey, and Daizee Haze takes on Cheerleader Melissa, plus much more!

SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 7 (DVD)
Item# SH007

Description:
1. Tiana Ringer vs. Lorelei Lee
2. Cindy Rogers vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
3. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. Serena Deeb & Portia Perez
4. Rain vs. MsChif
5. Allison Danger vs. Amber O'Neal
6. Lacey vs. Nikki Roxx
7. Mercedes Martinez vs. LuFisto
8. Nattie Neidhart vs. Sara Del Rey
9. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Daizee Haze

Features:
Region 0 DVD. Will play anywhere in the world.

SALE! $14.95

Click on the link below to order Volume 7 from ROHwrestling.com.

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2231



RETAIL SHIMMER DVD BARGAINS!
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SHIMMER's partnership with Big Vision Entertainment has put the SHIMMER DVD series in retail stores and in the hands of casual wrestling fans around the United States.

Currently, Vols. 1 through 3 are available in retail (in some retailers on their store shelves, and for some just via their web sites). Vol. 4 is scheduled for an August 7, 2007 retail release.

With the recent great success of Big Vision titles "Hardcore Homecoming" and "Forever Hardcore" in retail in the United Kingdom (ranked #1 and #3 respectively for this week), there's a strong chance SHIMMER and other Big Vision pro wrestling titles will have a retail presence in the UK at some point in the future as well.

Here are some bargains on SHIMMER DVDs in retail here in the States...


Vol. 1 at Walmart.com for just $8.49

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5293274

Vol. 1 at Blockbuster.com for just $7.59 (subscriber price)

http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/290093

Vol. 1 at DeepDiscount.com for just $6.09

http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=5739308

Vol. 2 at FYE.com for just $5.95

http://www.fye.com/

Vol. 2 at DeepDiscount.com for just $6.09

http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=7952311

Vol. 3 at BestBuy.com for just $8.99

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=15487368&st=shimmer+wrestling&lp=2&type=product&cp=1&id=1623130

Vol. 3 at Blockbuster.com for just $7.59 (subscriber price)

http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/338530

Vol. 3 at DeepDiscount.com for just $6.09

http://www.deepdiscount.com/viewproduct.htm?productId=8945223


Some other places you can find SHIMMER in retail...

http://www.amazon.com/

http://www.circuitcity.com/

http://www.frys.com/

http://shop.mtv.com/

http://www.samgoody.com/

http://www.suncoast.com/



SHIMMER HIGHLIGHT MUSIC VIDEO
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Nykk of The SHIMMER Forums put together an introduction music video for SHIMMER, which opened the April 7th taping on the video screen. He has uploaded the video to the web, and it can be viewed for free at any of the following links...

YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSrgrunOYQk

Daily Motion
http://www.dailymotion.com/nykk/video/x1nct0_shimmer-women-athletes

MySpace Videos
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2020629871


Post your thoughts on the video in the following thread at The SHIMMER Forums...

http://shimmerwomen.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=shimmer&action=display&thread=1175939680


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