The gloves will be off at Collingwood Collegiate Institute next Friday.
Rock Solid Wrestling, a Collingwood-based professional wrestling outfit, will be holding a card dubbed March Mania at CCI at 7 p.m.
The event will be raising money for the Collingwood Jr. A Blues.
"I'm a hockey guy, and a wrestling guy," said promoter John Edwards. "A junior hockey team is really important to a town and I wanted to do something to help them out a bit."
Blues president Dan McIlhone thought the idea to team up with Rock Solid Wrestling was a good one.
Although he has spent most of his time around hockey rinks, McIlhone said he has always had a healthy respect for pro wrestlers.
"These guys are great athletes, no doubt," he said. "This is definitely going to be a fun event."
Edwards said Rock Solid Wrestling's goal is to present wrestling, the way it used to be.
"My favourite period of wrestling was the 1980s," he said. "Our show doesn't include blood and senseless violence, just good wrestling, characters and a lot of fun. I remember watching events at the Eddie Bush Memorial Arena when I was younger, I loved that time and would like to see it come back."
The card will be headlined by a tag-team grudge match pitting Barrie native Jake O'Reilly and the six-foot-seven, 280-pound monster "Big" Brian Youngblood going up against a dastardly duo known as TNT - "Textbook" Tyson Dux and Tornado.
Tornado, who is billed from New Gimmicks, New Mexico, says he is never pleased about coming to Collingwood, a place he has wrestled about eight times.
"I hate hockey. Why do they want to raise money for a last-place team?" he said. "I don't get it. The town is a dump. The only reason I am even showing up is because I get to beat up O'Reilly again."
O'Reilly has been involved in the mat game for more than five years and says when he teams up with Vane, fans can expect a brawl. The Irish-born grappler is still recovering from a knee injury that kept him out of action for six months. The injury happened at the hands of Dux, one of his opponents on the 28th.
"I'm not a finesse guy, I'm a fighter," he said. "I want to punch Tyson Dux until my hand is blue. I'm out for revenge and pretty confident I will get it."
The card also features, the straight-jacket wearing Crazzy Steve going against the "Cock of the Walk" Otis Idol from New York City, high-flying Xtremo from Toronto battling the mullet-clad Cody Deaner from Alabama, Hailey Rogers facing PJ Tyler in Women's action, a tag-team match between the Wyld Stallyns and the mysterious Kobra Kais and a cruiserweight clash between Philadelphia's Anthony Darko and Windsor's Phil Atlas.
Tickets can be purchased at Play it Again Sports on Hurontario St. For more information visit the Blues website, e-mail rswoffice@gmail.com or call 293-0991.
