Family friendly wrestling returning to NCT Centre in Newmains next month
Family friendly wrestling is returning to the NCT Centre in Newmains next month.
Pro Wrestling Scotland are coming back to town with a brand new for a family entertainment spectacular.
The likes of Angel Hayze, Danny Clarke, BT Gunn and Kid Fite have already been announced.
The show gives children and their families the opportunity to see see the amazing, larger than life characters of Scottish wrestling.
Your children will also be given the opportunity to have their photo taken with wrestlers after the event with its Meet The Stars experience.
Home town hero Ben Rodgers will challenge BT Gunn for the Pro Wrestling Scotland Heavyweight Championship at the show.
Gunn, the current PWS Heavyweight champion, is one of the best the UK has every produced and has had two successful against two of the brightest stars in the UK today in Danny Clarke and Sam Taylor with some help and some underhanded tactics.
Ben Rodgers star has been rising all over the UK. Will the home town boy be able to bring the gold home or will BT Gunn's experience be too much the new star.
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