Florida is gearing for more pro wrestling action – scripted and unscripted.
RAF13, under the Real American Freestyle banner, is Friday, Sept. 18 at the Watsco Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.
The Bound for Glory PPV, under the TNA Wrestling banner, is Sunday, Oct. 11 at the Yuengling Center in Tampa.
RAF, a new company, is the unscripted version of professional wrestling, featuring freestyle wrestling from some of the best wrestlers in the world.
TNA Wrestling, in its 24th year, is one of the top scripted type pro wrestling companies in the world.
Below are some video interviews I conducted to hype the companies, shows and talent.
Kiera Hogan
After a five-year hiatus, Kiera Hogan made her triumphant return to TNA Wrestling at TNA Lockdown in August in Chicago.
Hogan was the mystery partner of Allie at TNA Lockdown in August in Chicago. She replaced an injured Rosemary to help Allie retain the TNA Wrestling Knockouts tag team titles in a steel cage by defeating The Elegance Brand (Heather by Elegance and M by Elegance) (with Mr. Elegance and The Personal Concierge).
Kiera Hogan returned to TNA Wrestling in August and became a three-time TNA Wrestling Knockouts tag team champion. Her tag team partner is Allie. (Photo Via Social Media)
Hogan is now a 3-time TNA Wrestling Knockouts tag team champion. She also won gold twice with Tasha Steelz. As Fire, she teamed with her life partner Adrenaline (ROH’s Diamante) to win the tag team titles in WOW – Women Of Wrestling, the women’s pro wrestling group.
More about Kiera Hogan
Hogan, 31, is from Decatur, Georgia. She trained at WWA4 under the direction of WCW and WWE alum Mr. Hughes and AEW’s AR Fox in Atlanta. She made her pro wrestling debut in 2015.
Don’t let her cuteness fool ya. She is one tough combatant in the ring and can handle a mic.
TNA Wrestling is in San Antonio, Texas with back-to-back nights of action at the Boeing Center at Tech Port on Thursday and Friday, September 24-25.
Ticket info for all shows can be found at
Visit www.tnawrestling.com.
McKenzie Mitchell
TNA Wrestling and Real American Freestyle interviewer and ring announcer McKenzie Mitchell is a WWE alum.
A very diverse talent, Mitchell is an author, too, inspired by a creative idea through the pro wrestling version of her journey.
More about Mitchell’s book
Fashion meets wrestling in a first-of-its-kind book by Mitchell, which is titled “THREADS OF TRIUMPH: Professional Wrestling’s Most Iconic Looks.”
McKenzie Mitchell of TNA Wrestling and Real American Freestyle authored “THREADS OF TRIUMPH,” featuring pro wrestling’s most intriguing ring gear from the 1940s to today. (Photo Via Social Media)
“THREADS OF TRIUMPH” features wrestling’s most intriguing costumes from the 1940s to today, including the looks of big names like “Macho Man” Randy Savage, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, The Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Rey Mysterio, Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, and many more.
McKenzie Mitchell wrote “THREADS OF TRIUMPH,” featuring pro wrestling’s most intriguing ring gear from the 1940s to today. (Photo Via Social Media)
A foreword by one of wrestling’s best, Mercedes Moné, completes the all-star package.
More about Mitchell
Mitchell, 32, is a glamorous third-generation jewelry entrepreneur from Dexter, Missouri. She marries the stunning imagery in her book with the wrestlers’ thematic choices behind their outfits, including how they select every button, every swatch, to mold their persona and story.
The dive into this artistry is something that hasn’t been published before and will appeal to the most die-hard wrestling fans and the wrestling curious alike.
Chris Jericho, a multi-time world champion in pro wrestling, dubs McKenzie’s idea to write an entire book on pro wrestling fashion “a brilliant one, and this book shines brighter than the sequins on the boots I’m wearing right now!”
McKenzie Mitchell Web: https://mckenziemitchell.com/
WWE NXT Tuesdays on The CW.
TNA Wrestling’s Thursday Night iMPACT! on AMC and AMC+.
iMPACT also airs on Sportsnet 360 in Canada and TNA+ worldwide.
TNA Wrestling’s video library can be seen 24-7 via Roku.
RAF Web: https://www.realamericanfreestyle.com/
Miami Herald
Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too — mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) — sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel).
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