Saturday night’s all right for … wrestling? It is for Pro Championship Wrestling, at least.
PCW takes its body-slamming action to Midlothian’s Don Preston Community Center at 6 p.m. Saturday, and it is bringing along Tammy Lynn “Sunny” Sytch. Sunny, formerly of the WWE and making her debut with PCW, is vowing to help one lucky wrestler win a title.
Could it be one of these PCW wrestlers?
RedEye had them fill out our survey.
RICHARD JENIG, A.K.A. RICK KNIGHT
Age: 38; Hometown: South suburbs
Wrestling experience: 19 years
Titles: Have held titles all over the world.
How did you get started in pro wrestling?
I started wrestling as a way to make money while I was going to college.
What’s your day job?
Running PCW is my full-time job.
Your ultimate goal in wrestling is …
… to get out healthy enough to still be able to enjoy the second half of my life. (I’ve got two years left ’til retirement.) Also getting out without ever having to take illegal drugs, such as steroids, painkillers and sleeping pills is a personal goal.
Tell us something you like or don’t like about wrestling today.
There is less emphasis on actual wrestling and too much on bad acting and bad skits.
In true pro wrestler fashion, do some trash talking to your PCW rivals.
Shawn Davis, you have all these little 10- and 12-year-old girls screaming your name, while I’ve got their mothers screaming mine.
“HOT BOD” SHAWN DAVIS
Age: 24; Hometown: Skokie
Wrestling experience: 3 years
Titles: Midwest title
How did you get started in pro wrestling?
It was always a dream of mine to be a pro wrestler, and one of my friends asked me if I would be interested in it. I went for a meeting back in 2005, and two days later, I started my training. It’s the best job ever.
What’s your day job?
I am a wrestler full time, although I used to work at an animal hospital.
Your ultimate goal in wrestling is …
I became a pro wrestler for the love of the sport. Right now I’m having too much fun just living out a dream. Not a lot of people my age can say that.
Tell us something you like or don’t like about wrestling today.
When I was growing up, wrestling was huge. It got that way because there was more that one company. There is and always will be WWE. But in the ’80s and ’90s there were WCW and ECW. There was competition, and that’s what made wrestling bigger than ever in the mid-’90s.
In true pro wrestler fashion, do some trash talking to your PCW rivals.
I don’t trash talk to rivals, I let my action inside the ring do the trash-talking for me.
PAUL MYERS, A.K.A. PL MYERS
Age: 35; Hometown: Elmhurst
Wrestling experience: 8 years
Titles: Manager of The Chicago Connection, which has captured every title in PCW
How did you get started in pro wrestling?
I was doing interviews with pro wrestlers from WWE/WCW/ECW on my cable access show Wrestling Resource TV, where I got contacts with local wrestling promotions. I got trained to be a manager, and the rest is history.
What’s your day job?
Pro wrestling manager/public relations for PCW.
You ultimate goal in wrestling is …
Working for WWE or TNA, traveling around the world representing Chicago.
Tell us something you like or don’t like about wrestling today.
I miss the Saturday-morning WWF TV wrestling shows, and the promos with the wrestlers talking about them coming to the Rosemont Horizon every month.
In true pro wrestler fashion, do some trash talking to your PCW rivals.
Let me make this crystal clear, I am PL Myers “The Shot to the Top” pro wrestling manager extraordinaire, and everyone should realize this by now, including you. The Chicago Connection is everything you’re not and nothing that you’ll be.
