SHIMMER - WOMEN ATHLETES News for Feb. 10, 2017

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Headlines:
- Main event signed for SHIMMER 91 in Orlando!
- Dulce Garcia added to SHIMMER 91 talent lineup!
- SHIMMER & RISE notes from California!


MERCEDES MARTINEZ VS. CANDICE L ERAE SIGNED FOR SHIMMER 91!

The yearly tradition of SHIMMER presenting a live women's pro wrestling event as part of the WWN Live Experience festivities continues in 2017! SHIMMER 91 will take place on Saturday afternoon, April 1st, at the Orlando Live Events Center (6405 S. US Highway 17-92) in Fern Park, FL. Bell time is Noon Eastern time. First and second row seating is already sold out. Third row reserved ($50), fourth row reserved ($40), and general admission ($25) tickets are still available. If you'll be in town that weekend, don't miss SHIMMER live! Visit www.Mo reThanMania.com to purchase tickets. If you're unable to attend in person, the event will also be available as a live streaming iPPV at www.WWNLive.com. 

The main event for SHIMMER 91 has been signed! It will feature Candice LeRae challenging Mercedes Martinez for the SHIMMER Championship! Visit the YouTube link below to view Candice's comments about the match.

Candice LeRae Promo - www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XwzeOiY1d4

Also announced during this past week for SHIMMER 91 in Orlando is the return of Dulce Garcia to SHIMMER competition! Dulce is one of the most accomplished female competitors in lucha libre. In the process of establishing her own identity without a mask, Dulce made her SHIMMER debut this past November in exciting bouts against LuFisto and Mercedes Martinez. We're pleased to now include Dulce on our Orlando card as well!

Other competitors already announced for SHIMMER 91: Mia Yim, Tessa Blanchard, Leva Bates, Jessicka Havok, Shayna Baszler, Cherry Bomb, Kellyanne, Santana Garrett, Veda Scott, and Britt Baker. Look for more competitors to be officially added to the SHIMMER 91 talent lineup during the coming weeks!

SHIMMER 91
Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 12PM ET
Orlando Live Events Center
6405 S. US Highway 17-92
Fern Park, FL 32730
Tickets at www.MoreThanMania.com
On sale now

TWO DAY TICKET PACKAGES FOR SHIMMER 92-95 NOW ON SALE!

SHIMMER and RISE wil l present a weekend of live events in the Chicago area during the weekend of July 7th through July 9th, 2017! All three days of events will take place at the Berwyn Eagles Club in Berwyn, IL. Two day ticket packages for SHIMMER 92-95 and RISE tickets are now on sale! Visit www.SHIMMERwrestling.com for SHIMMER tickets, and www.WrestlingPipeline.com for RISE tickets. Single day tickets for the SHIMMER events will be made available beginning Sunday, February 19th. 

RISE - Developing Tomorrow's Women Athletes
Friday, July 7, 2017 at 8PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.wrestlingpipeline.com
Tickets now on sale!

SHIMMER 92 & 93
Saturday, July 8, 2017 at 2PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
Two Day Ticket Packages - Now on sale!
Single Day Tickets - On sale Feb. 19

SHIMMER 94 & 95
Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 12PM CT
Berwyn Eagles Club
6309 26th Street
Berwyn, IL 60402
Tickets at www.SHIMMERwrestling.com
Two Day Ticket Packages - Now on sale!
Single Day Tickets - On sale Feb. 19

Mark your calendars, and make your plans to see us live!

SHIMMER & RISE NOTES FROM CA LIFORNIA

(Notebook entry from 1/29 by Dave Prazak)

It's the very early morning hours of Sunday, and as ShimVirus: West Coast Edition begins to fully take hold and I can't seem to fall asleep, I may as well put down a few thoughts as it pertains to this weekend's events out here in South Gate, CA.

For those unaware, this past Friday was the second session of RISE: Developing Tomorrow's Women Athletes, the talent development project spearheaded by SHIMMER producer Kevin Harvey. The concept is fairly simple. As the name suggests, the goal is to provide multiple ways for female professional wrestlers to make further career progress, through scheduling a series of training camps with a host of different established instructors from around the wrestling world, in combination with providing talent with more live wrestling events to appear on, in addition to their current schedule across the independent circuit. Roughly twenty wrestlers of varying degrees of overall experience participated in a full day camp with both Colt Cabana and Saraya Knight on Friday, as well as a live event that evening at the American Legion in South Gate, home of Bart Kapitzke's AWS promotion. Also on Saturday evening, a considerable number of those same wrestlers were a part of Bart's AWS event at the same location. A big thanks to all of the fans in the area who filled the seats on both nights!

It's great to see so many talented performers looking for furth er opportunities in the industry, eager to grow as overall athletes by learning from a variety of additional sources of wrestling knowledge, to build upon their respective initial training backgrounds. With only two RISE camps & live events in the books thus far, it's clear that this will be a very helpful method of not only the wrestlers improving their skills, but also management from SHIMMER, Bellatrix, AWS, and a host of other companies effectively scounting talent and tracking their progress. Only so much can be displayed to a potential promotion through an aspiring talent sending YouTube links of their matches in an attempt to line up bookings. Doing that only gets across one aspect of what that wrest ler has to offer. It is so much better for us to be able to evaluate talent through interaction during the training process, as well as working with each talent on live events, providing feedback, and learning what each wrestler's specific goals may be going forward.

It's an exciting time of change across the women's pro wrestling landscape right now, with more and more opportunities coming along for talent all over the world. In the process, we at SHIMMER have been among the promotions which have experienced the need to prepare more talent for our future, due to several changes to our available talent roster, particularly during the past year. Four of our main roster talents were signed to WWE deals during the second half of 2016, meaning there are roster voids to be filled. Additionally, we as a promotion have also felt the effects of the always inevitable setback of key performers sustaining injuries which sometimes put them on the sidelines an extended period of time. Now, more than ever, we need to be sure to focus on having several talents waiting in the wings, should we need them to step up to the plate in the months and years to come.

This weekend's seminar and live events have been an essential part of the entire SHIMMER team discovering who's out there, and who is hungry for opportunties. As Kevin announced on Friday evening, six women have been named official RISE roster members going forward, meaning they wil l be regularly appearing on events promoted by RISE, in addition to RISE affiliated matches on independent events around the world in the future. Angel Dust, Delilah Doom, Britt Baker, Chelsea Green, Shotzi Blackheart, and Kikyo are those first six. Going forward, the RISE events will continue to feature established SHIMMER stars, plus the RISE roster members, and the standout competitors from each future training seminar. We had wrestlers of varying degrees of experience participate in the first two RISE seminars, from competitors with only a handful of matches under their belt to ten year veterans, all looking to continue to learn, network within the industry, and fine tune their skills. Fans will absolutely see several of these talents given opportunties in the SHIMMER ring during 2017 and into the future, as each competitor makes their own progress as overall performers.

Having promoted SHIMMER for over eleven years now, there's a sense of pride reflecting back on how many young, developing talents were able to make use of whatever opportunities we were able to assist them with through being a part of our roster for a stretch of several years. Wrestlers like Portia Perez, Nicole Matthews, Mia Yim, Kellie Skater, and so many others arrived in SHIMMER during their early, formative years and developed into some of the very best female wrestlers in the world through their hard work, determination, and the drive to constantly take their skills to the next level. It's exciting for myself, Kevin, Allison Danger, Saraya, and everyone else at SHIMMER and RISE to see a new crop of young talent, with a world of potential, who want to follow in their footsteps and do the very same thing during the years to come.

The next seminar will take place on Friday, March 24th in Berwyn, IL, with Saraya Knight and Chicago veteran trainer Ace Steel handling the training duties. That particular seminar is open to both male and female wrestlers, and will be accompanied by a GAIN live event on Saturday, March 25th at the Eagles Club. Ace Steel is one of the men responsible for training wrestlers such as Cabana and CM Punk at the Steel Domain school in Chicago during the late 90's. There will be another RISE camp for female wrestlers prior to the SHIMMER 92-95wee kend, again with a live event during the evening. It will take place on Friday, July 7th in Berwyn, this time with legendary trainer and wrestler Dr. Tom Prichard lending his knowledge to the proceedings. Kevin can provide details to any wrestlers interested in taking advantage of the opportunties offered, by shooting him an E-mail at [email protected].

Fans will see some new faces added to the SHIMMER mix during our upcoming events on 4/1 in Orlando, as well as 7/8 & 7/9 in Berwyn. We hope you like what you see!