With the 44th Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion coming up April 13 – 15 at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV, it seemed appropriate to take a look back at earlier CAC Reunions. In 2006 Cheerleader Melissa, a Future Legend Award honoree in 2004, presented the Future Legend Award to Mariko Yoshida. The ceremony was very emotional for both ladies, as you can see from these photos by Paul Stratoti. Paul also provided us with his photos of the terrific match between Melissa and Mariko.

All photos by Paul Stratoti.

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One of the inductees into this year’s WWE Hall Of Fame (Class Of 2009) & former NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Dory Funk, Jr., was one the special guests on this past week’s live edition (02/23/09) of Monday Night Mayhem, hosted by The Big Mosh, Blade, & Chaz. You can feel The Mayhem live & in streaming audio every Monday night (at 8PM ET/7PM CT), exclusively on The Monday Night Mayhem Radio Network (www.MondayNightMayhem.com, www.ITunes.com, www.AudioWrestling.com, & www.MySpace.com/MondayNightMayhem).

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The Katz Files – Arnie Katz

The Unwritten Laws of Wrestling

The Kingfish Arnie Katz woke up early this Monday so you don’t have to. He’s in one of his weird moods, so hold onto your keyboards!

Pro Wrestling wasn’t invented yesterday.

It isn’t a new business. The North American version began with guys fighting all challengers at carnivals more than a century ago. (No, one of them was not Fit Finlay.)

Pro Wrestling thrived even as the Six-Day Bicycle Race and Roller Derby became respectively, defunct and small-time. Although I’ve encountered a few wrestling promoters who are geniuses, most of them are somewhat less than brilliant.

One of the things that has helped promoters survive is the vast storehouse of practical knowledge that pro wrestling has accumulated over more than a century. There’s nothing fancy; it’s more like a catalog of what works and what doesn’t.

These unwritten rules rank somewhere between the Ten Commandments and the US marijuana laws in terms of how strictly they are enforced. Imaginative bookers bend, break and twist them in fascinating ways, but most promoters can stay out of real trouble by just sticking with them.

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