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BY STEPHEN WELLS
The Battalion
THINK AND GROW RICH...'*'
Every thought which
enters our mind,
every word we utter,
every deed we perform
makes its impression
on the innermost fiber
of our being. ,y
-Dr. Dennis Kimbro
Author
Lecturer
Open to the Public
. DENNIS KIHBRO
O n Jan. 1 another year of Aggie football
faded into the history books, leaving
Texas A&M students with no outlet to
satisfy their urge to see burly hyper-thyroid
men in tights smash into each other in an
open ceremony.
For three hours on Sunday, those Aggies
can satisfy their craving when World Cham
pionship Wrestling (WCW) takes a leap off
the top turnbuckle into Reed Arena.
Mary Helen Bowers, the associate director
for special event facilities, said students have
been asking about professional wrestling for
a long time.
“When the arena opened we knew that
wrestling, would be a fun event to bring,”
Bowers said. “We talked to the people over at
UT about it because they had done it before
and they said it did well. When we opened the
arena, we mainly got two questions. The first
was ‘How many seats are available?’ and the
second was ‘1 suppose you’ll never get
wrestling, will you?”’
After attempted talks with the World
Wrestling Federation, which did not produce
a booking at Reed Arena, promoters began
making a deal with WCW.
“We’re excited about it,” Bowers said. “We
had a good number of people lined up to get
tickets. WCW wanted to sell the tickets dur
ing the Christmas break, but we had to tell
them the students would kill us if they could
n’t get the good seats.”
Despite its reputation as an institution for
the testosterone addicted, WCW at Reed Are
na is being eagerly anticipated by every walk
of life.
“I’ve been asked for tickets by a young
woman, who, of course, insisted she was only
going because her fiance was going,” Bowers
said. “We’ve also sold tickets to faculty mem
bers and other well educated people. They are
coming to see good entertainment, and WCW
puts on a good show.”
There are positive aspects of professional
wrestling for women as well. Kristine Riente,
a sophomore zoology major, said profession
al wrestling is more below the surface than
men beating each other into mulch.
“I think it’s a bunch of men showing their
feminine side,” Riente said.
“You watch two grown men slaughter the
hell out of each other, and one of them always
lays on the mat in great pain for 20 minutes
afterward in agony,” Riente said. "But the
next day he’s jumping around like nothing
happened.”
Believability is not an issue for wrestling
fans. Mark Douglas, a junior biomedical sci
ence major, said professional wrestling should
not be enjoyed without being judged.
“For a guy, professional wrestling is a great
escape,” Douglas said. “It really is a soap
opera with fistfights involved. There are no
doctors cheating on their fourth wife or what
ever, and all the disagreements are decided by
a big fight.”
Douglas said even those who say profes
sional wrestling is a big hoax and make fun
of it will probably show up to watch the show
when it comes to town.
“It’s the same thing as everybody making
fun of the Spice Girls when they had the al
bum,” Douglas said. “I think there are a lot of
closet wrestling fans. They’ll be there to
watch it live and they’ll have a good time, but
they’ll say they were only there for the expe
rience. ”
Douglas said watching a professional
wrestling event is a memorable experience.
“It’s wild,” he said. “People get into the ac
tion way more than at a concert or anything
else. Everybody is wearing the T-shirt of their
favorite wrestler, and people are taking it way
too seriously. You yell ‘Kill! Kill! Kill!’ at the
top of your lungs, but you know it’s all in
good fun.”
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January 22,1999 7:00 P.M.
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Presented by:
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MSC Black Awareness Committee
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The 11th Annual
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January 21-24, 1999
EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Friday, January 22, 1999
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Speaker Dennis Kimbro - 7 - 8:30 p.m.
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Jazz Poet’s Society - 9 p.m. Rudder Auditorium
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