Various News: SHIMMER, Jim Cornette, NWA, & More News

The Southtown Star has an article up about this weekend’s SHIMMER DVD tapings, which you can check out at http://www.southtownstar.com/

The Chicago Sun-Times also ran a piece on the SHIMMER tapings, which you can check out at http://www.suntimes.com/

The Toronto Star has a Q&A with Abdullah the Butcher posted today, discussing his retirement tour, working the small shows and pressure from his nephews to hang up the boots. You can check out the full article at http://www.thestar.com/

Jim Cornette will return to the NWA Legends Convention this year, hosting the third-annual Hall of Heroes banquet dinner and once again taking part of a Q&A session. For more details on the NWA Legends Convention, which takes place in August, check out http://www.nwalegends.com/

Promoter Greg Price released the following statement on the future of the NWA Legends Convention: “Our NWA Wrestling Legends Fanfest Weekends are more than just a name. And it’s bigger than any one person or group. Our whole purpose is to celebrate wrestling’s past, and in Charlotte specifically, the NWA and Jim Crockett’s Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. I’m not a lawyer but Bob Trobich is, and I’m sure he’s offered his full resources to Bill McClown (aka JD Costello,) because this is a battle he’s been unable to win himself for a number of years. So this year’s fanfest weekend WILL be the final NWA Wrestling Legends Fanfest Weekend in Charlotte, but have no fear, our 2010 fanfest weekend WILL go on as planned and you will ALWAYS be able to find us here at the Fanfest Forum and at NWALegends.com. ALWAYS! You see, we have hundreds of folks from all over the world that treasure our weekend experience. They don’t come here because of three letters out of the alphabet. There’s a lot more to it than that.”

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