Now, three years later, Devotion Championship Wrestling is celebrating its third anniversary with an event on Dec.
One show turned into an entire promotion - a wrestling business called Devotion Championship Wrestling. They drew big names, made connections with some of the largest wrestling promotions out there. They opened a wrestling school to help people learn the ways of wrestling. Smith and his team wanted to gain traction - to see if they could get enough people interested to host monthly events. “Two shows and we’re already like, all right, the community kind of needs something like this,” Smith said. That show turned into another show - Aftermath, hosted in January 2019. The community needed something like this at that time.”
over 100 people to our first show, and we realized that it was kind of a community. “We drew a pretty good crowd,” Smith said.
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In December 2018, Smith decided to host his own professional wrestling show called Festivus Fights.
Every time he looked for places to wrestle, he saw links to training grounds in Florida - often the first step that wrestlers like John Cena and Dave Bautista took to make it big. Smith, who grew up wanting to become a professional wrestler, spent hours researching wrestling promotions in Utah while he was in middle school years ago. These two are tied one-to-one against each other in their two previous encounters and in this third match we will find out who will emerge with the bragging rights between these two beginners.Manny Smith wanted the world to see him wrestle.
The event begins at 7PM and features over two hours of exciting, interactive, family-friendly entertainment. Independence Pro Wrestling invades Grand Rapids on Saturday, March 2nd with an action-packed show at The Grand Rapids Masonic Temple.