The time is drawing closer for the KOTDM Tournament. It's 2 weeks and counting and I'm very anxious to get this thing started. Tickets for The 2001 "King of the Death Match" on June 1st and 2nd are on sale NOW! Year after year, the KOTDM event is regarded as one of the biggest independent shows anywhere. You'll want to get your tickets early before they sell out!

Here are your 24 participants:

1. Psycho Sam Cody
2. Too Tuff Tony
3. Mean Mitch Page
4. Ian Rotten
5. Axl Rotten
6. Hack Myers
7. Corporal Robinson
8. Rollin Hard
9. Sick Nick Mondo-CZW
10. Chris Hero
11. "Rugby Thug" Trent Baker
12. Bull Pain
13. Suicide Kid
14. Uncle Honkey
15. Peter B Beautiful - MAW
16. Cash Flo
17. "The Orient Express" Shank Dorsey
18. Tower of Doom
19. Hido - FMW
20. Mark Wolf
21. Paul E. Smooth
22. Mr. Insanity
23. Necro Butcher
24. Brain Damage

Definitely a bad group of mother f'ers. I'm sure as hell gonna have to give 110% if I wanna be 2001 King Of The Death Match !!!

I had a very interesting trip this past weekend as well. I was supposed to go do a show for a group but had a little trouble. It was supposed to be Dale Johnson and myself against Mark Mattis and Al B. Damned. It started out to be a good trip. We left at 4:30 and expected to be there by 6:00. Well, first off we got bad directions so we ended up in Bellefontaine, OH and we needed to be in Westville, OH. Long story short. We were about 20 miles out of our way. Secondly, we were under the impression that the show started at 8:00. When we finally got on the right track to our destination we stopped to look at a poster to see if it had better directions and it said that the show started at 7:30. We read this poster at 7:50. We finally arrived to the show at about 8:10. Remember, we had planned to arrive their around 6:00 which would have been plenty of time to practice but nnnnnoooooooooooo!!!! BUT WAIT, IT GETS BETTER

We pull into the parking lot only to see about 10 cars in the lot. We get out of the car and we decided to not even get our bags out because we could just tell something was up. As we were walking up to the building, these kids on the front steps started jumping up and down yelling "ALRIGHT, PEOPLE ARE HERE-PEOPLE ARE HERE". As soon as we heard that we just wanted to turn around and leave right there but we proceeded inside the building. To cut to the chase, the show had started and there was a mixed gender match going on when we walked in. They had the match going, play by play announcing on the house mic, lights, music, the whole sha-bang. And they did all of this in front of a sell-out crowd of 0 paid. That's right, you heard me correctly, 0 as in ZERO, NADA, ZILCH. The only people in the stands was 2 wrestlers wives and a kid. That was it. In my 3 ½ years in this business, I had never, ever seen a show where nobody came. But it happened this weekend. Rumors have it that 4 people were there earlier in the day but when they saw no one else showing up. They left.

We talked to the promoter after they were done. (Of course, we didn't get our gear out of the trunk) and he appreciated the fact that even though we were lost, we still showed up. He thanked us anyway. We talked to a couple people (by the way, Mike West's girlfriend---- Thanx for my pics and if you need someone to fix your camera, I'd be happy to slam it on the ground for ya. Hehehe) and we left. But in one last effort to make some kind of money; a security guard came out to us, as we walked out of the building, and said "ya know guys, there is still some t-shirts for sale inside if you want them". Umm, I don't think I need to say anymore about that situation do I? To say the least, I give the promoter an A for effort but that town just wasn't happening. But I do wish them good luck in the future. I just had to share that with you because it was a first for me.

Well, that about does it for this week; sorry so long but I just wanted to get that story off my chest. See ya next time and Big up to all my boy's in the Yardbird Posse. See Ya !!!