What info is available for next year?

[mgcrans]

I have seen little bits posted here and there, but can someone please let me know what info is already known for the next fanfest?

[ssteward]

According to the program, it will be a Capital Legends reunion next August in Rockville, MD, which unless I understood it wrong, bobbyryates told me that Capital Wrestling is like a really OLD WWWF type of thing. I haven't heard anything about a future NWA Legends reunion.

[mgcrans]

Weren't there several of these Fanfests put on by the same person...an NWA one, a Mid-Atlantic one, a Starrcade one, and one other one I can't remember.

Is there now only one per year?

[ssteward]

I would assume they are going to be less frequent, but I don't know that to be the case

[antidoug]

looking foward to Tribute To Starrcade in Spartanburg.......
the lineup for that is incredible.
www.carolinachampionshipwrestling.com

[bluedevil71]

ssteward said:

According to the program, it will be a Capital Legends reunion next August in Rockville, MD, which unless I understood it wrong, bobbyryates told me that Capital Wrestling is like a really OLD WWWF type of thing. I haven't heard anything about a future NWA Legends reunion.

To clarify that, Capital Wrestling was the company owned by Vince McMahon, Sr., IIRC. They used to do a lot of taping out of the D.C. area.

That would certainly be different, and my guess would draw a different-type crowd, too.

[kyle]

I'm assuming that Greg is only going to do one Fanfest a year, he kind of flooded the market by doing the first 4 so quickly. With th name Capital if figured it was going to be more about Vince Sr.'s old promotion. Most of the guys I think of from the old Capital promotion are dead, Monsoon, The Grahams, The Kangaroos, Buddy Rogers and Johnny Valentine. That would still leave guys like Sammartino, Red Bastien and Killer Kowalski. I'm more than willing to make the extra hour drive if the list of wrestlers is impressive.

JJ Dillon was a part time referee for Vince in the area back then.

[bobbyryates]

the 3 charlotte and the one fayettville fanfests have been promoted by greg price. the one in november was a tribute to STARRCADE in charlotte.

the coming november, tony hunter of Carolina Championship Wrestling will have the big deal in spartanburg, as a tribute to STARRCADE. i shall be there.

[simm]

Capitol Wrestling was the DC/Baltimore promotion of the WWF in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's and held their bouts at the DC Armory, Capitol Centre, and Baltimore Arena. As I posted on another strand take Heenan, Snuka, Valentine, Patera, Race, Rhodes, Atlas, Masked Superstar from this year's lineup, who all wrestled under that banner and add Bruno, Backlund, Iron Shiek, Sgt Slaughter, and Billy Graham to that and I think you've got a pretty good lineup to start with and a couple great Q&A's in there somewhere. Would be great to have a Q&A with Backlund, Race, Graham talking about their title unification bouts and how they were worked.

[bobbyryates]

like simm suggested, it has great potential.

[stevej]

Not to intrude on Greg Price's prerogative, but you could go back even further with the old WWWF with say Bill Watts (his biggest run was vs Bruno), Bob Orton Sr., and don't forget both Valiants, all four of whom have made appearances.

[cawthon777]

simm said:

Capitol Wrestling was the DC/Baltimore promotion of the WWF in the 60's, 70's, and early 80's and held their bouts at the DC Armory, Capitol Centre, and Baltimore Arena.

Capitol, to the best of my knowledge, was just Vince Sr.'s predecessor to the WWWF. The name was dropped in the 60s.

[countgrog]

Capitol Wrestling was dropped in the late 1960's. There are very few regulars from that promotion around. Sure you have Bruno, Scicluna, Kowalksi, Watts, and a few lesser known guys. Kowalski is a super guy and if you get a chance to meet him at one of these events, he will be as gracious as a Bill Eadie or JJ Dillon is in Charlotte.