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Thrash Wrestling promising ‘wild night’ in return to Penticton this spring

The promotion’s Peach City show on April 1 is being called ‘Psycho Mania’
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Thrash Wrestling is returning to Penticton on April 1 at the Luso Canadian Multicultural Society. (Submitted photo)

Okanagan-based promotion Thrash Wrestling is calling its next show “Psycho Mania” and it’s being promised to live up to its name when it comes to Penticton on April 1.

The Luso Canadian Multicultural Society on 135 Winnipeg Street will be home to the live-wrestling performance this spring for the second time in three months when it welcomes the promotion and its leader, Nick Szalanski.

“I’ve always wanted to call a show Psycho Mania and to me, it sounds like we can guarantee it’s going to be a wild night with a name like that,” Szalanski said.

The Friday night stand-alone show will be headlined by a pair of matches, a tag-team rematch between Dudes of Aviation and the defending championships, The Influence, and a one-on-one battle featuring Jayce D’Arcy and Collin Cutler.

Szalanski is insisting that anything can happen in Penticton on April 1. From table breaking to steel-chair battles, a “full-wrestling experience” is what’s being sold to the Peach City crowd.

“We like to include aspects of it that is all-things pro wrestling,” he explained.

“There’s a humorous match and then there’s a hard-hitting match and then maybe a technical one.”

The Okanagan promotion is proud to be community-based. Being from Vernon, Szalanski only comes to Penticton periodically.

But connecting with multiple communities across the region, including Penticton, is what makes him proud — seeing local organizations reach out to him publically only helps the cause, according to the promoter.

“When I saw the Penticton Arts Council share my wrestling poster, I said thank you right away,” he said.

“These shows bring people together and it’s good to see.”

Entertaining the Penticton crowd in April will not only be limited to wrestling.

Szalanski is promising that his performers will take to the microphone and address the South Okanagan audience with traditional wrestling banter.

Thrash Wrestling’s upcoming show will be sold to 100 per cent of the venue’s capacity, the first time in two years such sales of tickets have been permitted, amid COVID-19 restrictions.

The promotion previously made a stop in the Peach City in January to a limited capacity crowd.

READ MORE: Thrash Wrestling makes anticipated return to Penticton

Tickets for the April 1 show can be purchased for $20 on ticketseller.ca or in person at One Boardshop.

People interested in buying tickets at the door can do so for $25, with the show slated to begin at 7:30 p.m.


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