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Wrestling with Pop Culture presents: the return of Monstrosity Championship Wrestling

Before you put Halloween behind you and start preparing for those Thanksgiving family feasts, Wrestling with Pop Culture is proud to announce the return of Monstrosity Championship Wrestling! And now that the votes have been tallied, we have even more reason to celebrate as Wrestling with Pop Culture won the Reader’s Choice award for Best Local Blog in Creative Loafing‘s Best of Atlanta 2012.

Poster by West "Knife" Evans.

This time MCW finds a new home at Club Famous, inside Famous Pub in Toco Hills. Old rivalries continue as the intolerant Alabama Wolfman (who hasn’t competed since his encounter with the flamboyantly fanged vampire Dragula last March) brings his angry cousin the Kentucky Wolfman to get ravenous revenge. You’ll also see an age-old rivalry play out in the ring as long-time adversaries Rock, Paper and Scissors battle for supremacy.

Monstrosity fans will also be treated to returning favorites like “Calm Like a Bomb” Pandora, the Washington Bullets and “The Zombie King” Papa Marko, while talents such as “The Monster Killer” Asesino, “Bona Fide” Fred Yehi, “The Demigod” Mason and the tag team known as Worst Case Scenario (Ethan Case and Eli Evans) make their MCW debuts. Reckognize Apparel will also have a limited edition Yehi T-shirt available exclusively at this event. Professor Morte and the rest of the Silver Scream SpookShow crew will preside over these fiendish festivities as the Casket Creatures provide macabre musical offerings. Win a bag of edible body parts from Pine Street Market, a Dead Elvis flask from Diamond*Star*Halo, artwork from Neon Armour and other raffle prizes! These and many more surprises await you on Nov. 16, starting at 8 p.m. The cover is only $10 and Cayrum Honeys will provide fiendish freebies and devlish drink specials such as a creepy concoction known as To Hell You Ride!

Monstrosity Championship Wrestling arises at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Monster Bash

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Dragula (left) gets the best of the Alabama Wolfman (photo by Danielle Boise)

On an unseasonably warm and starry night last October, a strange thing happened in the parking lot of Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse. A wrestling ring was assembled and members of the Platinum Championship Wrestling roster showed up to do battle with … MONSTERS! It was a sight like none other until the following weekend, when monsters and wrestlers grappled yet again in an effort to prove their dominance over one another.

This freak occurrence went somewhat unnoticed, perhaps because such things are a bit more expected in the weeks leading up to Halloween at a venue where vigilante soldiers are forced to protect pedestrians from the creations of the Centers for Disease Development on a nightly basis. And though the zombies, demons and other assorted creatures of the night seemed to go dormant in the months following Halloween, they once again arose in March as the Silver Scream SpookShow’s Professor Morte resurrected Monstrosity Championship Wrestling to take on PCW’s finest in battles of living vs. dead (and undead) for the Wrestling with Pop Culture Anniversary Party at the Masquerade.

PCW's the Washington Bullets (Trey and Jon Williams) were turned into zombies at MCW's last show (photo by Harold Jay Taylor)

There, we saw the likes of a flamboyantly gay vampire known as Dragula as he got the better of his bigoted beast of a rival known as the Alabama Wolfman. In an event that also included a demon possession, a zombie infection spreading amongst the PCW competitors and other phenomena never before seen inside (or outside of) the squared circle, PCW’s “Do or Die” Chip Day took on “The Zombie King” Papa Marko and his mindless minions.

Though things have since returned to normal (well, as normal as can be expected from PCW), the monsters arise again for their Starlight Six Drive-In Theatre debut as part of the 2012 Rock ‘n’ Roll Monster Bash! As the previous three events have proven, you never know what to expect when MCW is involved. And with all the other monstrous music, movies and other mayhem already involved with the Monster Bash’s tenth anniversary, Morte’s monsters may decide to make the Starlight their permanent new haunt! And who will survive as the living do battle with the dead once more?!

Georgia Wrestling Now welcomes Professor Morte and Shane Noles

Prof. Morte brings monsters to the wrestling ring

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For the past few years, Professor Morte has been the “ghost host with the most” at the Plaza Theatre‘s Silver Scream SpookShow, where he puts on a classic horror show with go-go dancers, screenings (or as he would say, “screamings”) of retro horror films and appearances by a cast of kooky characters. Last October, he took his monsters to the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse to entertain the lines of people waiting to tour the facilities of the controversial Centers for Disease Development with the debut of Monstrosity Championship Wrestling. Little has been heard from MCW since those two shows, but Morte is ready to unleash the monsters again to help Wrestling with Pop Culture celebrate its first anniversary. As he plots this ultimate monster battle, he steps away from his lab to talk to Wrestling with Pop Culture about MCW’s return.

Hello again, Professor Morte.

Yes, it’s Professor Morte alive in the undead flesh!

As we’ve discussed on Georgia Wrestling Now over the past few weeks, Monstrosity Championship Wrestling debuted last October at the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse and the Wrestling with Pop Culture Anniversary Party will be the first show you’ve done since then.

It’s the first indoor show for Monstrosity Championship Wrestling, so we don’t have to worry about lightning strikes.

Well lightning might help with some of the monsters.

Yeah. With some of the monsters we might have to bring the Tesla coils out there to jump start these guys.

A lot of people may not have seen those shows in October…

Well shame on them! It was the greatest wrestling show that was ever put on. We had Frankenstein’s monster fighting the Wolf Man, we had a big all out zombie battle and it was pretty fangtastic. Those guys were really ripping each other’s arms off and beating each other over the head with them and stuff.

Will there be beheadings at the Monstrosity Championship Wrestling matches?!

Which monsters are on the card for tomorrow night’s show?

It’s a big surprise to everybody involved. We’re going to figure out tonight exactly what is going on tomorrow and which monsters I’ve got to let out of the cage and which monsters I’ve got to kind of spruce up in the lab so they’re presentable. And we’ll figure out what we’re going to do about some of these Platinum Championship Wrestling guys showing up and wanting to cause trouble at the MCW show.

Right. Of course Stephen Platinum very politely issued that challenge a few weeks ago on Georgia Wrestling Now. PCW will be coming over after the Atlanta Film Festival screening of The Booker and I guess they want to mix it up with the monsters a little bit.

Yes. It should be very interesting. I’ve been looking forward to this for about ten years now, so I’m really excited to finally be bringing Monstrosity Championship Wrestling to the Masquerade.

And I’m excited to have it be part of the Wrestling with Pop Culture Anniversary Party.

Great. And congratulations on your first year and all the things you’ve been doing. This show you’re putting on is like a variety show of great things that go on in Atlanta. You really pulled a lot of stuff together. You’ve got my favorite chocolate company with those spooky chocolates from Chocolate F/X and a lot of fun stuff going on at this show. You’ve really worked hard and the sponsors are fangtastic, so I’m looking forward to having an all around good time. Even if you don’t like wrestling, there are monsters! That’s reason enough to come to this show. You’ve got rock ‘n’ roll, you’ve got all kinds of stuff.

Even though it’s an all ages show, Neon Armour will also be doing body painting. So there might even be some boobies.

Oh, boobies! Well, children love boobies. And I love children. They’re delicious. I mean delightful. Children are delightful. So if they want to bring some children I’m sure the children will be very entertained with boobies, too.

With MCW, PCW, the bands, body painting and everything else, there’s sure to be a lot of stimulation at this show.

Over stimulation for some people. I’m really looking forward to it. We’re going to put on one yell of a show tomorrow night. I’m looking forward to scaring the yell out of you and the rest of the people that are attending so they can see just what is going to happen tomorrow night at the Masquerade! Muah ha ha!