LAND O' LAKES - Organizers have dubbed Swamp Fest as "the new community festival." ...more

November 5, 2009

"Captain" Lou Albano, 76, who became one of the most recognized professional wrestlers of the 1980s after appearing in Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" music video, died Wednesday in Westchester County, N.Y. ...more

October 16, 2009

Friends of Andrew Martin, a professional wrestler known in the ring as "Test," are in shock today, trying to come to terms with how a bigger-than-life man who loved to ride his Harley to the beach and body slam opponents ended up dead in his Harbour Island home. A cause of death won't be known for weeks, said Dick Bailey, spokesman for the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's Office, which performed Martin's autopsy over the weekend. The report is awaiting the results of toxicology tests that take that long to complete. Tampa police do not suspect foul play. ...more

March 16, 2009

Andrew "Test" Martin, a former world champion wrestler, was found dead in his Harbour Place apartment last night, according to Tampa Police. ...more

March 14, 2009

Florida Championship Wrestling will no longer promote events featuring up-and-coming WWE talent at Bourbon Street, the nightclub and concert venue on U.S. 19. ...more

January 21, 2009

Florida Championship Wrestling will no longer promote events featuring up-and-coming WWE talent at Bourbon Street, the nightclub and concert venue on U.S. 19. ...more

January 18, 2009

Florida Championship Wrestling will no longer promote events featuring up-and-coming WWE talent at Bourbon Street, the nightclub and concert venue on U.S. 19. ...more

January 14, 2009

Things didn't look good for "Roughhouse" Ralph Mosca. The 38-year-old professional wrestler and promoter from New Port Richey had taken a shot to the groin that seemed to legitimately hurt. He had been whipped into the ropes and violently clotheslined to the mat with a resounding thud. ...more

December 11, 2008

Things didn't look good for "Roughhouse" Ralph Mosca. The 38-year-old professional wrestler and promoter from New Port Richey had taken a shot to the groin that seemed to legitimately hurt. He had been whipped into the ropes and violently clotheslined to the mat with a resounding thud. He had felt Byron Saxton's boots on his back, his fists on his head and the sting of his words. "I can respect a has-been," a microphone-holding Saxton told Mosca before the start of their 15-minute time limit match at Bourbon Street on Tuesday night. "But I never respect a never-was." Known to Florida Championship Wrestling fans as a loudmouth heel, Saxton was accompanied by fellow wrestlers Lawrence Knight and Tyson Tarver, known collectively as The Conglomerate. Saxton, who held the microphone with a pair of flashy blue gloves, was booed lustily. ...more

December 10, 2008

About seven months ago, local professional wrestling personality "Roughhouse" Ralph Mosca decided it was time to lose some of the 285 pounds that had accumulated on his 6-foot-2-inch frame. ...more

December 6, 2008