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Rapsberry Festival and A Concerned Wrestling Fan

   Recently it has come to my attention that Ring Of Honor, a national professional wrestling company, has made an attempt to incorporate themselves into the Raspberry Festival in Hopkins Minnesota.
   Now you ask, okay, what is the big deal here ?
   Well, for the last couple of years, this mid summer festival has been the hotspot for professional wrestling featuring a night of great wrestling action put on by Steel Domain Wrestling, a local organization with a wonderful history here in the upper midwest. A company that event after event shows its fans the best action with not only local talent, but great national talent as well.
   For Ring Of Honor, and the local promoter involved in this attempt to step into an event that has already established a fan base with Steel Domain is beyond reprehensible when you think about it. It is insulting to those who get out and bust their backsides trying to make the SDW event, an event that all others try to match.
  You have to ask yourself, why would a national company have an interest in piggybacking off of the success of Steel Domain Wrestling ?
   Could it be that this national company is not as powerful a draw as they would think ? Could it be that the local promoter has seen the success and wants this success to be his ? Or could it simply be the lack of respect in the business ?
   The premise of this national company considering themselves a better fit for the festival is that they would be better suited to handle this event is because number one, they are a national company, and number two, they have a television program.
   I can tell you first hand that the fans, myself included, that have filled the arena during the Steel Domain shows could have cared less about being on television. They were there for two reasons. And those were to help the hockey program, and to see one of the best wrestling shows they could hope to see in the area.
   It just strikes me as strange that Ring Of Honor would attempt to drop kick Steel Domain from behind like this.
   Not only do Ed Hellier, Pete Waggoner and Mick Karch deserve the support of the local wrestling fans for the excellent work they have done with Steel Domain Wrestling, they deserve an answer from those at Ring Of Honor for the attempt at interject themselves into an already successful event.
   In closing I am asking you, the wrestling fans to think about this and ask yourself where your loyalty is.
   Is it with SDW, a company that has been here for us fans for all these years, or is it with this "national" company and its local promoter who think they can just walk in cast a spell and we will follow ?
   I for one will be staying home when ROH returns to Hopkins in July, and I ask that those of you who love local Indy wrestling do the same and show the locals you are there for them by making sure you are there for the July SDW show at the hockey arena.

      David Pregler

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