Live Professional Wrestling to Benefit ERHS Football

Live professional wrestling is coming to East Ridge.

“The Scenic City Showdown,” a fundraising benefit for the East Ridge High School football team, will be held on Saturday, April 27 at East Ridge High School on Bennett Road.

Tickets for the event are $10 for general admission and $15 for seats on the floor, sponsors of the event said. The doors open at 6:30 p.m. with wrestling action beginning at 7:30 p.m.

You can get your tickets from Coach Tim James, Scott Hensley, Dylan Hales, or your favorite East Ridge High School football player. Tickets may also be purchased at the door on the night of the event.

Here’s the card:

Your 2018 Scenic City Invitational winner Joey Lynch will take on the 2019 Scenic City Rumble winner AC Mack in the main event.

Memphis wrestling legend “Superstar” Bill Dundee returns to the Scenic City to join Cabana Man Dan and Matt Griffin vs Team TAG.

Powerhouses collide with Vordell Walker vs O’Shay Edwards.

Jaden Newman takes on his biggest challenge yet in the Scenic City vs Jake Parnell.

A fight for respect with Kerry Awful vs Mr. Brickster vs James Bandy vs Brett Ison.

Newcomer Bobby Flaco challenges Nick Iggy, and rising star Benjamin Carter seeks to prove himself vs Kevin Ku.

Tickets are just $10 for General Admission bleacher seating or $15 for ringside floor seats.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.