Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Flash Flanagan Leaves For Puerto Rico Today!!

----Flash Flanagan had plans sometime today to leave out for Puerto Rico. He will return to the IWA there reprising his role as Slash Venom. Venom held the IWA tag team in 2004 with partner Chicano. Flash held the IWA Hardcore Title on 4 different occasions holding it the first time in November, 2003 from Vampiro losing it to him and then winning again in January, 2004. He held the belt until April of 2004 and was defeated by Victor The Bodyguard. Victor died of a heart attack during June of 2004 during an IWA show in Yauco, Puerto Rico. A tournament for the belt in July, 2004 had Flash in the finals getting beat by Bison Smith. He would win the belt in March, 2004 from Ricky Banderas and lose it to Aaron Stevens, then win it two days later from Jimmy Snuka Jr [Deuce].

----After returning to the states last year, Flash worked various places including Memphis Wrestling, IWA Mid-South, Ring of Honor, LAW and MCW. But, his longest stint was with TLCW in Ripley, TN where he shared honors last year with Derrick King/Stan Lee as “Booking Team” of the year. He placed in third in “Best Damn Performer” and “Best Wrestler” of 2006 categories. He was also ranked #2 overall wrestler in this area of 2006. Flash was known in the locker room as a leader and most of the young guys learned a lot from Flanagan. TLCW had two major shows this year and Flash came out having two good bouts – one vs Stan Lee and the [****] Cage Match vs Tim Grind on Mayhem. Flash plans to return sometime in October and I plan to keep everyone updated on him while he is in Puerto Rico.