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NEW FREE SHIMMER HIGHLIGHT VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!
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If you haven't seen it yet, there is a new FREE intro video for SHIMMER on
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Here's a look at the match listings for the newest DVD releases in the SHIMMER
series...


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 20 (DVD)
Item# SH020

Description:
1. Shark Girl vs. Veronika Vice
2. Portia Perez & Nicole Matthews vs. Allison Danger & Jennifer Blake
3. Amazing Kong vs. Danyah
4. Daffney vs. Cat Power
5. Rain & Jetta vs. Ashley Lane & Nevaeh
6. Nikki Roxx vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
7. Sara Del Rey vs. Serena Deeb
8. LuFisto vs. Cheerleader Melissa
9. MsChif vs. Mercedes Martinez (SHIMMER Title Match)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2807


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 19 (DVD)
Item# SH019

Description:
1. 21 Woman Battle Royal
2. Portia Perez vs. Shark Girl
3. Danyah vs. Serena Deeb
4. Ashley Lane & Nevaeh vs. Cat Power & Veronika Vice
5. Amazing Kong vs. Lorelei Lee
6. Nikki Roxx vs. Nicole Matthews
7. Allison Danger vs. Jennifer Blake
8. Rain vs. LuFisto
9. Sara Del Rey vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
10. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Mercedes Martinez
11. MsChif vs. Battle Royal Winner (SHIMMER Title Match)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2806


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 18 (DVD)
Item# SH018

Description:
1. Amber O' Neal vs. Shark Girl
2. Nicole Matthews vs. Lorelei Lee
3. Daizee Haze vs. Jetta
4. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. Jennifer Blake & Danyah
5. Portuguese Princess Ariel vs. Cat Power
6. Mercedes Martinez vs. Cindy Rogers
7. Lacey & Rain vs. Ashley Lane & Nevaeh
8. Amazing Kong vs. Wesna Busic
9. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Sarah Stock
10. Sara Del Rey vs. MsChif (SHIMMER Title Match)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2687


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 17 (DVD)
Item# SH017
Description:

1. Rain & Jetta vs. Jennifer Blake & Danyah
2. Nicole Matthews vs. Shark Girl
3. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. Ashley Lane & Nevaeh
4. Lorelei Lee vs. Amber O'Neal
5. Daizee Haze vs. Cindy Rogers
6. Amazing Kong vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
7. Mercedes Martinez vs. Wesna Busic
8. Lacey vs. Sarah Stock
9. Sara Del Rey & Allison Danger vs. MsChif & Cheerleader Melissa

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2686


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 16 (DVD)
Item# SH016

Description:
1. Amber O'Neal vs. Lorelei Lee
2. Portia Perez & Nicole Matthews vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel & Josie
3. Alexa Thatcher vs. Ashley Lane
4. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. Allison Danger & Serena Deeb
5. Daffney vs. Cindy Rogers
6. Lacey, Rain, & Jetta vs. MsChif, Daizee Haze, & Eden Black (Trios Tag Team
Match)
7. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Amazing Kong
8. Sara Del Rey vs. Sarah Stock (SHIMMER Title Match - Two Out Of Three Falls)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2635


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 15 (DVD)
Item# SH015

Description:
1. Eden Black vs. Amber O'Neal
2. Portia Perez & Nicole Matthews vs. Lorelei Lee & Ashley Lane
3. Serena Deeb vs. Jetta
4. Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers
5. Lacey & Rain vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel & Josie
6. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Alexa Thatcher
7. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. MsChif & Daffney (Grudge Tag Team Match)
8. Daizee Haze vs. Sarah Stock (#1 Contenders Match)
9. Sara Del Rey vs. Amazing Kong (SHIMMER Title Match)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2634


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 14 (DVD)
Item# SH014

Description:
Filmed at the Citrus County Auditorium in Inverness, FL
1. Amber O'Neal vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
2. Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers (2 out of 3 Falls)
3. Daffney vs. Lexie Fyfe
4. Serena Deeb vs. Malia Hosaka
5. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Rain
6. Daizee Haze vs. MsChif (First Time Shimmer Meeting)
7. Amazing Kong vs. Nikki Roxx
8. Sara Del Rey vs. Lacey (SHIMMER Title Match)

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2533


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 13 (DVD)
Item# SH013

Description:
1. Serena Deeb vs. Alicia
2. Malia Hosaka vs. Josie
3. Lexie Fyfe vs. Eden Black
4. MsChif w/ Daffney vs. Portia Perez
5. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
6. Sarah Stock vs. Daizee Haze (First Time Ever)
7. Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers (Dog Collar Match)
8. Lacey & Rain vs. Sara Del Rey & Nikki Roxx

Bonus Special Attraction Match from FIP:
9. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Amber O'Neal

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2532


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 12 (DVD)
Item# SH012

Description:
SHIMMER Title Tournament Night 2

1. Alicia vs. Josie
2. SHIMMER Tournament Semi-Finals
3. SHIMMER Tournament Semi-Finals
4. Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers (No DQ/Street Fight)
5. Eden Black vs. Portia Perez vs. Nikki Roxx vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
6. Rain vs. Serena Deeb
7. Cheerleader Melissa & MsChif vs. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka
8. SHIMMER Title Tournament Finals

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2493


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 11 (DVD)
Item# SH011

Description:
SHIMMER Title Tournament Night 1

First Round Tournament Matches:
1. Allison Danger vs. Malia Hosaka
2. Daizee Haze vs. Portia Perez
3. Cindy Rogers vs. Sara Del Rey
4. Alicia vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
5. MsChif vs. Lexie Fyfe
6. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Sarah Stock
7. Lacey vs. Eden Black
8. Nikki Roxx vs. Rain

Quater-Final Tournament Matches:
9. Malia Hosaka/Allison Danger winner vs. Daizee Haze/Portia Perez winner
10. Sara Del Rey/Cindy Rogers winner vs. Ariel/Alicia winner
11. MsChif/Lexie Fyfe winner vs. Cheerleader Melissa/Sarah Stock winner
12. Lacey/Eden Black winner vs. Nikki Roxx/Rain winner

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2492


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 10 (DVD)
Item# SH010

Description:
1. Portia Perez vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
2. Alexa Thatcher vs. Rain vs. Malia Hosaka vs. Josie
3. Allison Danger vs. Cindy Rogers
4. Lexie Fyfe vs. Serena Deeb
5. Amber O'Neal vs. MsChif (w/ Daffney)
6. Tiana Ringer vs. Eden Black
7. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Lacey
8. Daizee Haze vs. Amazing Kong
9. Sara Del Rey vs. Nikki Roxx

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2387


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 9 (DVD)
Item# SH009

Description:
1. Rain vs. Eden Black
2. Ariel vs. Alexa Thatcher
3. Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka vs. Allison Danger & Cindy Rogers
4. Portia Perez vs. Josie
5. Daizee Haze vs. Amber O'Neal
6. Tiana Ringer vs. Nikki Roxx
7. Lacey vs. Serena Deeb
8. MsChif vs. Amazing Kong
9. Cheerleader Melissa vs. Sara Del Rey

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2371


SHIMMER- WOMEN ATHLETES Vol. 8 (DVD)
Item# SH008

Description:
1. Lorelei Lee vs. Lexie Fyfe
2. Cindy Rogers vs. Serena Deeb
3. Allison Danger vs. LuFisto
4. Amber O'Neal vs. Josie
5. Nikki Roxx vs. Malia Hosaka
6. Nattie Neidhart vs. Portuguese Princess Ariel
7. Daizee Haze vs. Tiana Ringer
8. "The Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew" Lacey & Rain vs. Cheerleader Melissa &
MsChif
9. Sara Del Rey vs. Mercedes Martinez

DVD Bonus Match: Sara Del Rey vs. Lorelei Lee

Regular Price: $14.95

http://www.rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=moreinfo&catid=252&id=2289


For the entire SHIMMER DVD section of the ROH web site, visit the following
link...

http://rohwrestling.com/shoponline.asp?point=products&catid=252


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SHIMMER CELEBRATES THIRD ANNIVERSARY
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It's been three years since the debut SHIMMER event.

It has become a bit of a tradition that with each passing year that this company
has been in existence, I extend a huge thank you to every individual who has
made it possible along the way. Many of those people have been a part of this
project from the very beginning, and have remained a part of the team for a
solid three years now, contributing in their own way to making a serious United
States based entirely female professional wrestling promotion a success.

When we ran our first show, there was no way I would have expected to one day be
celebrating three years of producing both a DVD product for the fans, and also
providing a platform for the most talented women wrestlers to show what they're
made of to an audience which will appreciate their efforts.

When we founded SHIMMER in late 2005, it was a risk. Honestly, it still is, as
we only continue to remain in operation on a show to show basis. It is through
the financial support of our dedicated fan base that we are able to continue to
do what we do. The first, and biggest "thank you" of all, goes to every fan who
has spent their hard earned money on tickets to our live events or our DVD
releases.

Particularly right now, given the state of the economy, in combination with
wrestling's general low level of current popularity, it means a great deal to us
that you are still willing to throw your support behind our product financially.
We realize that the public doesn't have much money right now to spend on such
things as professional wrestling, but we greatly value your dedication to our
crew. It is the way that all small wrestling companies are able to remain in
business right now. Thank you!

My second "thank you" goes out to our entire roster of women athletes who have
put their physical well being on the line during our three years thus far, for
the sake of giving you your money's worth and breaking the stereotype that women
in this part of the world cannot deliver in the ring. To date, fifty-one female
wrestlers have competed in the SHIMMER ring, and I personally appreciate the
contributions of each and every one of them. To SHIMMER's women athletes, I
thank you!

Of course, there are dozens of individuals who make SHIMMER possible who you
never see inside the ring, or on camera. So many people are responsible for
bringing our live events to fruition, particularly Danny Daniels and everyone at
AAW in Berwyn. The shows can only be captured on camera with the assistance of
our cameramen Mike Robles, Jesse Irwin, Dave Puente, and Michael Z. That footage
can only translate to DVD through the efforts of Puente's editing skills and
being willing to tolerate my demands in the production studio when it comes to
the final DVD product. Those DVDs can only be manufactured and get to you
through the assistance of Sal Hamaoui at the World Wrestling Network, everyone
in the office at Ring of Honor, and the staff of Big Vision Entertainment. We
only have a presence online with the help of ClickWrestle.com, the contributing
staff to our web site, plus Nick Andrews' music videos for YouTube, and everyone
who posts across
cyberspace to help spread the word about what we are doing. To everyone who has
helped contribute to producing our DVD series, delivering that product to the
wrestling fans, and making it known to fellow fans that we exist, thank you!

When I look back at these three years of SHIMMER, I'm extremely proud of the
accomplishments we've made as a team during each individual year.

Our first year was the test to see if a product such as ours even had an
audience, and could survive as an alternative to what the wrestling fans were
being offered by existing organizations already. Thankfully, the fan base was
there to throw their support behind our efforts.

Our second year saw us crown the first SHIMMER Champion, and establish our own
title in the professional wrestling world, while firmly solidifying our core
roster of top athletes as our own (in many ways "home grown") stars. Each of
these women had their work cut out for them when it came to presenting
themselves as THE attraction, not just a side portion of the show which they may
have been relegated to serving as elsewhere.

Though some members of our roster have gone on to later become television stars,
each of our women built their initial name and reputation based on their
wrestling skill, ring presence, and determination to make it, without the aid of
television exposure. We didn't need to bring in established television stars to
give you the best in a women's wrestling show. These women already were the
best, and proved it with their outings inside the ring. And you treated them as
stars.

When I look back at our third year of operation, I see it as a year of growth
and building for our future. Wrestlers who where here since day one such as
Daizee Haze, Sara Del Rey, Cheerleader Melissa, MsChif, and Mercedes Martinez
(to only name a few), were embraced by you as our true stars, based solely on
their early performances on our DVD series. Wrestlers who made their way to
SHIMMER competition a bit further into our operation like an Amazing Kong or a
Sarah Stock, eventually earned your approval as well, based on their level of
performance. In year three, I feel that several members of our crew really
stepped up their game and brought their performance to the next level, to the
extent that we can really count on them to deliver those truly memorable matches
during the years to come, not only here in SHIMMER but across the wrestling
landscape.

Our third year saw someone like Serena Deeb break out as a top performer. Though
she may not be one of the flashiest performers in independent pro wrestling
today, doing all of the latest "innovative" maneuvers, Serena is the pure
embodiment of what a young, determined babyface professional wrestler should be.
Her display of emotion in addition to her execution during her matches are
second to none, and her matches this year, particularly her series against Sara
Del Rey, really translated her true abilities and raw potential to the audience
in a huge way. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Serena is in many
ways our Ricky Steamboat, and it's for many more reasons than just the beautiful
armdrags. She's "got it," and is going to achieve great things in this
profession.

Jetta's vocal personality and the very animated way she carries herself in the
ring has been a unique, amusing, and in my opinion essential aspect to our shows
ever since her arrival. She was put in the position of becoming a headliner on
one of our events earlier this year and was able to deliver in that role just as
effectively as she had been a perfect midcard addition to our roster during her
initial outings. Jetta has also shined as a great tag team wrestler at the side
of Rain, making the International edition of the Home Wrecking Crew a unique
entity in its own right, separate from Rain's earlier established partnership
with Lacey. For every master of technical wrestling, high flying wizardry, or
hard hitting, strong style brutality we have on the show, we need someone like
Jetta on the card just as much.

Not only Jetta & Rain, but our entire tag team division really came into its own
during our third year. It was truly the right time to establish SHIMMER Tag Team
Champions, to go alongside the SHIMMER Championship prize.

Lexie Fyfe & Malia Hosaka continued to be SHIMMER's standard for tag team
wrestling, in many ways teaching the younger generation of female performers
what tag team wrestling is, through the process of stepping into the ring
against them. Taking the newer teams to school, in the case of "The Experience,"
is not just a figure of speech. They are a key part of our roster's continued
growth.

Portia Perez & Nicole Matthews as "The Canadian Ninjas" turned into one of our
most entertaining acts in short order. At the same time, I must also compliment
Nicole's performances in singles action during this past year. Matthews has
really matured into almost a completely different, more confident and skilled
pro wrestler, and has done it before our very eyes ever since her arrival one
year ago, at the time as just Portia's Canadian buddy. Through her combination
of Kosher pickles, chocolate chip cookies, ninja ways, and youthful appearance,
Perez has oddly become one of the most over characters on our shows. And she
can't be bodyslammed.

Ashley Lane & Nevaeh, perhaps the tag team duo most dedicated to the concept of
being tag team wrestlers out of the entire bunch, put in solid efforts against
each of the other teams on the roster over the course of 2008, including several
rematches after exchanging wins and losses with their opponents. They bring out
the best in one another as tag team partners, while also highlighting the skills
of their opponents in the process of facing them in their matches, and I have no
doubt that they will represent SHIMMER's tag team division with pride as
champions in the future. You can only have effective heel tag teams with great
babyfaces to complement them. Ashley and Nevaeh are committed to traveling the
wrestling world as a team, both to continue to better themselves as tag team
wrestlers, and also spread the word of SHIMMER to fans everywhere they compete,
by regularly defending the title belts.

Though not a part of the SHIMMER Tag Team Championship Gauntlet on Volume 21,
the two teams which headlined Volume 17, MsChif & Cheerleader Melissa and the
"Dangerous Angels" of Sara Del Rey & Allison Danger, delivered one of the best
all around tag team matches we've ever featured on one of our shows. With MsChif
focused on defending her SHIMMER Championship, and Del Rey and Danger having
different viewpoints at present, it's uncertain as to what either team's future
tag team contributions may be, but during this past year they certainly made
their mark.

Australia's "Pink Ladies" of Madison Eagles & Jessie McKay were a tremendous
addition to our October 19th taping as a tag team unit. Their crisp double team
combinations and excellent grasp of pro wrestling's fundamentals resulted in
some of the best tag action of the taping, and both women proved that they are
worthy of their spots in the SHIMMER locker room. As I write this, I am in the
studio in Tampa beginning the production phase of Volumes 21 & 22, and the Pink
Ladies' outings on these two DVDs make me excited to see what they can do in the
future inside the SHIMMER ring.

After initially forming their tag team on the Canadian indies, the "Suicide
Blondes" of LuFisto & Jennifer Blake brought their explosive style of tag team
wrestling to SHIMMER for the Gauntlet, and plan to do so well into the future
for SHIMMER's tag team scene.

Not only as a team with LuFisto, but as a singles competitor, "Girl Dynamite"
Jennifer Blake has begun to emerge as someone to keep your eye on during the
course of the next few years. Though she is still quite new to pro wrestling,
for someone with as little experience as Jen has at this stage of her career,
she shows such fantastic potential. Her matches against Allison Danger and
Cheerleader Melissa this year give us just a taste of what is to come once
Jennifer Blake gets some more ring time under her belt. She is one of those
cases where it will be an exciting ride as we watch her grow as a professional
wrestler in SHIMMER competition during the coming months (and hopefully years)!

In addition to the relative new additions to our roster making their own
progress during our third year, a wrestler such as Ariel, who has been here from
the beginning but never really emerged as a main eventer on our shows, began to
show her true abilities as of late. Ariel showed she can put on high energy
contests against the likes of Amazing Kong and Nikki Roxx this year, elevating
her own status in the SHIMMER hierarchy in the process.

Daffney was able to put her past history of knee injuries behind her, which
plagued her early SHIMMER tenure as a wrestler, and ended 2008 on a very
positive note. Daff has always been a great source of entertainment on
professional wrestling cards, and contributed to SHIMMER's presentation this
year in ways that only she can.

One of Europe's best, "The Croatian Panther" Wesna Busic, was thrust right into
the main mix from her debut, facing established stars like Mercedes Martinez and
Amazing Kong, and instantly showing our fan base, who may not have been very
familiar with her, that she is at that same level when it comes to her ring
skills. She brought out a fantastic side to Amber O'Neal on Volume 21 as well,
who herself showed once again that when thrown to the wolves, even our resident
"Diva" Amber can hang with the hard hitters on the roster! Wesna closed out her
first year as a part of our roster with the International Dream Match against
LuFisto, which won Match of the Night honors from several fans in attendance at
our October 19th taping. Wesna successfully lived up to her worldwide reputation
by delivering in the SHIMMER ring during '08.

Even though she may be new to our locker room, I look forward to Miss Natural
remaining a solid veteran presence on our shows into the future. 2008 additions
like Cat Power (meow) and Danyah are still working to carve their own niche in
the SHIMMER realm, but are slowly becoming more comfortable in their roles on
our events. Even newer talents like Rachel Summerlyn, Stephie Sinclair, Cherry
Bomb, and Melanie Cruise all made their way to Berwyn for the opportunity to
prove their worth to the fans, as well as their fellow wrestlers in the locker
room and earn future spots. Their dedication to wrestling and willingness to
learn should be applauded.

Though I do view year three as the year that so many of the aforementioned women
began to really make their mark and come into their own as talents which we can
count on for SHIMMER's future, that is not to say that our established crew of
top level talents weren't also a big part of this year's success as well. After
all, the main eventers are the draw, even if I like to focus on the talents
which are still being developed!

Daizee Haze, though sidelined for one of our tapings during this past year, came
through in her performances on our DVDs, while also being a huge part of
SHIMMER's future development with her activity at the ROH Wrestling Academy, and
new role as SHIMMER Trainer. I look forward to Daizee continuing to be the heart
(punch) of SHIMMER during year four, just like she has been since that first
main event match against Lacey back on Volume 1.

It was great to continue to be able to feature the talents of Amazing Kong and
Nikki Roxx on our events, despite their current contractual status with TNA.
Thanks to the assistance of both Bill Behrens and Bob Ryder, we were able to
have both women remain a part of our family during year three. Kong is, without
a doubt, the most awe inspiring female wrestler out there today. She is an
attraction in and of herself. Nikki has developed, through her added travels and
opportunities over the past year and a half, into a top flight athlete in every
sense of the word. She brings a level of confidence and professionalism to every
match she is a part of, that by having matches against the likes of a Nicole
Matthews, Danyah, Jetta, or even longtime colleague Ariel, she brings them up a
few notches while being their opponent. That is a very valuable contribution for
a wrestler to make to a wrestling show.

Cheerleader Melissa and Mercedes Martinez both came through as MVP's this year.
Melissa's tag outing on Volume 17, as well as singles bouts against Sarah Stock,
LuFisto, and Jennifer Blake are all memorable for their own reasons. LuFisto vs.
Melissa was a magical moment in SHIMMER's history. I don't think anyone will
ever forget the exchange between the two during the closing moments of their
Volume 20 war, and the literal scream of intensity at one another along the way.
Martinez's match against Melissa on Volume 19 will go down as one of the most
solidly wrestled contests we've ever featured. It was a great display of why
both women can be considered among the best female wrestlers in the world today.
Martinez's return to SHIMMER action in general this year resulted in a string of
fantastic matches, showing that, despite that shoulder injury which sidelined
her for over a year, she's still the same Mercedes that helped establish our
company with her
feud against Sara Del Rey a couple years ago.

The two women who held the SHIMMER Championship during year three were both such
essential parts of our existence, it can't effectively be put into words.

Sara Del Rey's complete transformation from the wrestler we grew to love during
SHIMMER's early days, into the vicious, more focused Death Rey of late 2008,
meant we witnessed a complete change in Sara's role and method of contribution
to our product as a whole as well. As great as she was in her initial position
as the face of the promotion, she is just as important, if not more, in her
current role as the intimidating ex-champion intent on regaining "her belt."

While Sara Del Rey as the inaugural SHIMMER Champion brought the same brand of
skilled wrestling champion to the title which her trainer Bryan Danielson did to
the ROH World Title during his reign, her successor has proven to be a quite
different, yet also quite worthy title holder in her own right.

"Your Soul's Tormentor" MsChif had the unenviable task of being the wrestler on
the SHIMMER roster who had to follow in the footsteps of Sara Del Rey's 20+
minute technical wrestling clinics, but nonetheless has come through in that
role every single time since being crowned SHIMMER Champion back in April.
MsChif's style of matches, and overall ring presence has such a different feel
to it than any other character in women's wrestling that it makes her title
reign something unique, which can't even really be compared to Del Rey's. Chif's
title win, and subsequent defenses of the title, be it against a classic heel
like Jetta, a hard hitting strong style opponent like Mercedes, a long time
adversary and training partner in Daizee, or another fan favorite like Ariel,
have all offered something different in terms of each match's content, and have
displayed MsChif's versatility.

Allison Danger, while currently out of active competition (as she put it, due to
"carrying the next generation of SHIMMER wrestler"), remains and important cog
in the SHIMMER machine from an organizational standpoint. Don't forget, she gave
her collarbone to the SHIMMER cause during year three as well, and still made it
to the merch table for you all at intermission before heading to the hospital!

Wrestlers like Sarah Stock and Lacey made excellent contributions early during
year three before being put on the sidelines. I look forward to Sarah's return
to SHIMMER action during 2009 (as well as the also injured Cindy Rogers, and an
eventual return for "The Jezebel" Eden Black in due time). I'd like to thank
Lacey for all of her hard work and physical exertion in the SHIMMER ring during
our first three years. Lacey was, without a doubt, one of the important building
blocks of SHIMMER as a company, and helped put us on the map. Thank you!

Looking ahead, I can't wait to see what year four has to offer, not only in
terms of the potential matches inside the ring, but also what it has to offer
each of our talented women athletes, who are growing better and better with
every passing day of additional professional wrestling experience. I'm glad that
SHIMMER can assist each of these performers in achieving their goals in this
industry, and be an outlet for them to show the world what women athletes can do
when given a real chance.

Thanks for three productive years, everybody!

Dave Prazak


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