Disaster Artist

“The Forgotten One” wasn’t a gimmick. The night The Bev debuted in Paradigm, we forgot that we had booked him. We weren’t the only ones overlooking him at the time. He had held the AIW Intense Championship, but he had started to fall off the radar of independent wrestling. The Bev made sure we never forgot about him again. At Heavy Hitters 2, we made our international streaming debut with a field that included UFC Hall of Famer Stephan Bonnar, Tom Lawlor, Lee Moriarty, Calvin Tankman, Dominic Garrini, Erick Stevens, Matthew Justice, and Hoodfoot. But it was The Bev standing tall at the end. On the night most people were getting their first look at Paradigm, he became our first Heavy Hitters Champion. He kept coming back, and we kept finding more reasons to put him in the main event. By the time we stopped running, he was the only Grand Slam Champion in Paradigm history. Somewhere along the way, Paradigm helped awaken something in him. He took that into the wider deathmatch world, winning Tournament of Death, King of the Deathmatches, and the American Deathmatch World Championship. His willingness to fight in the glass also helped give us our most famous match: a 60-minute Ultraviolent Ironman Deathmatch against Ron Mathis. By the time we reached New Jersey, Mathis and The Bev had fought through years of shows and across state lines. We gave them an hour to settle it. Apparently, an hour wasn’t enough. They say if you speak the devil’s name, he will appear. And Mathis has been saying his name again… “THE BEV” BOBBY BEVERLY returns at MIDLIFE CRISIS on Friday, November 20 at the Jeffersonville Arena. Tickets: ParadigmProWrestling.com Use code FOREVER to save $10 per ticket.

800 days. Between his two reigns as Paradigm Champion and his run with the Tag Team Titles, Suge D spent 800 days as one of our standard bearers. For almost a third of Paradigm’s existence, he helped fly our flag. He was with us before the pandemic and became essential to what we built during it. At different points, he was our top fan favorite and our top villain. He was there for No Hook, the DEATHclutch takeover, and even mixed it up under UWFi Rules. Different eras. Different opponents. The same Suge D showing up and making each one matter. One of our best to ever do it is coming home. SUGE D returns at MIDLIFE CRISIS, our 150th show, on Friday, November 20th at the Jeffersonville Arena. Tickets: TinyUrl.com/PPWMidlife Use code FOREVER to save $10 per ticket.