Some of the wrestlers mentioned in this article are people that I haven't seen perform first-hand, so please excuse me if any of their career history is incorrect.
The wrestling business is past its prime in terms of popularity and quality of content. In 2014, there is only one major professional wrestling promotion with any history available for major audiences to see, and although its product has improved over the last one or two years, it is still only a shell of what it was not so long ago. The greatest time to be a wrestling fan has passed, and true fans of the sport are left with only memories of the once electrifying rosters and promotions that they were able to witness for years.
Thankfully, there are still those dedicated to providing great professional wrestling events in small areas, and for a wrestling fan these events may be the single greatest form of entertainment today. The great thing about independent wrestling shows is that they take place in small venues for much smaller audiences than what you get from the WWE product. This allows fans to get up close and personal with not only the matches, but the performers themselves prior to the show, and in many of the top independent promotions, many of these wrestlers have performed in grand fashion for the likes of WCW, ECW and WWE. For as low as 12 dollars (18 if you want a ringside seat), Omega Championship Wrestling guarantees a chance to meet its stars prior to the show, and to see what promises to be a fantastic event brought to you by people who remember why professional wrestling was so electrifying in the past.
Omega Championship Wrestling is a promotion which was started in the 1990's by Matt and Jeff Hardy with help from Thomas Simpson. The promotion kick-started the careers of Shane "Hurricane" Helms, Shannon Moore, CW Anderson and most notably Matt and Jeff Hardy along with others. After the wrestlers moved forward with their careers the promotion disbanded and remained silent until Matt Hardy announced that Omega would return in January of 2013. Since then the promotion has put on a handful of what seem to have been really good shows in packed houses, featuring former WWE, WCW and ECW stars along with current stars of TNA Impact Wrestling and Ring of Honor. The newest edition of Omega is entitled Chaos in Cameron and will take place at Union Pines high school in Cameron, North Carolina. Matt and Jeff Hardy both graduated from this high school, and the show is being advertised as a "Hardy Homecoming".
The first advertised matches on Omega's Facebook page are Omega Championship Tournament first round matches. The winner of the tournament will be the first champion of Omega since its revival. Matt Hardy, CW Anderson, Trevor Lee and Shane Hurricane Helms have already advanced. For Chaos in Cameron we will see Xsiris vs. Cedric Alexander and Caprice Coleman vs. Ric Converse. Xsiris is a 30 year old high-flyer who competes in the southeast independent circuit, while Cedric Alexander is a current member of the Ring of Honor roster who is also known as a wrestler in the southeast independent circuit. Caprice Coleman began his career in the original Omega promotion, and is know for his time competing for the Ring of Honor promotion. Coleman's opponent Ric Converse is a major heel in southeast independent wrestling who has worked with many promotions in this part of the country.
I have to give the benefit of the doubt to the performers above as I have never seen them perform personally. Either match includes a current wrestler who is a part of Ring of Honor, which is a very well respected growing promotion in the industry, so you should assume that they are pretty good. It is likely that these two matches will take place early in the card, probably being the first two matches of the night. It is always exciting to see younger competitors who don't have a well-known name in the industry compete on energetic stages like the ones that Omega has been providing, because they all have something to prove and have to work hard to get the crowd on their side, unlike established performers such as the Hardys. Expect good matches from these four men to get you warmed up for the latter half of the show.
The next advertised match for the event is the only women's match on the card, and will be between Reby Sky and Darcy Dixon, with special guest referee Mia Svensson. Reby Sky is the wife of Matt Hardy, and is a very solid in-ring performer. She began her career as an actor and model, and was featured in a Playboy magazine in 2007. She began her wrestling career more recently, making her debut in 2010. Having seen her live in the past, I can say that she does a very good job of putting on an entertaining and aggressive match. Darcy Dixon is a lesser known competitor, but is a fitness model and has some impressive arms to say the least. Expect a legitimate match here unlike what is commonly seen on the likes of WWE.
The next advertised match will be a 6-man elimination tag team match, and is one that I am personally excited for. One team will consist of CW Anderson, Caleb Konely and Mickey Gambino. The other side will include Shane Hurricane Helms and The Bravado Brothers. CW Anderson is a former ECW wrestler who wrestled for both the original ECW promotion as well as WWE's reincarnation of it in the mid 2000's. Konely (who's name is spelled Konely on the Omega Facebook page but spelled Konley on other sources, so I apologize if I am spelling his name incorrectly) has been wrestling in many promotions on the independent circuit since 2006, and Mickey Gambino is also known on the independent circuit. Shane "Hurricane" Helms is known for his work as Sugar Shane Helms in WCW, The Hurricane in WWE as well as Gregory Helms in WWE. His teamates, the Bravado Brothers wrestled for Ring of Honor for 4 years and have been on the independent circuit since then. They are the current EVOLVE tag team champions. Expect an entertaining match as CW Anderson and Hurricane Helms are both fantastic performers. I don't have personal experience with the other four, but we at least know that the Bravado Brothers have wrestled on the legitimate Ring of Honor promotion. The elimination tag match will be better than a traditional 6-man tag match, which can feel a little too crowded when you have slower performers in the ring. I will have my fingers crossed that Hurricane faces CW Anderson as the last two men remaining.
The main event is by far the highest profile match of the night, as it features the multiple time WWE World Tag Team Champions, The Hardys against current major Ring of Honor competitors, The Briscoe Brothers. There have already been some fantastic promos for this match released on Matt Hardy's YouTube channel, and this promises to be a great tag team match. When the Hardys get together, good things always seem to happen, and the Briscoes are the same way. This has been advertised as a "dream" match, and while I don't know about that, you should certainly expect the crowd to get out of their seats. The clear heels here will be the Briscoes, and when the face team is known for its electrifying and extreme antics, you know that you can expect a classic battle between good and bad that will really get the crowd invested. Even if the rest of the card weren't promising, this match alone would be worth the low admission price to see. It isn't every day that the Hardys get together, and it is a special thing when they do as they are truly one of history's greatest tag teams.
Come to Cameron on April 26th to experience the entire event yourself, and have the chance to meet all of the competitors who will be competing at Chaos in Cameron for OMEGA Championship Wrestling.
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