L'Vinn Triumphs!

Wrestling fans had an unbelievable weekend of great wrestling, bad weather, bad luck and good luck. The PGWA, in association with New Empire Wrestling, offered fans a championship match between Pippa L'Vinn and Diane Von Hoffman, and they one of the best matches ever presented by Special Events!

Throughout the weekend, central North Carolina was pelted with hail, heavy rains, thunderstorms, dangerous winds, and two women who put on one great wrestling match despite all of the negative events happening in the area.

Lightning hit the building last Saturday evening knocking the power out for several hours, and raising fears that the card would have to be canceled. The NEW promoter considered canceling the event, but luckily the power was restored...but then a new problem developed. The fans started coming to the small arena in droves as early as 5:00 PM. By the scheduled starting time, there were so many fans, the building's capacity level was reached! So, rather than turn fans away, the ring was taken outside in the parking lot, set up, and the matches went on as scheduled!

As darkness fell, it was realized that there was no way to run electricity to the parking lot. So, in a display of Southern ingenuity, several cars were brought up to ringside, so that their headlights could be used to illuminate the ring! Headlights casting an almost otherworldly illumination, the PGWA Championship was not going to be denied on this Sunday evening, May 4, 2003.

Many fans stayed in their cars and watched the action in a fine mist-filled night that seemed to chill fans to the bone in 52 degree weather. Others just bundled up in the arena chairs and watched the excitement.

The last time Pippa was in the area, fans hated her with a passion, and tonight was no different. When Von Hoffman made her parking lot entrance, she knew the fans were there to support the USA. Perhaps they didn't know both of these girls were best known for their rulebreaking, but they soon found out. Never have fans seen so much scratching, hair pulling, eye gouges, nose pulling, kicking, chair slamming, closed fisted punches wrestling from two championship caliber females like this!

Pippa wins the 2 of 3 falls match, but paid a bitter price with that win. Almost out cold from the fall she lost, Pippa screamed her submission just before Diane almost had her out cold.

Special Events promotions, who sanctioned the match considered this to be one of the Top 10 matches they have ever videotaped. This was such unusual weather to see any wrestling in...cold, rainy, dark and damp. And of course the headlights from the cars at ringside made for an eerie atmosphere. This was a match that was not to be denied!

A tearful and disappointed Diane Von Hoffman expressed her sincere feelings about not winning the PGWA Title. A championship title has avoided her for the last 12 years, and she could not hold back her tears in her interviews following the match.

For Pippa L'Vinn, she will have to take a few weeks to recuperate from the beating she got from Diane. Diane slammed her with a steel chair, choked her with that same steel chair and tortured her back as she lost control after the loss. Scratched, bruised and limping, Pippa had a grin on her face that could not be contained for the rest of the evening. Pippa surprised everyone there with the amount of punishment she took, not to mention what she dished out.

This match would have brought the house down for any major promotion.

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