Zealous fan tangles with wrestler at Mount Carmel Block Party

Zealous fan tangles with wrestler at Mount Carmel Block Party Published July 9th, 2012 10:18 pm

Wrestler Robbie Cassidy puts a member of the audience in a sleeper hold Saturday night during the Mount Carmel Block Party. The fan wasn't charged in the indicent. Photo ourtersy of Robbie Cassidy.

MOUNT CARMEL Theres at least one person who attended Saturdays Mount Carmel Block Party who could testify from personal experience that pro wrestling isnt fake.

That fan, who became part of the action during a NWA Smoky Mountain ProWrestling Federation exhibition Saturday, wasnt identified.

He also wasnt charged with assault, although he was ejected from the festival by police after becoming an involuntary recipient of a sleeper hold by bad guy wrestler Robbie Cassidy.

Cassidy and his tag team partner, Tony Givens, call themselves The Illuminati, and in pro wrestling culture they would be considered bad guys and villains.

Their opponents for Saturday nights Mount Carmel Block Party bout were good guys Mountain Goat Jack and Rain Rodriguez.

Prior to the actual bout, Cassidy and Givens began taunting the crowd, as one may expect wrestling bad guys to do.

The crowd was told multiple times throughout the night, Do not touch the wrestlers. They could scream, yell, taunt and exhibit their feelings toward them in a number of ways, but they could not physically touch them. The Illuminatis taunts put that rule to the test Saturday night.

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