Nicholas Clarke

For­mer World Wrestling En­ter­tain­ment In­ter­con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­on Car­l­i­to will be a part of the World Wrestling Coun­cil's pro­fes­sion­al wrestling events sched­uled for Jean Pierre Com­plex this Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. The Puer­to Ri­can, who left the WWE af­ter sev­en years last month, will be joined by in­ter­na­tion­al stars such as for­mer WCW World Heavy­weight Cham­pi­on Scott Stein­er, for­mer WWE In­ter­con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­on Shel­ton Ben­jamin, for­mer WWE Women's Cham­pi­on Mick­ie James, for­mer WWE Hard­core Cham­pi­on Tom­my Dream­er and WWE vet­er­an Tony At­las. Pres­i­dent of the T&T Wrestling As­so­ci­a­tion Thun­der­bolt Williams said that the num­ber of fa­mous names ap­pear­ing this week­end was un­prece­dent­ed in T&T.

"It's go­ing to be one of the great­est wrestling cards ever wit­nessed here," he said. "You will see some­thing you have nev­er seen in your life. I guar­an­tee that you're go­ing to go home very hap­py." The TTWA is in talks with the WWC to stage events at the Jean Pierre Com­plex every month as part of a planned lo­cal re­vival in the sport. "Trinidad is re­al­ly suf­fer­ing right now for wrestling. We had a lot go­ing on many years ago but now it's on­ly avail­able to peo­ple through ca­ble," said Williams. "The Coun­cil will be tour­ing in a cir­cle through Caribbean is­lands like Bar­ba­dos, Guyana, Grena­da, St Vin­cent, St Kitt's, St Thomas and Ja­maica and will be stop­ping in T&T each time."

This week­end's event will mark the farewell of Croa­t­ian Vic­tor Jovi­ca, a 40-year vet­er­an of the in­ter­na­tion­al wrestling cir­cuit. The 58-year-old said that he want­ed to end his ca­reer in T&T out of re­spect to the fans who sup­port­ed him when he was a fix­ture at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um two decades ago. "For so many years, I have wres­tled all over the world but my heart has al­ways been in T&T," he said. "I love these peo­ple and the one thing I owe them is to re­tire right here."

Al­though he still loves with the sport, Jovi­ca said he was forced out since his age had fi­nal­ly caught up with him. "I'm not that old but I think I've had enough," he said. "My body doesn't give any­more. I've giv­en my life to this sport but I don't want to get hurt and end up in a wheel­chair." CNC3 has signed a three year con­tract with the WWC to broad­cast its events every Sun­day from 3-4 pm and Mon­day from 10.30 pm-11.30 pm. Sat­ur­day's card will be­gin at 8pm and the fam­i­ly show on Sun­day will start at 5 pm.