Whoop Up Days will have new hard-hitting entertainment this year. Pure Power Wrestling will host Hot Summer Night on Aug. 25 at the new Agrifood Hub and Trade Centre.
The show brings back a tradition of the Lethbridge and District Exhibition hosting professional wrestling, as Stampede Wrestling and WWF both made LDE’s South Pavilion a frequent stop in decades past.
Sydney Steele with Pure Power Wrestling said it is going to be one of their biggest events of the year and being a part of Whoop Up Days will help to get more people watching their wrestlers and events.
“I have been with Pure Power Wrestling from the beginning so over 12 years now we have really wanted to bring professional wrestling to Whoop Up Days — we have been working hard to continue the tradition of Stampede Wrestling, dating all the way back to the 1950s, of bringing entertainment like professional wrestling to these major community celebrations,” he said, adding the event is meant for the whole family and promises to be an exciting show.
“Hard hitting action, in your face action, old school professional wrestling but it is 100 per cent an all-ages event so we provide entertainment from one to 99 and everywhere in between,” Steele said.
Whoop Up Days will have free admission this year and will be from Aug. 22-26. Lethbridge and District Exhibition CEO Mike Warkentin said there is more entertainment, including music, still to be announced.
“We were looking for a diversity of programming to really expand Whoop Up Days, it’s one of the first steps we are taking to build out a different breadth of programming as we continue to refocus on being a community event and we couldn’t ask for better partners than the Pure Power Wrestling folks,” Warkentin said.
Tickets are on sale now for Hot Summer Night for $15 and will be available for $20 at the gates. Will Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the bell time at 7 p.m.