SECW - SouthEast Championship Wrestling

It is May 1 and with the conclusion of another highly successful Tour Event, we turn the calendar to a new month and it's a PPV month! If it's May in the South then it must be all about The Derby. Yes, this month we're heading to Louisville, KY for SECW's DEMOLITION DERBY to honor and celebrate "The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports" - The Kentucky Derby. It's a DEMOLITION Derby PPV so bring your best hardcore, catchweight, and SQUASH matches out as we feature SECW's harder hitting action this month in Louisville!

If you don't know what the heck we're celebrating here with the Derby theme, the Kentucky Derby takes place every year on the first Saturday in May. This year it will be May 7, continuing a string of unbroken events dating all the way back to the very first Kentucky Derby in 1875, making it the longest continuously held sporting event in the United States! The Derby is a horse race and it takes place at the famed Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first leg in American Horse Racing's "Triple Crown" which also includes The Preakness and The Belmont Stakes which are run in Maryland and New York respectively - outside of our geographic territory.

In addition to the race itself, several traditions play a significant role in the Derby atmosphere. The mint julep—an iced drink consisting of bourbon, mint, and sugar syrup—is the traditional beverage of the race. The historic beverage comes served in an ice-frosted silver julep cup. Also, burgoo, a thick stew of beef, chicken, pork, and vegetables, is a popular Kentucky dish served at the Derby. The infield—a spectator area inside the track—offers general admission prices but little chance of seeing much of the race, particularly before the jumbotron installation in 2014. Instead, revelers show up in the infield to party with abandon. By contrast, "Millionaire's Row" refers to the expensive box seats that attract the rich, the famous and the well-connected. Women appear in elegant outfits lavishly accessorized with large, elaborate hats. Following the Call to the Post, as the horses start to parade before the grandstands, the University of Louisville Cardinal Marching Band plays Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home". This song is a tradition which began in 1921, though it has come under scrutiny lately for its use of racial language and depictions of African-Americans - despite it being written originally as an anti-slavery song condemning Kentucky plantation owners' practice of breaking up family's through the commerce of African-American chattel slavery.

It's May and it's Demolition time here in SECW! JOBBER'S UP!