Interview:
CCW President
Augustus “Augie” Lee
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CCW Mag: Can you give us an idea of the live show schedule? Lee: Figure three shows a weekend, eleven months a year. We expect to
sell out 600 seats every show. CCW tickets will be hard to get.
CCW Mag: How much are the tickets going to cost?
Lee: The two weekly shows
at the CCW Arena in Portmore are priced at $500.00 per ticket. The “rotating” shows, in Kingston, Montego
Bay, Ocho Rios, Negril, or Mandeville are priced slightly higher, at
$800.00 per ticket. Our tickets are actually priced lower than most dancehall
shows. It’s hard out there, man. The one thing CCW can give Jamaica,
is entertainment every weekend, at a decent price. We look at it as sports
subsidization. With priorities being what they are, government can’t
fully appreciate the value of sports to the country, since the nation’s
economy must take center stage. The private sector has to step in and
subsidize sports, for the good of the country.
CCW Mag: You have been criticized by some members of the Rules Committee
recently. One of which, publicly blasted you in CCW Magazine. Do you
have any comment?
Lee (laughing): No. I’m
way too busy, to worry about what people think.
CCW Mag: What is the function of the Rules Committee?
Lee: The RC is the sole determining
authority within Caribbean Championship Wrestling. Not me. I came up
with the concept, but it is the RC who has
to hammer the concept to a fair, athletic competition. There are dozens
of points to consider. For example; right now the RC is reviewing the
idea of an “over the top” disqualification rule. If you throw
your opponent over the top rope to the floor below, your opponent automatically
wins the match. This has become especially important, since the RC is
also considering eliminating safety mats outside the ring.
CCW Mag: No safety mats? Just the bare floor?
Lee: That’s right. You will know right away this isn’t
the WWE.
CCW Mag: What are you plans for CCW?
Lee: Within three years after
launch, I expect CCW to be firmly entrenched in Jamaica, The Bahamas,
Barbados, and Trinidad & Tobago. Once that
is done, we will have a strong enough base to expand throughout the English-speaking
Caribbean. That is our long-term goal.
CCW Mag: And after that?
Lee (grinning): I retire. And the Board of Directors makes the decision
about expanding globally. While I lie naked on a beach somewhere.
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