Ten-hut, Sgt. Slaughter visits Miami to discuss WWE WrestleMania Week in April in Tampa

WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter visited the Miami Herald office on Wednesday, Feb. 5 in Doral to discuss WrestleMania Tampa, Axxess ticket on-sale, WWE Hall of Fame, nWo, Booker T, golf, Lee Trevino and more.

● Sgt. Slaughter is a former WWE Champion.

● He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004.

● In addition to his storied in-ring career, he has appeared as a character on the animated GI Joe TV series.

● Sgt. Slaughter has participated in numerous charity golf tournaments benefiting MDA and Make-A-Wish.

● Sgt. Slaughter will be appearing with all WWE Superstars as part of WrestleMania Axxess from Thursday, April 2 to Monday, April 6 at the Tampa Convention Center during WrestleMania Week 2020.

Tickets for Axxess go on sale Friday, Feb. 7 via Ticketmaster.

● WrestleMania Axxess allows WWE fans to experience WWE up close and personal with autograph signings, photo opportunities, live in-ring matches, rare memorabilia and more.

Ten-hut. Here is my video interview with WWE Hall of Famer Sgt. Slaughter.

● WrestleMania 36 occurs Sunday, April 5 from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.

It marks the first time Tampa is housing WrestleMania.

● Tickets for WrestleMania are currently available through Ticketmaster

● WrestleMania is not just a one-day event, it’s a week-long spectacular, as Tampa will embrace many other events as part of WrestleMania Week.

● WrestleMania is WWE’s biggest pro wrestling/sports entertainment event of the year, and a pop-culture spectacular, attracting tens of thousands of fans from around the world to the host area for WWE Hall of Fame, WWE Friday Night SmackDown on FOX, NXT TakeOver, WrestleMania and WWE Monday Night Raw on USA Network.

● In the past 13 years, WrestleMania has generated more than $1.2 billion in cumulative economic impact for the cities that have hosted the event.

● Amalie Arena in Tampa will feature WWE Hall of Fame (April 2), SmackDown (April 3), NXT TakeOver (April 4) and Raw (April 6).

● Tickets for the 2020 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony are currently available via Ticketmaster.

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Jim Varsallone writes a high school sports column twice a week, featuring top performers in all varsity sports (boys and girls) in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. He also covers pro wrestling, something he’s done since his college days in the late 1980s. Now in his fifth decade of coverage, he currently follows WWE (Raw, SmackDown and NXT), AEW, Ring of Honor, TNA Impact Wrestling, MLW, WOW, NWA, and the South Florida indies, mainly CCW. He writes MMA, too -- mostly profile stories and video interviews with American Top Team and Sanford MMA fighters in South Florida. As for pro wrestling, he writes feature stories and profile pieces, updates upcoming show schedules in South Florida, photographs the action and interviews talent (audio and video) -- sharing the content here and via social media on his Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channel: jim varsallone (jimmyv3 channel). Support my work with a digital subscription