Wrestling & MMA

AEW, Impact, ROH stars and WWE NXT alum celebrate Black History Month at FEW Say It Loud 2

Fighting Evolution Wrestling celebrated Black History Month for the second consecutive year with Say It Loud 2 on Feb. 11-12, 2022 at the Grand Hotel in Fort Lauderdale.

Led by Director/Producer JB Cool, the two-day event featured pro wrestling action, pool parties and after parties inside and outside the hotel.

Video interviews with JB Cool and Red Velvet.

Miami’s Red Velvet of AEW was one of the top talents on the card. Velvet, the FEW Flares Champion, got her start in pro wrestling by training with FEW for JB Cool in Miami.

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She wrestled Ring of Honor Women’s Tournament selection Mazzerati in the main event of Night 2. Your referee WWE alum Justin King, who referees for FEW in Florida for JB Cool, QPW in Qatar for Ali Al-Marafi and CWE in India for Great Khali.

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WWE NXT alum and Whole Lotta Woman MJ Jenkins, who wrestled Promise Braxton earlier, made a mark post-match.

Video interviews with MJ Jenkins and Mazzerati.

Standout wrestler Caprice Coleman, who is a broadcaster for Ring of Honor, wrestled the legend 2 Cold Scorpio, an ECW original.

Video interview with Caprice Coleman.

Afterward, Coleman delivered a heartfelt speech about what 2 Cold Scorpio has meant to Black wrestlers.

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Bullet Club’s Chris Bey of Impact Wrestling fame competed against AEW’s Baron Black of the Nightmare Family.

Video interview with Baron Black.

Indie wrestling’s collector of belts Malik Bosede and MLW alum Snoop Strikes delivered an outstanding bout in the main event of Night 1. Among his current championships, Bosede is one half of the tag team champions Culture Inc. for Booker T’s Reality of Wrestling, based in Houston.

Video interview with Malik Bosede.

Also part of the extravaganza: WWE NXT alum B-Fab, Ruthie Jay, Nu Nation, Reggie Rhythm, Santana, Team 3D Academy’s Jake St. Patrick, Crystal White, WWE alum Referee Justin King and more.

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This story was originally published February 23, 2022 at 9:35 PM.

Jim Varsallone
Miami Herald
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
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