CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — With State Street closed off to vehicle traffic between Lake and Madison streets, there is now room to walk around and enjoy the best of what the Loop has to offer.
There is now even room in the middle of the street to erect a wrestling ring.
"This is a first for us being down here. It's awesome to be out in front of the Chicago Theatre," Nick Almendarez, owner of Freelance Wrestling, told WBBM Newsradio.
Almendarez rumbles under the name Marvelous Matt Knicks along with his tag team partner Chris Castro. Castro shared with WBBM Newsradio some of their signature moves on display at the first week of Sundays on State Street.
"We do a move called stars over skyline. My partner here, Matt Knicks, he holds a guy for a strong German suplex and I come off the rope with a lariat, which is really, really powerful clothesline, you just fall through with it. So while I'm in the lariat, he's hitting him with a suplex so you're getting that lariat in the face, suplex in the back your head and that's just one of them," Castro said.
The independent wrestlers run an academy and said that Sundays on State Street is a good place for a local audience to catch some of their students who may someday make it to one of the bigger rings.
"You know, maybe you'll see the next John Cena," Castro said.
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