STATEMENT FROM SEAN CHAMBERS
Posted by flairwhoooooo on December 16, 2012
Editor’s note: Since the beginning of MWR, All American Pro Wrestling and promoter Sean Chambers has been a strong supporter of our website. I have the utmost respect for Sean and his desire to bring respectable, old school family friendly wrestling to his area.
He had not just talked about it but indeed has accomplished that in the years that I have known him. In the MWR Years he has hosted many charity events, meet and greets with TNA and former WWE stars and top matches such as Jeremy Wyatt and Shane Rich, the LONRS vs. Phoenix Twins,while bringing to the fans AAPW fan favorites and villains like Edmund McGuire, Playboy Paul Rose, Ax Allwardt, and many more.
I share this message to you with his thoughts on the AAPW break up within his company that he had posted on his website regarding AAPW Executive Producer Chris Hagstrom and Adam Testa leaving to start Pro Wrestling Collision , a story that we shared earlier this week. Both Chambers, Hagstrom and Testa have the support of myself and MWR in the future unless that ask not to.
On a personal level regardless of Sean’s decision to move on with AAPW or close doors, I will always consider him a friend and hope that both parties involved can find happiness and maybe just maybe to an understanding.
– Brian Kelley –Owner /Editor Missouri Wrestling Revival
STATEMENT FROM SEAN CHAMBERS
Throughout Season 2 of AAPW Collision, fans knew me as Sean Chambers, Owner of the company whose actions and decisions were not popular with the fans. I am writing this as just Sean. Someone who was born and raised in Southern Illinois that is a lifelong wrestling fan. I grew up watching Wrestling at the Chase and ICW. I would go to the ICW events in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s when they came to Southern Illinois. I was an active wrestler that wanted to bring old school wrestling back to Southern Illinois. I did that for 7 years. (First year was ran under Absolute Pro Wrestling) I want to thank all of you that supported AAPW. I sincerely hope that I helped bring joy and entertainment to all of you.
On Thursday, December 13th, 2012 around 9:00 am, Chris Hagstrom informed me that he wished to start his own wrestling promotion. In doing so, he took practically the entire AAPW staff and roster with him. A statement on the new promotions Twitter account posted December 14th reads: “For all intents and purposes, we are the new AAPW….” I’m not sure how to take that statement as it is basically true. As I write this, it appears that all that is left of AAPW is a website, a Facebook profile, a trademarked name and logo, and me. Hagstrom and his staff intend to run shows in the same area that AAPW has ran. Southern Illinois is not a large market. From a business standpoint, it would not seem wise to have two promotions running in the same geographical area. I cannot say with certainty that AAPW is out of business nor can I say that AAPW will hold events in the future. That decision may possibly be best left to you the fans.
As for the circumstances leading up to this situation and my personal feelings, I feel it is best to not make any statements regarding the details at this time, as I am still bitter. I will say that I feel betrayed by those I trusted. There have been things said about the situation that are not completely accurate and I hope that all of you will bear in mind that there are two sides to the story.
I will not discourage any fan from supporting the new promotion. Fans know what they like and don’t like and it is absurd for me or anyone else to tell fans otherwise.
This website and the AAPW Facebook profile will remain active in the near future. I encourage all fans to post comments or send e-mails if you wish to show your support for AAPW, have thoughts or suggestions, wish to comment about past events, or even just to say hello.
In closing, I again would like to sincerely thank each of you that came to see an event through the years. You gave me an experience that will last a lifetime. I hope AAPW provided you with good memories as well. THANK YOU.
Sincerely,
Sean
Missouri Wrestling Revival 
herb simmons said
As a promoter i understand sean and his current situation. its tough to work hard on something you truly beleive in and its extremely hard when you feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you. but like sean has said there are two sides to every story. hopefully for the fans of southern illinois they can work out the issues and continue to provide great shows for the fans.