Local Attorney, Brewery, & Pro Wrestling Legend Team Up with Tall Tales

Atlanta comedian, Tim Gonzalez, along with The Sellers Law Firm, LLC, are hosting Tall Tales inside the historic old city jail of Hampton, Ga., now known as Jailhouse Brewery, in a joint effort to raise awareness of Operation Lunchbox’s mission to feed hungry students in the local community.

Tall Tales, a live stand-up comedy show with drop in road stories from some of the biggest, funniest, and most notorious names in sports & entertainment, has treated live audiences to unfiltered behind the scenes moments and untold stories from former Atlanta Braves closer John Rocker, WCW’s GLACIER, NWO’s Buff “The Stuff” Bagwell, WWE RAW Tag-Team Champion Luke Gallows, ECW/WWE/WCW hardcore wrestling legend RAVEN, 2x former Jr. Welterweight boxing World Champion Homer Gibbins Jr., WWE/WCW/ECW/IMPACT’s Johnny Swinger, and MORE – while showcasing Atlanta’s funniest and touring comedians. On Thursday September 19th Tall Tales favorite – former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Tommy “Wildfire” Rich makes his Jailhouse debut!

VIP Meet & Greet tickets with signed Limited Edition show poster with autograph & photo op are $30.00, reserved seats are $12.00, General admission tickets are $10.00, and if you bring any new, nonperishable food item, you will receive a free meet and greet pass. You can also sponsor a child for $250.00 and insure that for an entire year he/she be sponsored and will have food provided by OL over the next 12 months.

GUEST: Tommy “Wildfire” Rich, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion best known as one of the original superstars of pro-wrestling at the dawn of the “Golden Age”, returns to Tall Tales. Featured weekly on TBS throughout the 1970s & 1980s on Georgia Championship Wresting & World Championship Wrestling, “Wildfire” hits the stage in the Watchtower at Jailhouse brewery to share stories from his bloody feuds with “Mad Dog” Buzz Sawyer, the days leading into the “The Last Battle of Atlanta” and the road stories of what has become known as the “Original Hell in a Cell”, lessons learned from “The King” Harley Race, DUI’s, warrants, arrests, Independent wrestling shows, and craft beer.

COMEDIANS: In a “Best of Atlanta” showcase, stand-up comedians Trey Dunn, Philip Morgan, Ally Edge, Blake Dill, Kerosene Komedy, Kelly Mendez, Gregory Perdue, Johnathan Smith, and more join host Timothy Gonzalez.

ABOUT THE MISSION: Operation Lunchbox is a non-profit organization that has packed and delivered food to area schools weekly for over four years. Fighting so no kid goes hungry over the weekend.

www.operationlunchbox.org

Tommy “Wildfire” Rich

Tall Tales & WCW Legend Glacier Chat With Wrestlezone

Tall Tales recently sat down with headliner and WCW legend Glacier to discuss the Tall Tales show, AEW, and Operation Lunchbox with Wrestlezone.

For the full details, check out Wrestlezone’s article reposted below (or HERE).

“Glacier (aka Ray Lloyd) recently spoke with Wrestlezone’s Bill Pritchard ahead of his headlining appearance at “Tall Tales” on Thursday, July 25 at the Jailhouse Brewing Company in Hampton, Georgia. The stand-up stage show will benefit Operation Lunchbox, an organization that raises awareness and helps feed hungry students.

Glacier talked about how he got involved with the event, and said former WWE/WCW Johnny Swinger got him involved, but he’s also interested in taking on speaking engagements after his in-ring career is over. Lloyd cited some influences of his, and noted that he’s a performer and he sees this as a new chapter in his professional life.

“I’ve got to give my buddy Johnny Swinger credit for that. He contacted me probably a couple months ago and told me kind of what we’re doing [with Tall Tales]. He mentioned that Buff Bagwell has done this and I think Raven has done one. Ironically, when Swinger called me, I actually kind of caught him up to speed on the fact that public speaking is something that I’m really looking to dive into more as a full-time venture because I love wrestling, but my time in the ring is pretty much coming to an end. I wish I could go on forever but father time doesn’t allow for that to happen.

I was a school teacher for 14 years, so speaking in front of crowds, big or small and performing in front of crowds has always been something that I’ve embraced which scares most people to death. And along the way, I’ve had a lot of success like most anybody who’s pursued anything they’re passionate about—you have ups and downs and success stories but also [faced some] adversity. I’m putting together a presentation that I think will kind of I cover a lot of that stuff. And hopefully I can start getting out there more full-time, sometime here probably around the first of the year to start diving into it full time and just getting out there. I see there’s other wrestlers that are doing it. Of course, Marc Mero has a great career right now as a public speaker, there’s [DDP] and other wrestlers in the industry that have some one-man shows, so that’s some stuff that I’m interested in doing well. I’m a performer; it’s what I do and it’s what I love, so I’ve got to find a way to keep doing that and these seem to be a lot less painful.”

Lloyd says he’s definitely expecting people to want to hear wrestling road stories, but he feels that he can use this as a learning opportunity and hand down some of the advice he got from other wrestling legends along the way.

“I think most people are coming to hear wrestling stories so obviously I’m going to gear more towards that—it’s funny, I’m really glad you asked that question that way because when I end up talking to—I do podcast interviews or radio interviews, and when I talk to fans—I just seem to naturally go towards the people that have influenced my career. And that’s probably a lot of the way I’ll format a lot of my stories is the mentors that I had in wrestling like for example Lou Thesz and Dusty Rhodes and people like that and maybe some outside of wrestling.

I do a lot of seminars, and I have my wrestling school in Atlanta called 1 Fall Power Factory that I’m business partners with [AEW Associate Producer] Mike Cuellari. I tell them all the time—I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m smart enough to listen to the people who knew what the heck they were talking about, who were great at what they did. So a lot of what my philosophy has become as far as my career philosophy in wrestling and in life comes from some people who I really, really looked up to and I listened to the fact that I knew that they knew what they were talking about and so a lot of my stories come from lessons I learned from those people.”

GLACIER HAS APPEARED ON AEW PROGRAMMING, AND WHILE HE DOESN’T HAVE AN OFFICIAL ROLE WITH THE COMPANY, HE’S STILL IN CODY RHODES’ CORNER AND SAYS THE PROMOTION WILL EXCEL BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT WRESTLING FANS WANT. LLOYD PRAISED CODY FOR HIS WORK ETHIC IN AND OUT OF THE RING, AND SAID IT DIDN’T HAPPEN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS IN WRESTLING, BUT AEW IS REALLY LISTENING TO THE VOICES IN THE CROWD.

“They really seem to have their thumb of the pulse of what the audience wants to see, and they’re really listening to that. Not by any means letting it control that, but they’re listening to the fans, and I just think that’s something that has been missing—for whatever reason, the powers-that-be have kind of forgotten to do that. I think Cody, because of his age and at a level where he’s a really hands-on person, and he likes to get feedback from people at all levels—he’s just a naturally talented performer and businessman. I think that’s what they’re doing; they are listening to what the wrestling world is saying what they want to see and they are respectful of that, but they are also presenting the brand that they want to build. I think they hit the ground running with Las Vegas. I was very proud and thankful to be a part of that. Not many guys my age get a chance to perform in one of the most legendary arenas in the world in front of a sold out crowd, so it was a very special moment to me, and I was really proud that AEW asked me to be a part of that.

Coming from the frustrations that I remember from WCW with what the fans were saying to us, the biggest thing was ‘nobody’s listening to what the fans want!’ I think these guys really seem to be doing that.”

Glacier headlines “Tall Tales” presented by the Sellers Law Firm, LLC in Hampton, Georgia tonight; the event is to raise awareness of Operation Lunchbox’s mission to feed hungry students in the local community.

General admission tickets are $10.00, and if you bring any new, nonperishable food item, you will receive a free meet and greet pass. You can also sponsor a child for $250.00 and insure that for an entire year he/she will not go hungry. Johnny Swinger, and comedians Joe Gallois (Bravo), AJ Gil (Laughing Skull Fest), Justin Harris (Adult Swim), Steven Morrali (Atlanta) and host Timothy Gonzalez (Bravo, NBCsn) will also appear. For more information on the show, visit the Jailhouse Brewing Company event page.”

Tall Tales Goes Glacial on July 25 with WCW Legends Glacier & Johnny Swinger

Tall Tales, presented by the Sellers Law Firm, LLC, goes glacial in July as it heads to the slammer with WCW superstar GLACIER & WCW/ECW/TNA superstar Johnny Swinger, LIVE in The Watchtower at Jailhouse Brewery in Hampton, Georgia July 25th, 2019.

Housed in the old city jail of Hampton, Ga., Jailhouse Brewing opened its doors in 2009 as the 4th production brewery in the state. Built in the early 1900’s, the old city jail operated until the mid-seventies. Today with 16 beers available on draft, a fun outdoor space, tours, and a listening room, Jailhouse Brewing produces over 2,500 barrels per year in just a 1,500 sq ft building where they stay true to their saying.. “We believe in the little man, small towns and big flavor.”

*Special Guest: “Glacier”
Making his pro wrestling debute in the late ’80s, Ray Lloyd, a Georgia native, received the most heavily hyped debut in sports-entertainment history when he emerged in pro wrestling’s WCW in 1996 as “Glacier” — a coldblooded kung-fu master from Japan’s Shorinji Temple.

“Glacier” brought the video game Mortal Kombat to life arriving with an entrance so elaborate that it featured lasers and fake snow, he went on to brawl with Goldberg, appear in video games and see his image plastered across toy cars and T-shirts.

With Ted Turner’s billions behind him, WCW went all out with the Glacier concept, hiring a special effects studio to create elaborate ring gear and an entrance rumored to have cost six figures to produce.

In addition to his appearances on WCW’s Monday Night Nitro, Thunder, movie rolls in “Blood Bath”, he has appeared in, Ray has also had roles in hit television shows like “Burn Notice” and “Meet the Browns” and oversees production for Maus Media Group, a Florida-based advertising and marketing agency.

*Johnny Swinger
Joe Dorgan, also know as “Johnny Swinger”, debuted as a professional wrestler in 1993 and soon began working for Vince McMahon on WWF’s RAW. He then signed with WCW and started appearing on WCW Saturday Night, WCW World Wide, Thunder, and WCW Monday NITRO during its highest rated period. Swinger also worked for ECW and TNA where he was a NWA World Tag Team Champion before returning to WWE and appearing on Sunday Night Heat as Johnny Parisi.

Outside of the ring Johnny Swinger has appeared in the movies “The Wronged Man”, and the horrior flicks “Ultimate Death Match 2” & 3.

*Stand up comedians

Host Tim Gonzalez will be joined by fellow comedians Steven Morelli, Justin Harris, AJ Gil, and Tall Tales favorite, Joe Gallois.

Join us for a night of Standup Comedy and road stories in the old city jail with the coldest craft beer in the state to find out for yourself what everyone is talking about and why these Tall Tales shows have already been labeled “hilarious”, “uniquely entertaining”, and “can’t miss” by show goers.

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General admission tickets start at $10.00, and VIP meet & greet tickets are available for $30.00 each (includes meet & greet pass, photos, and free autograph).

Reserved floor seats may be purchased for groups of six (6), for only $50.00.

Tickets also available in person at The Sellers Law Firm and Jailhouse Brewing.

Tall Tales is Back Thursday, June 27, with Boxing Legend Homer Lee Gibbins, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boxing legend, the true “Nature Boy” Homer Lee Gibbins, Jr., comes to Tall Tales to share some stories that only the champ can tell! He will be joined by stand-up comedians Big Kountree James Carley, Hayley Ellman, Ernestine, Steven Morelli, Big Play Ray, with feature Mr. D, all hosted by Tim Gonzalez.

You can catch the show live on Thursday, June 27, 2019, at Uncle Bobby’s Wings in Griffin, Georgia.

Four ropes, trash-talk and well-trained athletes are things that boxing and professional wrestling have in common. But there is more! “The Nature Boy” is most famously the nickname of legendary American pro wrestler Ric Flair, but it would also become the ring-moniker of former WBF World Light Welterweight Champion Homer Gibbins.

“Ric Flair is an icon wrestler here in the US, and I stole that name from him”, says Gibbins, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1970. “I began boxing because of Wrestling, and I loved the way Flair would talk smack, so I thought it was fitting.”’ – BY: CLIVE BAUM worldboxingfederation.net

He embarked on a successful amateur campaign that saw him compile a 226-23 record, win fifteen Georgia State Golden Gloves titles, and eventually set him up for a professional career.

Between 1990 and 2007, he compiled a final professional record of 44-16, with 31 knockouts. Up until 2002 he was 42-5 (30).

SPONSORS: The Sellers Law Firm, LLC; Bunjee’s Comics; Uncle Bobby’s; Operation Lunchbox; 52534 Productions

TICKET INFO:
General admission tickets start at only $10.00
VIP meet & greet tickets are available for only $30.00 each (includes meet & greet pass, photos, and free autograph).

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tall-tales-at-uncle-bobbys-ft-homer-gibbins-jr-tickets-61674627471

Reserved floor seats may be purchased for groups of six (6), for only $50.00.

*NO REFUNDS

**Performers subject to change

***THIS IS A LIVE EVENT, AND THE SAME IS FILMED–ALL ATTENDEES CONSENT TO THEIR LIKENESS, IMAGE, AND VOICE BEING RECORDED BY ATTENDING***

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