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Ground Zero Wrestling grows from school to showcase

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Coaches, students and other performers at the Ground Zero gym after a practice session

In 2013, Matthew Tickner was just another lifelong World Wrestling Entertainment fan who happened to attend open tryouts at a wrestling school after seeing an advertisement on Facebook. As he puts it, after that first tryout session, “I just never stopped going.”

More than a decade later, Tickner performs on the independent wrestling circuit as “Mattick” and, most recently, won the Mud Creek Stampede Championship. He also just celebrated the third year of Ground Zero Wrestling, a school he co-founded with several other Rochester-based wrestlers, including his mentor Colin Delaney, who wrestled in the WWE and All Elite Wrestling. Ground Zero’s latest event, “Chapter Nine,” is a six-match series taking place on Sunday, which will include a fight for the Ground Zero championship belt and a tag team competition. New Jersey-based wrestlers LSG and Ava Everett will be featured in matches against the current champion, Chael Connors, and Hellbird, respectively.

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Ground Zero Wrestling grows from school to showcase

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Coaches, students and other performers at the Ground Zero gym after a practice session

In 2013, Matthew Tickner was just another lifelong World Wrestling Entertainment fan who happened to attend open tryouts at a wrestling school after seeing an advertisement on Facebook. As he puts it, after that first tryout session, “I just never stopped going.”

More than a decade later, Tickner performs on the independent wrestling circuit as “Mattick” and, most recently, won the Mud Creek Stampede Championship. He also just celebrated the third year of Ground Zero Wrestling, a school he co-founded with several other Rochester-based wrestlers, including his mentor Colin Delaney, who wrestled in the WWE and All Elite Wrestling. Ground Zero’s latest event, “Chapter Nine,” is a six-match series taking place on Sunday, which will include a fight for the Ground Zero championship belt and a tag team competition. New Jersey-based wrestlers LSG and Ava Everett will be featured in matches against the current champion, Chael Connors, and Hellbird, respectively.

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Should New York greenlight AVs?

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Proponents of autonomous vehicles in New York suffered a setback last week when Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a proposal for a robotaxi pilot program, but they still believe self-driving cars are the way of the future.