Battle on Main Street Wrestling Tournament Officially Cancelled

This year’s Battle on Main Street exhibition wrestling tournament has been canceled.

The event, which was scheduled for this Saturday evening, was officially canceled via an update on the event’s Facebook page.

“We are making the decision to cancel Battle on Main Street,” said a post on the page on Tuesday. “At this time entries are less than 100. Deadline is not until midnight tonight, but with current number of entries it would be financially irresponsible of us to hope that we would have the entries to cover the bills.”

Outside of the financial reasoning behind the tournament being canceled for a second straight year, the COVID-19 pandemic was also a major factor.

“We understand that not as many are getting on the mat because of things going on in the world.” continued the post on the Battle on Main Street page. “When we made the announcement that BoMS would happen we were holding out hope that the world would be back to normal. We knew this was a possibility.”

The tournament had attracted many people across the state of Oklahoma with exhibition wrestling matches for all ages.

Battle on Main Street in downtown Geary would have been divided into an array of divisions for kids: Div. I (37-HWT), 7U Girls (40-HWT), Div. II (43-HWT), 9U Girls (43-HWT), Div. III (52-HWT), 12U Girls (58-HWT), Div. IV (64-HWT), 15U Girls (75-HWT), Div. V (80-HWT), High School (106-HWT), and 18U Girls (95-HWT). There were also to be

There were also to be three divisions in the tournament for adults: Old Timers Sophomores (Ages 19-26 for 110-HWT), Old Timers Juniors (Ages 27-36 for 110-HWT), and Old Timers Seniors (Age 37 and up for 110-HWT).

Andrew Salmi can be reached at Sports@TheGearyStar.com