A lot has changed since Tasmanian Championship Wrestling last put on their annual Annihilation show, but co-owner Beau Sayer is just happy to be back.
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"It does feel weird because we haven't had that much of a build obviously with COVID, it feels like Annihilation was just the last show that we had," he said.
"But it always has a different vibe and a bigger feel to it, so I'm very keen for it to come around."
The eighth instalment of Launceston's answer to WWE's Wrestlemania takes place at Elphin Sports Centre this Saturday night.
Sayer, who competes under the ring name Eddie Jones, described it as "the best night of entertainment you'll have".
"If you don't like fighting, if you don't like wrestling, it's got nothing to do with it," he said.
"Especially now when there's so few events happening around town, it will be the best night out for $20 you and your family will have all year."
Set to become the only wrestler to have competed at all eight Annihilation shows, Jones will do battle with Cyrus Burns in a career vs beard match - with the loser to sacrifice something dear.
Both championship titles - the North Esk title and the TCW championship - are also on the line with the latter pitting former tag-team partners Adrian Alexander and Chris Lockwood against one another.
"It's one of our longest stories, those two have been going back and forth now for several years and now they've got their big Brisbane Street fight to settle it, which I'm very excited to see what they can pull out," Sayer said.
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"I don't know if they'll be able to top the street fight from last year's Annihilation [between Jones and Dylan Daniels] but we'll find out soon."
The Saturday night show, which gets underway at 6pm, is the organisation's third since COVID-19 forced a three-month break in training and an almost eight-month layoff in front of a live audience.
Overcoming the fine details involved with running an event in the current landscape, Sayer described the first show - New Dawn - as "nerve-racking" with the TCW crew getting used to things by the time the next one - Retaliation - came around.
"We didn't know what was going to happen, if people wanted to come to these things and how do you even set up a show with 200 people and not have them sitting on top of each other?" he said.
"But that show went really well and the demand was there and obviously people wanted us just as much as we wanted to come back, so we pushed through and now we've got this."
Annihilation 8 will feature a mix of Tasmanian and mainland wrestlers, with the interstate fleet lucky enough to not be caught up in Victoria's recent COVID issues.
Tickets start at $15 through Eventbrite, with the cost rising to $20 on the night.
Sayer recommended pre-ordering tickets to ease congestion at Elphin as tracing details have to be recorded.