NEW ENGLAND PRO WRESTLING HALL OF FAME
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1st ever Shuehi Aoki Humanitarian Award
New England ICON Award
2015 Class will be Inducted in June of 2015
Jimmy Korderas is a Canadian professional wrestling referee who worked for WWE for over 22 years. Korderas began working as a professional wrestling referee in 1985 at Maple Leaf Gardens.[1] At first he was hired as a driver by his friend Elio Zarlenga. At the time Zarlenga was second in command only to Jack Tunney, and suggested making Korderas a referee. His first match was between Special Delivery Jones and Red Demon.
Korderas published a book on his life and career, called "The Three Count - my life in stripes as a WWE referee" The foreword was written by Adam Copeland (Edge) and was published on April 1, 2013 by ECW Press.
Dan DiLucchio (born 1973) is an American Midget professional wrestler best known by his ring name Short Sleeve Sampson. Sampson works on the independent circuit, mainly for Micro Championship Wrestling, and TNT Pro Wrestling. He has also occasionally made appearances with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. A regular here in New England for many years for dozens of promotions.
Jimmy Korderas
Eric has wrestled all over New England for many promotions. He`s a former NWA tag team champion alongside Nuckles Nelson known as The Brotherhood. He has worked for the CWA (Century wrestling alliance) and the NWA New England among many other promotions over the years. He appeared in multiple matches in the WWE through out the late 90`s and will be joining his former tag team partner Knuckles Nelson in the New England pro wrestling Hall of Fame.
Among his career highlights has been defeating Christopher Daniels for the 3PW Championship including former WWE superstar and current TNA champion Bobby Lashley. He has competed for major companies including WWE, TNA, NJPW as well as top Independent promotions, including Ring of Honor, Squared Circle Wrestling, and Big Time Wrestling. Additionally, SWB was appointed head trainer at Kowalski's school in Boston by the late Killer Kowalski himself where he taught one half of current TNA tag champs Eddie Edwards, former TNA Knockout Roxxi, Independent standout Sumie Sakai, and more.
Short Sleeve Sampson
Erich Spraccia
"Heavenly" Johnny Angel
Redemption
Slyck Wagner Brown
Shu was a longtime friend of the New England pro wrestling Hall of Fame and Joe Bruen. He was the most dedicated fan you could ever meet. He would travel each and every year for New England Fan Fest all the way from Tokyo, Japan. He was a pleasure to be around and treated everyone he encountered with the utmostrespect.
Shu was not only a friend to us, but respected by promotions and organizations all over the world. We start with the Class of 2015 to honor Shuehi Aoki with the inaugural Shuehi Aoki Humanitarian Award which will be in honor of Shu and awarded to his family.
Bobby Cruise
