Good Hearted Promoter Takes a Fall Over Tribute Wrestling Show Fundraiser For The LATE MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE!!!!!READ THE TRUTH FROM DINO PUGLIA!!!!!

Look…..I tried to promote a fund raiser benefit in memory of a friend Randy Savage,and I should have done more research on procedures and protocol; I should have also been more careful to choose associates with the same ethical standards as my own. I made the mistakes and so I took the fall.

Unfortunately, I cannot control what the media prints, especially when they don’t know all the facts. All I can say in my defense is that I’ve been involved in the wrestling business for more over 20 years and until this incident, my reputation has always been above board. My intentions were good and I am sorry for the way this turned out. Furthermore I had no intention whatsoever in making any profit on this. The bottom line is Iam a born again Christian and my family and close friends no the goodness of my heart and character !and so does my Savior in Christ. In closing I would like to add that out of my own pocket I lost over $1800 a television that was donated to the event by rent king it was stolen and I filed a police report on that and Iam responsible since I was the promoter of this event.The rest of the money I lost was in advertising and paying for the rental of the building.Further more The talent on the show was payed what I could give them and so was the ring ! Everyone should of donated there time and talent however no one wanted to do that ! I was the only fool with a good heart to donate my time and money for this !I have learned my lesson big time and that is always get everything in writing ,dont trust anyone and whether you are making money or not as a promoter then do it right or dont do it at all! My friends and family were telling me to cancel the show 2 weeks before and I should have took there advice however I kept listening to the band telling me dont worry we will bring over 300 paid people in ourselves dont cancel it!!! My mistakes were made however I should not be crucified for this all over the world !!!My heart was in the right place!!!Iam also sorry to the talent that was falsely advertised again I was not correct as I was taking advice from someone telling me over and over dont worry about it !!its for charity and memory of randy savage he wont mind he is a good friend of mine and supports this ! That was all not true because I got a call from this guy the night before the show and he was furious!!!!Lanny Poffo was advertised and was booked however he could not make it and sent me a video blessing the show however because of all this publicity he disabled the video from you tube also Titan could not make it! Attached is the flyer I made for the show of the talent I booked and you can also see it says card subject to change and the printer did not put the charities on the flyer as I already owed him $250 so I did not make the change.Total payed was a little over $600 125 people very sad and the aggrement with the charity which I had in writing was they were to get the net after expenses for talent.There were close to 300 people there however alot of tickets were given away at the last minute which made me furious!!!and the place held 1000 people. The band was never promised anything ! I told them if its a success they would be taken care of a long with the wrestlers again the wrestlers did get payed because the people that showed wanted to see the wrestling more then the band!!!I gave the tickets to several people to sell including the building and they were all unaccounted for stupid me I did not get receipts and Originally the tickets were $10 and $15 I dropped them down to $5 .You see the building didnot care they made there money off of the food and rent.
I also lost my job over this mess!

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