July 6, 2009

Jimmy Snuka's Body Slam University

Not long ago, Kimberly Whitehead forsook Florida Atlantic University for Jimmy Snuka's Body Slam University, where office managers, security guards and an occupational therapist get an education in the art of professional wrestling, including how not to kick your partner in the jaw when she's not expecting it.

Each month, students shell out $100 apiece to learn the figure-four leglock, how to smash someone's face into a turnbuckle without gouging their eyes, and how to whack an opponent over the head with a folding chair without sending him or her to the hospital.

Against near impossible odds, they dream of securing a toehold in the lucrative world of professional wrestling -- much like the once-chiseled ''Superfly'' Snuka, a World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Famer from Fiji who has family in Davie and co-owns the enterprise...More?

source: miamiherald.com

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