LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) – On Saturday night at Fun City in Littleton professional wrestlers took to the ring.

The wrestlers weren’t the muscled madmen of the WWE but instead the locally owned and operated NRW, or New Revolution Wrestling.

Matt Yaden and Swann Christopher are the driving force behind NRW. A couple of weeks before the Littleton show CBS4 was there as they huddled around Yaden’s dining room table to plan out every minute of the event.

Yaden runs the live shows and Christopher is the owner of NRW.

“If you really look at it, it’s just entertaining, you know, it’s good guys versus bad guys, it’s superheroes versus super villains,” Christopher said. “That’s what we’re trying to promote and everyone can relate to that.”

“It’s entertainment, it’s sports, it’s athleticism; it’s the best of all worlds,” Yaden said.

In a warehouse in Commerce City the wrestlers went through an intense set of training sessions.

“It’s much more difficult than people think it is. It’s very difficult, it’s very demanding, but it’s very satisfying,” Yaden said. “We work hard to give people their money’s worth every night.”

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“It’s worth it, it’s definitely worth it. We want to make sure people get their money’s worth,” Christopher said.

A small but loyal crowd filed in to Fun City to see the event, while backstage last-minute instructions were dished out. Among the wrestlers on the evening card was Joshua Hanson. By day he works at a grocery store, but in the ring he’s a crowd favorite. He goes by the name “Duff Doyle.”

“I’m pretty mellow outside of the ring. In there I kind of unleash the cartoon inside me,” Hanson said.

“My high school counselor said, ‘What are you going to do with your life?’ I went home that night and turned on TV and wrestling was on. I was like, ‘That looks like fun. That’s what I want to be.’”

Duff Doyle would go onto win his match — one of six of the night featuring — of course — all of the classic characters synonymous with wrestling. There is the masked man, the champ with the belt and the weasely manager.

For the crowd, Saturday night at Fun City was a hit. For Yaden and Christopher, a few glitches made it tense. But in the end it was a success.

“A couple times tonight I felt like quitting; God’s honest truth. But I’m not going to stop. People want us and we’re going to give them what they want,” Christopher said.

LINK: NRWrevolution.com