Mat Maniacs - Three-Year-Old Ultimate Pro Wrestling, A Farm League to the WWF, is Now Broadcasting on KDOC-TV (October 24, 2001)
by: Patrick Vuong
(Note : This is not the full article. Only parts featuring Jenny have been included.)
Ortiz watches on as the night's main event is about to take place - it's a six-man tag team match: Evolution and Looney Lane versus the Ballard Brothers and Cheerleader Melissa.
The Ballard Brothers are longhaired twins dressed to look like rejects from the hockey movie "Slapshot."
Evolution, the UPW tag team champions, consists of two shirtless muscular men who go by the names Frankie "The Future" Kazarian and Nova. Looney Lane is a lithe female in a tight, skimpy leather outfit.
As the two teams take to the squared circle, you spot one of the loudest fans in the audience - a middle-aged woman dressed in business clothes. She looks out of place, and yet she shrieks the loudest.
"Kick his ass, Frankie!" she screams at the top of her lungs.
You suspect she's Kazarian's biggest fan. You're right. You think she has the hots for Kazarian. You thought wrong. The woman is Susie Gerdelman, otherwise known as Kazarian's mother.
"I'm extremely proud of my son," Gerdelman says. "He's extremely disciplined and he's come a long way."
Kazarian, 24, recently appeared in a WWF commercial and will soon wrestle in televised WWF events.
As Kazarian body-slams one of the Ballard twins, Gerdelman watches on with her husband, Frank Gerderlman, and her two grandchildren, Savanna, 6, and Cody, 11.
Does she think it's appropriate to let Savanna and Cody watch their Uncle Future pulverize the Ballard Brothers?
"I think it's violent, but we let them watch it," Gerdelman says.
In a few minutes, Gerdelman and her family watch as the Ballard Brothers and Cheerleader Melissa barely defeat Evolution.
Though the night ends with a loss for the Gerdelman family, Kazarian and Nova still retain their tag team belts in their non-title match, and everyone goes away with smiles.