The night before the Keystone State Wrestling Alliance’s FanFest last month, Thomas Leturgey couldn’t sleep.
Leturgey, a bespectacled, 50-year-old, self-described former superhero kid, does not wrestle with the KSWA, Pittsburgh’s professional wrestling promotion. But like many wrestlers, he leads a couple of lives.
By day, he works for a magistrate. By day and night, he works game-day security for the Pirates at PNC Park. And by night — well, at least one night a month — he is Trapper Tom, the ring announcer for the KSWA.
Like larger promotions, the KSWA features predetermined fights between heels (bad guys) and faces (good guys), with names such as BROhemoth, “Big Country” Matt McGraw, Justin Sane and YINZA, the Pittsburgh luchador.