Wallington Hall was given a send off "so loud" organisers of a professional wrestling group said they had "never known anything like it".

The stars of Future Pro Wrestling (FPW) came out in force for a send-off show at the venue that had hosted some of the biggest names in rock as well as been the bruisers' home since its inception in May 2011.

However once Sutton Council announced the hall would be shut down as part of its cost cutting drive and the FPW forced to find a new home, the wrestlers decided to give the old venue one last show.

Matt Burden, promotes the show with his friends Lee Elmer and Steve Evans who all went to Garth High School, now Harris Academy.

Mr Burden said: "We couldn't have asked for more.

"It was just fantastic.

"I've never known anything so loud.

"We put out the word that this was the last one and I've never known anything like it.

"People were losing their minds and there were multiple standing ovations."

It was standing room only at the Sunday, February 8, event with about 340 people packing into the venue and every seat sold as fans gathered to say goodbye to the FPW's spiritual home.

Mr Burden said: "We had some great talent, some of the hottest new trainees from the big wrestling companies as well as our seasoned pros.

"We gave the building a right good send off."

FPW began in 2011 with its first show in May that year. Since then the company has had just three shows away from Wallington Hall, two of those because the wrestlers booked needed a bigger venue and the other due to a clash of dates.

Finding a new home to match Wallington is vital, Mr Burden said, "We want to have the same vibe as a local football club, where everybody turns up wearing our shirts, proud of 'their own' promotion.

"We are now on the hunt for a new venue with the same vibe, has a stage, somewhere where the atmosphere doesn't get sucked out.

"There is something about putting on a show at a building built for performances.

"At a leisure centre the crowd know you have just dressed the set.

"There are possibilities as to where we will go next but at the same time this is a new opportunity.

"We want to get the new venue right and when we do find the right place we will let everybody know.

"Ideally by May which is when our next show "Crowning Glory" is scheduled."

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Wallington Hall has been home to FPW since its inception in 2011.

FPW tries to have five events a year in line with the major WWE promotions.

Mr Burden added: "On Sunday we had a 30 man rumble for the title, coinciding with the Royal Rumble.

"Greg Burridge, the Cockney Crusader, put his belt on the line. He's been a mainstay with us since our second show.

"The event was won by the masked wrestler Dai Konran from Japan.

"When he was presented with the belt he took his mask off to reveal that he was Jimmy Havoc, the biggest heel in London.

“He’d been wrestling under the mask for a year and the reaction was amazing."

Wallington Hall had been placed, along with the Secombe Theatre and the Charles Cryer theatre as up for closure by Sutton Council unless buyers were found to take them over.

Secombe and the Charles Cryer were saved when the Sutton Theatres Trust took. Nobody was found to save Wallington Hall.