Longmont, Colorado
Longmont was built by people who earned every inch of it. The Pillars still believe contracts, control, and old money decide who gets to rule it. Every show at the Opera House becomes another chapter in that fight.
The Core Story
The conflict between The Rising and The Pillars has roots going back to 1871. Dickens Opera House is the venue where that conflict has played out most visibly, from the first LoCo Pro event to today.
Faction one
Longmont's grassroots faction. Workers, lifers, loudmouths, and outsiders who believe the city's wrestling future belongs to the people who keep showing up for it.
Faction two
The Pillars, restructured. JT Staten disbanded the old order after Vendetta and rebuilt it as The Foundation: same contracts, same institutional grip, new name and tighter control.
Ground zero
The building where the first LoCo Pro bell rang. Built in 1881, it is one of Longmont's oldest standing venues, a Main Street landmark that has hosted the city's public life for over a century.
Timeline
The dates below trace the fight from the first land battle in 1871 to the current standoff between Adam Starling and JT Staten's Foundation.
Families leave Chicago in search of land, dignity, and a future they can claim with their own hands. This is where the city's fighting spirit begins.
Wealth and influence reach Longmont after the settlers do. Contested land claims, political favors, and official records establish the Pillars' position in the city, a pattern that resurfaces across generations.
The Dickens Opera House is built in Longmont. The building becomes a community gathering point at the heart of the city.
The hydroelectric plant delivers its first power, and Longmont soon starts calling itself the City of Lights. Free porch lights turn civic pride into a public glow the whole town can claim.
Longmont's first professional wrestling championship is cast into metal and named the City of Lights Championship.
The influenza pandemic brings bans on public gatherings and heavy loss to Longmont. Crowds disappear, events stop, and the city's public life is interrupted by grief.
The City of Lights Championship disappears. No official record of what happened to it has ever been produced.
LoCo Pro Wrestling launches at Dickens Opera House. Cormac Battle defeats JT Staten clean, giving The Rising a win but the official result was never released.
An exclusive booking arrangement locks wrestling away from the Opera House almost immediately after the first event. The result from Battle for Main Street is never officially released, leaving the dispute unresolved.
After eight years away, LoCo Pro returns to Dickens Opera House. The Rising stand tall again, Zeak Gallent survives the tournament, and a conflict that had been off the books for eight years is back in the open.
The City of Lights Championship is found. Having been missing for over a century, it is now back in Longmont where it belongs.
Adam Starling appoints Zeak Gallent the first City of Lights Champion for surviving the City of Lights tournament at Battle at the Opera House. On the same night, Zeak is eliminated from the City of Lights Elimination Gauntlet, and JT Staten wins the match.
JT Staten, now City of Lights Champion, disbands The Pillars and restructures them as The Foundation. Same contracts, same institutional control, but consolidated under Staten directly, with no room for dissent from within.
The Main Street Authority (a group with no official connection to The Foundation, as far as anyone can prove) secures a new exclusivity clause with Dickens Opera House before Adam Starling can act on his Vendetta plan. The building is off the table.
Event Directory
Each event site covers a different phase of the same conflict. Start at the first bell, revisit the 2025 return, or jump to the vendetta that followed.
August 30, 2017
The inaugural LoCo Pro event. The result was witnessed by those in the room, and never officially released.
November 16, 2025
The return to Dickens Opera House and the night the original dispute came back to the surface.
March 7, 2026
The feud hardens into payback, with old names, old paperwork, and old grudges finally surfacing where everyone can see them.
Games
Two games set inside the same world. One is a platformer. One is a horror game. Both are set in Longmont.
Platformer
A single-button auto-scroll platformer. Pick a wrestler from The Rising or The Pillars and run 25 levels to the finish.
Horror
First-person retro-horror set in Longmont at night. Explore the Opera House and beyond. Whatever you do, don't make eye contact. Desktop only.
