A 12-man, two-ring ladder match will be the main event when pro wrestling returns to the Tall Cedars Hall this month.

Jim Hardwick, founder of the Eastern Wrestling Alliance, said his organization has performed a ladder match before, but he wasn't sure if they'd done so at the Tall Cedars.

"It gets pretty crazy," Hardwick said.

Based in Middle River, the alliance is billing the March 21 event as "Evolution 2K9."

In the featured "12 Man Double Ring Ladder Match for the EWA Heavyweight Title," wrestlers will fight to reach the tops of two 12-foot-high ladders -- one ladder in each ring.

Above one stepladder will be the EWA Heavyweight title and above the other will be a contract for a heavyweight title match, Hardwick said.

The two wrestlers who reach the top of the ladders and secure the prizes will compete at the next EWA event, he said.

Securing the prizes won't be an easy climb though.

At the beginning of the match, two men in each ring will battle for two minutes. Then, every 60 seconds, a new wrestler will enter each ring until 12 men are brawling at the same time.

To add to the excitement -- or at least the danger -- wrestlers are only eliminated from the match if they're thrown over the top rope and out of the rings.

But won't wrestlers get hurt?

"Everybody gets hurt," Hardwick said.

A few ladders will be outside of the rings as well, for the wrestlers to use for ... whatever a wrestler uses a ladder for.

"We can't hit each other with them," Hardwick said. "But we can throw each other into them."

Audience members often think the ladders are fake, he said.

"They're not -- I buy them at Home Depot," Hardwick said.

Doors open for the March 21 event at 7 p.m. and the starting bell rings at 7:30 p.m.

Tall Cedars hall is in the shopping center at the southeast corner where Putty Hill Avenue and Old Harford Road intersect.

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