Second row, wishing for a noseplug
Oct. 29th, 2005 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyLast night, Dave Creighton and I once again voyaged to the desolate backwoods of Mississauga for a night of UWA Hardcore Wrestling .
The highlight of the evening was the UWA Grand Prix tournament, a three round, eight person event. Ring of Honour wrestler Alex Shelly was participating. He was scheduled to wrestle Montreal wrestler Kevin "Mr. Wrestling" Steen, but injured his shoulder in his first match; when he attempted to forfeit the match, Mr Wrestling turned on him, working his injured shoulder until Shelly tapped out.
Overall, it was an event well spent, for company if nothing else. Dave & I got fourth row seats for $10, which sounds impressive until you realize the church hall it was held in had only 4 rows, and a balcony. Balcony seats were $15, and considering how hard it was to see anything once the action left the ring (you had to literally stand on your chair to see anything happening out of the ring, f you were lucky enough to be on the side of the ring near the out of ring action).
The crowd was typical Mississauga teens, full of misplaced testosterone and homophobia.
Dave & I were stuck behind some high school kids who were just ready to get dragged into the shower by the football team and brushed with scrub brushes and, brother, I woulda brought the soap. To anyone who says gamers smell, I challenge you to spend two hours in the audience for a small town wrestling fed.
The highlight of the evening was the UWA Grand Prix tournament, a three round, eight person event. Ring of Honour wrestler Alex Shelly was participating. He was scheduled to wrestle Montreal wrestler Kevin "Mr. Wrestling" Steen, but injured his shoulder in his first match; when he attempted to forfeit the match, Mr Wrestling turned on him, working his injured shoulder until Shelly tapped out.
Overall, it was an event well spent, for company if nothing else. Dave & I got fourth row seats for $10, which sounds impressive until you realize the church hall it was held in had only 4 rows, and a balcony. Balcony seats were $15, and considering how hard it was to see anything once the action left the ring (you had to literally stand on your chair to see anything happening out of the ring, f you were lucky enough to be on the side of the ring near the out of ring action).
The crowd was typical Mississauga teens, full of misplaced testosterone and homophobia.
Dave & I were stuck behind some high school kids who were just ready to get dragged into the shower by the football team and brushed with scrub brushes and, brother, I woulda brought the soap. To anyone who says gamers smell, I challenge you to spend two hours in the audience for a small town wrestling fed.
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Date: 2005-10-30 12:43 am (UTC)Alex Shelley is also part of TNA, and a kid with a lot of potential, IMO.
(*waits for completion to your post?*)
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Date: 2005-10-30 12:45 am (UTC)They did a good job. The finale was dissapointing, because it was a case of "guy who dominates the match loses for no particular reason".
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Date: 2005-10-30 12:48 am (UTC)I love me some small-venue wrestling. Used to catch ECW when they would come to Florida (this was before they ever got on The Redneck Network, much less PPVs... though I did go to their 2nd PPV, here in FL, back in 1997, but that's a story for another day...), and it'd be in the local armoury. Was in the 2nd row for a match between The Nightmare Combination of Sabu and Taz (managed by Paul E Dangerously, natch) against the tag team champs, The Public Enemy, and got whapped in the head by a mop handle swung by Taz.
Short little bastard.
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Date: 2005-10-30 12:48 am (UTC)Ah, that's a shame :(
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Date: 2005-10-30 01:11 am (UTC)Having grown up watching Mister Wrestling I (http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/m/mr-wrestling.html) and Mister Wrestling II (http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/m/mr-wrestling-ii.html), my attention was grabbed by Steen's monniker. So I went and looked him up.
According to Obsessed With Wrestling's profile, Steen was trained by Pierre Carl Ouellete (http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/profiles/k/kevin-steen.html) - that's kinda cool.
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Date: 2005-10-30 01:22 am (UTC)Man, the homophobia at most wrestling events really sours me on it; I'm getting less able to simply brush it off as something "that wrestling fans do." The homophobic cunt next to me at the CM Punk farewell show in Chicago got pretty damned tiring by the end of the night, and that's going to be the last time I put up with shit like that at a show.
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Date: 2005-10-30 01:30 am (UTC)CM Punk farewell show as in retirement or just leaving a promotion?
(I tend to shy away from wrestling news sites, as there's too many spoilers on storylines, and most of the stories are too predictable as it is... so this could be 'common knowledge', and I'd be in the dark.)
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Date: 2005-10-30 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 01:41 am (UTC)Ah, thanks. (Had me worried that something had happened to the guy. Haven't seen much of him, but I liked him when he feuded with Raven in MLW and TNA.
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Date: 2005-10-30 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 01:47 am (UTC)LOL. Ah, chances are they won't have a clue how to use him, he'll be mired in mediocre storylines for a couple years (however long the contract is), at best, headlining Velocity or some less-than-stellar degree of "success", and then be let go quietly, to return to the indy circuit.
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Date: 2005-10-30 05:14 pm (UTC)(Impact is pre-taped)
Re: Shelley
Date: 2005-10-30 10:57 pm (UTC)(Impact is pre-taped)
Yah, I know that. I live like 35 miles from Universal Studios Orlando, where the TNA Asylum is.
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Date: 2005-10-31 04:25 pm (UTC)He was good on the mic, that's for sure; dunno how he'd do in a broadcast environment, since he'd be bleeped to hell and back.