Small Town Wrestling
Professional Wrestling. Where else can you find a “sport” where you get to see people thrown through tables, jump off of ladders, and violently slam people around in body contorting positions. Yeah, yeah… we all know its fake, but a real wrestling fan knows where the faking starts and stops. It takes talent and strength to really sell the moves and charisma to motivate the crowd. I was a huge wrestling fan throughout the 80′s and 90′s. Some of the greatest wrestlers of all time hit the scene during those years. Many of my personal favorites, too. Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Taz, and the recently returned Chris Jericho. I used to watch wrestling every chance I had. Over the course of time, though, my wrestling interest has fallen by the wayside. Every once in a while I’ll find myself enjoying a match or two as I flip through channels, but I never can seem to get into it as much as I used to. The characters just don’t seem as great anymore… John Cena? CM Punk? I refuse to see the hype over these jokers.
 Beamer with 2 Tuff Tony and Mad Man Pondo |
A friend of mine, Beamer, told me the other day there was going to be a wrestling event held in my home town. Small town wrestling is always a site to behold. The old lady in the front row violently cursing the heel. The kid who is such a wrestling mark he brought his plastic title belt. The guy who thinks he knows everything about wrestling and his girlfriend or wife who wished she’d had a better excuse to have gotten out of being there… The wrestlers are all up-and-comers just hoping for a good reaction and possibly that break into the big time. Well, except for a couple wrestlers who already have made names for themselves… Someone has to draw in the crowd, right? This event featured Mad Man Pondo and 2 Tuff Tony of JCW fame. Two guys who are willing to be thrown into or through just about anything that looks painful. ”Hit me in the face with a cereal box filled with broken glass? SURE!” This brings me to the fat guy pictured above. Gay Feltcher. The guy came walking out to some Miley Cyrus/Justin Bieber crap type music and danced around insatiably shaking his huge gut and flirting with the other wrestlers. The south is probably not the best place for such shenanigans, but regardless… The name alone sold me on this character. Gay Feltcher. Classic. |
Naturally he was the heel and his opponent was a guy who sounded like Wolfman Jack. I didn’t catch the name, but he certainly had the biker/deep south theme going. And yes… there was a dance off. Of course, why wouldn’t there be? I wished I had paid more attention to the match, honestly. I had stepped away to grab a beer when insanity broke loose. I had thought someone in our small southern town had a high speed come-apart over this character, but it turns out there was apparently a legal issue with a couple of attendees that the cops felt necessary to address in the middle of a Gay Feltcher match. I ended up missing most of it.
Over all, I really enjoyed myself. Even though the crowd was extremely small, the ceiling was extremely low and the wrestlers were relatively unknown… it was a fun event. It brought me back to a place from my youth where wrestling was fun, characters were entertaining and assclowns didn’t wave their hand in front of their face…
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Rooster made me do it…
So… I’ve been trying to come up with a decent first post just to test this thing out. I really wanted to come up with something awesome and avoid doing the whole filler thing… but its been a couple of days since I’ve been given the go ahead, and to be honest, I kinda just want to get this awkward part over with. So here we are.
I do want to thank Rooster for taking my silly little idea and giving me a platform that I can test out and do basically whatever I want with, without even really asking to see what I can do. All I did was casually mention I’d love to pick up writing again, and this website thing just evolved from there… I’m really excited about having a chance to try this out, even though I’m still not 100% sure which direction I’m going to take with this. I don’t know how much of it he’ll end up wanting to take credit for, or even keep posted… But there’s always dinner. And lots of beer.
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Coors Light, please…
This site is kind of a dump. I really don’t do much with it other than use it as a portal for when I broadcast. I think its past due to actually use it for something somewhat useful… I used to love to write, but those days have long since disappeared with the whole “work” thing and all. I really have no point with this post other than saying I’d really like to start writing again. I think this is kind of redundant… Actually, how about I pawn the work off onto other people? What could be better than taking credit for someone else’s work? Taking credit for someone else’s work and then having them cook dinner for you… and give you money… and bring you a beer.
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You have been warned…
Shows, blog posts and more… coming soon. Maybe.
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