2005 -- Wrestling was COOL!

I'm off work this week, three unpaid days due to the state of California not having enough money to pay public employees, and two holidays. So, I'll be posting reports of all my awesome wrestling escapades this year...including meeting Chris Jericho for the first time, Wrestlemania 21, and meeting Batista for the first time. Kind of an interesting sandwich...meeting Jericho on the day we set our clocks ahead that year, and meeting Batista on the day we set them back. ^^

Anyway, the year started with my first "indy" show in February, UPW Homecoming Havoc. Awesome for two reaons: SEAN O'HAIRE AND CHUCK PALUMBO! Wow. Here are the small notes I wrote for this show...

02.23.05

We had a great time...but sadly no opportunity to molest either O'Haire or Palumbo, and they lost their match. It was a good match though...

After the show we went to hang around to meet the UPW stars. We met Shawn Riddik (hello! hottie!), Lionheart (who was so cool he asked us what our names were!), Lil Nate (new champ)...and oggled Ma'koa (who I swear looked right at me from the ring and pointed!).

Then...we saw Daniel Puder milling around...so we went over, waited for him to finish up talking to some people, stuck our hands in his face and said "Nice to meet you." What a cool guy he is! Dis told him I voted for him in the T.E. thing, and he genuinely looked pleased, so I say "Yeah, I voted several times..." and he responds "SEVEN TIMES???? WOW!" *giggle* He talked to us for like 5 minutes, about UFC and OVW, and how much he likes OVW and Cornette, and Lance Storm, and Al Snow (who is like a 2nd father to him).

After that we went to sit down, saw Tom Howard up on the stairs. There was this drunken female fan there who we ended up chatting with. Dis saw her hand something to O'Haire at the end of the match (when I was watching Palumbo be pinned by Howard) and he stuck it down the front of his trunks. This girl was so odd, she said she doesn't have a name, she's just "Super Fan"...

Well...all of a sudden I look up...and there he is. *swoon* I'd told Dis I would not approach him, but I saw him and was out of my seat in a flash. We high-tailed it over, but he was already gone. Turns out he just came out to return Super Fan's enveloppe, which had contained a picture of him and he autographed it and returned it to her.

He's so beautiful handsome up close.

--Other notes of interest were drunken Tank Abbot who had to be bodily removed.

--Me sitting in VIP seats and being thrown out by female-security-guard-from-hell....and as we left she said "Good night" to us in a cheerful voice.

--Watching Howard hoist Palumbo up over his head, CLEARLY grab his balls, the guys behind me in VIP seats saying "He tweaked his balls!" and me saying out loud, "Yeah he did!"

--Jesus Aguilera...the guy is good, but what a male chauvinist pig! Of course, the crowd was 80% men...so go figure.

--Out in the smoking area after dinner and talking to 2 random guy wrestling fans...they're talking about "cool" things, and one of them said "Did you see what Batista did to HHH?" I marked...random guy wrestling fans think Batista is cool!

--Frankie Kazarian getting a really nice ovation from the crowd to congratulate him for his WWE contract. He had an awesome match where he lost the UPW LH title to Lil Nate.

And that's all for now. We have shelves to build and stuff. I took a TON of pictures...hopefully I can get them up this afternoon.