I was pretty tired today since we went hard all day long yesterday at the Pee Dee Deer Classic and because I worked on the blog about it until late, but I?m never too tired for a little wrestling!  That?s right, I took an afternoon power nap so I could make it through and this evening we went to a TNA event in the Charlotte area.  It was really fun.

We went with my wife and some of her work friends and we also took a friend of ours (Drew) who is a wrestling historian.  Drew knows so much about wrestling it was like having a commentator right there with us!  We had a great time and this event made for another late night.  On the way home I asked my wife what she thought I should title this blog entry and she said title it ?My Wife is the Best Ever??but as you can see I opted not to call it that, but I will say that she isn?t too bad :)  

The event drew people from all backgrounds and was very high energy.  I will say that there were definitely some unique fans on hand as well.  For some reason, I think I was the only one in the building wearing a Tecomate Seed hat!  Maybe next year I?ll paint my face though.  

Some of those wrestlers are huge and I was surprised that they were listening to the crowd and talking trash back and forth with the audience.  This event was not a match that would air on TV so they had some flexibility and weren?t on a strict schedule.  We were just a few rows back from the ring so we were pretty close to the action.  The part that wasn?t good was that there was a huge, bright light right in front of us on the other side of the ring.  I took several videos and pics that ended up being useless because of that one light.  Kind of frustrating on that one, but that was the only drawback.  However, we were able to walk around and get different perspectives of the match which was cool.
 

Yes, that is a Tecomate Seed hat!

For all you Nature Boy fans?yes he was in the house and he did tell McFoley that he was a wrestling God in these parts of the country and when he did the whole crowd repeatedly yelled ?WWWWOOOOOOOOOO!!!?  I guess some legends just never die!  Though, in the end Flair and AJ Styles did not win the final match of the night.

We were also able to go backstage and that was neat.  The wrestlers were all nice and easy to talk to.  Some of them were intimidating due to their size, but they were very pleasant and gladly welcomed any autographs or photos that both young and old audience members requested.

Since we were backstage we figured we might as well get as many pics as we could!  So in the video below you?ll see some of the pics that we took.  I don?t really have many from the match as that light was so bright.  As you can see, we got some decent pics.

And remember, wrestling?s real, people are fake!

Regards,

 

Clint