Post by Davey on Nov 25, 2007 10:28:51 GMT -5
One of the necessary evils in our business is the time we spend on the road. Getting to arena’s, hotels, airports is sometimes harder than what we have to go through in the ring. For a guy like me who has to travel 10 hours just to get to the states, before making it to whatever town we are going to, it can start to get to you, and that’s when the madness sets in. Whether its pulling a rib on one of the boys or causing mayhem at a certain theme park we do what it takes to make our own entertainment out on the road.
Now over my 15 years in the business I have had the pleasure of travelling with some of the greatest guys and girls you will ever meet. Guys like Maverick, Razor, Tony Cliffton, Shawn Mackay, Jay St Clair, Destiny Shaw, Damian Collins, Chris Nielsen and Calvin St James (Jimmy Ice) have all kept me laughing my ass off all the way across the world, what I am going to try to do is let you have a glimpse at what its like to be one of us on the road.
My first tale is perhaps one of the most random tales that I can tell, and it goes back to 2004. I was working in NAW at the time and as The NAW World champion was feuding with Razor. Now Razor is one of my closest friends so we spent a lot of time together on the road, on this particular day we had a show in Anaheim, so we thought with a few hours to kill that we would go and see what the magic kingdom had to offer. So off went our merry little band, me, Razor, his girlfriend Jamie and my manager at the time Desire with visions in our head of meeting Mickey Mouse and our other childhood favourites. Well I tell you, as normal when me and Razor were together it didn’t quiet work out that way.
After a hour or so of wandering round the famous park we happened to run into Snow White and her seven dwarfs, which was kind of cool as Jamie had loved Snow White when she was younger. Razor and Jamie go over to talk to them, while me and Desire headed over to look in the gift shop.
Now after a few minutes Jamie comes running in and begins pulling on my arm, she is frantic and flushed and tells me I need to come outside, well I tell you when I do I’m almost in tears. There right in the middle of the street is Razor holding one of the dwarfs above his head while the others are kicking away it his shins. Now it turns out that one of the dwarfs in their wisdom had asked Razor why he should get paid for pretending to wrestle….rich from someone pretending to be a cartoon character but you couldn’t make this shit up. Well Razor had taken offence to this and in no uncertain terms told said dwarf to politely go fuck himself, this was when the dwarfs had gone all kung fu on his ass.
Now I run over to help Razor, but I have tears streaming down my face and really have no idea what I’m going to do when I get there, I mean what can you do to a gang of Dwarfs? So I get to him and start flinging the dwarfs out the way, trying to get them off my friend. Then security comes over. Now picture the scene if you will. You have one 225 pound wrestler with a dwarf above his head and y have another 255 pound wrestler throwing dwarfs left and right. Someone was going to end up in trouble here, and we had a feeling it wasn’t going to be the little people, so we grabbed the girls and beat a hasty retreat, with security guards and dwarfs snapping at our heels.
When we got to the arena that afternoon we met Maverick in the locker room, and have to say this could have been the funniest part of the day. After he enquired how our trip was Razor turned to Mav with a perfectly straight face and said, “It was fine, I just wish we hadn’t had to toss them dwarfs off!”
Mavericks face curled up into a look of disgust and confusion and he shook his head. “See what happens when you travel without me”
Now over my 15 years in the business I have had the pleasure of travelling with some of the greatest guys and girls you will ever meet. Guys like Maverick, Razor, Tony Cliffton, Shawn Mackay, Jay St Clair, Destiny Shaw, Damian Collins, Chris Nielsen and Calvin St James (Jimmy Ice) have all kept me laughing my ass off all the way across the world, what I am going to try to do is let you have a glimpse at what its like to be one of us on the road.
My first tale is perhaps one of the most random tales that I can tell, and it goes back to 2004. I was working in NAW at the time and as The NAW World champion was feuding with Razor. Now Razor is one of my closest friends so we spent a lot of time together on the road, on this particular day we had a show in Anaheim, so we thought with a few hours to kill that we would go and see what the magic kingdom had to offer. So off went our merry little band, me, Razor, his girlfriend Jamie and my manager at the time Desire with visions in our head of meeting Mickey Mouse and our other childhood favourites. Well I tell you, as normal when me and Razor were together it didn’t quiet work out that way.
After a hour or so of wandering round the famous park we happened to run into Snow White and her seven dwarfs, which was kind of cool as Jamie had loved Snow White when she was younger. Razor and Jamie go over to talk to them, while me and Desire headed over to look in the gift shop.
Now after a few minutes Jamie comes running in and begins pulling on my arm, she is frantic and flushed and tells me I need to come outside, well I tell you when I do I’m almost in tears. There right in the middle of the street is Razor holding one of the dwarfs above his head while the others are kicking away it his shins. Now it turns out that one of the dwarfs in their wisdom had asked Razor why he should get paid for pretending to wrestle….rich from someone pretending to be a cartoon character but you couldn’t make this shit up. Well Razor had taken offence to this and in no uncertain terms told said dwarf to politely go fuck himself, this was when the dwarfs had gone all kung fu on his ass.
Now I run over to help Razor, but I have tears streaming down my face and really have no idea what I’m going to do when I get there, I mean what can you do to a gang of Dwarfs? So I get to him and start flinging the dwarfs out the way, trying to get them off my friend. Then security comes over. Now picture the scene if you will. You have one 225 pound wrestler with a dwarf above his head and y have another 255 pound wrestler throwing dwarfs left and right. Someone was going to end up in trouble here, and we had a feeling it wasn’t going to be the little people, so we grabbed the girls and beat a hasty retreat, with security guards and dwarfs snapping at our heels.
When we got to the arena that afternoon we met Maverick in the locker room, and have to say this could have been the funniest part of the day. After he enquired how our trip was Razor turned to Mav with a perfectly straight face and said, “It was fine, I just wish we hadn’t had to toss them dwarfs off!”
Mavericks face curled up into a look of disgust and confusion and he shook his head. “See what happens when you travel without me”