RWA: September 6, 1998, Thorold Ontario

This show was supposed to be my big chance to debut the new "Doctor Love" character that Steve the RWA promoter had come up with. It happened, but the show wasn't as big as we'd all hoped.

The show was skedded to start at 3pm. We got there noonish, and set up the ring behind this filthy bar on the outskirts of Thorold (near Niagara Falls), a place adjoining the Detroit Motor Inn (rooms for $29). Nobody showed up. By 4pm, nobody showed up. So about 20 of us picked up the ring (which weighs a few tons, yes, tons) and moved it to the front parking lot so folks on the highway could see and come in. The All Knighters and Malachi went into town in their gimmicks to try to get folks to come to the middle of nowhere for our show.

Eventually the show got started, with a very small audience -- maybe a dozen people -- and the wrestlers were putting in a good effort. I came in after the first match as Doctor Love, but it didn't quite feel right because I was only playing to a few people. Hrm.

A few more folks started showing up as the show went on -- some were just driving by on the highway and saw the ring, and pulled over to the side of the road to watch. Others parked and watched from their vehicles -- drive-in wrestling, who woulda thunk it? Somehow we found out the card was really supposed to start at 7pm. So Steve Hart hastily threw together some matches for a second show, which started right after the first one.

I'd hoped to get back into town by, say, 9pm. I didn't get back 'til midnight, and after a long long day. I'm not really a big tough strong guy (well, big, tough and strong enough for you, lady, wink wink!) so helping to carry a huge wrestling ring and bleachers and so on left me pretty tired. Whew. Let's hope next week in Welland turns out better.

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Here are some photos from that show... Click the thumbnails to see the big ones.
Mandatory photo credit: Scott Simpson, cygnals.com

	~~Buford T. Butterworth III~~ Nope, it's, Danger Boy Derek Wylde, all smiles before his opening match.		Who says all the women associated with pro wrestling are skanky, toothless, white trash hicks? Nuh-uh! Two wrestlers' girlfriends and All Knighter manager C.J. Lane.
	Some woman named Jamie who apparently worked at the bar. She thought RWA-er J.Q. Public was hunky. She thought Dr. Love was not.		One of the Royal Canadian Mayhem Patrol (the one who busted my lip in August) smooshes into one of the All Knighters. I really oughtta find out their names.
	Double-teaming from the All Knighters		More double teaming sends one of the bald military boys through the air.
	C.J. tells her man not to give up (not that he could -- his mouth is covered)		"La, la, la." I dunno. You figure it out.
	C.J. and her cohort wince as the other guy is getting crunched by one of the scary bald guys.		What someone looks like with the nose on the wrong side of their face (here's another one).
	Ooo, big chop!		Yay, the All Knighters win.
	Doctor Love inspects the ~~breasts~~, er, ~~chest~~, uh, heart of C.J. Lane.		Pete Rokk lends a boot to Custom Made Man.
	Pete Rokk attempting to use his head.		The big scary stranger approaches the ring to enter the battle royal
	Yours truly. Don't I look great?		Bodies flying everywhere as the battle royal heats up
	Dane Jarris does his best to make that two disembodied heads in the photo.		It's a bird ... it's a plane ... no, it's just a picture of Dane Jarris with an equalization filter on it. Guh.

Mandatory photo credit: Scott Simpson, cygnals.com
scott@cygnals.com November 25, 2001

September 6, 1998 - Club Xtreme, Thorold Ontario

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