Sunday 31st July
An aftereffect of a night at MW#2's Pleasure Palace was "101 Reasons Not To Be A Pro Wrestler" burning a hole in the bottom of my bag. Three hours of wrestling goodness. Well, hours of the many downsides to being in "sports entertainment." This overexposure has resulted in a new found love of a wrestler called El Vampiro Casanova Canadiense. Why do I pick the ex-hockey players, the tattoo covered, pale-skinned, bad boy painted freaks?
I guess I liked him because he was quite interesting, attractive in a warped kinda way, honest about his past and seemingly able to string a concept together. Seems to be super tough too, being a Senshido trainer, able to shred your face into a thousand tiny pieces. Hmmm.
Slam! Sports: Vampiro Comes Out of the Shadows
The pictures of him in his heyday are all good. However, I liked him in the documentary (before I had seen any of the old pics) when he was looking slightly wonky, pale, puffed-up and sweaty with big panda eyes (and a broken leg). Is his personality shining through? Maybe it's just all of the above. I'm sick.
So I have spent the last day trying to find out as much as I can about Vampiro, but he seems to be quite hard to track down. I think he's gone back to Mexico and is still wrestling but he's getting on a bit, at least for the amount of abuse his body has taken to cope with. Updated- He's still going strong, having worked two days ago- being hit by a ring box he himself threw. Klassy.
Another result from my night @ MW#2's is that I seem to have got over my fear of man fur. Well, I used to be quite scared of even a little bit of fuzz (past individuals having been fur-lite) and in my mind MW#2 was like a walking carpet. This is not the case however, and until I am confronted by a randy Matt Bloom, I will not run screaming a the first sign of furryness. But I am not a Plushie. I still freak out at the prospect of exposure to unknown skin (and fur)- such progress.
I also now know more about Magic: The Gathering than I did before. An evening of entertainment and education. Good multitasking.
