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Date Posted: 10:26:00 07/24/01 Tue
Author: Cathy
Subject: News and Notes from the road

Alright, long story here, and I'm still totally exhasted, so I'll try to remember as much as possible to tell you guys. Ok, lets start Thursday morning. I got up and got ready to head into North Sydney and everything. Ended up having to leave earlier than expected, which wasn't good because Gary was calling me at around 3 to tell me what the plan was for the nights show. So I went into North Sydney, got dropped off at Tara's place, got some food, and then headed down to the forum to find out what the plan was at about 5:00. Get there to find Gary in a very pissed off mood for a few reasons. First off Brian wasn't there yet, and he had to wait to hear from Brian what he wanted to do with me for the show. Secondly Kingman had decided that after the North Sydney show they were all going to drive back to Halifax for the night, which couldn't have made less sense, seeing as they were in Port Hawksbury the next day. So Gary told me to go get my stuff and come back and he should know what was going on by then. I get back and Gary was just coming from a half hour meeting with Brian. Apparently Brian has decided to be the typical lying promotor. When I had spoken to Brian before doing the last North Sydney show, he said he wanted to have me as Wildman's valet at all the North Sydney shows after that, as well as any others I could make it to. NOW he's decided that I take too much of the attention away from Wildman, and that he's only going to use me to valet when it's needed for storyline purposes. At this point I didn't really care, as I was seriously at the point of snapping...it was one of those days LOL. Didn't help that I had taken the wrong bag with me and didn't have my valet gear on me anyway. So we were hanging around talking before the show, and Mike came up and asked me if I'd play the stooge during Eddie and Custom's match. I agreed, and then wondered just what kind of sense that made...one week valeting for Wildman, the next week screwing over Eddie Watts in favor of Custom. I'm not going to complain though, whatever they want I'll do. So you all know what happened during the rest of the show. Afterwards I got quite a bit of confusion. I was waiting around for Gary to get all cleaned up and stuff and Custom Made Man came up to me and says "Hey, you ok, I heard you were crying." I just kind of gave him a weird look and was like....ummm...noooooo. About 10 minutes later he comes back, "You sure you're feeling ok Cathy?" I assured him I was fine as me and Tara were desperately trying to figure out WTF he was going on about. Turns out that Cheech had apparently looked at me at some point during when Gary was all tied up and bloody and thought I was in tears/crying. I was grossed out, but that's about it. Everyone thought I was all upset. We were waiting quite a while for Gary to come out, he had Joe E and Brian relaying messages out to me about how long he was going to take. Me and Tara amused ourselves by reading the little black electronic sign above the canteen...we were that damn bored. Gary finally came out, and let me tell you, he was a mess. That was the most blood that he had ever lost during a match. In Irishtown in march he bladed and had it all down his face, but this time it was all the way down to his South Park boxers. So he was quite light headed. He had arranged to get a lift to PH with Brian the next day instead of going back to halifax, so me him and Tara took off to KFC to grab something to eat. He was so diorientated that he could barely even finish a sentence. He actually asked the girl at KFC if he could have a pint of blood.

Fast forward to day 2, we're at the country classic in Seal Island having breakfast...well it was lunch time, but we were eating breakfast. Brian is coming in from Christmas Island or something to pick gary up. At this point I have no plans of going anywhere but home. We had planned it out before, but couldn't do it because there was no room for me in the rent a cars with the boys. But now that it was only Brian and Gary going to be in the car, Gary decided he was kidnapping me for a few days. So I called my mom and let her know where I was going, and off we went on the way to Port hawksbury. I slept for most of the ride, but Brian was talking about the Global thing there. They had a representative from Global at the Halifax show the night before, and the guy loved it. Especially when Chaos was doing to whole Keintai bit. "Jooooooooooseph....you think you are legend, well I am Haaaaaaaaardcoooooooore legend!" hahaha. It was actually Bobby Rude on a mic in the back with Josh pointing and making gestures like a fool, sounds hilarious. All I know other than that is they are going to have 4 cameras there, and only use 3 sides of the ring for seating. Brian was talking about the "Take that Emile!" chant, which he found totally hilarious, he was telling Warren all about it on the phone. They were also telling a few funny in-ring ribbing stories. Like the first time Brian reffed a match it was buddy lane and someone else, the guy had Buddy in a submission and brian is yelling "Do you give Lane, do you give!!!!" Buddy looks up and him and very matter of factly says, "YEP!" brian gets all confused, because Buddy is not supposed to give...he just stumbled over his words a few times and yells, "Do you give?" again. Gary was then telling a story about a ref out in Calgary who put push thumtacks in between all of his fingers, so when he was checking Gary's tights he had Gary dancing a jig because he didn't know what the fuck was poking in him. So then we end up getting in PH at about 3:30. We grabbed something to eat, and then went on a mission to find somewhere to lay down in the arena, a crash mat or something...no such luck so we went outside and passed out in the grass for a little while, we were fuckin tired. Both of us had JUST fallen asleep when we hear someone honking the horn like crazy and screaming "NO SLEEPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The boys had arrived, and Kingman wasn't going to let us relax LOL. So we got up and went into the arena. Custom asked me to do the same thing I had done the night before with the stooge job, so I was fine with that. I finally got to formally meet Massive Damage too...he's one funny mother fucker. He started doing impressions of that Australian nature guy....damn I can't remember his name, but I had tears running down my cheeks laughing at him. I also got to meet the webmaster of the RAW website, who is a very nice guy. I was surprised to hear that he doesn't get paid to do the website. So at about 7:00 the guys had to go get some promo pics done, so I left the backstage area and went to get my seat. The PH show was pretty much EXACTLY the same as the North Sydney show, minus the finish, and I think one different match....so I was pretty much falling asleep at this point...didn't help that I didn't know anyone there, so I didn't even have someone to talk to to keep me awake LOL. At intermission a guy that was at the last Whycocomagh show and wanted his picture taken with Gary and myself (which was totally surreal to me) came up and gave me the doubles of the pictures he had taken at the shows. Ok, so after the show a new problem had surfaced. Gary and I were supposed to drive right back to Gary's grandparents place in New Brunswick right after the PH show, but Brian decided that he was too tired and wanted to go back to Sydney for the night. So we got stuck in Port Hawksbury for the night. The merch girl (Cindy) offered to give us a lift to the Irishtown show the next day.

Wel left for Irishtown at about 10:00 the next day. Once again, I slept almost the whole way there, the car seemed to be where I was getting most of my sleep. We got to Irishtown and checked out the arena. The outdoor show had to be moved indoors due to the people that own the place being totally un-cooperative. They wouldn't provide security or a tarp to cover the ring so people couldn't watch the show for free. I met Kowboys girlfriend and his dog Vader...the bone mark LOL. Then once again, we went out and found some grass for a nap. We hung out behind the building in the grass until it was time for him to go get ready for the show, he went to go get ready and I grabbed a seat. Luckily the show was not exactly the same as the last 2 shows, or I think I would have went nuts. The show was good, but man does that low roof ever suck. It's so low that when Gary is standing on the second rope his head is touching the ceiling, and he's not even that tall. Kurrgan's head was almost touching just standing up. The highlight of the show for me, I found it very funny, was Mike going to smash Chi Chi with a chair. When he raised the chair above his head he smashed one of the lights in the ceiling, causing glass to go everywhere in the ring. Right after this happened, Massive Damage had some kind of wrestling move done to him, I didn't see what, accidently right into the glass. He rolled out of the ring and pulled out 2 big chunks of glass from his leg, immediately followed by blood pouring out of them. Out comes Gary for the save to Cheech, totally oblivious to the glass in the middle of the ring. He slides in, and according to him it was just like something out of a cartoon. He was sliding in, saw the glass, and like stopped dead in his tracks. He proceeded to clear the ring and then challenge Kowboy in the main event. Apparently at this point Massive Damage was out back trying to make his leg bleed more...crazy fucker loves scars. So after the show was over I made plans to meet up with Gary after he got some stuff done, and went off with Dawna (I'm sure most of you know her as Raige) to get something to eat. Dawna had rented a hotel room, so Bobby and Gary came back there to hang out with us. Bobby wasn't there long though, gary dropped him off at Gary's grandparents place to get some sleep because he had to take a flight back to Ontario at 5 in the morning. So we all just pretty much hung out there and got good and drunk before Gary left at about 4 to drive Bobby to the airport. Next day Dawna drove me back to my Dad's place in Sackville which is where I'm at right now...apparently we might be making the trip to Stellarton for the show there tonight, should be interesting. Well that's all I've got for now folks...I know I'm leaving some stuff out, but if I think of anything I can tell you (some has to be kept hush hush) I'll be sure to fill you in. Let me tell you I don't know how these guys keep up the pace that they do, it's totally exhasting!

Oh yeah, one more thing, Gary gave me a tape of his old band, Tormented, who are actually very good. He was the lead singer, they have good stuff. It's looking like they're going to be getting back together for the big 2 day wrestling event RAW is putting on, so those of you that are making the trip up will get to see for yourself, I personally can't wait!

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Cathy`s Memoirs -- brec7, 16:41:24 07/24/01 Tue
My comments... -- Davey Boy Smith, 17:20:15 07/24/01 Tue