Post by T-Robosaurus Rex on Jul 20, 2013 6:26:23 GMT -5
New Orleans City park is filled with people, all in various states of depravity, inebriation and undress, it’s become a no go area for anyone with a weak disposition, the combination of loud music, intense heat and violence makes this a park only the most foolhardy would spend time in, well unless they’re a UGWC fan that is.
The morning after the night before, it’s always messy, but even more so when thousands of people have been camping overnight having enjoyed 2 prior days of high intensity wrestling action. Two new champions in as many days, numerous incidents that they will be talking about for months on end and extremely high levels of drunken disobedience.
We take a short stroll around the park, the camera taking in the sights. Remember the image we all saw as WrestleStock 2013 kicked off, the glorious image of a pristine New Orleans City Park welcoming fans from around the world to a festival of grappling like no other before it. Concession stands that were doing a roaring business on the first day are lucky to remain standing here on the morning of the third, some looted, some the unfortunate victims of worker collisions and others seem to have been used as makeshift bonfires for the revellers in the park.
Whilst the condition of the park is far from perfect, it looks like the work of a grand master in comparison to the majority of the fans in attendance. Whilst Day 1 of WrestleStock this year may have reminded some people of WCW’s old Road Wild events, less tacky but with similar themes, the biggest difference is a lot of those Bikers in attendance did not go home. Why would they? Chaos himself is scheduled to appear on this day, they were always going to hang around for that.
However, the thing about Bikers, and you may or may not be aware of this fact, is they like to drink, and we mean really like to drink. And the more they drink, in general, the rowdier they get, and the rowdier they get the more they resemble the world’s largest assholes, and the few hundred or so in attendance have been drinking since early Wednesday night, so right now many of them resemble assholes the size of the Grand Canyon. And at least two of these guys are mild-mannered accountants during the week...
And remember, when bikers gather, they don't always belong to the same club. These guys can be every bit as self-destructive as a gang banger on the toughest urban street, the wrong combination can turn paradise into purgatory overnight.
As you can imagine this has meant many of the family guests that had arrived for the weekend have already left after witnessing such acts as, including but not limited to, the shaving and subsequent sexual molestation of a Brown bear (some Bikers are also fucking psychopathic), one of the rings being set on fire and subsequently extinguished by a group urination and the marriage of one member (aforementioned accountant) to his bike and the uncomfortable act of consummating said marriage (It involved an exhaust pipe, sweet potato pie, the ‘Grooms’ genitalia and a lot of vomit from the witnesses). Drink is bad, yo.
So we are left with an interesting audience after the final night of camping consisting of a roughly 50/50 split of drunken, out of control bikers and the kind of people that deem the previous incidents to be publicly acceptable, despite not being bikers themselves. These are the people you should cross the street to avoid, the people you wouldn’t trust your worst enemies family around, and the very people who should not be allowed access to unlimited alcohol over a 3-4 day period, or the internet for that matter. God help those that thought getting hands on Day Tickets to the World Heavyweight Championship day was lucky.
Bonfires continue to rage even now as the morning moves rapidly towards afternoon, people dance around them naked and probably oblivious to the fact the sun rose many hours ago. UGWC staff and Park Wardens wander around the grounds assessing the damage so far, the company is facing large clean-up costs on the evidence seen so far.
We follow one of these pairs of assessors as they take photos of a burnt our motorcycle, with a man dressed as The Natural Born Killer passed out on top of the still smouldering wreckage, they then speak to the owner of a concession who has been victim of a malicious prank, all his highly sort after memorabilia of high drawing stars from the world of Wrestling (Ie. Donovan Hastings, Raenius, Travis Roberts, Declan Prescott, Mickey Dragon, Chassie Fear etc) had been stolen and replaced with less sort after effects (Enigma’s disguise, signed Andy Savana garbage, the remnants of Osirus Blackhart‘s dignity, and literally hundreds of unpurchased ‘A-Kis: My Life in Words’ audiobooks), the owner of this concession is clearly close to breaking point and the UGWC rep tries his hardest to minimise the damage caused.
But this my friends is just the tip of the iceberg, Welcome to Day 3 of WrestleStock, things have already gotten messy, only god knows where it goes from here.
The morning after the night before, it’s always messy, but even more so when thousands of people have been camping overnight having enjoyed 2 prior days of high intensity wrestling action. Two new champions in as many days, numerous incidents that they will be talking about for months on end and extremely high levels of drunken disobedience.
We take a short stroll around the park, the camera taking in the sights. Remember the image we all saw as WrestleStock 2013 kicked off, the glorious image of a pristine New Orleans City Park welcoming fans from around the world to a festival of grappling like no other before it. Concession stands that were doing a roaring business on the first day are lucky to remain standing here on the morning of the third, some looted, some the unfortunate victims of worker collisions and others seem to have been used as makeshift bonfires for the revellers in the park.
Whilst the condition of the park is far from perfect, it looks like the work of a grand master in comparison to the majority of the fans in attendance. Whilst Day 1 of WrestleStock this year may have reminded some people of WCW’s old Road Wild events, less tacky but with similar themes, the biggest difference is a lot of those Bikers in attendance did not go home. Why would they? Chaos himself is scheduled to appear on this day, they were always going to hang around for that.
However, the thing about Bikers, and you may or may not be aware of this fact, is they like to drink, and we mean really like to drink. And the more they drink, in general, the rowdier they get, and the rowdier they get the more they resemble the world’s largest assholes, and the few hundred or so in attendance have been drinking since early Wednesday night, so right now many of them resemble assholes the size of the Grand Canyon. And at least two of these guys are mild-mannered accountants during the week...
And remember, when bikers gather, they don't always belong to the same club. These guys can be every bit as self-destructive as a gang banger on the toughest urban street, the wrong combination can turn paradise into purgatory overnight.
As you can imagine this has meant many of the family guests that had arrived for the weekend have already left after witnessing such acts as, including but not limited to, the shaving and subsequent sexual molestation of a Brown bear (some Bikers are also fucking psychopathic), one of the rings being set on fire and subsequently extinguished by a group urination and the marriage of one member (aforementioned accountant) to his bike and the uncomfortable act of consummating said marriage (It involved an exhaust pipe, sweet potato pie, the ‘Grooms’ genitalia and a lot of vomit from the witnesses). Drink is bad, yo.
So we are left with an interesting audience after the final night of camping consisting of a roughly 50/50 split of drunken, out of control bikers and the kind of people that deem the previous incidents to be publicly acceptable, despite not being bikers themselves. These are the people you should cross the street to avoid, the people you wouldn’t trust your worst enemies family around, and the very people who should not be allowed access to unlimited alcohol over a 3-4 day period, or the internet for that matter. God help those that thought getting hands on Day Tickets to the World Heavyweight Championship day was lucky.
Bonfires continue to rage even now as the morning moves rapidly towards afternoon, people dance around them naked and probably oblivious to the fact the sun rose many hours ago. UGWC staff and Park Wardens wander around the grounds assessing the damage so far, the company is facing large clean-up costs on the evidence seen so far.
We follow one of these pairs of assessors as they take photos of a burnt our motorcycle, with a man dressed as The Natural Born Killer passed out on top of the still smouldering wreckage, they then speak to the owner of a concession who has been victim of a malicious prank, all his highly sort after memorabilia of high drawing stars from the world of Wrestling (Ie. Donovan Hastings, Raenius, Travis Roberts, Declan Prescott, Mickey Dragon, Chassie Fear etc) had been stolen and replaced with less sort after effects (Enigma’s disguise, signed Andy Savana garbage, the remnants of Osirus Blackhart‘s dignity, and literally hundreds of unpurchased ‘A-Kis: My Life in Words’ audiobooks), the owner of this concession is clearly close to breaking point and the UGWC rep tries his hardest to minimise the damage caused.
But this my friends is just the tip of the iceberg, Welcome to Day 3 of WrestleStock, things have already gotten messy, only god knows where it goes from here.