Wrassling Night

Well, last night was... interesting.

I was cameraman for my friend's cable-tv show, and it was an informal thing since I didn't have professional-grade equipment to use (more like I had my 3-year-old Sony camcorder using its crappy on-board mic).

Anyway, I'm not a fan of wrestling, but I managed to have a good time. Lots of that had to do with being a wallflower backstage and observing the various wrestlers' personalities, seen apart from their wildly exaggerated on-stage alter egos.

There were also some "dramas": a couple of wrestlers weren't particularly happy with the "outcome" of a match. With press badge in hand, I witnessed a seemingly minor, yet important argument, centering around the lack of signatures on a contract. Seems like the aforementioned wrestlers who weren't happy with who "won" their match had yet to sign a contract signifying they were going to follow the contract's "stipulations."

Nobody knew if there was any resolution to the whole contract thingy, but the truth was revealed to all (to those who at least were privy to the earlier argument) when the match in question was underway, and the two disgruntled wrestlers partook in a "shoot."

A "shoot," what I'm told, is when a wrestler gets roughed up for real. So in essence when there's a "shoot" taking place, a certain wrestler who, for the sake of definition, is the shootee, gets the guacamole kicked out of him.

So the two disgruntled wrestlers were beating the crap out of this one wrestler on the opposing team (it was a 4-man tag team match). All the other wrestlers on either side (even the beaten-up-dude's own team) were kicking back ringside, watching. When all involved thought the one poor guy had enough, one of the beat-up wrestler's teammates tagged in.

Now, the beat-up wrestler wasn't seriously hurt. Just roughed-up enough to show the other two wrestlers' dissatisfaction of the match's "outcome." Apparently the beat-up wrestler's team was to win the match, and the other two guys weren't happy about it.

But in the end, it looked like the two disgruntled wrestlers signed the contract because, well, the other team eventually did win.

But you didn't hear all of this from me.