10 Fun Facts About My Trip To WWE WrestleMania 21
I was on hand when WrestleMania went Hollywood.
After going to Seattle and New York for WrestleMania in 2003/04, when WWE announced theyd be going to Los Angeles in 2005, it didnt take much convincing to get me to book my tickets and make it three years in a row.
Shortly after WrestleMania XX, I did something I hadnt done since 1995: I stopped watching WWE for about 5 months in the spring and summer months of 2004. I just wasnt captivated by the Chris Benoit World Title reign on RAW or the Guerrero/JBL series on SmackDown and having just gone to University again, going out to bars and house parties took priority over what felt like a poor WWE product.
I tuned back in for SummerSlam that year and with Randy Orton winning the World title and Undertaker and JBL battling for the belt, I started to enjoy the show again and thats when I decided to book the flights to LA and make it three WrestleManias on the bounce.
In February of 2005 I was watching RAW, when a video package played announcing the headline Hall of Fame inductee for that year as none other than Hulk Hogan. I remember having tears in my eyes at the time, cheesy as it sounds. I started watching because of him and now Id get to be there live for him being inducted in the Hall of Fame. Unbelievable.
But seeing the Hulkster inducted was just one of many great things from that weekend, a weekend where I experienced and learned a lot, including...