10 Fun Facts About My Trip To WWE WrestleMania XIX
Meeting Shawn Michaels, watching my childhood hero and...BBQ sauce?
When I get to AT&T Stadium this April it will be the thirteenth WrestleMania that I've been able to witness live. So for the next 12 weeks Im going to regale you with some of my favourite facts and stories from each of my trips across the pond to see The Grandaddy of Them All.
If you got a chance to check out my article last week on what Ive learned from attending so many Mania shows in person, youll be familiar with what made me make the trip to Seattle back in 2003 to go and see the biggest show in wrestling. When I priced it up, it wasnt as mind blowingly expensive as Id imagined, so the credit card was maxed out and off I went to the good old US of A.
As a kid, I went to a variety of WWF house shows at the SECC in Glasgow seeing such big names as The Undertaker and Bret Hart, as well as the likes of 1-2-3 Kid and Kwang. My Mum also took me to some InsurreXtion and Rebellion shows in England, too.
Nothing could prepare me for how surreal it would feel to attend a WrestleMania. This is the event as a kid that youd buy the VHS or watch on pay per-view but you never imagine youd get to be there. This time, I was.
Heres 10 fun facts from that trip.