Got back to the Island this morning, after catching the 6:30 a.m. ferry. It was great to be back in Surrey for another rocking and raucous ECCW show at Bridgeview Hall; although sitting in the crowd the whole time was not where I had hoped to be. To be fair, I realized the card was pretty loaded before I came over; but still, it makes me think that a "kinder, gentler, Marty Sugar" isn't the route to take. Maybe if more than a third of the crowd didn't go on and on and on about it ...
Why are you not on the card?
Why'd you come all this way for nothing?
Why don't you still dye your beard orange?
The little orange devil on my shoulder is telling me I need to go back to harassing Scotty Sweatervest on a full-time basis. For some reason, however, Mrs. Sugar still believes I'm better than that. ;-)
The show itself was solid. I got to watch my fellow Vancouver Islander, Sgt. Kaos, battle DK Roc in a Hardcore Match. I had offered to be in his corner, to counter the interference of Azeem The Dream, but the Sarge insisted he wanted to take the high road. Too bad a chair shot to the skull ended up costing him the victory. Post-match, The Cremator hit the ring, chasing off two-thirds of Chill Town and making ominous threats about the trio’s future well-being.
There was some shocking moments during this show, including Cole Bishop winning the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title, Disco Fury turning on his fellow junior heavyweights and reforming G.O.D. with Michelle Starr, and Ladies Choice turning back the clock to 1999, and putting on a killer athletic contest with Aaron Idol. But what stunned me (and the crowd) the most, was when Ice sucker-kicked Kyle O'Reilly and put Kyle through a steel chair with the Cold Shoulder!
Ice proceeded to berate the fans for not supporting him better these last 12 weeks while he’s been nursing his quad injury. It also seems like there were rumors floating around that Ice would be stripped of the title so that Kyle could get a chance to become champion ... at least that's what Ice claimed as he was standing over the unconscious O'Reilly. The fans were livid, while I was just too stunned to respond; I’m still pretty shocked at what happened. I know that I've gotten pretty stir-crazy when nursing all of my various wrestling injuries (the separated shoulder in 2003, the cracked ankle in 2004, the blown-out knee in 2005), but this ... this was something else.
On the plus-side, ECCW is opening a new school: the Slam Academy, in Port Coquitlam. So there’s a renewed opportunity for yours truly to improve his craft, for more chances to impress the crowds of the Pacific Northwest. Instead of just wrestling a bottle of Jim Beam into submission.
Until next time, Sugar Addicts.
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