Wrestling Collectors?

[Piranha316]

Just got back from the Crossfire Entertainment "New Beginning" show at the former TNA Asylum in Nashville this evening.

Altogether, my wife and I totaled 44 autographs at the show. Could've gotten a few more, but I was reserved with peeps I already have.

Here's my report..

Got to the building at around 3:45 as I was in town for work. Went to will call and got my tickets to find I was in Row 2 when the promoter had promised me Row 1. Went back inside to file my complaint and was taken to the dressing room where he was setting up his laptop.

I filed my case with him and he remembered promising the front row when I bought tix and found it in his records and cleared it up for me.

Noticed a blond Irishman that likes to fight in the dressing room while I was in there. Went back to the car immediately and told my wife it was time to go to work on getting autographs because Finlay was already in the building.

We got out with binders in hand and low and behold he had to come to his truck to get his and I suppose his wife's coffee. He had one cup of coffee in each hand an I was sure he was gonna just walk past us with that as he reason for not signing, but to my surprise, he looked at us and asked if we wanted him to sign the photos and card we had out.

Obviously, we said yes, please. He put his coffees down, signed two promos and a card and went in the building.

That was at around 4 p.m. The doors opened at 5:30 - remember the early bird always gets a worm...

Didn't get anyone else before the doors opened, though, Maria snubbed me. I could care less since I got my fill of her at the last Crossfire show and it was only some pics I took of her at the prior show that I was trying to get signed anyways.

Once the doors opened, the gimmick tables were set up. My wife got a photo of Maria signed that someone had sent to us along with her $10 charge.

Then, The New Age Outlaws appeared. I got in their line and forked over $20 to get them both on a pair of WWF promo pictures when they were the World Tag Team Champions.

After that, I got "The New King" Shane Williams, who is a local worker that would have a job if the old territories were around, on a couple 8 x 10 pics I took at previous shows.

Al Snow was next out and to set up a gimmick table. He and Head signed a pair of WWF promos for me for $10 and when he saw I had an old SMW 4 x 6 photo of him in my binder and I showed it to him, he said he'd sign it for free.

After visiting the Snowman, I caught Tony Falk (World Class/USWA fame) amongst the common folks and he signed a pic I'd taken of him as a teenager and another I'd bought from on of the old USWA spot town photographer. Named the towns and venues where the pics had been taken and all.

After I got Tony and said my good-byes to him, I caught local worker Hammerjack - see Shane Williams - and got him on a couple pics (one 8 x 10 and one 4 x 6) I'd taken of him at the prior Crossfire show.

"The Louisville Town Drunk" 2 Tuff Tony was my next autograph as I got him on one 8 x 10 and then I go ex-TNA referee Rudy Charles to sign an 8 x 10 picture I took of him at the August Crossfire show.

Kid Kash, who draws the most heat imaginable in Nashville, actually set up a gimmick table, but claimed he didn't have change. I took advantage of his predicament and threw down five photos (four I'd taken at the Aug. Crossfire show and one WWF promo) for $10. He asked me if I was gonna ebay them jokingly and I told him no, but if I ever had to, he'd get his cut.

We had a chuckle about that, he flipped off some cameras (no joke) and we went our separate ways.

"The Franchise" Shane Douglas was out next. I caught the former ECW World Champion at his table and was shocked when he signed my ECW promo photo and said "there ya go."

I tried to get him to sign another, but he said "The first one is for free. The second one is $10."

So, I went to find my wife, gave her my friend's TNA Franchise promo and she got that signed. I've heard some horror stories about dealing with Douglas from fans, but he was a class act at the table tonight.

After that it was showtime, so we settled in. During an intermission, I got the "Boogie Boy" Gary Valiant - christened as such by Jimmy Valiant - on an 8 x 10 that I took at the Aug. Crossfire event and Cookie came out to sign. She is such a sweet young lady and the wrestling world needs more of people like her.

She signed four 8 x 10 photos that I took of her at TNA's Basebrawl and a friend's card - all for $10 and then asked me if I wanted one of her pictures on the house. I politely declined and told her she'd certainly already went above and beyond the duty of making this fan happy.

When intermission ended, the card cranked back up and went through the main event and final three matches. Kid Kash nearly started a riot, broke a camera man's camera and legit almost got in a fight with that guy.

He also ripped up a photo a kid was holding up of him that he'd signed earlier. The kid cried. Kash got doused with water about 20 times from angry fans and shot a snot rocket at the guy beside me. Yes, I believe I was hit by the shrapnel.

The New Age Outlaws came out, did their spill and as the DX mark I am, I go to hit the "X" high five on Billy Gunn when he came by.. One of the highlights of my night..

After the show ended, we went outside to the doors the talent enters through.

There, I got Road Dogg on a "The Real Double J" Jessee James promo and Billy Gunn on his stand-alone promo. Meanwhile, my wife got the NAO to sign a DVD cover that a friend had sent.

Also got Stevie Richards on two single WWF promos and his Right to Censor promo.

My wife caught Kid Kash and had him sign a few more pictures.

Also caught Chase Stevens on his way out and got him to sign two index cards (one for me and one for a friend) as he was a surprise talent on the show.

I finished up the night by catching local talents L.T. Falk (Tony's son) and Sigmon (David Young's tag team partner in the Nashville version of the "Diamonds in the Rough") and getting each to sign one 8 x 10 that I took of them at the Aug. Crossfire event.

All in all, a good night and great way to bust my TTM slump.

The totals when all was said and done were as follows:

The New Age Outlaws: One together promo for me, one for a friend; two singles promos for me and a DVD cover for a friend.

Shane Williams: Two pics for me.

Al Snow: Two pics for me, one for a friend.

2 Tuff Tony: One pic for me.

Gary Valiant: One pic for me.

Hammerjack: One pic for me.

Tony Falk: One pic for me, one for a friend.

Chase Stevens: One index card for me, one for a friend.

Rudy Charles: One pic for me.

Kid Kash: Five pics for me, one for a friend.

Shane Douglas: One pic for me, one for a friend.

Cookie: Four pics for me, one card for a friend.

Maria: One pic via mail order.

Stevie Richards: Three pics for me.

L.T. Falk: One pic for me.

Finlay: One pic for me, one pic for a friend and one card for a friend.

Signmon: One pic for me.

Impressive haul.

[matihh]

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/3606/gailkim.png

What do you think about this Gail Kim card for autograph??
Card from my friend

[Jericho]

Great haul CubsFan!

[mrmickiejames]

Might wanna look it up and make sure it's not a $20 card that you're putting an easily obtained for free sig on.

I looked it up, its one of these, limited to 199
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TNA-Mick-Fole ... 0351175336?

Didnt cost me as much as that one, but think it would look pretty good signed regardless..

And congrats on your haul, any result with the NAO is gold in my book

[maxsoul9]

got back from former WCW Cruiserweight Champion Billy Kidman today.

[Haase112983]

Nice ones Cubsfan. Sounds like everyone was cool at that show this past weekend. Very slow over here. Haven't had many successes latley. Gonna take another break on sending out I think.

[MaroonandGold]

New here, but where do you send most of the wrestling autograph requests, just to the corporate headquarters, or where?

[roulette]

Been a while since I've posted here, after a near death battle with boredom for a few months I picked up a pen and started writing out a few LORs and put some packages in the mail last week. Did wanna pass along an interesting bit of information though that might be of use to a few of our members here..

TNA put out a press release today stating that the former WWE developmental training facility Ohio Valley Wrestling that spawned legendary superstars superstars such as Batista, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, and John Cena will be the exclusive developmental center for current and future TNA talent. TNA talent sent to Louisville will be chosen by Bruce Pritchard and examined weekly for their progress.

Great news for both promotions for a number of reasons, the most interesting being what Jim Cornette's opinion on this is given that ROH has worked with OVW quite a bit in the past, and second it will be good for talent like Rob Terry, Garrett Bischoff, and Brooke Tessmacher to have a more formal place to cut their teeth in the ring. It's great for fanmailers as OVW has always been good about passing along fanmail requests to the talent, hopefully it takes a part of the load off of the people at TNAhq that get swamped with fanmail requests that they have to distribute.

...Now that TNA will be investing more money into younger talent they'll realize that they have to use them more often and less of the guys that have been doing it for 30-40 years already.

[CubsFanKEC1982]

Been a while since I've posted here, after a near death battle with boredom for a few months I picked up a pen and started writing out a few LORs and put some packages in the mail last week. Did wanna pass along an interesting bit of information though that might be of use to a few of our members here..

TNA put out a press release today stating that the former WWE developmental training facility Ohio Valley Wrestling that spawned legendary superstars superstars such as Batista, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, and John Cena will be the exclusive developmental center for current and future TNA talent. TNA talent sent to Louisville will be chosen by Bruce Pritchard and examined weekly for their progress.

Great news for both promotions for a number of reasons, the most interesting being what Jim Cornette's opinion on this is given that ROH has worked with OVW quite a bit in the past, and second it will be good for talent like Rob Terry, Garrett Bischoff, and Brooke Tessmacher to have a more formal place to cut their teeth in the ring. It's great for fanmailers as OVW has always been good about passing along fanmail requests to the talent, hopefully it takes a part of the load off of the people at TNAhq that get swamped with fanmail requests that they have to distribute.

...Now that TNA will be investing more money into younger talent they'll realize that they have to use them more often and less of the guys that have been doing it for 30-40 years already.

Honestly, do anyone believe TNA will use any of the "young talents" they have correctly instead of giving WWE castoffs and folks 5-10 years past their prime the majority of the television time? I don't for one minute.

Seems Dixie offered up some of her money mark cash to Danny Davis and he took it and is gonna make off like a king with it.

The current TNA office personnel know nothing of "developing" young talent.
Furthermore, OVW only provided a ground for Batista, John Cena, Randy Orton, Brock Lesnar, etc., to hone their in-ring skills. It twas the WWE machine that made all those men stars.

Finally, I don't see the next Orton, Cena, Batista or Lesnar anywhere on TNA's talent roster. And if they were, TNA wouldn't know what to do with them.

TNA is - for the most part - a place for established stars with issues to still pull a regular paycheck. When Papa Carter decides enough is enough and his daughter has spent too much of the family's money, the tape library will be sold to WWE for cents on the dollar.

[jimcollector]

Been a while since I've posted here, after a near death battle with boredom for a few months I picked up a pen and started writing out a few LORs and put some packages in the mail last week. Did wanna pass along an interesting bit of information though that might be of use to a few of our members here..

TNA put out a press release today stating that the former WWE developmental training facility Ohio Valley Wrestling that spawned legendary superstars superstars such as Batista, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, and John Cena will be the exclusive developmental center for current and future TNA talent. TNA talent sent to Louisville will be chosen by Bruce Pritchard and examined weekly for their progress.

Great news for both promotions for a number of reasons, the most interesting being what Jim Cornette's opinion on this is given that ROH has worked with OVW quite a bit in the past, and second it will be good for talent like Rob Terry, Garrett Bischoff, and Brooke Tessmacher to have a more formal place to cut their teeth in the ring. It's great for fanmailers as OVW has always been good about passing along fanmail requests to the talent, hopefully it takes a part of the load off of the people at TNAhq that get swamped with fanmail requests that they have to distribute.

...Now that TNA will be investing more money into younger talent they'll realize that they have to use them more often and less of the guys that have been doing it for 30-40 years already.

Honestly, do anyone believe TNA will use any of the "young talents" they have correctly instead of giving WWE castoffs and folks 5-10 years past their prime the majority of the television time? I don't for one minute.

Seems Dixie offered up some of her money mark cash to Danny Davis and he took it and is gonna make off like a king with it.

The current TNA office personnel know nothing of "developing" young talent.
Furthermore, OVW only provided a ground for Batista, John Cena, Randy Orton, Brock Lesnar, etc., to hone their in-ring skills. It twas the WWE machine that made all those men stars.

Finally, I don't see the next Orton, Cena, Batista or Lesnar anywhere on TNA's talent roster. And if they were, TNA wouldn't know what to do with them.

TNA is - for the most part - a place for established stars with issues to still pull a regular paycheck. When Papa Carter decides enough is enough and his daughter has spent too much of the family's money, the tape library will be sold to WWE for cents on the dollar.

Doesnt Look Like WWE_ PG Knows What To Do With What They Have as Boring And Predictable As Always!!!!!!