Add Sid Vicious to the list of talents who did not appear at the Wrestlefanfest convention, despite a statement from the convention's braintrust that there were no issues with Vicious once word got out. The original main event for the convention's Friday night live event was Kevin Nash and Scott Hall vs. Sid Vicious and a mystery partner. None of the four appeared. The live event ended up being headlined by The Great Muta vs. Steve Corino vs. The Sandman and Billy Kidman vs. Ultimo Dragon.
The events was filmed by Big Vision Entertainment for a future national DVD release. Obviously, the matches on the show involving contracted TNA talents won't be on the DVD. I was told that the convention intimated that Big Vision was a sponsor of the event, but in reality, they were simply contracted to film the live events for DVD distribution.
The scheduled Saturday night MMA event, (which was also slated to be a DVD taping) was canceled due to lack of ticket sales. I've heard the sales were absolutely abysmal, as in less than 100, although MMA website Sherdog.com claims there were 300 sold. California State Athletic Commission executive officer Armando Garcia is quoted on Sherdog as saying that the show was canceled due to the cage structure missing two of the support beams. Disorganization seems to be the key word for the entire weekend.
For those concerned about the ROH event tomorrow, the company intends to run at 4 PM Pacific with ROH champion Nigel McGuiness vs. Jay Briscoe in his first title defense, Bryan Danielson vs. Austin Aries and FIP champion Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli as the top three matches.
The Wrestlefanfest website's message board forum was yanked offline overnight, possibly due to a number of negative posts complaining about the convention. [Note from Mike: The message board did return online shortly after 12:30 AM Eastern.]
Roddy Piper did appear this afternoon signing and did a Q&A Session. Goldberg appeared for a signing session and Steve Austin (who I am told was paid in advance) is scheduled to sign tomorrow.
Again, if anyone attending the convention would like to send a live report and thoughts, feel free to click my name above.
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The events was filmed by Big Vision Entertainment for a future national DVD release. Obviously, the matches on the show involving contracted TNA talents won't be on the DVD. I was told that the convention intimated that Big Vision was a sponsor of the event, but in reality, they were simply contracted to film the live events for DVD distribution.
The scheduled Saturday night MMA event, (which was also slated to be a DVD taping) was canceled due to lack of ticket sales. I've heard the sales were absolutely abysmal, as in less than 100, although MMA website Sherdog.com claims there were 300 sold. California State Athletic Commission executive officer Armando Garcia is quoted on Sherdog as saying that the show was canceled due to the cage structure missing two of the support beams. Disorganization seems to be the key word for the entire weekend.
For those concerned about the ROH event tomorrow, the company intends to run at 4 PM Pacific with ROH champion Nigel McGuiness vs. Jay Briscoe in his first title defense, Bryan Danielson vs. Austin Aries and FIP champion Roderick Strong vs. Claudio Castagnoli as the top three matches.
The Wrestlefanfest website's message board forum was yanked offline overnight, possibly due to a number of negative posts complaining about the convention. [Note from Mike: The message board did return online shortly after 12:30 AM Eastern.]
Roddy Piper did appear this afternoon signing and did a Q&A Session. Goldberg appeared for a signing session and Steve Austin (who I am told was paid in advance) is scheduled to sign tomorrow.
Again, if anyone attending the convention would like to send a live report and thoughts, feel free to click my name above.
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