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Friday, May 17, 2024

The Cost of Being A Wrestling Fan: More Than Mania Expenses

 Here is a special post just looking at my More Than Mania weekend of Expenses.


These are all my expenses related to this weekend prior to April and going on the trip, I've talked about these in previous posts. 

Below are my expenses of the actual trip itself and the grand total of monies spent before and during the trip, and I'm going to break them down into categories


Autographs & Photo Ops: $879.09

Tickets & Admissions: $596.13

Hotel $1,168 - my share $396

Meals & Snacks: 196.67

Merchandise / Cards: $159.33

Gas: $169.50 - my share $56.50

Parking: $113 - my share $41.83

Tolls: $86.30 - my share $28.76

I can't believe I spent that much on Autographs and Photo Ops, It really shocks me because I thought I was being pretty strict but I guess not.  Tickets and Admissions seems about right because everything had a bit of an inflated price because of where we were and the weekend.  My food bill for 5 days being roughly $200 is pretty dang good for essentially having to eat out for all meals.  I did bring some soda, crackers, and other snacks with my that I didn't calculate the cost of into this trip, probably $30 worth.

Gas, hotel, parking, and tolls is the biggest expense, but having other to split them with is very nice indeed!  Once we got to Philly we did very little driving mileage wise from venue to venue but just under 1,000 miles is impressive.

I had a blast, you can read all my other blogs about this trip and see some photos, thoughts, and moments.

Thank you for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and if you want like my blogs Facebook page.  You can also head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of my book Limitless Wrestling: The First Five Years, or any of my other books as well.  

Until next time!

Monday, May 13, 2024

The Cost of Being a Wrestling Fan: April 2024

April was an expensive month because I went to More than Mania Weekend.





That's a giant number, but it's also a once every 5 years trip.  The non WrestleCon expenses were $189.48 with $35.24 going to the monthly wrestling streaming expenses.  $55 for tickets to two wrestling shows, and $45.37 the gas and snacks and whatnot for those two shows.

The remaining $53.87 included supplies for my storing my signed wrestling cards and an 8x10 signed photo of Stephanie Vaquer from a Highspots sign it live.  I don't normally buy 8x10's they are just not my thing and haven't been for a long time.  However Stephanie has no official trading cards I have little faith I will ever see her live again and I really wanted something signed.  The only reason why I got this though, is because the photo is of her at the Stardom Show I attended at the 2300 Arena during More Than Mania Weekend.  That's what makes it cool, it's from I show I attended live.  



Thank you for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and if you want like my blogs Facebook page.  You can also head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of my book Limitless Wrestling: The First Five Years, or any of my other books as well.  

Until next time!

Thursday, May 9, 2024

More Than Mania Rasslin Photos!

I didn't take a lot of photos because I really wanted to just enjoy the matches.  I grabbed a few to help me remember in the future, but I really wanted to live in the moment.

Here are a couple links to other blogs that feature:




April 3rd - WrestleJawn


Mike Bailey vs. Paul London





The Chad with a sky twister press



Triple C Death Match: Colby Corino defeated Clint Margera


April 4th Penn's Landing home of the Collective 2024


DEFY Wrestling



April 4th, Stardom at the 2300 Arena



New High Speed Champion: Saki Kashima


Stephanie Vaquer





April 4th 2300 Arena




The FBI: Little Guido Maritano & “Wildfire” Tommy Rich and Deonna Purrazzo with Tony Mamaluke defeated Los Boricuas: Savio Vega & Miguel Perez Jr and Nathalya Perez with Huracan Castillo Jr. & Jose Estrada Jr. when Purrazzo submitted Nathalya



RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion: Michael Oku with Amira pinned Titan


Team CMLL: Averno, Cavernario, Mistico, Star Jr, & Villano III Jr defeated Team Dragon Gate: Shun Skywalker, Dragon Kid, Kota Minoura, & YAMATO


Philadelphia Street Fight: Paul Walter Hauser pinned Sami Callihan with help from The Sandman & Bill Alfonzo


April 5th Progress Wrestling Penn's Landing

Yoichi defeated ATLAS Champion: Ricky Knight Jr to win the championship


SANITY: Axel Tishcer & Big Damo defeated The Sunshine Machine: Chuck Mambo & TK Cooper and Tag Team Champions: Cheeky Little Buggers: Alexxis Falcon & Charles Crowley to win the championships



Joey Janela Spring Break 8 Penn's Landing

Masha Slamovich & Ultraviolent Champion: Rina Yamashita defeated Masato Tanaka & Minoru Suzuki



“Speedball” Mike Bailey & The East West Express: Nick Wayne & Jordan Oliver defeated Kerry Morton and The Rock n’ Roll Express: Ricky Mortin & Robert Gibson when Oliver pinned Ricky



Grab The Brass Ring Ladder Match: Cole Radrick defeated Aigle Blanc, “The Prize” Alec Price, Arez, Leon Slater, Marcus Mathers, Mr. Danger, Myron Reed, and Microman 


Matt Cardona with Steph De Lander & Jimmy Lloyd defeated Blue Pain


Amazing Red pinned Gringo Loco



I Quit Match: Mance Warner defeated Effy



Maki Death Kill: Nick Gage & Extreme Champion: Maki Itoh
defeated Ramhausen: Danhausen & Ram Kaicho



April 6th WrestleCon original Jim Crockett Promotions signed Great American Bash 88 program signed by the main even of the card NWA World Champion: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. "Total Package" Lex Luger


April 6th TJPW vs. GCW Penn's Landing

Arisu Endo pinned Shazza McKenzie


Steph De Lander pinned Hyper Misao


April 6th WrestleMania XL closed circuit viewing at the 2300 Arena




April 6th JJSB Clusterfuck Forever, Penn's Landing



Punjabi Prison Match: Tag Team Champions: Violence is Forever: Kevin Ku & Dominic Garrini defeated Juicy Finau & Zilla Fatu, The Bollywood Boyz: Gurv & Harv Sihra, and Los Macizos: Ciclope & Miedo Extremo




Clusterfuck Match: Tony Devito & Jason Knight



Clusterfuck Match: Mike Bailey as the Fighting Chicken


Clusterfuck Match: Kaiju Big Battel invades


Thank you for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and if you want like my blogs Facebook page.  You can also head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of my book Limitless Wrestling: The First Five Years, or any of my other books as well.  

Until next time!