Wrestlemania XXIV

foxer76 · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject: Wrestlemania XXIV

Gosh I can't stand wrestling. Wrestlemania XXIV was last night here in Orlando, and not all went as planned...

Here is a clip..
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=2339533

Cable failure sends fireworks into WrestleMania fans
Walter Pacheco | Sentinel Staff Writer
3:07 PM EDT, March 31, 2008

John Voit said his sons live for the theatrics of WWE, but all that changed at Sunday's WrestleMania 24 after hundreds of fireworks shot into the cheering fans, pummeling them with rockets and raining sparks above their heads.

Orlando Fire Department officials said 30 to 35 wrestling fans were burned, some went to Orlando Regional Medical Center, after a cable that held fireworks on the west end of the Citrus Bowl snapped and sent the burning fireworks and rockets into the stands near the end of the event.

"My 12-year-old son got burned on his leg, he twisted his knee when he ducked under the bleachers and I have three welts on my back from the rockets that struck me," Voit said. "He's still shivering like a leaf."

Voit remembers covering his 9-year-old son, Stephen, and his friend, Felix, as a shower of burning gold and purple embers fell on them. "After the cables snapped, the batch of fireworks just hung there burning above our heads. How could they have allowed the WWE to put explosive devices above the heads of children?"

WWE is estimated to have spent $300,000 on the fireworks. Officials at the WWE have not commented on the fireworks malfunction. Orlando city officials are holding a press conference at 3 p.m. to discuss the accident and answer questions about any investigation into the fireworks malfunction.

The fireworks fell over the 300 section, the middle of the 200 section and the 100 section, Hoggatt said.

According to Hoggatt, people with non-critical and non-life-threatening injuries were asked to go to first aid for treatment. Three people requested that they be transported to the hospital. There is no information on their condition.

Wrestling fan Adam Simon was not injured, but witnessed as the cables snapped and dropped the fireworks into the crowd.

"We only had the cable fall on us, but the other side had the cable break at launch. One firework got stuck in the floodlights and spun around harmlessly and another one fell into the upper bowl," Simon said. "This type of [pyrotechnic] is used a lot by WWE, but I don't think they've ever used it over that distance."

GrumpyDaddy · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:32 am Post subject:

Very sad that people got injured at what should have been a fun time.

On the other hand can you say " LAWSUIT" !!!!

Figmentathm · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:41 am Post subject:

I stopped watching wrestling when Haystack Calhoon and the CoCo Butt Kid retired. It just got all fake after that.
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daveypoo · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:14 am Post subject:

Chief Jay Strongbow was always my favorite!
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Figmentathm · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

jahosifatz · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:27 am Post subject:

yeah, wrestling, never really got it. I had friends that went last night. Not sure as to the extent of the accident. I'll see if they have any pov on it.

daveypoo · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:13 am Post subject:

JTToad · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

Hello, my name is Adam. And I am a recovering wrestling fan.

I haven't watched consistently since around '01 or so. Being a child of the late 80s and early 90s I grew up in Hulkimania and then enjoyed the resurgence of the late 90s with Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock and DX.

If I am home alone on a Monday night, I might flip on Monday Night Raw to get a little fix.

It is really a shame that people got hurt. As much as I may have enjoyed the "over-the-top-ness" (that a word??) of the the WWF of old (will never be the WWE to me), I think they have gotten very sloppy and even more obnoxious in dealing with their public persona. MvManhon comes off as even more of a jerk in interviews then his "character"

But what do I know, I still have an Austin 3:16 shirt hanging around somewhere... Embarassed

WDWFan · Pilot Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 10863

I'll stick to watching the Greco-Roman wrestling...

GrumpyDaddy · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:22 am Post subject:

I allways liked Jello Wrestleing better.

But its never on TV. Very Happy

WDWFan · Pilot Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 10863

I totally forgot about that form of wrestling...

JTToad · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject:

(does best Homer Simpson) MMMMMMMmmmmm.....jello

jahosifatz · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:32 am Post subject:

Pudding wrestling ain't bad either. (posted in honor of spring break)

WDWFan · Pilot Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 10863

we are dragging this thread in to the mud...
Oh Wait. that is still another form of wrestling...

blinkereye123 · Airplane Inspector Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 142

Hey guys. While I'm not the biggest "mark", (die-hard fan), of wrestling I do admit I'm a sucker for spectacle. Quite frankly, mostly the reason I'll even watch a WM is exactly that: to see how the "show" goes. And while I gotta admit that the WWE does put on a heck of an extravaganza-when they want to-this time they literally over-extended themselves.

Here's hoping that next year they decide to give the fans a little less 'entertainment' and a little more 'sport'. (Yeah, I know, I know.) Peace.