Rockem Sockem Midget Wrestling

I shot my usual gig at Meridian, and this night the main attraction was Midget Wrestling.. or maybe it's Dwarf Wrestling, hell I don't know. There was a decent turnout and unfortunately or at least for the band contracted to play before the "show" and during the breaks, they wanted to see some midgets wrestle and they wanted it 10 minutes ago. They were pretty vocal about it which is too bad cause Feo Y Loco sounded pretty good on the Meridian sound system. Anyway the midgets finally arrived about 10 ish and "Puppet" came out and entertained the crowd for a bit with drunken limbo contests and showing how when he gets a woman on her hands and knees he's still standing up (img 9920 for the curious). The he took a break before bringing out a couple of women to wrestle each other. Normal sized women that is. They did their thing and another break later we got two midgets wrestling, and stapling dollar bills to each others bodies when the opportunity allowed. Personally i was expected more midgets and more wrestling but I guess we got shorted on that.. The also did an extended through the audience fight with occasional stops to bum a drink or break a bottle on each other. but most of that was impossible to shoot cause it was too dark. It also made having a ringside seat useless since you'd have to get up and try to follow them through the venue and crowd to see what exactly was happening MC commentary aside.

I got more blurry shots than I'd like but that happens when you don't use a flash and bodies are flying. Other than that it was at least a fun shoot and my first "sports" shoot.

Satyr
9/18/2005