A-10 Basketball: VCU, George Mason get wins in conference openers
VCU and George Mason each notched wins in their A-10 openers on Wednesday.
VCU and George Mason each notched wins in their A-10 openers on Wednesday.

Marvin Ward and I have continued our on-again, off-again schedule of work, putting on three shows in 2013 – one a total bomb in Lexington, Va., with a business partner who promised the world in terms of upfront money and media push, and offered nothing in the way of either; the second, a sellout crowd of more than 1,900 for a house show featuring Kevin Nash, Mick Foley and The Rock ‘n Roll Express; and then a fan meet and greet with Shawn Michaels.

Six years later, I’m still trying to unsort everything that happened sort of minute by minute, with so much that was going on. I don’t remember keeping up with my phone much, for example, but it does strike me that at some point during the day word got back to us that we had a leak backstage.

Before I tell you that story, I’ve got a few other stories to tell you, because as with everything else that involves the wrestling business, the backstory is much more interesting than what you end up seeing in the ring.

We had already laid out a plan for where we’d wanted things to go from where we were. We’d shoot some videos with a back-and-forth between Marvin and Ricky, then end with the insertion of Nash into the feud.

The Finlay-Silva match actually came after two other very forgettable matches on the card. The first featured the return of Perry Saturn after a lengthy absence from the wrestling world facing off with former ECW minor player C.W. Anderson.

We’d started with Kevin Nash and Marvin Ward against The Rock ‘n Roll Express, but when it became clear that Marvin wasn’t working himself into shape to be able to perform in-ring, we wrote him out of the match with a storyline injury at the hands of the Rock ‘n Rolls suffered at a house show a month out from the pay-per-view.

I haven’t seen Hank Fawcett since the night of the pay-per-view, technically the early-morning hours the day after the pay-per-view, when he met my wife and I to give us a really big check to catch up on what he’d owed us for our work.

Still scrambling to figure out how to get things on track, we were fortunate that next up were Sonjay Dutt and Jamin Olivencia, the two best workers, by a long shot, on the card.

Kevin Nash, we didn’t know at the time, will do anything if his price is met, and his price wasn’t out of reach on this one, not with Hank fronting the money.
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