REPORT ON THE PWA SIGNING
  • 02/18/2007 (10:17:05 am)
  • Georgiann Makropoulos

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Thanks to ghendry for this report on King Booker signing at PWA:

Hi. Just thought I'd let you know I attended the PWA with King Booker and Queen Sharmell signing and to be completly honest, it was kind of sloppy, and a let-down.

Me and my family(Mother, Father, Aunt, Uncle, and three cousins) were the very first in line at 3:00, but the signing didn't start until 5:00, so we waited in line and chatted with the security who were very friendly and most of them were big wrestling fans so they had some great stories to tell. Well at about 4:50, the line had grown pretty big, about 500-600 people in line. My cousin bugged the security guard to death about when it was gonna start, and every time, we got the same answer, 5:00. Well at 5:00 he(The security guard) told us about ten more minutes, and something that would alter the flow of the entire evening, he said,"You guys do know Booker isn't signing right?" I took it as a joke. So at about 5:10 they began to annonce a few things and the PWA superstars made their entrances, followed by Booker and Sharmell(Who is much prettier in person), and they we're both very very friendly. My cousins got to shake his hand but I was filming his entrance. Well we(Being the firsts) were rushed through the line and barely got to talk to the PWA guys, but they were very friendly and yet didn't really break chacter. We we're walking out and my mom waved at Sharmell, who waved back, Booker looked over and I bowed, they both laughed. But the security told us to be back at 7:00 for a raffel for signed 8x10s of King Booker and Queen Sharmell and $25 dollar gift cards.

We walked around the mall and bought a few things, and decided to see how long the line was now. When we came back, we found that they started the raffel had began at about 5:45. Some kid even won twice! We were pretty mad seeing how Booker and Sharmell were now walking around the crowd, shaking hands, taking pictures, and signing posters, belts, figures, and cloths! Me and my cousins pushed our way to the front were he had walked by several times and signed a few figs, posters and belts. We stood there as they gave away 6 more 8x10s and gift cards, but at about 6:45, Booker needed to catch his flight to get to No Way Out, so he thanked the crowd for coming out, waved, bowed, posed, the usual. But as he was about to exit, he looked over in our direction and quickly walked over. He told some lady next to us about not forgetting her and took a picture with her and her kid, which I thought was nice, but then I held out my figure WITH a marker and Booker mumbled something and walked off. He then proceeded to walk over to the other side and sign a few more things, take a few more pictures and then leave.

I know it sounds petty, but I was the only one on that side asking for an autograph, seeing how most people had cleared out, and it would of only taken about 4 seconds for him to scribble his name on the figure. I mean I held out my own marker even and he still wouldn't do it. After he left, the head of security asked two trivia questions about PWA and gave out two more signed 8x10s, then they shut it all down.

I left pretty displeased that night, especially seeing a security guard walk out next to me with 10 signed 8x10's and put them in her car! I offered her 15 bucks for one of them, she just laughed and continued to walk.

But Booker and Sharmell still seem like very nice people and like I said, the PWA guys were all very VERY nice, one of them had gotten in my uncles face during his entrance about taking his picture, but when my uncle walked up to him for his autograph, he laughed, shook his hand, and took a pic with him.

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