A trip more avoided

Bad travel experience

By : Jimmy Ripp

  One occasion when traveling  to do a wrestling show in Mexico has to be the scariest and worst memory I have had traveling anywhere.

   I was part of a tag team called the hot boys and we were booked to face the Luchador Tag Team Champions which were of course the hometown heroes.

   Those not familiar with Luchador wrestling in Mexico it is more favored than religion and in some cases and taken more seriously than cancer.

   Upon defeating the tag team and winning the Mexico Tag Team Championships which is a cardinal sin for two Gringos to do, we were packing up our suitcases and about to leave the arena.

     It was then that Mexican police came in carrying semi-automatic rifles. Some city official began telling us that we were not to leave without armed escort but we were to leave Mexico immediately and a plane was waiting in at the airfield .

     As we exited the arena with police escort we were shoveled into police car. As we drove away an angry mob of at least 30 people  began to barraged us with rocks and eggs and other things and screaming obscenities . Then arriving at the Airfield as we exited the police car to board the plane we were again attacked by an angry mob who attempted to assault us and threw things at us even at the plane as we begin to take off in the airplane.

   Now for 12 years of my wrestling career I played a bad guy. One of the most hated in fact. So I do expect to have a certain fan hatred but my horrible travel experience to Mexico ensured that I would never return there again.  

      In fact we sent the Tag Team Championships back to the wrestling promotion via Federal Express and we never to returned again.