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Wrestling at Haven

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Accession No: TWCMS : 2009.217
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Summary
David's story is about when he went to see some wrestling and how cool it was.

By David Killeen

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This story was inspired by a wrestling belt from the collections at the Regional Resource Centre.


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Hi I'm David and this is a Cumberland wrestling belt in Beamish Museum and this is what inspired me. Me and my brother Josh love wrestling as you can see and it was at Haven's Blue Dolphin where I began to be interested in it. We went to the stage room where we found a huge squared wrestling ring. It took the wrestlers quite a long time to get ready, so Bradley Bear provided the entertainment. 

Finally it started and a hairy man who was a goody, faced a young man who was a baddy.  Unfortunately the baddy won.  Next a long haired man, who was baddy, versus a Zac Efron look-alike and again the baddy won.  Then it got doubly better as it turned tag team, goodies versus baddies.  It was extreme but cooooooool.  Eventually it finished and eventually the goodies won.

Afterwards me, my brother Josh and my sister Stacey got our photo taken.  Stacey got one by herself with the 2 goodies and me and Josh had ours taken together with all of them.  One of them put their hand on my face and it stunk of sweat.  My grandad always said I'd be a fighter.        

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