The Cost of Being A Wrestling Fan: More Than Mania Expenses

 Here is a special post just looking at my More Than Mania weekend of Expenses.

These are all my expenses related to this weekend prior to April and going on the trip, I've talked about these in previous posts. 

Below are my expenses of the actual trip itself and the grand total of monies spent before and during the trip, and I'm going to break them down into categories

Autographs & Photo Ops: $879.09

Tickets & Admissions: $596.13

Hotel $1,168 - my share $396

Meals & Snacks: 196.67

Merchandise / Cards: $159.33

Gas: $169.50 - my share $56.50

Parking: $113 - my share $41.83

Tolls: $86.30 - my share $28.76

I can't believe I spent that much on Autographs and Photo Ops, It really shocks me because I thought I was being pretty strict but I guess not.  Tickets and Admissions seems about right because everything had a bit of an inflated price because of where we were and the weekend.  My food bill for 5 days being roughly $200 is pretty dang good for essentially having to eat out for all meals.  I did bring some soda, crackers, and other snacks with my that I didn't calculate the cost of into this trip, probably $30 worth.

Gas, hotel, parking, and tolls is the biggest expense, but having other to split them with is very nice indeed!  Once we got to Philly we did very little driving mileage wise from venue to venue but just under 1,000 miles is impressive.

I had a blast, you can read all my other blogs about this trip and see some photos, thoughts, and moments.

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The Cost of Being a Wrestling Fan: April 2024

April was an expensive month because I went to More than Mania Weekend.

That's a giant number, but it's also a once every 5 years trip.  The non WrestleCon expenses were $189.48 with $35.24 going to the monthly wrestling streaming expenses.  $55 for tickets to two wrestling shows, and $45.37 the gas and snacks and whatnot for those two shows.

The remaining $53.87 included supplies for my storing my signed wrestling cards and an 8x10 signed photo of Stephanie Vaquer from a Highspots sign it live.  I don't normally buy 8x10's they are just not my thing and haven't been for a long time.  However Stephanie has no official trading cards I have little faith I will ever see her live again and I really wanted something signed.  The only reason why I got this though, is because the photo is of her at the Stardom Show I attended at the 2300 Arena during More Than Mania Weekend.  That's what makes it cool, it's from I show I attended live.  

Thank you for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and if you want like my blogs Facebook page.  You can also head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of my book Limitless Wrestling: The First Five Years, or any of my other books as well.  

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More Than Mania Rasslin Photos!

I didn't take a lot of photos because I really wanted to just enjoy the matches.  I grabbed a few to help me remember in the future, but I really wanted to live in the moment.

Here are a couple links to other blogs that feature:

Cards I Got Signed

Pictures with Wrestlers and Friends

April 3rd - WrestleJawn

Mike Bailey vs. Paul London

The Chad with a sky twister press

Triple C Death Match: Colby Corino defeated Clint Margera

April 4th Penn's Landing home of the Collective 2024

DEFY Wrestling

April 4th, Stardom at the 2300 Arena

New High Speed Champion: Saki Kashima

Stephanie Vaquer

April 4th 2300 Arena

The FBI: Little Guido Maritano & “Wildfire” Tommy Rich and Deonna Purrazzo with Tony Mamaluke defeated Los Boricuas: Savio Vega & Miguel Perez Jr and Nathalya Perez with Huracan Castillo Jr. & Jose Estrada Jr. when Purrazzo submitted Nathalya

RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight Champion: Michael Oku with Amira pinned Titan

Team CMLL: Averno, Cavernario, Mistico, Star Jr, & Villano III Jr defeated Team Dragon Gate: Shun Skywalker, Dragon Kid, Kota Minoura, & YAMATO

Philadelphia Street Fight: Paul Walter Hauser pinned Sami Callihan with help from The Sandman & Bill Alfonzo

April 5th Progress Wrestling Penn's Landing

Yoichi defeated ATLAS Champion: Ricky Knight Jr to win the championship

SANITY: Axel Tishcer & Big Damo defeated The Sunshine Machine: Chuck Mambo & TK Cooper and Tag Team Champions: Cheeky Little Buggers: Alexxis Falcon & Charles Crowley to win the championships

Joey Janela Spring Break 8 Penn's Landing

Masha Slamovich & Ultraviolent Champion: Rina Yamashita defeated Masato Tanaka & Minoru Suzuki

“Speedball” Mike Bailey & The East West Express: Nick Wayne & Jordan Oliver defeated Kerry Morton and The Rock n’ Roll Express: Ricky Mortin & Robert Gibson when Oliver pinned Ricky

Grab The Brass Ring Ladder Match: Cole Radrick defeated Aigle Blanc, “The Prize” Alec Price, Arez, Leon Slater, Marcus Mathers, Mr. Danger, Myron Reed, and Microman 

Matt Cardona with Steph De Lander & Jimmy Lloyd defeated Blue Pain

Amazing Red pinned Gringo Loco

I Quit Match: Mance Warner defeated Effy

Maki Death Kill: Nick Gage & Extreme Champion: Maki Itoh

defeated Ramhausen: Danhausen & Ram Kaicho

April 6th WrestleCon original Jim Crockett Promotions signed Great American Bash 88 program signed by the main even of the card NWA World Champion: "Nature Boy" Ric Flair vs. "Total Package" Lex Luger

April 6th TJPW vs. GCW Penn's Landing

Arisu Endo pinned Shazza McKenzie

Steph De Lander pinned Hyper Misao

April 6th WrestleMania XL closed circuit viewing at the 2300 Arena

April 6th JJSB Clusterfuck Forever, Penn's Landing

Punjabi Prison Match: Tag Team Champions: Violence is Forever: Kevin Ku & Dominic Garrini defeated Juicy Finau & Zilla Fatu, The Bollywood Boyz: Gurv & Harv Sihra, and Los Macizos: Ciclope & Miedo Extremo

Clusterfuck Match: Tony Devito & Jason Knight

Clusterfuck Match: Mike Bailey as the Fighting Chicken

Clusterfuck Match: Kaiju Big Battel invades

Thank you for reading, please leave a comment, check out my other posts, and if you want like my blogs Facebook page.  You can also head over to Amazon and pick up a copy of my book Limitless Wrestling: The First Five Years, or any of my other books as well.  

Until next time!