Day Three of the Northern Tour marked the conclusion of said tour, with it involving a show in Dingwall and a long drive back to W3L HQ and then home. Before that though, I was up early in the morning to have a wander around Inverness. It was a cracking day for it and I got several decent snaps of the city. I encourage anyone in wrestling that is on tour somewhere to take the time to explore their surroundings and make the most of where they are.

After my brief stint of sightseeing, it was back on the road and onto Dingwall, a town just over the river from Inverness. Previous Dingwall shows have been on the Saturday evening of the Northern Tour, making this year’s show a bit different in the sense that it took place on the Sunday afternoon. The turnout for this show was rather disappointing in comparison to the Dingwall shows that came before it, but the show did have some highlights.

Once again, yours truly and Nathan Reynolds kicked off the show, with me looking to chalk up a win and Reynolds looking to add to his six wins and zero losses record on this tour (if memory serves me correctly, Reynolds has actually never lost on any of the Northern Tours he has been on!). Early on, I pulled out a popular Mike Musso saying with him retaliating with the same saying and us going back and forth to one another saying “you’re in big trouble mister”, before Reynolds attempted to catch me off-guard with his admittedly superb Drew Galloway impression. I obtained control of the bout for a short while, before I ended up in big trouble [mister] after Reynolds took me to ‘Suplex Village’ (again) and finished me off with a Spear (again).

Other highlights of the show included Mike Musso versus Taylor Bryden, the return of ‘The Tormentor’ Debbie Sharpe, as well as Dickie Divers channelling a Chokeslam to defeat Aspen Faith. The main event was a unique ‘Hammer Time’ mixed tag team match where Mike Musso and Leah Owens faced Taylor Bryden and ‘The Tormentor’ Debbie Sharpe. A ‘Hammer Time’ match encourages fans to purchase inflatable hammers from the merchandise table, so they can use them to hit the dastardly villains if they end up on the outside of the ring. Musso and Owens got the win, whilst Bryden and Sharpe were subject to a series of inflatable hammer shots.

The post-show involved an interesting series of events between ‘The Tormentor’ Jamie Jones and ‘The Tormentor’ Debbie Sharpe. Throughout the tour, Jones was seething at the fact Debbie had adopted the Tormentor alias and even his Tormentor elbow drop, which resulted in him cutting a promo on Debbie stating how he was the one and only Tormentor. That was not all though, as a seagull also decided to leave its mark on Debbie whilst this was happening. This resulted in an uproar of laughter from all of those who witnessed it, but it has been wondered if this was by coincidence, or if the seagull was in on Tormentorgate. Some have also speculated whether Jamie Jones can actually control seagulls and other avian creatures, like some sort of bird whisperer. We might never know. Regardless, it was a unique, funny and memorable way to conclude the tour.

The drive back was long and I was both happy and sad to be home. Happy about being in the creature comforts of my own home and not having to do any more long drives for a good while, but sad knowing that I was no longer on tour and that would be that tour-wise for another year. This was probably the tour I have enjoyed the most out of all the ones I have been on and the camaraderie, revelry and teamwork that I witness on these tours is also great. As I write this at the start of August, I find it hard to believe that it has only been a month since the Northern Tour, as it feels like a distant memory, but a good one at that. This has been my insight of the Northern Tour and I will be detailing the rest of my wrestling exploits during the month of July starting next week. Until then, that is The Life Of Smith. Good day.

Lucian Maynard-Smith
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