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From the moment we walked in, the first guy we saw - Classic Colt Cabana, I marked out! My son who was in my arms, didnt seem that impressed at first until Colt took his hand and started doing the old "He's got my finger! Oww! What a grip!" routine. We got our picture taken with him and an autograph. 

Then making our way down the line Jimmy Rave stood there in character being an a**hole. Staring at Rory in my arms acting cocky, the atmosphere was a bit frosty until he asked "is this his first wrestling show?" I told him it was. "Good choice" he smirked. I liked that, it was old school heel acting like a heel in public the way it should be. 

Allison Danger was next and she was amazing with the baby, holding him, talking to him, just a real nice person. 

Same with Homicide and Julius Smokes who himself marked out when he saw Rory had a little pair of Timberland boots on. He was hilarious telling my son he belonged in the hood! 

Then the Briscoes who I thought I offended when I pointed out Marks gummy grin and told Rory, "He's got teeth like you." Luckily he started laughing. 

BJ Whitmer also made an effort, holding Rory and talking to him.

We walked through to the other room where the Q&A was going on and its a pity we couldn't stop to listen as Allison Danger was making some interesting points regarding the sorry state of women's wrestling in the WWE, mentioning that they had some good talent with Melina and Mickie James and that she had respect for what Trish Stratus had done.

But we had to get through to see Samoa Joe who was sitting by the merchandise table on his own. Again, another cool guy making an effort with my son and getting photo's taken with us both and signing a programme for me and his action figure for Rory (oh okay that was for me as well!).

The day was a really good day out for me and my family, even though we queued to get in for over an hour after the convention had started, this didn't really bother me as I've been a wrestling fan for almost my entire 30 years of life, so it goes with the territory of meeting your idols that you are going to have to queue for a while to see them.

I have got to say though that since becoming a father eight months ago, I have noticed that it touches you when someone makes an effort with your child and you get to see how genuine that person really is. Today meeting all of them, I realised everyone there were really genuine people who were happy to meet all of their fans.

Even Jimmy Rave.