wrestling and me

Disclaimer:I am not a professional writer so if you want to write a smart remark about my grammer you can bite my spell check.


29 years ago I was watching cartoons and suddenly my grandfather entered the room and flipped the channel to two guys fighting each other inside an arena filled with people screaming and cheering thus my romance with Wrestling began I had never been exposed to the world of pro wrestling at that time.Up until than all I was worried about was mighty mouse and seeing if Wiley Coyote would ever catch that dreaded road runner but  my grandfather was a fan of wrestling and when he sat down in his chair to watch tv you pretty much  had to watch what he wanted to watch and I am glad I did. Every saturday Morning I'd make a point of it to get off the floor and walk over to the tv set and turn it over to pro wrestling and everytime one of my favorites were in peril and getting beat up I'd root them on until they made their comeback and won the match or bowed out with grace to set up the next match.Before I knew wrestling was fixed...not fake but fixed I always thought it was the coolest thing in the world.I think I went to school and learned to read and write just so I could understand the inner workings of a wrestler's mind but when it all comes down to it they are as real as us even if what they do to put food and clothes on their family and pay their bills is entertainment.People call wrestling fans marks but what really is a mark but a wrestling fan.I have loved pro wrestling since I was wearing my he-man under roos and I will always be a wrestling fan until they put me in that pine box and bury me deep in the ground.Do I always agree with the stories and developments going on.I'd be lying if I said I did but not once in my life have I ever turned away from wrestling.When life has gotten me down I always knew I had pro wrestling to fall back on.Wrestling for me was an hour or two...now three,four or five to escape from reality for a while and when I emersed myself into the world of wrestling I got deep.If you know me,than you know I live and breath wrestling.
I'll spend my last dollar on a product related to wrestling.Is it right?Is it wrong?ask me if I care and I will tell you I don't.I have given my life blood to pro wrestling.Made friends world wide and even a few wrestlers along the way and I am glad for it.Alot of people look at fans of pro wrestling and think they are high brow or not all there but what do you say to those same people who sit in front of a tv and watch some old men hit a golf ball or those other sports fans who fill sports stadiums and get rowdy when their favorite player scores a touchdown..not a thing because its accepted.I used to imagine myself as  a pro wrestler like other kids pretend to be superman and I'd have hours of battles with my stuffed animals and even a regular sofa cushion pretending they were the villians from tv and put together matches against thin air and emulate what I saw on tv.I'd sit in classrooms and write out match cards and take construction paper and make title belts and philfer them around the house and be constantly hollared at by mom and dad to clean up the mess...but they weren't a mess they were my belts.my trophies.I wasn't athletic by all means so I'd never win a MVP trophy but having those title belts and using scotch tape to fit them around my waist and parading around the house and sometimes the neighborhood wearing said title belts meant alot to me.I'd go look at  wrestling magazines  down at the local convience store and if they were any good I'd purchase the book and take it home and cherish it until I got lazy and it got trashed.I will always cherish those loving memories at my peak.

When WM  came out I thought it was awesome that my dad got it on VHS from the local store so me and my two older brothers could watch it.Around this time like all wrestling fans I was becoming a hulk a maniac but I was always a fan of WTBS.I was a georgia championship wrestling kid even as a western new yorker I loved that wrestling down south and when WWF bought it I thought it was the coolest thing because I would get to see more of my favorite wrestler of all time Hulk Hogan but it didn't last long.when USA got there hands on WWF tv I was too young to sit up at night and watch prime time wrestling and my area didn't get USA for some cable beaurocratic reason it wasn't featured in our area for a couple years but my Aunt June was a life saver.She'd tape Prime Time every monday night and bring it to me on the weekends to watch and I'd watch it repeatedly.I saw Andre the Giant's heel turn and like Hulk Hogan's years later it broke my little heart to pieces.
Seeing Andre walking side by side with Bobby Heenan made me sick to my stomach.My parents were in middle of a bad time and I shifted back and forth with my brothers between mom and dad for a while until they got back together.through all the personal drama in my life I had wrestling and I relied on it and I still do today.When I had to relocate from the north to the south where everyone cared about college football I used pro wrestling as a social tool and I met some good friends who I am still proud to call my friends today because of wrestling.

When the internet was created by Al Gore...so he claims first thing I ever did was try to look up pro wrestling and at the time the websites were limited but today they are everywhere.So if you miss a tv show all you have to do is go to your favorite wrestling website.mine is www.prowrestling.net but I am sure others have their other favorites anyway thats another thing.The suspense in pro wrestling isn't the same for me as it used to be.I used to be on my toes waiting for the next weeks episode of wrestling challenge or superstars or wcw power hour or saturday night just to see what would happen next but now I already know what happens next because of the power of the internet and spoilers...I despise spoilers but sometimes they can be benifitial if you don't have the time to sit there and watch a program you can point and click on your  mouse and the results are right there for you.

I will always love Pro wrestling but I don't have to always like it or agree with it but I am gonna watch it.So Pro Wrestling I pubically profess my love for you and I am glad we have stuck by eachother all these years like an old married couple.L ike Bill Apter used to say see you at the matches I say see you in my next blog.thanks for reading

I am Hixenbaugh hear me roar
JH