As a young boy I grew up cheering for the good guys, hating the bad guys, and I couldn't care less about the guys who everyone knew wouldn't be worth a damn in the overall scheme of things. Hogan, Warrior, and HBK.....those were the names of my youth. The good guys. Ramon, Flair, and the Snake.....you knew the bad guys too. Mostly you knew they were meant to bad. You were supposed to hate them. Guys like Savage and later on Austin made it a little more difficult to figure out. Those were the guys I loved to hate and sometimes hated to love. They made me feel. They were fun. Then there was The Rock. The Brahma Bull, the People's Champ, the Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment. He was my guy. He could do no wrong. When he left to pursue his "acting" career it was the end for my WWE experience.
A few months ago I heard Rocky was coming back.....to Wrestlemania.......I was intrigued. I caught an episode of RAW where the Great One ran his mouth like he used to, solidifying his return.....I'm listening. I ordered the PPV of Wrestlemania XVII because The Rock was MCing the event......seriously, could there be a better host?!?!? But the night was weird. He wasn't the driving force behind the event. He was just a guy every once in a while doing interviews outside the ring. He got everyone jazzed up and was gone, for the most part. That's a problem. I bought in to see the triumphant return of a great champion who was the most over-the-top performer the world had ever seen. What I got was a ho hum night that did feature a quality match between Cena and the Miz and an epic battle between HHH and the Undertaker. So I didn't get to see what I wanted but I did like what I ended up seeing.
Since that April day I've gotten more involved with the WWE's storylines, the backgrounds, etc. This CM Punk guy seems like he's turning the world of wrestling on its head. As far as I can tell he's the future of the WWE. He has roots, his future is bright, he can gab, he can sure as hell wrestle, he's a bad guy, he's loved like nobody else, and he's the champ. To a latecomer he seems to have come out of nowhere. Come to find out there are a ton of wrestling fans who could really care less about RAW because the real action happens in the minors, the indies, the low levels. That's where the talent is really cultivated. And wrestling fans eat it up.
Real fans know everyone's music from the first day they step into a ring up until the day they leave. They know the trademark moves and finishers. They know what's going to happen 10 minutes before the match even starts, 10 hours, 10 days even! Blogs are littered with spoilers, news updates, recaps, etc. If you ever want to know about any particular match there are thousands of synopses out there. Each and every one of them has a different take on what happened and what it means for the rest of the week.
It's tough for a newbie to come in and try to assimilate into that type of arena. There's just too much that has gone on in the last few years/months/weeks/days/hours to catch up. The world of wrestling is much more than I could have ever imagined. It used to be this is a bad guy, this is a good guy, the good guy would win or the bad guy would cheat and win. Now there are no good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are hated. John Cena is the most polarizing man in the WWE....except for CM Punk.....but Cena's the champ.....but so is Punk......but oh no I've gone cross-eyed. Will I be able to keep up? Is there enough time? Do I have the stamina? Stay tuned.
I won't always write about wrestling, but when I do I'll do it with all my jabronis out there in mind.
Since that April day I've gotten more involved with the WWE's storylines, the backgrounds, etc. This CM Punk guy seems like he's turning the world of wrestling on its head. As far as I can tell he's the future of the WWE. He has roots, his future is bright, he can gab, he can sure as hell wrestle, he's a bad guy, he's loved like nobody else, and he's the champ. To a latecomer he seems to have come out of nowhere. Come to find out there are a ton of wrestling fans who could really care less about RAW because the real action happens in the minors, the indies, the low levels. That's where the talent is really cultivated. And wrestling fans eat it up.
Real fans know everyone's music from the first day they step into a ring up until the day they leave. They know the trademark moves and finishers. They know what's going to happen 10 minutes before the match even starts, 10 hours, 10 days even! Blogs are littered with spoilers, news updates, recaps, etc. If you ever want to know about any particular match there are thousands of synopses out there. Each and every one of them has a different take on what happened and what it means for the rest of the week.
It's tough for a newbie to come in and try to assimilate into that type of arena. There's just too much that has gone on in the last few years/months/weeks/days/hours to catch up. The world of wrestling is much more than I could have ever imagined. It used to be this is a bad guy, this is a good guy, the good guy would win or the bad guy would cheat and win. Now there are no good guys and bad guys. The bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are hated. John Cena is the most polarizing man in the WWE....except for CM Punk.....but Cena's the champ.....but so is Punk......but oh no I've gone cross-eyed. Will I be able to keep up? Is there enough time? Do I have the stamina? Stay tuned.
I won't always write about wrestling, but when I do I'll do it with all my jabronis out there in mind.
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