I have been asked many times why I like watching and following professional wrestling. You know, the WWF. It’s really hard to answer because if the person doesn’t really understand the aspect of professional wrestling and just thinks it’s a bunch of fake guys in the ring hugging each other, they wouldn’t understand the reasoning either. So I was thinking about how I could put it in leyman terms.

Everyone has some sort of favorite television show. Let’s take for instance Beverly Hills 90210. Now Beverly Hills 90210 would run from every August to April let’s say. And in that time, you would get one new episode a week for the 7 months. That would make 28 episodes a year. And in those 28 episodes, two would specials, not really continuing story line episodes. You know what I’m talking about. The 100th episode special with clips from every year. Basically you’d get 26 fresh episodes of new material, storylines, drama, who’s sleeping with who, backstabbings, and everything else that comes with Beverly Hills 90210.

With the WWF, I get to watch 102 episodes of new material every year. There is a new RAW IS WAR and Smackdown! every week without interuption. And in all those episodes, there is everything that 90210 could ever give me, with the exception of Brandon Walsh in wrestling tights. There is the hero versus the villain. The sex pot versus the Christian. The fat unathletic guy versus the talented pea brain. And while the match quality (where you get anything you’d get in a sporting event) is the most important, the storylines (and you can tell a great story in a match) is a near second. The writing is sometimes beautifully done, while sometimes it is down right 90210 putrid. For instance, the best story the WWF has told in the last four years is the story of Stone Cold Steve Austin who is the beer swilling, blue collar worker not kissing the ass of the billionaire boss, Vince McMahon. And do you know why it was so successful? We are a bunch of Stone Colds who have to take it in the bootay daily from the people we work for. Stone Cold punched his boss, kicked his boss, gave his boss the middle finger, and straight made his boss pee in his pants in front of him. Who wouldn’t want to do that to their boss? Stone Cold was me, and Vince McMahon was my last manager at Blockbuster Video. I wanted to beat his ass so badly that I would turn his one crooked leg straight, but I have ethics. Stone Cold didn’t have ethics and sometimes I wish I didn’t either.

So for all of those who ask me why I like wrestling, that is the short version. The longer version would include the fact that I like to hear about the show inside the show. I like to know what’s inside the backstage politics. After all, they are all employees with the same problems we have inside our offices. I love learning about the history of wrestling and how it’s been around since before almost every professional sport. And no pro wrestling is not a sport, but it is entertainment, and damn good entertainment if you ask me. It’s true, it’s damn true, as Kurt Angle might say.

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