I’ve wanted to start a blog for a long time, but I could
never really figure out just what I wanted to write about. Back in the day when Xanga was popular, I had
an account that I pretty much ignored because I didn’t have direction. So, for this blog, I’m going to focus on one
of the things I’m truly passionate about….women’s wrestling. For my first post, I want to introduce you to
who I am as a person and who I am as a fan of women’s wrestling.
Outside of my undying love for women’s wrestling, I’m a
fairly typically 27 year old gay professional.
I own my own home in Northwest Arkansas and work as a bank internal
auditor. I have made my career in
banking and I really enjoy the industry.
I am very heavily involved in the American Cancer Society
Relay For Life. The Relay this year will
be my 14th. My family got
involved the summer after my grandmother was diagnosed with Lung Cancer. Although she lost her fight with cancer, my
family has continued to fight in her honor.
If you feel led to make a donation to the American Cancer Society,
please let me know and I will get you the link to make a donation through their
website.
The most important part of my life is my family. I have been in a relationship with a
wonderful man for 5 years. He has been
amazing to me. I have a really close
family. All of the holidays are spent
out at my grandparents place with a house full of people. If it wasn’t for the support system that my
family has offered me, I wouldn’t be the person that I am today.
As a wrestling fan, I’m a very dedicated fan of women’s
wrestling. Growing up, my family watched
a lot of wrestling on TV. During the
mid-90’s, there were not a lot of women in WCW or WWF. It seemed that during that time, both
divisions had a very similar talent roster with Medusa, Luna Vachon, and Bull
Nakano among others sharing both rings.
These women, along with Akira Hokuto and Malia Hosaka, were some of the
women that peaked my interest in the industry.
These were women that would get into the ring and fight like the
men. For some reason, I was hooked.
My interest stayed with WWF during the time of Jazz, Molly
Holly, Ivory, and Jacqueline. While I
wasn’t a big fan of Trish Stratus or Lita, this was a big time for women’s
wrestling in the mainstream. During
2004-2005 when these women started going on to do other things, I started to
lose interest in wrestling. I was
graduating from High School and starting college, so I had other things to focus
on. I really didn’t follow wrestling at
all again until TNA officially started their Knockout Division in 2007. Between 2004 and 2007, while I was still
interested in wrestling, my focus was on YouTube. I spent time watching a lot of matches from
the 80’s and 90’s of the Glamour Girls and Sensational Sherri. I got familiar with the women in Deep South
Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling. This
was the also time my interest in the independent women started.
With the TNA Knockout Division bringing in several women
from the independent circuit that I was familiar with, I decided to start
following the division again and I stayed true to the division for several
years until the independent talent started leaving and TNA’s focus because the
women formerly in WWF/E. By this point,
I had been introduced to the promotion that has grown to be my favorite,
SHIMMER Women Athletes. SHIMMER has been
the second most important part of my interest in women’s wrestling, taking
second only to the mid-90’s women who peaked my interest.
Since then, I have lost most interest in the WWE and TNA
divisions and put most of my interest in the independent promotions and
divisions. I pride myself on being a fan
for a long time and I have little patience for people who gawk at the women for
carnal reasons. Comedy wrestling isn’t
my favorite. I prefer to see two women
get in the ring and beat the snot out of each other in a technical hard hitting
match.
I have some ideas for some blogs, so I hope you come back and comment and share and all that other bloggy stuff.
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