Wednesday February 18, 2009

As of late I have not thought of anything I could post up. I have been busy with my job at Sam’s Club plus doing very well on my quizzes and test that I have been having in my math class at Diablo Valley College. It is hard to keep up to date with my blogs. I’ll try my best to keep up to date of posting up blogs every Sunday and Wednesday.

Wrestling Is Not The Same As It Was When I Was A Child

I’ll admit to myself I do watch wrestling. Yes I know that wrestling is fake but I enjoy it due to the entertainment that these wrestlers did for the fans. Heck I even wrestlemy family friends and classmates when I was younger. I stop doing it when I gotten older plus when I got seriously hurt (I was pin under a second in junior high school in PE). Back then the company was called World Wrestling Federation (it change it name in 2002 due to the lawsuit of the World Wildlife Federation). The company was led by Vince McMahon. I started watching it as an eight year old when Hulk Hogan, Macho Man Randy Savage, and the Ultimate Warrior were around. Every Saturday and Sunday (Superstars of Wrestling and Wrestling Challenge) I would be watching it. I remember around the summertime in 1989 Hulk release a movie called “No Holds Barred” which feature a character name Zeus. The WWF was building up a feud between the two (Zeus was getting jealous of Hogan for having top billed in the credit of the movie). The first pay per view that the WWF promote that I heard of which I did not understand that you had to order to watch the match was called Summer Slam 1989. The main event of that pay per view was Hulk Hogan and Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake versus Macho Man Randy Savage and Zeus. I manage to rent the video around 1992. It was ridiculous how they build up the feud and the outcome of the match. I started to watch the competition of the WWF which was own by Ted Turner, World Championship Wrestling in the summer of 1990. It was not like the WWF. WCW was plain boring but had good wrestlers like Sting, Ric Flair, and Lex Luger. It was easy to compare both WWF and WCW. WCW did not have much audience in their arena compare to the WWF. WCW was taping their matches in the CCN studio in which WWF had their matches tape in actual arena like Oakland Coliseum and Madison Square Garden. In the mid 1990’s both WWF and WCW came out with a wrestling show on Monday nights. WWF produce Monday Night Raw in January of 1993 and WCW came out with Monday Nitro in September of 1995. Both company were in the Monday Night War. There was one time that WCW beat the WWF in rating for 83-84 weeks on Monday. WCW produce a stable which was called the New World Order which was led by now former WWF employer Hulk Hogan (he was title Hollywood Hulk Hogan by 1996). WWF caught up in the rating when they produce a wrestling name Stone Cold Steve Austin. He was a wrestler that did not respect the owner of the WWF Vince McMahon. He would flip Vince off and stun any wrestler with his finisher “Stone Cold Stunner”. Steve Austin took the company to new heights when he became WWF popular wrestler. Their company As the years gone by in the 1990’s other wrestling promotions were starting to build up like Extreme Championship Wrestling which was run by former WCW employer Paul Heyman. In 2001 both WCW and ECW filed for bankruptcy and the only wrestling promotion was the WWF for one full year. In 2002 Jerry Jarrett came out with a wrestling promotion called “Total Nonstop Action”. Their company was very different from the WWF. When they began they were only shown on a monthly Pay Per View. Plus the ring was six-sided octagon compare to an ordinary four-sided square ring that the WWF used. The company produce high flyer performers like AJ Style and Samoa Joe. The WWE, which began to change their name in April of 2002 created a brand extension in which they would split up wrestlers into two different, shows, Raw and Smackdown. Each show had their own World Champion (WWE Championship and World Heavyweight Championship) in single and tag team completion. It help out the company produce popular superstars in their own show like John Cena and Triple H. The whole wrestling scene has change a lot since I began watching it as an eight year old in 1989.

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