The Butcher
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I quit watching wrestling a few months ago. I stopped coming around here and checking in on the dirtsheets so as not to be tempted to watch. Nothing personal; WrestleZone is great. I had been getting bored with wrestling for a while (TNA ran me off as a regular viewer years ago, WWE felt stagnant, and the indies/Japan are off of my radar without the IWC), so when Bryan went down I figured that'd be a good time to take a break. I would certainly think about it if I saw commercials or The Rock when he was on TV promoting his new movie, but it was a cold turkey pause. Imagine my surprise when catching up on things.
On a whim I decide to check some wrestling news, and the experience was akin to coming back from vacation and seeing your house on fire. While I've long expected to see TNA get euthanized by Spike, it finally happening still sucks. I remember all of the promise TNA held before things started their downward spiral, and for me that stings more than the loss of a promotion (although that is a big blow to business). The WWE cuts and Network subscriptions were surprising at first, but predictable in hindsight. I mean, if they could make a longtime fan like me throw up his hands then of course business isn't booming. Clearly I'm not the only one who got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
There seems to be some promising stuff happening too (Nation of Domination 2014, NXT signings, Bork Laser), but none of it is inspires me to get back into WWE. I've used up my reserve of "let's see where this is headed." It's headed somewhere bad. It's almost always headed somewhere bad. I'm curious to see what GFW materializes into, but it's the same kind of hesitant, detached curiosity I had for Jeff Katz's WRP. That's to say, if it never debuts I'll forget about it until I have to look it up to make sure I didn't imagine it. I might have to catch up with the latest round of awesome NJPW matches, but other than that I've never been more pessimistic about wrestling. I not a fair weather sailor, but I think I've saved up enough shore leave to stretch my legs while the boat gets retrofitted.
On a whim I decide to check some wrestling news, and the experience was akin to coming back from vacation and seeing your house on fire. While I've long expected to see TNA get euthanized by Spike, it finally happening still sucks. I remember all of the promise TNA held before things started their downward spiral, and for me that stings more than the loss of a promotion (although that is a big blow to business). The WWE cuts and Network subscriptions were surprising at first, but predictable in hindsight. I mean, if they could make a longtime fan like me throw up his hands then of course business isn't booming. Clearly I'm not the only one who got sick and tired of being sick and tired.
There seems to be some promising stuff happening too (Nation of Domination 2014, NXT signings, Bork Laser), but none of it is inspires me to get back into WWE. I've used up my reserve of "let's see where this is headed." It's headed somewhere bad. It's almost always headed somewhere bad. I'm curious to see what GFW materializes into, but it's the same kind of hesitant, detached curiosity I had for Jeff Katz's WRP. That's to say, if it never debuts I'll forget about it until I have to look it up to make sure I didn't imagine it. I might have to catch up with the latest round of awesome NJPW matches, but other than that I've never been more pessimistic about wrestling. I not a fair weather sailor, but I think I've saved up enough shore leave to stretch my legs while the boat gets retrofitted.