I have been coming to B/R for a while, but never commented on anything. I love wrestling and like to read stuff about it to make myself better informed on topics. And while doing that I found B/R Writer Joe Burgett. I mean, if you type wrestling into google.com, then Joe's name will pop up.
He writes so much on wrestling and news going around the WWE and TNA. Along with that, he seems to be very knowledgeable on the subject of wrestling. But while reading articles he has done, I noticed that there were comments below where people kind of put down Joe Burgett.
Why? Well I had to find out, so I asked the people on B/R who know him best, the wrestling writers.
I asked the guys you wrestling fans know like Shane Howard, Daris, Ross, M, and others. All great writers in their own right. But I had to know, so I asked them what they think about Joe Burgett.
They all mentioned that they have had beefs with him in the past, some are ok with him, and others told me he was a great guy. But if that was the case, then why the negativity towards him?
They mentioned that he is sometimes arrogant. And if he tries to seem as if he knew more than he actually did. And does not really take criticism well. Others said he is a good guy who was more like a big brother kind of guy.
And I can see what they mean by that; you disagree with him from time to time, yet he still is a good guy to talk to and debate with on things. And that's cool. Others said he relies on news articles to get by, and he has potential, yet doesn't use it.
I feel that is where they are wrong. If you check his article count, it is around 400. Yet many are breaking news, but many almost as much are editorials. Now I am relatively new here, but I think editorials are from his own mind and have nothing to do with news really.
And he has a new editorial I like called "The Voices in my head to me to hurt you: Randy Orton's excuse for the pain" that I loved. And it seems he is worthy of the top spot with that. Of course, I am not familiar with B/R, but I am with Joe's work.
And all of it is informative and gives you something to think about. I can see where the writers here are coming from, this is not a news site after all. But I read a comment from M on M's article and he mentioned some stuff to Joe that made me think. He said he came to B/R because of Joe Burgett.
I was surprised to see that by the comments they swapped back and forth. He said he saw Joe on-line and didn't say wow what a great writer, but who writes all this crap? It seems Joe loves to write, but I think he is a great ambassador for B/R.
He brought M here, he brought me here, and he may have brought you here, too. Don't know if he did or not, but there is over 900 members on the wrestling section. So some of you had to have come here after seeing a Joe Burgett article.
Why he writes is beyond me, but he seems to love what he does. And really can we say he is arrogant when he loves to share his opinion? Oh sure he has a different opinion than the rest of us sometimes, heck I disagree with him too sometimes.
But just because we don't like his opinion does not mean he is a bad guy. I have seen a couple of comments that I can't stand.
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