The Showdown: "The King Of Controversy" Joe Burgett Faces an Intervention!

Rival n. One who strives to compete with another; one who equals or almost equals another.

In life, there is always a task that one must overcome to take the next step to success. Whether it takes a second, a minute, weeks, or even years, this challenge will always be there to push you.

As a young sports fan, I loved to gather with fellow fans and chat about the current events in certain sports that I loved to watch or play.

One day I stumbled upon BleacherReport.com. I found it by mistake. It was a boring day and I decided to look up more usual MMA info to see what the latest match-ups were.

So I went to Google and typed "UFC" into the search link, as the other MMA sites were running slow that day.

Every day I continued this routine, and soon I began to notice something: Dorothy Willis, I started to see this name so often that one day I decided to see who this Dorothy was. I clicked on the link to read her latest article (forgot which one, but it was great).

I ended up enjoying it so much I decided to browse the rest of B/R.

From that point forward, I knew I had found something special. A novice writer such as myself be able to sharpen my skills with other great writers. I had the opportunity to write about sports that I love to watch.

Novice n. A person who is new and unfamiliar with an activity or business.

As time went by, I came across some great writers AkD, Shane Howard, JLB, Dorothy Willis, and latest newcomer Sulayman. (There are tons more and sorry that I did not list your names, but I am pretty sure you know who you are.)

At this time I started to find interest in Joe Burgett, who was the number 1 ranked writer in the wrestling section at the time. Joe Burgett was a name I was seeing mostly everywhere I went on the wrestling section and I mean everywhere.

I did not really care, or want to know, about on the controversy swirling around Joe, as long as Mr. Burgett stayed true to that No. 1 rank badge and write No. 1 rank work.

But as time went by, I came to see why Joe was the person to love to hate here in the B/R wrestling section.

But instead of jumping on the train of hating Joe, I sat back and anticipated what Joe would do next.

Then, we were introduced to "B/R Turns into a Soap Opera." Joe was looking to put on his humor hat, but his jokes and comedic act of an article failed in all areas. Joe was looking for good fun (or was he?), and decided to mock or basically criticize fellow B/R wrestling writers.

The article backfired and Joe was set for Backlash. Joe decided to write an apology article which still had people thinking "WHAT?", including myself.

I will not go into detail, but I decided to leave a comment on Joe's "APOLOGY" article. I accused Joe of writing the article just to finally claim one goal he has not reached yet: an Article of the Day.

Joe denied the allegations and from that point, I wanted to expose Joe, and show that it was an error for him being No. 1.

As there are more talented writers here on the B/R wrestling section, to have someone like him at No. 1 would damage the way the other writers on the B/R wrestling section are viewed.

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