By Erik Clancy
I've been involved, in one way or another, with the pro wrestling business for a long, long time. I've been watching it since 1994, been smart to the business since 1997, and from 2004 to 2006 I was, in many different capacities, a founder and member of www.wrestlingepicenter.com which was the home of The Interactive Interview where James Walsh, Patrick Kelley, and myself interviewed everyone from Batista and Ric Flair to Rob Van Dam and Hulk Hogan. I was in the process of writing a book for ECW Press in 2004/2005 detailing all the reasons that the WWE Empire had crumbled but gave up on the idea when literally every book released at that time covered the same topic. I enjoyed being part of the "wrestling media" and had some fun covering something that I was so passionate about. Unfortunately something that I don't have as much fun with is looking at the media today (which is the same as it was back then, I just never felt like voicing my opinion about it) for our industry. This business has never been treated with much respect by the mainstream media and we don't help ourselves by being run on "our end" of the media by 14 year olds and unemployed slobs with no college degree. This isn't something we can easily remedy but hopefully by articulating the problem we can create more awareness about it.
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