How to Become a Wrestling Fan!

Many people on B/R have been on my tail for the entire time I have been here. Although I could care less about what they think, I am happy they are here. See, they are wrestling fans, just like me.

Everyone has a different story on how they became a wrestling fan. Here is mine. I was born in 1989 on a December 27 morning, and I was a new person into the world. My father was a sports fan and loved football the most.

I was born in the South, and if there are two things people love down there, they are football and wrestling. My father was no different. I became a sports fan even more as I was growing up.

I was not too much of a wrestling fan, but I still watched it from time to time. Then one day in 2001, my father was in a car accident and passed away. I was of course very upset as you can imagine.

But I got through it. At the time, my mother had a little money and we moved to a better house. The night after we moved everything in, WWF RAW is WAR came on. I started watching it and loved it.

This was the time, actually the exact night, the infamous Invasion storyline happened. Shane McMahon was on WCW Nitro and Vince McMahon was on WWF RAW.

I loved watching this story because I had heard of both the WWF and WCW, and I knew they were the best two promotions in wrestling. I started to become interested and kept watching week after week.

I just didn't know what hit me. I used to record them on tape and watch them over and over again. I probably have every SmackDown and RAW episode of the Invasion storyline, including the PPVs too.

I can't explain why I liked it; it was just something weird that came over me, as if I was supposed to watch it and love it.

I feel every wrestling fan is like that. Whether you watch every episode of RAW, SmackDown, ECW, or TNA. Maybe you watch one or two out of those. Or maybe you watch one or so every once in a while.

In any case, you are a fan or you wouldn't watch it. You wouldn't be curious to what will happen next, and you wouldn't want to even watch one second if you were not a fan.

That is how you know you are a fan, when you have to watch something. It is not just focused on wrestling. The same thing can happen if you are a fan of American Idol for instance.

See, if you don't like wrestling, that is cool; I mean not everyone does. It is not something forced upon you by the government. No one said you have to watch wrestling or your wife and kids are going to be taken away.

But to those people, have you ever seen an episode of WWE or TNA? Or do you judge it by what you think you know?

See, thinking you know and actually knowing are two different things. True, you may have speculation, but until it comes to pass you have no idea.

The way to become a wrestling fan is not through speculation; it is through watching or even wrestling yourself. If it is something you love, you should do whatever you want with that certain thing you love—no matter what it is.

I may be ridiculed sometimes for writing so much about wrestling. Whether it be editorials or breaking news, I love to do it. I love writing about and doing everything I can involving wrestling.

Am I crazy? I don't think so. Because I am doing something I love. That is how you become a fan—when you do something you love despite the ridicule for doing it.

Can you say you are a fan?