The Best Days Are Behind Us

Everyone surely remembers the good ole days of professional wrestling. One thing I could always look forward to was the various array of wrestling shows on weekly between the WCW and WWF (now WWE).

Before the competition between the two companies was pure joy to watch. As a kid I knew if was scripted and outcomes we almost always predetermined, but the drama was real.

From good guys to bad guys, managers to valets, celebrity ring announcers to recognizable ring personalities; I always had something to look forward to.

I never really did have a favorite company because I simply enjoyed the wrestling aspect of it all. I still remember watching Ron Simmons win the WCW world title from Big Van Vader with the big power slam and Hulk Hogan prevailing for America against the Iraqi turncoat Sgt. Slaughter.

The early 90s was the best I have ever seen professional wrestling. WWF Superstars and WCW Saturday Night were favorites of mine. You got to know all superstars on a character level through personals and on air interviews.

In today's wrestling, you only hear from the big names and everyone else is basically a glorified jobber. There is a bottom and top tier of wrestlers these days opposed to the top, middle, and jobber tiers of the early 90s.

Just like all forms of entertainment, the stories need to evolve. The plots need to thicken. WCW was absolutely genius with the NWO takeover and that made me slightly more of a WCW fan than the WWF.

The WWF would quickly respond by starting with the Attitude era. That brought me back to being a 50/50 fan.

Vince McMahon inserted himself into controversial storylines adding to the drama that was the WWF. His epic encounters with Stone Cold Steve Austin kept everyone glued to their seats and made it hard to change the channel to watch and see which WCW star would turn their backs on the beloved company and join the NWO.

I had to start recording one of the shows and watch the other so I did not miss anything.

As the WWF purchased WCW my interest began to fade out. Everything became so predictable and dull. Seeing the same matches over and over again week after week has completely turned me off from professional wrestling.

But somehow wrestling entertainment is bigger than ever. I can go to the mall and 1 in every 3 kids is sporting a wrestling t-shirt and it is hard to believe.

I simply do not understand how I considered myself one of the biggest wrestling fans and I cannot stand it anymore, but it is bigger than ever here in 2009.

Why could things just not stay on the same plain? TNA is simply not as interesting as the WWE today and I find that quite sad.

The product that has been put in front of us for the past eight years has been garbage and it seems like I am the only one that is noticing it.

We need to get the pure wrestling back. Bring back the suspense and drama.