Tim Evans
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More power to Punk for finding a money mark to pay him to live out his dream.
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I'm 29. I started watching wrestling on accident. I remember I was watching the preview channel and they were talking about the 1995 Royal Rumble with Bret Hart/Diesel and HBK in the rumble. I was hooked so I started watching Raw weekly. A couple months later I found WCW Saturday night and started watching that. That's pretty much all I watched until around my birthday in 1997 when I got my first computer and found wrestling websites. Around this time I found ECW thanks to the WWF invasion and started watching that in 1998 after staying up till 2 am to watch when my mother was asleep. I was around 14 at the time. 1998/1999 is when I started getting into lucha by watching CMLL on Galavision and Los super Astros. I started going to shows around 1999 with Monday night Raw. That was around May 1999 the week before Over the Edge. In November 1999, My grandfather died and he was the only one that would watch wrestling with me in my family. He wasn't a hardcore fan but he hated Hulk Hogan and WCW so he would watch sometimes with me. I also had a friend that was almost as big into wrestling as I was and we would go to WWE shows and even backyard wrestle with other friend. By this time, I was watching anything I could get on cable and buying magazines like the Apter mags and even the C level magazines that promoted apartment wrestling and Tommy Morrison fights. I remember being pissed when I couldn't go to the ECW ppv in Orlando. Hell I even watched XPW, NWA Wildside and WWE Metal when it was on the old America One web feed on Saturday Nights. Around the time WCW died and after the invasion, my interest started to fade. I was still a fan but I had lost cable so I couldn't watch Raw or the PPVs anymore. Got cable back in 04 but Raw was awful with HHH running the show and I started watching promotions like MLW and even TNA. Eddie Guerrero winning the title got me back into WWE in a positive way and that lasted till the Benoit murders. I remember when Eddie died and everyone in college was asking me about what happened since they knew I was the big wrestling fan. After the Benoit murders, I still watched but felt dirty doing so. That lasted a couple months and then went back to normal. I started going to local shows in the area around 2008 when Mania and ROH ran the arena. ROH was my first indie show and I was amazed seeing the Dragon gate guys. I started getting into Puro around that time. I knew about it but never really watched it. From 2008-2013 I would watch anything that was posted on the internet. In 2013, I started going to NXT shows and these days I'm more into wrestling since probably 1999. It's funny since my enjoyment of the current WWE product is at a all time low. I hate to say this but I kinda hate watch Raw these days. It's gotten better since Steph left but I"m still not enjoying it especially compared to last year. I doubt I'll ever stop watching though.
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Nice to see Lawler buy the shark cage from 1970s detroit. This is the zenith of Randy Hales redneck attitude era. At least it's more realistic than throwing people in the dumpster every week. Also the cage is in the studio cause Hales and Brandon Baxter had a loser spends the taping in the cage a couple months before this and I guess they just kept it there?
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I like how Satomura was trying to hit the Death Valley driver out of anywhere. Like Randy Orton with the RKO. This was really fast paced but not sloppy. Fun match.
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I'm pumped up for the return of surfer Sandman from the early ECW days. So weird seeing him as a clean cut guy. Kanyon takes a Curt Hennig type bump into the pool. Awful but those were the highlights.
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Subdued Hogan is dressing like a 50 year old from Seattle. Sad to see Psicosis get embarrassed like that with Nash doing Konnan's catchphrase. Giant looked like he was already on the way out and just mailing it in here.
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Flair lays down and Mean Gene makes the count of three. Flair cuts a good promo and tries his best to make sense of everything.