Then I realize when I liked wrestling it was escape that it helped me with. I could sit down on the sofa and watch WCW on Monday nights and wonder who Goldberg would be facing. Of course I already knew cause that’s when the internet was on full force. We knew who someone would face before the guy did, we knew who’d win and how. And yet I tuned in, it was chaos. It was never really being certain of anything. Sometimes knowing how something was going to end was fun if the road there was not quite known. I remember Mike Awesome powerbombing one of the ICP clowns on a school bus, and I thought to myself how awesome was that? I found respect for ICP that day. I remember when Vampiro started getting a push and got involved with Sting and I thought to myself, bout freaking time. But now Vampiro is old and cut his hair and just isn’t the guy I used to root for anymore. NWO isn’t around to hate or cheer depending who you were.

And through it all I can’t find a single reason to watch wrestling anymore. Raven? The guy looks so deformed from who he used to be back when I first noticed him, I start to wonder if he isn’t on HGH or something. Christopher Daniels, lost his edge in TNA, well not the edge, he lost his mystique.

Now this nostalgia was mainly brought on by my friend and fellow columnist Thomas Gibbs. Him saying that Sheamus could be the next Goldberg, I scoffed at the idea and then I asked myself, who the hell is Sheamus? I have no clue, I didn’t even know he was a wrestler much less world champion, tell me Dirty Dick Murdoch came back from the grave and won it, id be in awe and curious, tell me Sheamus won it

And I think back Goldberg’s first match it was against Hugh Morris, wow there’s a nice name from the past, what happened to Morris? He was a big man who could fly and reminded me a little of Bam Bam Bigelow. You know I hated Goldberg when he started up in WCW. I hated that he was invincible. But towards the end I rooted for him, because he was one of WCW’s leaders and I was a WCW fan and I wanted to show somehow that our monster was better than any so called monster WWF had at the time. And when Goldberg went to WWF he sort of showed that. I know Goldberg was sort never at his best or ever comfortable in WWF, and I don’t blame him. He went there for the money I guess. But you should never sell your principals for the almighty dollar, yet Sting never did go to WWF, he is probably the only one who never did. Nice, simply nice.

I don’t really know what the point of this column is? Not that my columns have much of a point, it’s mostly just me discussing my memories. And the older I get the hazier that gets too. Goldberg was a special idea in WCW and it worked well, it has not been repeated since and hopefully never again, at least not the same way. Sheamus whoever he is, I imagine a red haired guy with freckles who looks like a buff version of Richie Cunningham trying to be mean or cool, jeez didn’t WWF also hire what’s his face Irish old guy wrestler from WCW, no charisma whatsoever. Whatever happened to Jericho, got old I bet, age catches up with all of us.

Well thank you for putting up with my geezer thoughts, if you ever feel like checking out the last days of efeds before they become complete dinosaurs than check out my efed its

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Goodnight and God bless

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