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It seemed like fun. now I blog too.

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Sure, the concept seems a little odd. pro wrestling and boxing. fake and real. Entertainment vs. Sport. I’m not one to quibble, though; the site, the name, and the theme were here first.

How could I possibly like them both?

Well, I love most athletic endeavors and have sunk my passionate talons - participatory and fan-based - into them all. For example football: I played Division 1-AA football, I go to as many Penn State football games as possible, I once drove 1,000 miles (one way) to see an NFL exhibition game, I’ve done extensive scouting and film breakdown for my local high school.

But at the end of the day it’s all just guys or girls running around in fancy uniforms. There’s nothing historic or important about sports despite what the ESPN talking heads want to tell you. They’re all just entertainment.

That’s where pro wrestling fits in. I love the unadulterated fakery, the soap opera plots, and the wonderful way it doesn’t take itself so seriously. It is sports as it should be without the pretense and the patronizing. Just fun.

Boxing, on the other hand, is the opposite. It’s the purest of the pure. A true sport in an ocean of games. One against one, man versus man, free from the vagaries and dependence of teammates and free from expensive equipment and a litany of rules. It’s a globally understood primal urge, it’s an answer, it’s a truth. Of course the bad judges and the Don Kings are there but even they can’t overturn a knockdown, a perfect triumph over destiny.

For me, all other sports dangle in between the polar pulls of pro wrestling and boxing. Some, like the basketball and football teeter invariably close to the predetermined outcomes and dastardly referee and management interference of pro wrestling while others - tennis, track, swimming - speak to the poetic soul and the singular effectiveness of human potential.

Pro wrestling and boxing are my sporting bookends. That’s why I can write about both. That’s why they’re both here together.

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