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Falling back in Love with Wrestling

 So, in my previous post I described how I fell in love with wrestling. I started watching wrestling in 1991 and stopped watching in 1999 when WCW fell off a cliff (was always more invested in WCW than WWF). WWF drew me back in in early 2002 by bringing back the nWo. I consider myself nWo 4 life, so I had a duty to watch! I was then dedicated to WWE (and sometimes TNA) from 2002 onwards. However, in around 2016, I was growing increasingly fatigued by WWE and was simply bored by their product, I stopped watching wrestling in early 2017. At the time, I assumed that my relationship with wrestling had come to an end. I started to doubt this assumption when ITV revived World of Sport (an iconic wrestling brand here in the UK) in 2018. And I really enjoyed watching these new exciting young wrestlers like Kip Sabian, Will Ospreay, Bea Priestley, Viper etc. Sadly, WWE didn't like the idea of another fairly successful show in the English speaking world and basically gutted the UK indie scen...
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Falling Under the Spell of Wrestling

 Hi all, I am new to blogging. I've been fretting to blog for years and have finally decided to be brag and share my wrestling brainfarts with the world.  I was born in 1984 and my very earliest memories of wrestling are in 1990 when friends at school who had Sky were talking about wrestling. I finally got exposed to this magical, tanned, colourful world of WWF when my family visited family friends and they had Sky!  These characters that I was only aware of through Wrestling Trading cards were suddenly brought to life. I was transfixed and wanted to see more. However, we didn't have Sky. However, not long after, I saw an Ad for something called World Championship Wrestling on ITV. The only problem being that it was on at 1.45am on a Saturday morning. However, my dad had the idea of lending me his alarm clock so that I could wake up to watch it. Looking back, it was a very sweet and thoughtful thing for my dad to do. So, there I was, 7 year old me, crouched in a corner, a...
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