W.W.W.F.

It was requested that I write about my love of pro wrestling, so like they say - "Give the people what they want." It was 1978, and I had never watched wrestling. Back then, wrestling was only on Saturday mornings. I myself was a Bugs Bunny kinda guy. I always watched the Saturday morning cartoon line-up. Well, one Saturday my cousin was staying over. He was a little older than I and was amazed when I said I didn't watch wrestling. We only had one TV in the house (not like today's kids that have a TV in every freakin' room), so we had to decide what we were going to watch. Since he was older, bigger, and knew wrestling holds, I figured it was a smart thing to give in and watch wrestling. We didn't have cable back then, so the only thing available was W.W.W.F. wrestling on channel 56. Yes, I'm so old that the W.W.F. was actually the W.W.W.F. (World Wide Wrestling Federation). Well I was hooked. There was no turning back. I loved the bad guys. I loved when they cheated and pulled out the brass knucks, or the salt from Mr. Fuji that the referee never, ever saw. In 1981 came the most arrogant, cocky, SOB that there ever was, The Magnificent Muraco. He was awesome. I could not miss a minute of his matches or his interviews! He is my all-time favorite wrestler.The W.W.F. became accepted in the mid 80's thanks to Hulk Hogan. Suddenly it was OK to be a wrestling fan. I lost interest at the beginning of the 90's, watching just casually, until the mid 90's when a female manager came along named Sunny. For some reason she grabbed my attention. Not sure why, maybe you can decide by looking at her picture.
Then came Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. Wrestling was cool to watch again. The Rock soon got boring doing the same jokes over and over, and Stone Cold's many injuries took him off TV, and that was pretty much it for me. The only wrestler I care about anymore is Ric Flair, who at 117 years old is an embarrassment to watch now. I can not tell you at this moment who the W.W.E. (what the heck is W.W.E. anyway??) champion is. Oh well. It was fun and I'm glad I was a wrestling fan! I see Hall Of Famer Walter "Killer" Kowalski all the time at a certain Chinese restaurant, if I can get the courage to ask him, you may be seeing him on a future episode of The Sports Buzz!