Too Much Wrestling

So any amount of wrestling for most people is too much wrestling.  i understand that, but I've been watching wrestling for more than 20 years so I've gotten used to it.  In fact I got done writing an entire blog post about it just a minute ago that didn't save so now I'm going to write about it for a second time.  Yea, wrestling has been a long part of my life.

As of yesterday, the start of the 5 days of wrestling hell has begun.  Yesterday was the WWE Hall of Fame.  It was a good class with the likes of DDP, Teddy Long, and Kurt Angle being inducted.  It was also 4.5 hours long.  If you wanted to, you could have watched an extra hour of red carpet stuff.  But that's just too much.

Now before I get too far in this and are wondering how I could watch that much, I will let you know that when I watch wrestling it is usually with something else on a different screen or while playing a video game.  I watch when something interesting is happening, so I may not watch a bit of it for 20+ minutes.  Oh and that 4.5 hours was also just the beginning.

Tonight is the NXT ppv, which will run about 3 hours.  NXT is the WWE's development league, and at times is more entertaining than the main shows.  This is due to the fact that NXT has a lot of best wrestlers in the world that just have never made it to the main roster in WWE yet.  Names that people that watch any wrestling besides WWE would know are big.

Tomorrow is the big show, Wrestlemania.  It starts at 4pm with the pre show.  4 PM!!!  The pre show doesn't just go over what's going to be on the main show, it actually has matches that wouldn't fit in the main show.  Why?  Cause you have nothing better to do that's why!

Wrestlemania itself starts at 6pm and runs about 4 hours.  Wrestlemania is always a toss up on whether it will be good or not.  It could be great or it could completely suck.  This year seems to be leaning more towards sucking.  There is some great stuff on the card, but not enough.  It could surprise me, but I don't have high hopes.

So far, you would have endured about 13.5 hours of wrestling.  Feeling drained yet?  Well, we're not done yet!  The next day is Monday Night RAW.  A 3 hour show that tends to be better than Wrestlemania.  Why?  Because big names either debut or return and everything they do is to set up where things go from there.  Wrestlemania is like the season finale.  RAW is the season premier.  All within a 24 hour period.

When Tuesday rolls around you're just about sick of wrestling and want to crawl into a ball.  But this time you get to watch Smackdown Live.  Last year Smackdown was still on Thursday if I remember correctly so you had a reprieve.  But fuck it, we're still going.  Smackdown has a different roster than RAW and writing is also better, so it tends to be a better show.  Now with it being live it should also have a similar feeling as RAW, so it should leave things on a good note.

You've made it.  You survived wrestling hell.  If you watched it all, you made it through around 18.5 hours of wrestling.  No mortal should ever watch that much wrestling.  But you just did and now you're stronger for doing so.  If you can watch that much wrestling in a 5 day period, you can do anything.

And if you made it through this post, you also should give yourself a round of applause.  You a made it through a post about someone talking about wrestling.  And that wasn't even me talking about why wrestling can be great.  It was just me talking about how much wrestling I'm going to endure.

Say a prayer for me, even though I will probably enjoy some of what I watch this weekend.  Wrestling can be good.  It can also be really dumb.  Just look up the Hardy Boys Delete stuff or Southpaw Championship Wrestling (done by WWE) if you want to see some good dumb stuff.  Or don't, you're probably better off!