Our Last Blog Entry (Probably)

This will probably be our last blog entry for a long, long time, if not ever.  We ended up spending so much time on entries that it interfered with writing for the main site, which is obviously our top priority.

Also, I finished the Nikki Sixx book (The Heroin Diaries), which is incredible.  It was so amazing to read diary entries from 20 years ago at the peak of Nikki’s drug use.  It made me want to start documenting my own life in a journal, and I suggest all of you do likewise.  Not that we’re so important, but it would be cool to look back in 20 or 30 years and read them.  Even now, wouldn’t it be cool to go back and read how your life was many years ago?  I sure wish I could go back and read how my life was 20 years ago, as a 5th grader.  Back then, the WWF was my life.  I had a big WWF calendar, and would put count down the days with big X’s until WrestleMania and Survivor Series.  The WWF was so cool with 10-year-olds back then.  Everyone outgrew it a couple years later, except me.  10 years later, wrestling was back to being the coolest thing (at least WCW was).  Today, in 2007, wrestling seems to have gained a more family oriented audience that watches SmackDown and takes their kids to see John Cena.  Adult fans from the 80s and 90s eras have largely left, mainly watching UFC now.  Even on this site, I see a huge difference in articles we write about the current product vs. articles about storylines that only older fans would know.  Except for the few hardcores, that audience is gone.  Very, very sad.

Congrats to our very own James “Jimbo” Swift for landing a gig as ECW recapper for TheWrestlingFan.com.  This is a big opportunity for him, and we hope he does well and gets the recognition he deserves.  Jimbo, for those who don’t know, was “discovered” by all of you guys.  In early 2005 we did a contest called Armpit Idol, which was a mock of American Idol, in which we posted sample guest columns from readers and had Armpit fans vote on the best.  I knew from reading Jimbo’s first entry that we had a winner, hands down.  He won, and became a mainstay with us ever since.  Way to go, Jimmy.

Sunday was my wedding anniversary, and what a nice present it was to wake up and see near record traffic for this website at just 8am in the morning.  We got plugged (our Backstage Fights page, what else) on a large wrestling forum, leading to several pages of reader discussion.  We are so thankful to people who link us in message boards, because it helps us get discovered by more people, and only good things can come from it.  The more people see us, the more popular we become, and the more time we can justify spending on it, which leads to a higher quality of content.  This site is capable of so much more than what it is, but like everyone, we lack time and resources.  That’s why we’re go grateful to Rivera, Jimbo, and Shannon for their great guest columns.

That anniversary present was a lot better than what my parents and sister gave us, which so far has been nothing.  Oh, but if WE were to forget their anniversaries??  They’d raise Hell.  Funny how that works.

Well, since this could be curtains for this blog, thanks to everyone who read us during the extremely short time we had it up.  Enjoy the rest of the year, and make sure you catch UFC on 12/29, which should be an historic show.  Adios.