PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

My father turned on the tv one night in the early 1960s. It was wrestling from Sunnyside Gardens with a commentator named Eric Paige. Apparently the Worlds Heavyweight Champ, Nature Boy Buddy Rogers started something with Dr. Billy Darnell. Darnell dropkicked him mulitiple times, put him in an airplane spin and pinned him, one-two-three. Darelll was about to be declared the new Worlds Champion, but no, the official had not rang the bell. Unknown to me then, but known to me now and done in many far more sophistacted and perhaps stupider ways too are the shanigans carried out in the professional wrestling world.

That which I described above are harmless. Darnell was a more capable wrestler than Rodgers would ever be. Today, I see people in the WWE that are World Heavy Weight Champions that should not be and some that are not that are qualified to be and should be but for some reason whover is playing "god" over the show just does not let it run on its own free will.

My main concern on this writing is on the things done that have nothing to do with wrestling that go on with wrestling in the ring. There are wrestlers who bring in sledgehammers, barbed wire poles, challehehs and name not what to the right and use these things in matches. They have no business being used or seen. Children watch this stuff and may get ideas at home with their playmates and bash each other's brains out. Besides, this is not what wrestling is about. OK, the audience may expect a chair here and there, but even that should be kept to a minimum. As far as table and ladder fights or as they call "extremem rules",keep it to the "pay per view" realm where parents can control the kids viewing habits.