Alot of people wonder why I like wrestling. I don’t think I’ve had much of a choice. As a little kid I grew up watching wrestling with my uncles, eating WWF Superstars Cereal, watching the WWF cartoon with Hulk Hogan and Junk Yard Dog. Man Wrestling was the best. My favorite singles wrestler was Hogan when I was little but then out of no where Ultimate Warrior arose. He had just as good of a body. And to little kids it was all about the muscles… well there was also his colorful wristbands,  cool outfits, and of course the face paint. His eccentric style blew away the classic Hulk Hogan style. And in Wrestlemania 6 they made hogan drop the Belt to the Warrior.

One thing I can vividly remember is that back in the day all wrestling matches (especially at PPVs) had live demos cut where the wrestlers would get in front of the camera and would just be making mean looking faces, while saying things to intimidate thier opponents. The funny thing was they would be staring at the camera and tallking as if they are looking at thier opponent. And it was so obvious that they were trying really hard to be tough. So they would be doing things like pacing around, and snarling, and trash talking. Man it was beautiful. Now what I am going to do is show you why a little kid is swept away by the raw machoism of it all.

CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO IVE COMPILED OF HULK/WARRIOR DEMOS!

I remember other Demos done by tag teams such as the Road Warriors, and Demolition. In my sisters Ameen video, me and my cousins walk in to the room where they are recording…. and we come in like the bushwackers, and while our moms want us to stand still (while they are making a video!) we are making faces like the demolition would during thier promos… we were so cool. If I find that tape, Im going to rip those segments and hopefully I can find some old demotion and bushwackers vids where I could blend them together hehe. Also me and my cousin were the rockers. I couldn’t beleive he threw me through a glass window on the barber shop…. well…. he did launch me via a slingshot into the open closet off the bed….. so I shoulda known. We used to also play tag  team matches and wrestle against pillows. We also used to make our own Championship belts with Construction paper, man they used to be so cool. My nephew/cousin recently told me that when he’s bored, some days he starts making Wrestling belts…hahaha! 15 years later! When I used to beat him fair and square he would lie and say it was only a two count, then he would start fighting me for real. And I would keep beating him over and over, and he would keep coming at me. Ha, someone should have told him… Wrestling is fake. But of course which little kid is going to believe you when you tell them that?

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