I got back into watching wrestling pretty recently and I'm very glad I did. Its definitely something I didn't even know I was missing until just now. Last time I kept up on it was 8th or 9th grade, so its been a good long while. I think it was around 2005-2007. It helps having someone else I know that is into it as well, so there is someone I can talk to about wrestling. I didn't know anyone else into it back then, and I wasn't on the internet much at that time to find any forums or groups where I could talk to people about wrestling. Not that necessarily kept me from watching it at the time. I think I just fell out of keeping up is because it was easier to keep up with the other interests I had with my friends. Not to mention being into wrestling as a closeted trans gay man with several neurodiverse shit probably had a lot of feelings and issues attached to the situation, but back to the point.

My favorites at the time were John Cena, Rey Mysterio, and the Undertaker. I think a few other people were cool too, but I don't remember who for sure. Catching up now, some I still like, some I definitely don't. A whole pile of new favorites now too! Lame and uncool of me, but back then I didn't keep up with any of the women wrestlers. Attempting to make up for it now by being the #2 fan of Rhea Ripley. I think my friend who got me back into it rightfully deserves 1st place. Back then I only knew about/watched WWE but this time around I am also looking into AEW, TNA, and probably anything else that catches my eye. There's so much more now then back when I was younger. I am kind of interested in some of the unaffiliated or underground stuff. Some of the Japanese stuff looks wild and fun as well. It feels like a lot of people to keep up with right now, but I am sure I will get most of them before too long. Plus, after I figure out my favorites I can just focus on them more. I will probably make a wresting page on here at some point to keep track of who I like and don't like and have videos of my favorite songs, matches, interviews, or just any other funny stuff. Idk whatever I want.

Its really fun to watch though because I like the different personas everyone has, violence is cool, a lot of the outfits are cool, a lot of the music is cool, its nice watching mostly naked buff sweaty men in homoerotic situations, I admire the effort and work they put into all of it and that they are able to enjoy it/have a job they like, its fun following/keeping up with something and cheering and being excited for it (along with booing for the ones I don't like!),and the storylines are cheesy but fun. That's all off the top of my head right now, but probably more reasons if I continue getting into it.

Its one of the only few sports type things I have ever gotten into watching, the others being roller derby and gymnastics. Wrestling feels like roller derby+ because it has the personas and violence, but adds more stuff I like, and doesn't have the stuff I don't like as much. So it all works out or whatever. I sill want to keep up more with roller derby though. Here is a cool playlist my friend made of entrance themes, and a few other videos. I am going to add my fave tracks from this to my music page but I like having this around too. It's good.

I don't really need another hobby but this one is too good to pass up, and I am starting to get a better hang of alternating a bit of my hobbies more often anyway (like this blog post for my webdev/coding hobby, how convenient!) so I think it will all work out just fine.