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This is the wrestling blog I've been threatening to start for like several months now and the time has come to actually make the damn thing. 


To be entirely honest, I had fallen out of love with talking about wrestling for the longest time. I still watched shows, but I had long since fallen out of the habit of actively sharing my thoughts with people on storylines, matches, and major non-kayfabe events. I was behind a locked account on the site formerly known as Twitter and the majority of my mutuals there weren't interested in professional wrestling. 


Getting onto Bluesky changed that. I suddenly found people who actually liked talking about wrestling beyond just weird promotion dick riding. There were wrestling fans who actually liked wrestling and weren't just getting into tribalist flame wars for clicks. Wrestlesky in those early days reinvigorated not just my love for this sport of kings, but actually talking about it. I found my voice for speaking about what I liked and didn't like again, something that I thought had been lost permanently. 


So, hi. I'm Erika J. Elias. Call me Eri if you want. I'm a trans woman. That doesn't really impact a lot of my thoughts on wrestling, but I'm putting it out there. I have been a wrestling fan most of my life and I have thoughts about the damn thing that I would like to share. And while I usually post them to Bluesky, it's not the best format for it. Eventually, this blog will actually look somewhat nice but it's like this for now because I'm dogshit at all of it. I hope you will read my posts, even if they wind up being few and far between. 


I do want to thank some people. Thank you to the late, great Larry Csonka for giving me as a dumb college kid a chance to write a wrestling column for 411Mania back in the day. It instilled a love for writing and helped revive my love for pro wrestling back in the doldrums of the late 2000s. Thank you to Garak Taylor and letting me participate in her Monday Night Fake Fights podcast. It has been so much fun to do, just to look back on an era that I missed because we didn't have  cable when I was a kid. And thanks to all my cool ass friends from Wrestlesky for making talking about wrestling on the internet fun again.


Once again, this is the Transitional Champion Wrestling Blog. Thanks for being here.

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