Transitional Champion

 I had wanted my first post to this blog to be about my experiences attending live events in Japan. That's still coming, but there's been some things that happened over the past few days that I've been turning over in my head and the more I do the more annoyed I get. So rather than let that fester or turn into an angry thread on social media, let's do this instead. So like, what the fuck is up with WWE fans right now anyway? Is that harsh? I hope so. Keep in mind, this is not going to be about the quality of their current product. I don't like it, but I can abide the existence of a wrestling company with bad wrestling even if they're trying to make the sport a homogenized and boring version of itself. If that's all they were doing I wouldn't have my hackles up as much as they are these days. No, my big "gripe" goes beyond that. Much of this stems directly out of the current and ongoing Vince McMahon sex trafficking case that saw the man thrown ...

 Welcome! 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 wh...