I am still a fan of professional wrestling but in my own way

 I love professional wrestling I always will so when I hear people tell me that I am not a wrestling fan it truly bothers me I may not enjoy it the way I am supposed to by the "experts" but I love this art-form it is the most unique art-form ever created because it is not like any other form of entertainment and I  am not willing to give that up.   I have to thank Jim Cornetee for helping me form much of my opinions on professional wrestling which helped me understand what made or makes professional wrestling a different and unique form of entertainment if that makes me sound crazy I do not care because I have read the WWE's prospective on what the business is and I have read Cornete's commentary and his commentary makes the most sense to me.   I wish everyone could read Jim Cornete's commentary called Character Actors: if it can be found.   Even if you disagree and still subscribe to the WWE's philosophy  I think it should be read just for a different view point.  All this is a difference of opinion and that is all it should be viewed as.   I am not boycotting Impact Wrestling I have chosen not to support them anymore.  I still love Impact Wrestling.     I am glad that Impact let Tommy Dreamer return backstage the company did the right thing.   So during his suspension I felt guilty and still do for some strange reason that I could not longer  support Impact that I do not understand.   I felt as if I am turning my back on Tommy. and House Of Hardcore/HOH.   But what I can not stand and I am troubled by is the political correctness and notion of being allowed to have just one opinion that is why it is called an opinion it is nether right or wrong but we are now living in a society where all who have a different opinion must be reprimanded and erased.   For those of you who think we are making process I disagree I still love Impact Wrestling I want them to be successful I want the WWE to be successful I also want AEW to be successful and also the NWA etc.   I truly would be a fool to want any company to fail the more places there are the more opportunities talent will have.   That is all that is provided in professional wrestling/sports entertainment an opportunity.   I am not sure what makes a person a fan of professional wrestling any more because I can tell you the elements which drew me has been lost.   I can tell you what draws fans away from being fans which is calling fans names who do not get it or who are confused  by the product makes me  and others not want to support and watch the product.   With all of those elements lost this product will only appeal to a niche audience Which I wonder if that is what they want?    Because that is what is happening.   Those fans enjoy the product just not in the way I want them to because they believe they are in on what the product is or should be which makes all the difference in the world.   When I first became a fan of professional wrestling  and discovered it myself it was going into WWE's Summer Slam 1999 the match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H for the World Wrestling Federation Championship keep in my mind I knew nothing about professional wrestling but I got drawn in by my hatred of Triple H and my support of Stone Cold.   I just wanted someone to beat Triple H because I found him to be an arrogant evil induvial who constantly talked about how good he was.   I did not even care if Triple H died that is how much I despised him.   But unfortunaly for me Triple H became new World Wrestling Federation Champion which made me hate Triple H even more because all he did was brag about how he told the fans how he was going to become the new World Wrestling Federation Champion and that Stone Cold was probably lying in a hospital bed with some "proustite" I was not sure Stone Cold was going to return.   I was happy  that Stone Cold was going to return at the Survivor Series 1999 in November but unfortunaly Stone Cold was hit by a car in  a parking lot.   Which latter Commissioner  Mick Foley discovered it was Rikishi who drove the car and Triple H was the man who orchestrated the hit which made my hatred for Triple H even stronger.   It is important to note: that after Triple H used the sledgehammer on Stone Cold and put him in the hospital he gave himself the moniker of The Game.   My favorite WWE Superstar was The Big Red Machine Kane this  was before  I discovered The Invocator of Violence Tommy Dreamer and Francine and ECW.   I loved when Kane had his first girlfriend Tori because that made him seem more human with a person he had to protect.  Overcoming so much  after being buried in a fire as a child.   I also liked Kane when he had half a mask teaming with Rob Van Dam.   Now during interviews I see Kane without the mask  which has taken away much of the allusion that he once had I am not suggesting that he should wear the mask all the time but  the ora should remain the same also using the word character which I despise.   But maybe in the WWE they view their talent as just playing characters but I admit that system works for many.      But telling the audience and the press that this is all make belief I do not understand I can understand the press because they are some of the dumbest bastards I have ever heard.   I also loved Kane and X-Pac as a tag team then on Smackdown X-Pac turned on Kane during a tag team match up between The Dudlleys which set up a match between Kane and X-Pac at Survivor Series.   This was a match that Tori came down to defend Kane against X-Pac and Tori becomes Kane's girlfriend.   I could use the same example: for The Monster Abyss during his TNA Impact run when he had the program with the hardcore legend Mick Foley when Abyss had to protect   Lauren from DR. Stevie and Daffney because Abyss had been accused by Mick of being a cheap Mick Foley "knock off " and the fact I never thought I would see Mick in TNA that made this program between them more intriguing.   Now if I treated the product like that with Dave Melter and the wrestling "experts" I would be criticized and made fun of because  they think they are smarter then the performers who preform it.    We all  know  that this is all make belief  and that all that matters is the quality of the matches and  how many dives that take place during a match and if  anyone has  a different opinion they are not just wrong they are bad people and must be educated on why they are wrong by Dave Meltzer and readers of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that is what turns away new fans because there are these niche fans that if you even ask questions they are made fun.   That is why I do not see the point in doing this anymore but I still love this form of entertainment in my own way.  But there are so many fans who take it as a badge of honor and go out of there way  to not buy into it.   I agree with The Invisible Hand:  Don Callis because of that mindset by fans we have lost something there.   In the movie Ocean's 8 Anne Hathaway the character she plays is Daphine  Kluger she handcuffs a guy to a bed post which to me the lock with the cuffs she essentially snugs the man into a fresh  clean diaper.   Anne/Daphine makes  the man looses his control which she gains from him.     I never thought that I would stop supporting  Impact Wrestling in some form but I can not deal with the guilt and it definitely makes me sad it makes me sad what the industry has become.   There are definitely some changes for better such as: time off and taking better care of the health of the athlete.   But for the most part letting the fans in on what the product is has destroyed the industry because it changed their perception of what they loved because now instead of focusing on what made them fans they have been conditioned by the experts to only focus on certain aspects of the product and ignore others.   I can not blame the fans because they are only privy to the information they are given.   So the question is what is wrong with fans being in on what this is?   Because un like a movie or TV show if fans are given just a slight bit  of information about professional wrestling they are unable to suspend any disbelf and these are the same people who can watch a two hour movie and competly suspend their disbelf but for some strange reason they can not do that with professional wrestling.   For someone like me who has done all this research to try and make this understandable to the average person it breaks my heart because I want to preserve what made this form of entertainment the most unique.   When I hear fans say that Jim Ross or Jim Cornete or even The Undertaker are bitter they are not bitter they are only trying to help the younger talent so they can have longer more successful careers so in conclusion: I still love the industry and Impact Wrestling.   There are certain other companies styles and prestations that I will not write about because it is all negative.   I am ecstatic that Impact Wrestling has been around in some shape or form for 20 years because I remember watching  when it first started as:  NWA Total Non-Stop Action every Wednesday Night on Pay-Per-View through the scrabbling that is how desperate I was to watch it.   I remember: reading  the experts  at the time tell fans to not support Total Non-Stop Action because it was not going to last long so I am glad I stuck with NWA Total Non Stop Action Wrestling GFW/Impact Wrestling because it was well worth it.   So it is a tough call but I am hoping that has time goes on I hope things change but I can not deal with the political correctness this is pro wrestling it is suppose to have an edge.   Tommy Dreamer:  I have supported you since I first saw you on TNN since 1999 I will always have your back and if I have to not support and give up some things I supported in the past I will.    I am gloating that Impact Wrestling has been around in some shape or form for 20 years.   Gloating was something I never thought  I would do because I think it is a sin but because of all the  unnecessary pain those reports gave me that is why I am gloating.   It is interesting to note: that these same experts are saying that AEW will not last long.   But and I am not  trying to criticize Dave  Meltzer because it is his favorite  company I think?    I do not want Dave to think  that I am criticizing him because he seems so easily offendable.   I do not want AEW to fail I can not believe I have to write that because it should be obvious.   AEW has it's niche fans so what AEW's task is to get the fans who like wrestling but they are not on the internet and do not read wrestling websites they just flip though the channels and find something that compels them to watch.   Which the WWE has mastered.    Tommy has inspired me with his quotes his promos: and watching him wrestle I while he was injured during matches and his realism inspired me when I have wanted to give up.   I am not going to give into this woke non-sense and if that is not acceptable in polite society that is okay to quote: Tommy again I have been a rebel  or renegade  my entire life and I never thought I would be here but here I am the main thing about Tommy that I respect is his realism and if that is not acceptable in this day and age tough.   I hope that this all works out in the end also  I hope my belief in God sustains me in this depressing transitional time time for me.   I know that both Tommy and Chris Jericho are both good hearted indviuals and it is a shame that there were controversies.   Maybe this art-form and entertainment has past me by?   I never thought I would be in this position all I know I  need to get my passion and enthusiasm back.   I will never back down!    I really enjoyed Tango and Cash it never tried to be anything other then what it is a fun action movie and I am usually not a movie fan.   I always wanted to be a part of the ECW Revolution it was something extremally special ECW fans were smart but they fully allowed themselves to be amerced in what was going on and they were just fine with that.   Which in my opinion makes all the difference.    The Night The Line Was Crossed this was the night that The Franchise Shane Douglas won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and threw it down and proclaimed the Eastern Heavyweight Championship the Exterme Championship Wrestling World Heavyweight  Champion which was the start of the ECW Revolution.   TNA Wrestling's  tagline during a certain time was  Cross The Line.   The main reason I keep mentioning The Franchise Shane Douglas becoming the new ECW World Champion this was Shane putting what his dad told him into practice.   That all the people through out history who made it were always people who took chances.   Please read: Jim Cornete's column just for a reference or a different prospective.   By the way I hope my guilty and felling as if I am betraying Tommy Dreamer and House of Hardcore goes away because I have always loved this brand.   Everyone needs an escape and if you do not have one I suggest get one because life is getting  more complicated and more difficult.   I hope W. Morrisey defends Moose to become the new Impact World Champion LIVE: from New Orleans: during No Surrender.   Because he has a lot to proof to his critics and if W. Morrisey is bitter towards the industry I hope he uses that to fuel him during this title match up it is impossible for me not to root for him I hope he has successful runs anywhere he goes.   I wish everyone in the industry well regardless of how I feel about philosophy or prestation.   That would be extremally short sided on my part.   Side Note: I love the halls that Impact are currently running.   If someone buys into a movie or gets lost into a movie no one bats an eye that is normal but if any fan buys into or gets lost in professional wrestling that is unacceptable that is the biggest reason I do not understand  the point in doing this art-form or form of entertainment anymore.     I hope I am wrong?   Side note: I put the question mark there on purpose it is a question.    I will never grow out of this and I will never be willing to let this go but all of this will be done in my own way.