2016: an update and a confession

First, I want to start by saying Happy New Year and that I'm sorry for the lack of content. Whilst I'd like to say that this is due to me being busy, simply put I haven't been writing because I've been taking some time to rediscover the spark that makes writing this blog more of a hobby than a chore. Hopefully, this post will be the first of many in 2016 as I'm glad to say that I (and hopefully other writers in the future) am ready to start really pushing this blog again. In the meantime however, I thought I'd start of the year by talking about a sport that I very much enjoy and have recently began re-enjoying from a whole different perspective, and that sport is Professional Wrestling.

Professional Wrestling- Blending Physicality, Entertainment and
Showmanship.

Now before you all get out your pitchforks, I am well aware that Professional Wrestling is not really a sport, rather sports entertainment. The outcomes are pre-decided and the moves done inside the squared circle are choreographed. However notice that I do not call Professional Wrestling "fake" and I never will. It may not be as brutal and real as UFC but I can promise you that the ring apron is no trampoline, and those moves still hurt. The risks are real and the absolute physicality required to be a Professional Wrestler is phenomenal. In my eyes, Professional Wrestling deserves to be respected as if it were a sport rather than ridiculed as being fake. Just because there are story lines, some of which even I cannot stand, does not mean that the performance and the talent is any less impressive. The art of Professional Wrestling is quite brilliant when perfectly executed and is as entertaining as any combat sport I can think of. Recently I have began to start watching Professional Wrestling again, however now I am older and wiser, I can appreciate and enjoy it from a whole new level as well as being able to interact with the wider Wrestling community. And it is for that reason that Professional Wrestling, no matter how fake people may say it is, is one of my favourite sports, and indeed one that in the future that I will no doubt be writing about.

Thanks for reading,

James 

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