12/14/2010

I am TMIB, The Man In Black. I sit high atop my lair observing the wrestling word. In this BLOG I discuss the happenings in the WWE and TNA.

This week I must send thanks to www.FTWnews.com for letting me write for them.  Check my links and check them out.  Also check out the guys at www.wrestlerage.com.  

Sometimes we forget that our favorite wrestlers are human.  Some closer to superhuman than other but human nonetheless.  Some fly from on high sailing through the air like characters from a comic book.  I have heard the younger fans say things like “He isn’t really hurt is he” or “She fell a special way..right”  From chair shots to falling through tables, to just having a bad day where things just don’t go right.  Our hero’s get injured from time to time.

I still flinch at the site of the video of Psycho Sid’s leg breaking and turning to jello.  Man that made my stomach knot up.  Injuries of this sort are rare but I believe it the injuries you cant see that can be worse.

I mean think of the testosterone it took for Triple H to know his quad had detached from the bone, but didn’t want to let the fans down and continued the match till a suitable finish was reached.  That’s just…ok they have to be big and hairy.  I’m a nurse people that hurt..he may not have said it but it hurt like hell.

Wrestlers are some of the most well trained athletes in the world.  They wrestle and travel sometimes 300+ days a year, they have no off season and most would do it for near what me and you make a year.  They do it for the love of the sport and most don’t raise hell and try to strike if they don’t have their special water in the locker room.

So next time someone gives you that old line “Well crap…Wrestling is fake!”  Say ok it’s fake…lets see its nearly 10 foot from the top turnbuckle to the floor.  So you climb on the house and dive into someone and we will see just how fake it is.  I want to see Brett Favre or LeBron James jump off the top rope and hit a leg drop. 

To Finish I want to send a shout out to all the wrestlers taking care of injuries..we send good wishes and say get well with God’s speed.

TMIB