It's college time once again, and for some reason, I find that I have to write during the times that I'm at my busiest. I mean, I had a whole summer, with no school, and I barely wrote anything. Maybe writing is my own personal way of escaping from the trials and tribulations of real life. At least, that'll be my excuse as to why I wrote something like this instead of a paper for an actual grade.
So after my review of "The Last of Us" (go ahead and click that, by the way, thanks), I just couldn't think of a topic that inspired me enough to write. Well, I finally thought of something, and it couldn't be more different than a game with brainless zombies, (although many of the people that watch this particular show may be considered as so). It's one of my more humiliating interests that I'm always embarrassed to admit to liking, but in the case of this blog, I have to just come right out and admit to it. Here, let me take a deep breath first. *breath in, cough, try to regain my composure* Alright, here goes nothing:
My name is Zach Hall, and I'm a wrestling fan.
Hey, I'm still alive. Go figure.
Now before we get started, let's just get the usual stuff that most wrestling fans have to clarify and get out of the way: Yes, I am a fan of the fake sport that acts like a sport. No, I don't watch it because it has men rolling around in tights. I'm sure there are many people that do watch it specifically for that, and that's just fine. I, however, do not.
"Just Trying To Prove A Point. Honest"
With that out of the way, the reason why I had to mention I like wrestling is because of how wrestling games made for some of the most entertaining and memorable moments I had as a young boy. I mean, (and fun fact) it was a wrestling video game that I rented from my local Hollywood Video in St. Louis that I have to blame for turning me into a wrestling fan.
As a socially awkward kid in elementary school, who had just moved and had no friends, I needed something to do while I was out not making friends. Video games became that something and wrestling games became some of my favorite games to play. Turns out, when I did make a friend, he was also a wrestling fan. What are the odds?!
We'd play some video games, and because we both enjoyed wrestling games, they became some of our go to games when we had that gaming fix. We thought that playing these types of games would be limited to just us, since we figured that people who weren't wrestling fans would find little to no enjoyment in playing those types of games. We were wrong.
When my friend group started to grow (my posse, as I never called them), it allowed for the opportunity to bring more people over to hang out at each other's houses, and sometimes, a wrestling game found its way into one of our gaming systems if we had one.
"Pretty Sure This Just Threw My Point Out The Window"
Now remember when I mentioned that I was socially awkward as a kid (if not, just look back three paragraphs, you really can't miss it)? Well, I'm still socially awkward as a young adult, but I discovered as a kid that when I was around my friends, awkward I am (usually) not. When it came to playing these wrestling games with friends, I could be the biggest pain. It's ironic that the times I was a pain were (usually) the times that made for those memorable moments I've been building up in this blog (thanks for being patient, by the way).
I remember when I'd intentionally handicap myself when playing. First, it'd be a 2 on 1 match (okay, go ahead and insert all your innuendo jokes here), then 3 on 1 (and here), and after winning those matches, I proposed one final match to my friends so they could try and regain their dignity: 3 on 1, and I'd play one of the female wrestlers, while they played as the normal male wrestlers (wait, who was trying to get their dignity back again?). See, back in the day, this was something done for fun, whereas nowadays, this wouldn't be considered "socially acceptable" (nor should it be, may I add). Oh, and spoiler, I actually managed to win that match. Sure, I probably did the most begging for mercy and dirty tricks that I've ever done with anything, but I won, and I was proud! At least, as proud as a prepubescent boy possibly could be after playing as a woman to beat three other men.
"I'm REALLY Starting To Regret Writing This"
Wow, I think this just became the most unintentionally innuendo laden blog I've ever written. Can I even post a blog like this? Anyway, I still hope you enjoyed this re-return blog. I had a lot more fun writing this than I thought I would, and I hope I find something else to write about in the future. Hopefully something less questionable.