I am obsessed with the WWF.  I'm not afraid to admit it.  I realize that there are some people out there who view it as the lowest form of entertainment (and perhaps it is), but it's still entertaining, dammit!  Yes, I realize that the outcomes of the matches are determined ahead of time, and yes, I can obviously see that some of the moves are fake.  But to those people who say that none of what happens is real, I tell you to find a tape and watch a match between the Undertaker and Mankind, in the Hell in a Cell Match.  Take a look at what happened to Mankind and tell me that's fake.

I first got interested in wrestling back in the early `90s, when Hulk Hogan was the biggest draw in the business, before Vince McMahon admitted that the outcomes were predetermined.  Like any eight-year-old kid, I thought it was real, but was awed by how "cool" it was.  Soon, though, I fell out of interest with it and only vaguely heard things about wrestling until 1999, when my interest came back.  By now, Hogan was passe, and people like Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were huge.

I diligently watch the WWF's shows RAW is WAR and Smackdown!, and occasionally Sunday Night Heat, but lack the ability to see the gems of their programming, the Pay-Per-Views like Wrestlemania and Summerslam.  When I get the chance, I'll go see a WWF show in my area, and I unabashedly chant the wrestlers' names.  ("Rocky! Rocky!" "Austin! Austin!")

13 FEB 2003 - After along period without an update, I'm in the process of getting ready to move a bunch of new material onto this site, while also removing a lot of it. PPV recaps will remain in one form or another as I occasionally finish one. Show recaps have been removed, as have my "Jay 2K's Breakdown" columns. A roster update is constantly being revised, and hopefully I'll get this up by April, if I'm lucky. --J2K.

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