Professional Wrestling Narrative

I separate my life into two parts: before professional wrestling and after professional wrestling. It sounds ridiculous but professional wrestling has made me the person I am today. I started watching wrestling when I was about nine years old. Before that time and up to that time, I had no friends. Literally, no one I knew I would have considered a friend. It wasn't for a lack of trying on my part, maybe it was because of a lack of social skills. I was the fat kid in class. I wasn't the only fat kid, but I was THE fat kid. I was like the Mississippi of fat kids. All the other fat kids were like Alabama and Arkansas fat. They were fat but at least they weren't Mississippi fat. I got beat up a lot in school at that time, got bullied a lot as well. I ate lunch by …show more content…
I can remember vividly the first match that got me into this fandom. It was Jeff Hardy vs. The Undertaker in a ladder match on Monday Night Raw. It was a classic underdog story. The Undertaker was nearly seven feet tall and was the Undisputed Champion. He looked like hell, and mostly because he was from hell. To me he represented all the kids in school who beat me up and bullied me. On the other side was Jeff Hardy, a weird looking guy. Someone who was different, someone who everyone thought he didn't have a chance to win. I saw myself as Jeff Hardy. The match was spectacular, the guy who didn't have a chance was hanging with the Undertaker. At one point, he almost won, but the Undertaker ultimately stood victorious. I was crushed, how could this have happened? Would this always be the fate of someone like me? Always to be one step closer to what I want but never being able to obtain it. Then then The Undertaker came back and raised the hand of Jeff Hardy to a thunderous ovation from the crowd. In the end, Jeff Hardy may not have won but he earned the respect of the toughest guy in the professional wrestling world. It put me at