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> Be me, aged 30 or so
> Meet my brother's 25 year old friend
> "I hear you like wrestling" I say to him
> "Yeah, I do" he replies
> Think "Wow, I am speaking to a fucking idiot" but remain polite.
Fast forward 5 or 6 years
> Google a WCW wrestler I remembered from childhood
> Somehow end up going down a wrestling documentary rabbit hole
> Watch all of Dark Side of the Ring, rewatch Nitro, watch all feature length documentaries I can get on the topic
> Even watch all the shiity WWE made revisionist history documentaries
> Watch all free shoot interviews I can find
> Start watching every AEW episode, including Dark
> Start devouring books on wrestling, around 20 of them
> Listen to wrestling podcasts almost every waking hour
> Start attending indies
> Spend $2500 on wrestling trading cards
> Meet new people occasionally.
> They ask what I am in to and I tell them. "Wresting".
> They hear the words and something in their eyes change
> I can tell they are thinking "Wow, I am speaking to a fucking idiot"
> mfw they are correct
