Year One of Wrestling Elitists
Thank you.
It’s funny how when you’re incredibly hungover, your first clear thought always seems like a eureka moment.
For us, we were nursing our self-loathing with the hair of the dog that bit us at my favorite bar, Liberty Street, in Plymouth, MI. I can’t recall how we got on the topic, but the bartender told us that the brewery was changing its name to Bearded Lamb after new owners purchased the joint. When he told us what the new owners paid for the place, I couldn’t believe it was bought that cheaply. Not that I would have done it, and I totally would have lost my ass had I tried, but I had enough money in my bank account to buy it outright myself (had I wanted to, you know, fuck up spectacularly).
Just coming out of working for a massive conglomerate that liked to fellate itself by tossing around the word “entrepreneurial” too much, I have an immersive disliking for that phrase. But it was the first time where I thought, well shit—you really can miss out if you don’t put yourself out there. In therapy at the time, I was working on manifesting things into life. What was the life I wanted to create for myself and what would you do if you really wanted to live a life you felt was worth living—and for me it was writing about wrestling and having my own type of platform for it, no matter how big or small the audience was.
This year, I got to do that with the help of my great friends and partners, Alex Gibson and Sean Nash. Together, we launched the website, and started a podcast, and got to cover the most undeniably, craziest year in the history of professional wrestling.
Thank you for reading our articles, thank you for listening to our podcast. Even if you only skimmed for a few seconds to see how we underrated a match you loved or overrated a match you hated. Even if you thought I was annoying as hell and came off like a 60 year old man when I called Machine Gun Kelly, Machine Gun Kevin. Whatever, thank you for spending your time with us. I could never properly express how grateful and how deeply appreciative I am that you checked us out, in any way, for any amount of time.
Thank you for making me feel like my obsession over a fake sport was worth every second of my lifetime’s devotion.
CSM-9/1/2022
Sean, Chris, and Alex at Chris’s wedding, 2018
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