I think I'll start off my blog in true Inadvertent Nerd fashion by talking about my fondness toward Professional Wrestling.

Yes, I know it's fake. That is one of the first things I hear when I tell people that I enjoy pro wrestling. So is basically every movie and television show out there, except for "reality" shows which seem just as scripted at times. Just as long as the storyline is entertaining and I'm watching some form of compelling television, I don't mind. Maybe I'm a little biased, though. I was raised in the south.

I was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama over 25 years ago, and as far back as I can remember there was pro wrestling significantly in my life. My grandmother on my mother's side would let me watch any and every wrestling show on tv and would even take me to any shows that were local. There were a lot!

From my childhood, I can remember Adrian Street, "Wildcat" Wendall Coolley, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong and his son Brad Armstrong, Dustry Rhodes, Ric Flair, The Rockin Roll Express, The Midnight Express, The Road Warriors, Magnum TA, Ricky Steamboat, and a host of others.

It wasn't until I was about 5 years of age that I caught on to Hulk Hogan and Hulkamania but once I saw Hulk and his red and yellow, he quickly became my favorite. I even remember crying as a young child when Hogan was sat on by Earthquake while making an appearance on the Brother Love Show. Let me tell you, that was a bad day for all little Hulkamaniacs. When the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) caught on down south, everything else just didn't seem as big. I can still remember wondering all the time about what would happen if Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair met up. Nobody during that time period could take the belt off of either of these guys.

I moved to Missouri and my father's side of the family in 1985 or 1986. Getting my wrestling fix where I was located was relegated to renting Wrestlemanias from the local video store with my dad, watching the WWF Superstars or small National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) television programs, and my copy upon copies of Pro Wrestling Illustrated. Every once in a great while, my grandfather would be at a yard sale and somebody would have a tape that they had recorded from pay-per-view, so he'd pick it up for me. The show that stands out in my mind from those yard sale tapes is the 1992 Royal Rumble where Ric Flair won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship.

In 1995 or 1996 my grandparents, whom I was

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