At least for one night, it felt fun to be a pro wrestling fan.
The love affair with the "sport" began for me like so many others - in the 80s. I can't remember what the first wrestling match was that I saw, but I know what WWF Superstars of Wrestling on Saturday afternoons meant, what renting videos from Coliseum Video meant, and the first time I saw Hulk Hogan wrestle King Kong Bundy at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, ME.
While the early part of the 1990s weren't the greatest for us, the latter part of the decade brought the "Monday Night Wars" - the tagline for what became a head-to-head TV programming battle between WWF/E and the now defunct-WCW. The business was white-hot, millions upon millions watc...
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On January - 5 - 2010