Backyard Wrestling
Friday April 26, 2002
Hello to all of the loyal "Maniac" Mike Sledge fans out there!!! Once again, sorry it took so long for an update. I have no excuse other than pure lazyness. Not much is really new with me. "The Faction" is now a four man supergroup as I've added Road and Pill to the already existing force of Stric 9 and myself. It's hard to deny that we are the most feared group in all of pro wrestling and if you don't believe me come on down to the Power Pitt and try your luck against us!!! Also, the M.W.A. did a big show at the P.G. Roll-a-Dome last week called "Downfall". On that show I got the oppertunity to beat the snot out of that no good cheater Mauler. And even though the guy is twice my size, I still pinned him 1-2-3. Then in the main event, me and Stric 9 fought Mauler and Son of Sam for the tag titles. We had them beat several times during the match but for some reason the ref couldn't seem to count to three. Then after they cheated a whole bunch they ended up beating us. They wont be so lucky next time!!! But enough about that.
Today I want to talk about Backyard wrestling. What is backyard wrestling you ask? It is a bunch of guys (sometimes girls too) getting together in someones backyard and emulating professional wrestling like they see it on t.v. They do this without any actual wrestling training and usually either in a makeshift ring made of plywood and rope or on a trampoline or even just on the lawn. Now pro wrestling in general is a very dangerous sport (that's right. I said sport) but doing it in your mothers backyard without the proper knowledge of how to do moves right and how to "bump" is taking it to a whole new level. There have been countless incedents of kids doing backyard wrestling and causing serious injury to themselves and the people they are wrestling with and in some cases these injuries were fatal. And then you see these "Best of Backyard Wrestling" video tapes that are available and they show people doing insanly stupid stuff to each other like using cheese graters on each other and beds of nails and whatnot. This is just EXTREMELY stupid. Especially when these people aren't even getting paid to do it!!! Heck, even if you did get paid for it, it's still not the brightest thing to do. However, I must admit before I go any further that I too used to backyard wrestle before I was properly trained. But when me and my friends did it, we never took it to the extreme that kids are taking it too now. What we did was over sell everything, meaning that we didn't really hit each other or slam each other very hard we just sold it like we were. And while that could still be potentially dangerous, it is safer than taking a cheese grater to your best friends head!!! So please, if you absolutely have to backyard wrestle, do it as safely as humanly possible. Use your heads and don't do anything that could possibly injure your friends or yourself. Trust me it's really not worth it. My advise for all of the kids out there doing backyard wrestling is if your really serious about wrestling and becoming a wrestler then save up some money and enroll in wrestling school. Learn how to wrestle properly and to make safety your top priority. Because in most wrestling companies if it's not safe then it's not being used. Even in the WWF. For example the piledriver has been banned from use do to the hazzard of injuring the neck. If the move is too dangerous for the best trained wrestlers in the world, then what right do you have to give one to little Johnny who lives next store?
Anyway, just thought I'd give you all something to think about. And I promise I'll try not to take so long to write another column again. So untill next time
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