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Is it just me or is Lucha Underground the best wrestling show on TV right now? It reminds me of mid nineties ECW. You have great characters, you have old school type feuds, and goddamn.........you have blood. Anyone else have any thoughts?

God help me, I liked Ludvig Borga as well! There was a Colliseum match between him and Razor that I remember really enjoying. Thanks for the kind words. It was my first time posting.Really enjoy the work you guys do on Titans.

First of all if TNA is done on Spike, that is bad news for wrestling. As much as I enjoy the WWE product, an alternative is always good. That being said, TNA has not been an alternative for a long...........long time. How could a company that has a roster of Austin Aries, Samoa Joe, Jeff Hardy, and maybe one of my favourite workers of the last decade Kurt Friggin Angle be horrible? Well that is a whole different topic. I have a favourite memory. Me and my Father on a family vacation were in Nashville in August of 2003. We went to an original TNA weekly show at the Nashville fairgrounds. This was back when TNA still had the girls dancing in the cages on the shows. It was a spur of the moment decision to go to the show and we were still able to get great ringside seats. I could be wrong, but I'm almost sure Dixie Carter herself greeted us as we walked in and guided us to our seats. It was the night when Teddy Hart and Juventud Gurrera had a match that tore the house down (missed it we arrived late). But the main show saw AJ Styles face Raven for the NWA/TNA belt as well as a psudeo wargames match with Jeff Jarrett emerging as the victor. The whole atmosphere was hot. Hell...........the American Dream Dusty Rhodes was there as well (this made my Dad mark out). Basically it was a great show, a hot crowd and the wrestlers putting on a great show for the crowd. It was one of the best shows I had ever seen live. Even with Vince Russo as a main part of the show. TNA in their first few years had some good stuff going on. Ken Shamrock winning the belt. Man the dude was crazy, but you could see it working. Ron Killings and his promos with Rick Steamboat. Great stuff. Jerry Lynn and AJ Styles mentor/student program. It was all great old school wrestling goodness. There was good there, but what is my worst memory? TNA has just seemed insignificant in the last few years. Too much talking and not enough wrestling I guess. Horrible programs that never went anywhere. They never seemed to be an alternative in the last few years, just seemed to be a WWE copy. And a poor one at that. If you can make a wrestling fan not care about a wrestiling show..............well maybe that was their problem.

We are all out there. The Heel Fan. We cheer the heel, we boo the face...............but how did we get there? What is your experience? I'll share mine if you will. My father took me to my first live event when I was 8 years old. It was a Tunney show at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1980 (maybe 81). My favourite wrestler at the time was Jay Youngblood. He was to do battle that night against Ivan Koloff. My Dad got us ringside seats and I was in heaven. Just seeing these larger than life heroes and villans that I had seen on my TV screen up close was surreal. At one point during the undercard my Dad tapped me on the shoulder and said "hey look over by the door". I turned and there he was live and in living color and only about 20 feet away...........Jay Youngblood. Native Headress and all watching the matches and chatting up a young lady. Seeing my hero so close I had to go up and wish him good luck and maybe get an autograph. I awkwardly walked up to him with my "Stranglehold" program (Toronto fans will know what I'm talking about) outstretched and asked Jay if he could give me an autograph. Jay sort of shrugged and said "Not now kid...........maybe later", and went right back to chatting up the ring rat. I sort of stood there for a second and then walked back to my seat dejected. My Dad asked to see the autograph. I hung my head down and said......."well he can't right now he said maybe later". At this point a couple of dudes in the row in front of us (wearing homemade Roddy Piper and Ric Flair t-shirts) turned around and said "What the Fuck! Youngblood wouldn't give you an autograph..........what an Asshole!". Other people in the section began to pay attention.........word seems to get around at ringside. When Jay marched down the ramp to the ring for his match, the whole section of ringside we were sitting in loudly booed the hero. "What's wrong with you Youngblood, can't give a kid an autograph..........Fuck you!" the dude in the Piper shirt said. When Koloff came out everyone in our row stood up and cheered for him, It was so weird to me at the time. How could they cheer this evil Russian? Koloff won clean with a knee to the back off the top rope and our section erupted! Me. still being the Youngblood fan was confused and still unsure of my feelings. Seeing my hero destroyed was not enough to make me a heel fan. I did not see the justice in what had just happened. Next match was Roddy Piper and Ray Stevens against Ric Flair and Tony Parisi. Stevens and Piper destroyed the face team. Ric's long blond hair was stained red with blood. The match was brutal and awesome. An all out tag brawl that had the right amount of violence and bloodshed that made the Toronto fans go crazy. I was riveted, the match took my breath away. Piper and Stevens seemed like the coolest wrestlers ever. I was turning. Fuck Jay Youngblood! He just did a cheesy native dance threw some chops and Koloff still beat him clean. The whole match was a setup for Flair to come back the next month with Andre as his partner against this dastardly duo that made him bleed. Awesome! As we were leaving, Ray Stevens was standing in the corridor. His ring boots slung over his shoulder, smoking a cigarette. I stared at him as we walked by. He smiled, gave me a wink and said "have a good time tonight kid?" I nodded and said "yes sir!". A heel fan was born! Well that is my story. Hope you like it. Hope to hear some of yours. Shoutout to Kelly at Titans. Would love to chat Canadian territories with you. Went to a few Tunney shows but where I lived International Wrestling (Brito-Rougeau-Bravo-Martel territory) was king. Also have a few Bearman show stories as well.