Like most guys my age, I grew up watching Hulk Hogan battle the likes of the Iron Sheik, King Kong Bundy and of course, Andre the Giant. Who could forget Wrestlemania III when Hulk Hogan power lifted the 520 pound Andre on his way to victory?
But as time went on and the reality that it all was fake and fabricated sank in, I lost interest. Except, that is, on those few instances when the wrestling divas were on and I had the television all by my lonesome. And of course, during those not so few occasions when tragedy strikes the wrestling world, as it did last Monday, June 25, when police discovered the bodies of Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy and son Daniel in their Fayetteville, Georgia home.
