I have a confession...

In a time, long, long ago: I was a closeted wrestling fan. In the early 90's it wasn't only uncool to be a fan professional wrestling, it was social suicide. I remember the brutal hazing I suffered when on a summer day in 1992, I made the mistake of wearing a Hulk Hogan tank top to baseball practice. I hid my love for professional wrestling from the world...but I never loved it any less.

I thought (think) about professional wrestling almost nonstop. Its an obsession; I should probably be featured on an uncomfortable to watch A&E addiction special. I always kept my love to myself, safely tucked away. What made me remember this deeply repressed act of nerd-ery actually happened yesterday at the White-trash mecca, known as Walmart. I haven't closely (relatively speaking) followed professional wrestling for several years & when I saw WWE 2 packs of 2010/2011 PPVs for $7 I felt like this is the perfect opportunity to catch up...I also felt slightly embarrassed to carry those DVDs to the self-checkout line at the front of the store from the electronic department buried in the dark recesses at the back building. That's a full walmart hike with 8 DVDs of a product the vast majority of people look down upon due to its poor illogical scripting, hack acting & arrogance towards its consumers. I was at a crossroads. Several crossroads. The first was deciding if these DVDs were worth it; even when wrestling is a joke, I still love it. Now, how do we get these into a bag, into my car & into a pile of to be watched DVDs? Luckily for me Walmart, being a mecca for trashy, had clearance tanktops within my sight range. End result: I'm the proud (well, not so proud) owner of 8 new WWE DVDs & memories of my 1st wrestling friend. Next week, I give you part 2:

The Ballad of Kris Childs

- Darin Childs
www.AnarchyChampionshipwrestling.com
www.ICanSaveProWrestling.com

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The secret to getting the most out of anyone on any roster is so f*cking simple…genuinely believe in them. Genuinely is the key.

I Can Save Pro Wrestling

Please understand my journalistic skills are a bit rusty. My passion, heart & ability to love are not. Proceed with an open mind.

For the last year I have sat down to write dozens of columns for this site and every single time it started the same way, as the words started to flow they became more negative, more negative, more negative… This site is about inspiration. This morning I again sat down to write a piece and I realized, http://ICanSaveProWrestling.com is useless inside a perfect world. What is Batman to a crime-less Gotham? Nothing.

In my interpretation of saving pro wrestling it isn’t about creating a huge financial swing, although that would be a side effect. My dream is to bring the art, positivity and passion back to an industry that gave me everything. Professional wrestling was something my generation could believe in. I don’t mean “believe” as in looks real, I mean it had men of character. People you could look up to, relate to, respect and aspire to be.

Let’s take a ride in the magic time machine. I’ve always been extremely closed off personally. not many know much about my pre-wrestling life. I’m not going to lie, it was rough. My father died when I was 4, my mother went into a deep depression immediately following. This is when I first met pro wrestling. Like everyone always says, I was drawn in by the colors, personalities & dramatic battles...at first. In the early 90’s my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer; it was beyond brutal. She was declared terminal with practically no time left, (she fought through for 15 years, but that isn’t the point of this story). I was a parent-less, directionless, 11 year old child. I was truly headed straight the f**k for disaster…then I found a pseudo parent, a direction & learned how to live life with honor, all from my Television screen. Bret Hart was my savior; the Hitman character truly saved my life. That character is what I strive to be in reality. I live to fight the good fight and make the world a better place. My mission since I was 11 years old was to inspire the citizens of the world to chase their dreams, live by their own rules & always cherish love, art and creativity. Don’t ever let the world tell you who you are or what you should believe in. Saving the world is an impossible task, but I am proof that if you save people one person at a time, you can at least make a little dent in the World’s problems. I will never stop chasing my dreams, you better not either, or my struggles are in vain.

This site is officially open. Tomorrow I’ll give one simple and effective way to get the most out of a roster. It’s so simple, yet too hard for most.

- Darin Childs, the man that can save pro wrestling.

Cheap plug: This Sunday is Guilty by Association 6, for those outside of the World of Anarchy (http://AnarchyChampionshipWrestling.com), GBA is our flagship event, its also our 5 year anniversary. You’ll want to be there…