I’d be lying if I said I didn’t keep up with the ego driven world of professional wrestling since the boom period in the early naughties. But I’d also be lying if I said I watched it every week, in fact I can’t remember the last time I watched a full event in the last five years. Granted it was a fad while at school but for some reason it stuck with me. Throughout all it’s horribleness, awful programming, backstage politicking and the fact that it’s generally garbage, I’ve always kept tabs on what’s going on.

Admittedly, this is only because of podcasting as I don’t have time to watch the hours of weekly content they throw out, not one of them vaguely resembling quality broadcasting. Still for those who didn’t keep up, last night was the return of the Monday Night Wars as the seven years young upstart, TNA, faced up against the behemoth that is the WWE.

On one hand you had Bret returning to the company that legitimately screwed him at the 1997 Survivor Series event and on the other, you had the balding concession known as Hulk Hogan making his TNA debut. Just look at that stream in stream screenshot above, you could easily have taken that 15 years ago, albeit they would both have more hair and I don’t think 56K dial-up was truly ready for Justin TV.

If I got nothing else out of last night’s ‘entertainment’ I was taken back to a simpler time, 1997. The more things change the more they stay the same. But both shows had enough negative points for me to ‘take-or-leave’ next week’s follow up shows, but I will quite happily keep subscribing to those podcasts. Something about their constant moaning and berating of will make me keep tuning in, maybe that justifies me not wasting time watching it any more.

Well hopefully that will be the only wrestling related post of the year, I hear it’s all about UFC now.