Backyard Wrestling

Have you ever backyard wrestled? Have you ever watched the guys on the WWE and dreamed of being like them? Well I can't talk for myself, but I know my older brother and all his friends used to watch Monday night RAW every week as well as Friday night Smackdown. It became the "it" thing and they always talked about it. This obsession all started when they were in 8th and 9th grade. It was the cool thing to do.

They started out just watching it, but eventually it got to the point where they started idolizing these wrestlers. They wanted to be just like them. My brother and his friends each picked their favorite guy and at the time we had a trampoline, so they treated that like the ring. My house had a shed placed right next to it and they would treat that like the stage walking out from behind the scenes. They downloaded all of the wrestlers entrance songs and they would bust out of the shed and do the same entrance as their wrestler. Not only would they walk out like their guy, but they even made belts out of paper and CD's. If they were the Heavyweight Champion or the World Champion they would have a belt over their shoulder as they walked out of the shed. Then they would get into the ring and do some of the moves that were made famous by each of their guys. Nothing too serious, but they liked to have a good time.

I can remember to this day, my brother's favorite guy was John Cena. He thought he was toughest guy out there and no one wanted to mess with him. He was also cool because he was a rapper and his entrance song was written by John Cena himself.

They had so much fun acting like the guys on TV and luckily none of them ever got hurt. From my experience of backyard wrestling, I don't see it as a problem.