In the fall of 1983 there were no monthly Pay Per Views in Professional Wrestling. The matches that were shown on regular television were predominantly top stars against enhancement talent. This was by design, as promoters believed that if fans wanted to see top wrestlers compete against each other it would have to be at the arena. This was actually a logical business model for 1983, as it was the live ticket gate that dictated the bulk of the revenue at the time.

Like many wrestling fans, the first time I saw Marty Jannetty was in the American Wrestling Association, where he was one half of the Midnight Rockers with Shawn Michaels.  At this stage of his career, Jannetty had already been wrestling for a few years in smaller regional promotions and had a successful amateur wrestling background in High School, but I was oblivious to those facts.  What I saw was a tag team that I viewed as a rip off of an existing duo called the Rock and Roll Express, who was a very successful tandem in the National Wrestling Alliance.
Visually, it was easy to make that initial comparison.  Both teams came out to Rock and Roll Music (not common in the late 80’s), both were relatively undersized, both had similar ring attire and both featured one wrestler who had blond hair and a teammate with brown.  As a fourteen year old teenage boy who was in a stage in life where success with the opposite sex was sadly a mystery, identifying with a pair of good looking twenty-somethings who drew the screams of every girl in the audience (seemingly regardless of age) was difficult.

Interviewing professional wrestlers is an enjoyable benefit of running this website.  Normally, the excitement would center on questions on their in ring careers and backstage stories.  This was not the case when we spoke with former ECW and WWE Diva, Dawn Marie; for although she worked with some of the iconic stars of Extreme Championship Wrestling and performed for two and a half years for Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment it was her post wrestling career that we were anxious to discuss with her.

On August 25, 2011, the New York Yankees made baseball history by becoming the first team to ever hit three grand slam home runs in one game.  Many people that day would have heard that future Trivial Pursuit question on the radio or maybe by watching Sportscenter.  On that day, I got that information from the person sitting next to me who received the news over his I-Phone.  The person who shared the news of the Yankees accomplishment with the exuberance of a ten year old boy who had just gone to the see his first Major League Game.  That person was the man who has more hits than anyone else in Baseball history, Pete Rose.