From the Editor: Picking up Where I Left Off

Entry posted by TheBean in From the Editor Tuesday at 06:29 PM

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Hey folks! due to some technical issues with the site, I lost access to my G. Badger account. So I'll be using this new account to continue my blog & post here on PWO. Just wanted to let you know! The Further Adventures of Puro + More... is a continuation of my Puro + More blog than I've been doing since 2018.

Fortunately, my wife had made a profile on here a few years back while I was getting her into different types of wrestling & she was kind enough to loan me her profile. Let's be honest, I don't think she used it! But it definitely came in handy when the machine gods of the PWO site decided to hobble my access after changing some settings.

Anyhow, this is a good time to talk about what's coming up next. It's been awhile since we looked at Japanese wrestling. I'll be posting some stuff from Zero One, New Japan and UWFi & Rings. These are meant to be a part of larger projects but I want to get something up for you guys. Think of them as teasers for projects down the road.

I'll use this reintroduction to pontificate, if you don't mind. First, I'd like to reiterate my perspective on pro wrestling. It is fun. It is a diversion. So when I watch wrestling, I'm in it to have a good time. That said, I'm along for the ride. I'm interested in the story the booker and wrestlers are trying to tell me. I want to feel the ups and downs. So when I write my reviews, I'm trying to convey that emotion to the reader. I want you to get pumped to watch a match. If I'm lukewarm or cold, I want you to know why. I'm just one voice and my taste might be different than yours. This is why I try to reference other matches or wrestlers. I want you to be able to compare & contrast with your own opinions. Additionally if you have a preference for or against a certain wrestler, style or promotion, I try to add a remark in my reviews. You might see things like, "Great TNA tag match," "Classic FMW main event," or "If you're a fan of Jun Akiyama or Stan Hansen then see this match." I'm not just being colorful. I want to give you a little bit more information. There's so much wrestling available with the internet that I don't want you to blow time on something you're not going to enjoy.

I don't do star ratings very often anymore. I think after Meltzer got goofy with those, they've fallen out of usage by many people. Still they are helpful especially if you trust the reviewers. I stopped doing them awhile back because I get too caught up in trying to quantify. If wrestling is a fun diversion then I don't want to quantify it numerically. Numbers are too exact even if using whole numbers. I mean that every match is different so if I give Kurt Angle vs Samoa Joe 5 stars and I give Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat 5 stars then they must be equal (5=5). But they aren't actually equal in all or even many ways. So I think by saying both are All Time Classic matches, I can indicate the highest level of quality, my highest level enjoyment without making a direct equivalence. So you may say, "That's good and well Badger but couldn't you just assign a number to each of your ratings? So All Time Classic is a 5, Classic is a 4, Very Good a 3 etc. And then you would be quantifying. Aren't you just trying to trick yourself?" And I would then say, "You go to hell!" 😄 Seriously, you can do that number jazz if you want. I'm a qualitative data person when it comes to this stuff. I'm in it to get you amped to watch wrestling not to work on spreadsheets. I want to get people excited to watch different stuff. That's what a lot of the early projects here on PWO did for me. It got me out of my bubble and tried new things.

OK, I got that out. Let's do a wrestling art show 😋 Haven't done one for awhile. Just for fun.