Hey, guys! My name is Lars. Been meaning to sign up for a while but I just haven't. Decided to do so after talking to BillThompson on Twitter, where my handle is @LARIATOLars. I'm just the ordinary obnoxious wrestling fan who tweets in great detail about it, really. Used to think I was somewhat knowledgeable when it came to the graps, then I ventured outside these *BASIC* WWE-centric forums. That said, I used to be into forums and was considered a relatively good poster, so I'm hoping Twitter hasn't corroded my writing ability to the point where any thought past 140 characters feels unnatural. I co-host the Sincere Shootin' podcast with my good friend Case (InYourCase on here) where we cover most of the current events in wrestling today.
Been watching wrestling since I came out from the womb (I use that line everywhere, sorry.) Somewhere along the line, wrestling stopped being cool in my country, that country being Norway, and WWE stopped airing on my TV in the late 2000s. It wasn't until after a friend of mine found a site that uploaded WWE programming that I got into wrestling again, now intelligently for the lack of a better term, as I discussed the inner workings and all other things actual wrestlers don't want me to discuss on forums. Naturally I became a CM Punk fan due to him blowing up as soon as I started watching again (after the Royal Rumble '11) but only watching WWE started to get a little weary on my eyes. That's why in 2012, I was recommended to companies such as ROH (ironically during one of their worst years) and NJPW. Ever since, I've been Vince McMahon and the casual fan's smarky, star-rating nightmare as I find more enjoyment watching the gritty independents and the big Japanese promotions. Don't get me wrong, though, I don't reject companies. I just simply believe that WWE has had better years and that a company like NJPW is putting out all-time great stuff right now. In the build to WM30, I was a WWE fan.
Right now I (try to) keep up mostly with NJPW, NXT, ROH, DG, LU, DDT, BJW main events as well as whatever good stuff gets recommended to me. I haven't watched a WWE PPV since WM, but I don't wanna be that guy, so I'm just gonna say that I keep up with WWE in the form of RAW reports, I guess. My current favorite wrestlers are Kazuchika Okada, Tomohiro Ishii, Kota Ibushi, Finn Balor, Daisuke Sekimoto, Jimmy Susumu, Akira Tozawa, Roderick Strong, Tetsuya Naito, Ricochet & Jay Briscoe among many others. This list changes like every week and I probably forgot a million people. Hopefully Daniel Bryan works too.
No idea how much I'm going to use this message board, but I like what I see.
