7th row at last night’s SmackDown (taped on Tuesday). Zack Ryder and Lil Naitch signage, Cody Rhodes paper bag, and lots more nonsense! Part of me wanted to live tweet it but I’m glad I did the latter and just enjoyed the experience. Nothing beats sitting ringside at a live WWE event!

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Joshua Schlag

For most of the last 30+ years of my life, I've been watching WWE. As a kid, Monday Night Raw hooked me from the start. From Bret Hart and Razor Ramon, to Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, to CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.. I've witnessed the ups and downs and I'm proud to have enjoyed pro wrestling through the years.

Though I now watch in a much different fashion than I did when I was a kid (finding out Vince McMahon was the owner and Jack Tunney no more than a figurehead was like finding out Santa Claus did not exist), I feel like I have a much greater appreciation for the hard work pro wrestlers do and the things they sacrifice to entertain us.

It's still real to me, dammit!