Reviving UnWrest

What's up everyone?

As you can probably tell, I've been off the blog for a couple months now. Call it burn out. Call it work. Call it life. Call it bad TV. Whatever you want to call it, the fact is I'm not going to let the blog die at this point. However, I am going to change it back up again.

Here are the changes going forward:

1) WWE TV and Event Reviews are going to be condensed into 1 weekly review going forward. Why? Because WWE has literally sucked the life out of my fandom for the last 2 months. Just being completely honest about it. I'm bored with it, and I'm not going to spend too much time reviewing something that doesn't frankly merit it. (Don't get me started on the Firefly Funhouse. I know people with microphones are loving it. I'm not one of them.) I will revisit this decision once I feel that WWE merits the attention of a show-by-show review. NXT might even get more attention in those posts than Raw or SmackDown.

2) ROH is getting one last review from me: Best in the World. After this month's event, I'm cancelling HonorClub until that product and brand show life. Because if I wanted to stare at half-empty buildings for an hour, I'd watch Washington Redskins home games in December. (I say that as a Redskins fan.)

3) MLW. Next...

4) I am going to do NJPW G1 Climax reviews like last year. I may condense those down even more show from show, with perhaps even less focus on the undercard matches. But I'm genuinely excited for New Japan in the next two months.

5) AEW is going to get some attention from me as well. I ordered Double or Nothing and will do a review once I get around to it. Fyter Fest may even be reviewed before I get to that.

I'm also looking for new things to add to the blog going forward. I do know a few friends who are wrestling fans. If possible, I might try to get them involved as well as I try to do interesting things on this blog and have some fun.

I'm working on a G1 Climax Preview blog. Hope to have it up by Friday.

Until later, take care of yourselves. Spread some awesomeness.

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