It was the 2nd most important wrestling event of the year over the weekend - the Royal Rumble (behind, obviously, Wrestlemania). I have a particular fondness for the Royal Rumble because it's one of the few WWE events that I can remember watching on TV in the UK many years ago (at the time, I think it may still have been called WWF - which just goes to show how long ago it was). Traditionally, this has been a PPV event in the US - and I absolutely refuse to cough up any money to watch wrestling (apart from the one time I went to see a live event in San Diego), so I don't get to see it. But these big wrestling events are now on a streaming service that I subscribe to (or, more accurately, comes with my cable TV service). So I watched this year's Royal Rumble over the weekend. Or, more accurately, I tried to watch the Royal Rumble over the weekend. I couldn't get through it. It sucked. Professional wrestling sucks. I think, shockingly, I may be over it. Professional wrestling is not a sport, it's sports entertainment - the nearest America has to pantomime. And I think, finally, I may be too old for it now. That's probably about 30 years too late. But better late than never. So although I might still occasionally scan the wresting headlines, I don't think I'm going to watch it on TV ever again.
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