I’ve never shied away from admitting I’m a fan of professional wrestling.  Never.  I watch the shows every week.  I tape them if I have to.  I’m a hardcore fan, through and through.  I have watched wrestling since I was a small child.  I’ve watched through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. 

But not anymore.

I haven’t watched wrestling in about two months now.

I should be watching.  I’m the kind of fan that sticks with the WWF through it all.  I’ve seen the worst they have to offer and stayed with them.  Yet, I am not watching now.

Why am I not watching?  I love wrestling.  I always will love wrestling.  But I’m willing to let it go.  I’m willing to let it go because the WWF is willing to let it go.

If those running the show don’t care, then why should I? 

Professional wrestling is over.  It is done.  Vince just doesn’t "get it."  The shows he is putting on are horrendous.  He is turning fans away with this crap.  He is turning away fans like me, the people he thought he had forever.  He thinks that the hardcore fans will never leave him because he IS wrestling in this country. 

But I left him.  You should too.  Because professional wrestling is done with.

When I heard Bobby Heenan say that wrestling was done, I didn’t believe him.  But I do now.  The business will soon be gone.  Grab what you can from it and don’t look back.  Cherish the memories that it gave you.  But let it go.

Vince let it go a long time ago.  He understood that wrestling was done many years ago.  Ever since he realized it, he’s tried to create other means of income, in the forms of the XFL and WWE Films.  But those have failed, and he refuses to even try to get wrestling back into form because he knows the end is near.

As Jeb Lund pointed out, there have been many more bad times in the WWF than good in the past 6 years.  If any other show had that problem, ratings would fall and the show would be cancelled.  But since the WWF is the only real choice for wrestling, the ratings stay constant. 

Please, I beg all wrestling fans out there, let it go.  Let wrestling die.  Stop watching, stop buying the pay-per-views, stop supporting until the WWF is gone.  When it is gone, then we will see if wrestling is over.  If another promotion rises to the challenge and can usher in a new golden age of wrestling, then I am wrong.  More likely it will mean that the only wrestling available will be small indy shows, and if that is the case, then so be it.

I am willing to let go of my favorite form of entertainment.  If you have any love for this sport, so will you. 

StretPharmacist is a lot like the Undertaker:  A gimmick that should have never gotten over, but was taken to unbelievable heights.  Also, he is constantly injured.