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History of Paul Nemer and WrestleView.com
Note: This is not only the History of WrestleView.com. This is a very unique section. This section talks about a variety of things, from how I got to open the site to where it's at today, the reporters that come and go, the wrestling trips with the staff, the jokes, the pranks, and almost everything else that we found humorous or interesting that concerns the site or staff.
¬ Late 1997 to mid 1998:
Late 1997, I decided to open a wrestling site. The main reason for this was because of my wrestling knowledge. People would say what does that have to do with a wrestling site and news reporting? Well, I'll tell you why. Knowledge is important to me because if a visitor e-mails me a simple wrestling question, I would like to e-mail him/her back with an answer and I liked to play trivia a lot. So I opened a site in late 1997, I only had very few reporters. One of my first reporters was Shaun Plummer who began his reporting on my site. The site was located at: http://members.spree.com/hitman316 and our server did not support CGI, therefore, Shaun had to send me news by e-mail and I had to post them manually. Shaun, I know you will read this one day and you will reflect back and laugh. I also went under the name Hitman316, instead of my real name.
¬ Late 1998:
We moved to http://netrover.com/~hitman99, transfered all the files, directed the site and only stayed there for a few months. I had like 3 or 4 different designs in that short period of time on that address.
¬ Mid 1999:
We made the move to a hypermart site: http://hitman316.hypermart.net. Again, the visitors had to get used to a new URL, but an easier one:) I worked very hard on the site and made major updates. At that time Shawn Moniz had his Wrestling-Complex site on hypermart and began reporting for my site. Then our former webmaster, Bill Clark, closed his site and moved to mine. His site was The People's Angle on TWNP at that time.I was reporting on a few sites and on one of the sites I was reporting for had two current members of the staff on WrestleView.com right now, Adam Martin and Kevin Lowery. Adam was running his site Know Your Role Wrestling while Kevin reported on many other sites. However, we barely knew each other. At one point, I had a very solid staff, composed of: Shaun Plummer, Wrestling Historian, Alexi Franklin, Fred Cook, Ryan Boyd, Vin Gopal, Shawn Moniz, myself and others...
¬ Late 1999:
While I was still working on my site, Fred Cook and I decided to run a newsletter called "The Innovators of Wrestling", before he opened his IOW site. We exchanged a few ideas and finally we came up with "Innovators of Wrestling"... The newsletter didn't last long, because Fred Cook had bigger and betters plans, which was running his own site. Fred and I parted ways.
¬ February 2000:
Finally stopped fooling around with free hostings and purchased WrestleView.com. The name WrestleView.com was a combined idea of Bill Clark and Shaun Plummer. They both might have forgotten about that or not realize it at all, but it's true. A few months after, Bill Clark had to quit WrestleView because he had other things, family, work, etc. I want to personally thank Bill Clark for all his help, I'll miss working with him. Shawn Moniz was then hired as co-webmaster and we worked hard to improve the site.
¬ Mid-2000:
Gerald Dunn, who owned WrestlingEmpire.com back in 1998, decided to bring back WrestlingEmpire.com and under another domain, LopMedia. I was the first reporter he hired and I helped him try to get the site back on it's feet, even though I was still busy with WrestleView. A month later, Gerald Dunn started reporting on WrestleView. A few months later, Gerald approached me and told me that he might not be able to keep WrestlingEmpire (LoPMedia) online much longer, so I called him up and we discussed a possible merge, at first he was a little lukewarm for the idea Although, he still wanted to discuss the merge, so we thought about it for a couple of weeks, but the idea kind of fell through. Shortly after, Gerald had closed down W/E and left the reporting scene. At that point, I concentrated only on WrestleView. Not even a week later, I had my first interview with Terry Taylor.
¬ Early 2001:
On January 1st, 2001, I had a new design up, I had made some staff changes and we were more then ready to go for the year. Three days after, I conducted an interview with Tom Prichard. In that month, I ended up doing 3 interviews -- Tom, Hugh Morrus and Jim Neidhart.
¬ February & March of 2001:
I got a job application from Kevin Lowery. I was surprised that he was still around after all that time, so I hired him on WrestleView and he told me he was starting his own site with Adam Martin (pwcoverage.com).
I contacted Graham Cawthon and he joined WrestleView as a staff member on WrestleMania 17 Sunday. Thanks to Graham's help, we started up our weekly video contests soon thereafter. I want to add that Graham was the fastest reporter to be able to adapt to the strict rules on Wrestleview :).
April and May of 2001:
A couple of weeks later, Adam Martin (still at pwcoverage.com) and myself started our own Lycos Talk Radio Show, which I might add was the most successfull radio show on Lycos, we were ranked #1 for weeks and weeks. A few weeks later, Adam and Kevin decided to close down pcoverage and merge with WrestleView in May of 2001.
When Adam and Kevin came to WrestleView, we updated every single section on the site. Kevin, Shawn, Adam, myself and others that report on the site have been reporting since 1997 or 1998. Also with the way we run things on the site and the way our rules are and all that, the slogan "WE ARE OLD SCHOOL" was a perfect fit. Now the year 1997 is not old school for wrestling, but you can call it old school for wrestling reporting on the internet :).
¬ June/July/August of 2001:
On June 16, I became the co-webmaster and CGI guy for Gerweck.net.
The WrestleView staff was build to be stronger then ever. We got our new design with the help of Samir Nurmohamed. Shawn, Adam and I, worked hard on updating sections of the site and coming up with new ideas.
¬ September to December of 2001:
On September 17, 2001, I interviewed the Native American, Tatanka! We were still working hard on updating and improving things on WrestleView.com Especially with the new year approaching, we wanted to keep out tradition in having something new at the beginning of every year.
¬ January/February 2002:
The promised updates on WrestleView.com were not done :( I know, this upset some people, but we just didn't have time to do them all, considering it was just me and Adam working on this. Things kept coming up and the due dates for the section updates were pushed back. Although Recaps, News, and everything else on the site was up to date. WrestleView had an impressive beginning in 2002. On the 24th of February, I interviewed former WCW talent, Lash LeRoux.
¬ March 2002: (Funny story!)
This was probably the best month for me. I managed like always to get floor seats for WWF events. This time I was at the RAW after WrestleMania 18 in Montreal. On March 18, I left Ottawa to go to Montreal for RAW, I had reservations done at the same hotel where the wrestlers were staying at. We enjoyed RAW, then we headed back to the hotel to meet the wrestlers. William Martinez couldn't join us at the bar, although we met him at RAW. We entered the hotel, I went up to the room, while my friends went to the hotel bar. I made a few phone calls to give the Off Air RAW happenings. Then I called Adam Martin back (Colorado), and I was talking to him while I was on my way to the hotel bar. I met several of the wrestlers on my way there, and took several pics, including meeting Brock Lesnar on his debut night and taking a picture with him. I entered the bar, and my friends were there talking to Ric Flair. I was still on the phone with Adam, Adam didn't believe it when I told him, so I shook hands with Flair and I gave Flair my cell phone and he started talking to Adam, and it was probably the funniest conversation I have ever heard. I hung up with Adam. Before that, my friends were telling Flair about me, that they were there with a huge old school wrestling fan, they were basically bragging about me for like 15 minutes. But they made a big mistake by telling Ric Flair that I owned a wrestling website and I am a reporter. Wrestlers do not like us! lol, But Flair didn't say anything, he was really nice and it was an honor to have met him. Then I called Adam back, and I took a picture with Flair while Adam was on the phone with me, for legit proof that he really did talk to Flair. Adam also talked to D-Von, basically, Adam owes me BIG and should be working for FREE at WrestleView for the rest of his life. Ok, Ok, with all kidding a side... I stayed talking to Adam and the wrestlers until my phone went dead. Then I went into a trivia competition against D-Von and I beat him, he put some money on it, but he never paid. By th eend of the night, I ended up meeting over 20 wrestlers and taking pictures with like 12 of them. Memorable night!
The Next Day
We were driving back to Ottawa for the Smackdown Tapings. We stop on our way to eat at Burger King. We meet Saturn, Jazz and Booker T. We finally arrived home. Relaxed for like a couple of hours, then picked up my brother and friends and we straight to the Corel Centre for Smackdown. Not bad night, considering I had a verbal confrontation with Earl Hebner at Ring side, it was pretty funny, having the whole crowd back you up.
¬ Summer of 2002:
Adam Martin was left with all the dirty work on WrestleView. I left for a well deserved two-month vacation. I went to Europe and Asia. Yes during World Cup time, since I am a HUGE soccer fan and have been playing it all my life. Adam pretty much ran the entire site. I kept checking my e-mail every two days or so. While on vacation, a lot of things happened in the wrestling world. Steve Austin left the WWE, Bret Hart had suffered a stroke, and other stuff. For once, I was just a plain reader online. I woke up one day and checked my e-mail and it was from my advertising company saying they are introducing pop-ups to their campaign and I'd be getting more than triple the amount of money that I am currently making off WrestleView if I chose to go with pop-ups. If I don't reply/call back within 24 hours, my site would be automatically enrolled in pop-ups. I didn't even hesitate on that one, I emailed back right away and called an left a message, while I was at the other end of the world with a ten-hour time difference. I just refused to have pop-ups on WrestleView, no matter how much they would pay me. Thank God that my reply was sent back on time. Overall, my vacation was a blast.
¬ August to December of 2002:
I got back from vacation right on time (August 1st), because Adam was moving from Colorado to IOWA. I had one thing on my mind, FINISH THE UPDATES, that were promised by the beginning of this year. It took me four straight days to work on a brand new design, since out old design had so much graphics and was using a lot of our bandwidth. Finally it was up in early August, I added the random quote, changed the look of the Message Board, and updated other sections. Finally, eveything promised was done, but was 9 months late LOL :), but it wasn't that bad, because it wasn't a major thing, news was always delivered on time.
Triple A and I discussed a possible "unique" merge with his site and mine, not a full merge, since we both put a lot of work into our respetive sites. It's still up the in the air, since everything is on hold, not sure if it'll ever happen, too many other things going on right now.
October 2002
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November Deal had obviously fallen through, didn't matter at all to me. We hired the reporters we need on WrestleView.
The first week of November, I interviewed former WWF manager, Paul Bearer. Paul Bearer answered every single question and never refused one. William Moody = Class act in my opinion.
Shortly after, WV's Co-Webmaster conducted the funniest interview on WrestleView.com, with the perfect guy to fit that category, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.
I decided that we needed someone to run our trivia section, since I wasn't able to run it anymore because I other things to do on the site. That's when Jay Matthews came along. We discusses the task that he has to do, and that's all it took, he started running WV's trivia section.
After years of doing the weekly WWE RAW reports, I decided to stop. I am not sure how to explain this, but I felt it was time to stop, I mean, I didn't fully enjoy an episode of RAW in years because I was stuck doing the reports. RAW got worse and worse, and I was still doing reports, so you can imagine how boring it became for me. This confused people and thought I was done with reporting, which wasn't the case at all. I stopped the weekly RAW recaps, not the news reporting. I will always report news, interviews...
¬ January of 2003:
The beginning of WrestleView's 6th year online. Honestly, I am looking back at when I first started in 1997, it amazes me to see how far we have become. I want to thank every single person has is or has ever worked with this website. I hope WV goes for another 6 years :) hell even more. Sooner or later, I'll pass the torch to my brother, although he'd still have to answer to me hehe :) Alright, enough with the jokes.
Sunday, January 12, 2003 WrestleView.com was mentioned in the Ottawa and Toronto Sun. The print version is also available on Slam! Wrestling. To see the plug WrestleView received in the newspaper, go to http://www.wrestleview.com/images/wvpaper2.jpg.
January 17, 2003 Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, King Kong Bundy and many Border City Wrestlers came to Ottawa for a show. I had one thing in mind and that was to interview some of them. I got "backstage access" even though the event was held at a school gym, there were lots of security guard. Here was Paul Nemer backstage talking to these wrestlers who he grew up watching. I ended up interviewing Jim Neidhart and Jim Duggan.
Before the event started, word got around that I was Paul Nemer, and several people told me that they saw the plug in the newspaper the week before and complimented me on the site, and some knew the site before the plug. Then questions started, and never ended :) I mean, I am very knowledgeable when it comes to wrestling and its trivia, but when you ask me what will happen 2-years from now, I am not the right guy to ask. WrestleView reporter, Ryan Allen, was also at the event with Peter H. (WV's current RAW reporter.) I also met Tim Baines, the editor of the wrestling column in the Ottawa Sun and thanked Tim for the plug in the newspaper.
¬ February of 2003:
THE MONTH OF MONTHS!..and sad month
Well, at first, WrestleView became RealAudioWrestling.com's official news source so to speak. Trey, the owner of R.A.W. has always treated WV with nothing but the outmost respect. We worked out a deal and here we are now. R.A.W.'s show is on Monday's on FanCast.com, where they discuss the latest wrestling happenings and where the WV commercial is played.
I re-wrote and updated the 1997 Survivor Series article. http://www.wrestleview.com/info/1997.shtml
February 10, 2003 Truly sad day in the wrestling world. Mr. Perfect, Curt Hennig, my 2nd all-time fav had passed away. I grew up doing the things he did. Spitting my gum and slapping it, throwing my towel and catching it, and one thing I was unaware of, he was a prankster too. (Read the next paragraph and you'll read my pranks).
A couple of days before our big trip to Montreal, the phone rings and it's Kevin Lowery. He came back at the right time. We hired Lowery back on WV. I say perfect timing, because, Ryan Allen, Adam and I will be on vacation for 3 days. Ryan Droste will be the only reporter/webmaster of WrestleView, but Lowery was added to the mix. Just to help out. I want to Thank Ryan Droste for his extra help in the past weekend.
February 22 I went to Montreal with a couple of friends. It was the weekend leading to the No Way Out PPV on the 23rd. WV's Adam Martin was there, Ryan Allen, LoP's William Martinez, and other friends. We were a lot of people. Great weekend, but extremely bad weather. Saturday night, we were screwed out of our hotel room at the Mariott.. long story with the policies and crap. Screwed, Montreal, Canadian, hmm those 3 words go together. Everything about Montreal seems to be about "screwing" someone over, whether it's the Marriott screwing us over and telling us the Hotel rooms weren't properly booked, Montreal Canadiens getting screwed by NHL referee, Kerry Fraser, or Bret Hart in 1997. LOL Ok I am off topic here. We eventually got another hotel, but reserved Sunday night in the Marriott.
February 23, the PPV day. The PPV was great. Fans were hotter than ever. The fans made the PPV mopre entertaining. After we all attended the PPV, we went back to the Marriot to meet the wrestlers. We met many, had conversations... I talked to WWE referee, Mike Chiota, and said "Your friend Hebner was pretty much raped by the crowd tonight." Chiota started laughing and said "Yea, well he deserves every bit of it." We talked about the never-ending Survivor Series topic and he said that he would have never done that to Bret, and that he misses Hart. He said that after we pointed out that Hebner swore on his kids, etc.. Mike was pretty much against Hebner. Even though the 99.9% of the blame can not be on Hebner, it's obviously on Vince.
It was getting late, the boys were tired and wanted to go to bed, but I didn't and one of my friends didn't. It was 2am, the night was still young in my opinion. Here is where the pranks came in. At first, my friend Mike (Hogan Mark) called the hotel room service and asked for more pillows, this guys sleeps on like 6 pillows, don't ask why. Me and Phil decided to go in the lobby and just chill with the wrestlers. Around 3:30am, we decided to prank call our room and wake up the guys. We called and asked if they had received the pillows and if they're fluffy. Typical little kids prank, but it was fun. An hour later, it was time for the real pranks. We toured the hotel, got salt, sugar, chicken with ice (DON'T EVEN ASK HOW OR WHY) lol and we went up in the room quietly. We poor salt and sugar in everyone's hair, some neutrogena cream face wash, and ice with chiken. The guys woke up and we were on the floor laughing. We decided to go back down. We came back in the room later, prepared for pranks they were about to do on us. So I checked the bed, pillows everything, in case they had done something, and imagine my surprise when I saw gel poored all over my pillow, and chicken and ice cubs in Phil's pillow. Clearly Ryan and Adam were the ones to blame. But we didn't fall for the pranks, we discovered it before and we rain as champions :) lol The rest of the night from 5 am until 10am everyone slept with on eye open LOL.
Overall, it was a great weekend.
¬ July 7th 2003 - RAW is Montreal!
*Note: The following is typed up by Paul Nemer & Ryan Allen*
Well the WrestleView.com crew got together again, and if you read about our last trip (No Way Out in February), you can probably guess that we had a fun and wild time again.
Several months before July 7th, Paul called me (Ryan Allen) up to inform me that the WWE was coming back to Montreal for RAW. A couple weeks later, Paul once again pulled off something amazing. Simply put, Paul informed me that we have tickets for the show, and they were right in front of the cameras.
A week or two leading up to the event, the excitement was building up. Paul and I discussed several sign ideas (mostly anti-HHH) and chants for the night!! Because trust me, whenever Paul Nemer is at a wrestling event, he makes his presence felt. We would save our voices until July 7th so that everyone could hear us yelling "YOU SCREWED BRET."
July 7th finally arrived, all together there were 5 of us (Paul, Allen, LoP's William Martinez and a couple friends). We hit the road from Ottawa to Montreal at 6am, there was a slight race between us onthe highway (BMW vs. Alero) guess who won hehe:) anyway...less than an hour into our trip, Paul decides he is hungry. Don't even ask me why, but at 7am, Paul is enjoying Harvey's grilled chicken burgers while the rest of us are wishing for a bowl of cereal and some toast. Yes at 7AM and Paul is only 6'1 at 170 pounds. I would understand if he was 400 pounds, but he's only 170 ... grilled chiken at 7 in the morning? Oh and trust me, this wasn't the only time Paul ate in the day.
We made it through the not so fun Montreal traffic and arrived at our hotel nice and early, so we had the whole day in Montreal. We were in the hotel for no longer then 15minutes, and we spot Randy Orton and Mark Jindrak! We talked to them for awhile about the show then continued to walk around...
Funniest part of the day, We see Fit Finlay and The Coach. Many other fans were gathered around the two, but we watch Nemer start screaming "HHH AND STEPH ARE RUINING THE WWE! HHH IS THE WORST CHAMPION OF ALL TIME! THE GUY IS BACKSTAGE CANCER! DON'T EVEN TRY TO TELL ME THIS ISN'T TRUE!!!" Now, the whole time, The Coach is just looking down with a big smile on his face. Now if this wasn't enough, no less then a minute later, we see Gerald Brisco getting on the elevator. Paul walks right up to the elevator that Brisco is getting on and starts yelling "YOU SCREWED BRET! HHH IS CANCER! HIM AND STEPH ARE RUINING WWE!" at Brisco! Paul was the comedian as always.
The rest of the afternoon was spent meeting some more wrestlers, talking with other wrestling fans and making some signs in our hotel room. After we finished our much loved "HHH & Steph ruined the WWE", "RAW Spoiler: HHH wins" and "WrestleMania XX Spoiler: HHH retains and other signs (and how can we forget the "Bret Hart is God" sign, we grabed some lunch at St. Hubert. No big deal right? Except for Paul and Allen spending virtually the entire lunch hour convincing a couple of our friends that Bret Hart is the best wrestler of all time :)
After lunch, some bad news. I get a call from WrestleView staff member Adam Martin saying the newsboard is down, mainly CGI scipting error. Ryan Allen gets a call from Paul Grainer saying there are message board problems! We get a day off, and there are some errors with WV. Go figure. In anycase, everything was sorted out by Adam Martin very quickly. We all grabbed some good CANADIAN beer :) , and headed off to the Molson Centre (Bell Centre) for RAW.
The show was a blast, and needless to say, our favourite part of the show was the Jericho/HBK highlight reel segment! It was also a fun time seeing how many signs we could get on t.v. without having security take them away!!
After the show, we met some more wrestlers, talked to some fans from the show, then went to downtown Montreal.
Overall another great wrestling event, with alot of fun had by all.
¬ Mid to late 2003.
The following was written by Ryan Allen:
WrestleView.com goes to court! Well not really, but this is what happened. This wouldn't really have anything to do with wrestling if it wasn't for Paul. In short, when Allen, Nemer, Peter (RAW reporter) were out with a few friends one night, we witnessed something. About 10 months later, we are subpeonad to go to court to testify as witnesses. We never got the opportunity to do so, but in the event that we did, Paul was well prepared. Paul told Ryan that if he got to testify, he promised to say a Bret Hart quote :). You have to understand, this is Ryan Allen, Paul Nemer and Peter H. in a Federal Court of Canada, and here is Paul getting ready to quote Bret "The Hitman" Hart, while giving his testimony to what he saw that night. Only Nemer would think of something like this. One other thing, this building, its full of people in shirts and ties, very classy. So what does the classy Mr. Nemer do? Goes and picks up a girl after the trial was over. I guess I should mention that the girl was also with the guys who were being tried for assult. Thats Mr. 355 PIMP for ya :) Oh, and this is after Ryan and Paul went out for breakfast and Paul ate 2 Cheeseburgers at 8 a.m.
In November, myself and Ryan Allen got to meet Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Jim Neidhart again, as well as The Honky Tonk Man. Unfortunatly we didn't get to ask them enough detailed questions to be able to put up an interview on WrestleView, but all three were great to talk to, especially Honky Tonk Man anytime he brought up HBK and HHH.
WrestleView also hired some new reporters; Christopher Marchant, Mike Greenslade and D. O'Brien.
Towards the end of the year, Paul made the realization that he could make a pretty good Ashton Cutcher, and thus began the "punking" of other WrestleView.com staff members. Now keep in mind that almost a year ago in Montreal at No Way Out, we played a few jokes on each other, yet we couldn't get Paul. Anyway, first to get punked was Ryan Allen. Being the rookie co-webmaster means your first in line to get punked. Paul and Adam Martin decided to leave a message on Ryan's cell phone. Adam, as "James" informed Ryan he had won a contest for the New RO (local tv station), and all he had to do was answer a few questions to recieve his prize. The prize? A Rey Mysterio DVD, Rey Mysterio T-Shirt, and basically any Rey Mysterio merchandise Ryan wanted. Adam and Paul were well aware the fact Ryan isn't the biggest Mysterio fan in the world. He got punked.
After Ryan got punked, next in line was Adam Martin. Ryan and Paul decided they were going to make Adam's heart race and make it seem he was going to get himself and WrestleView in a lot of trouble by WWE for posting "false and slanderous news." Adam admits he was punked badly by this, but I'm sure he has payback in mind.
You might be wondering, hey why haven't I read about Nemer getting punked. Shouldn't this be the funniest one of all. As much as Ryan and Adam would like to see that, Mr. Paul "Ashton Cutcher" Nemer has yet to be punked, we tried a couple of things but it didn't work. He even assured us that he can't be punked. His time will come if Adam and I have anything to do with it.
Following written by Paul Nemer:
Talks started about getting a new design by the end of the year. I was a little lukewarm for the idea to be honest. I felt that the design we had at the time was great (and it was), fast loading, easy to navigate, no pop-ups, etc... Then I kind of caved in for the idea. I started brain storming making drafts left and right, but nothing worked, so I stopped. A month later (late December) I decided to give it a try again. Half way succeeded, then ran into CSS problems. I usually make the website with strictly HTML, but now I decided to use CSS.. Luckily for me, Duane O'Brien (Wv's newest reporter) was there to help me out with it. I owe it all to him. This guy is a serious programmer, he can solve any programming error with a matter of minutes. Basically, all this started the last week of December and we finished January 5th, 2004. I ran through CSS problems countless of times and O'Brien was there to help me resolve it. William Martinez made us the front page banner. Now of course, we weren't going to just do a design and leave everything else hanging. The three co-webmasters and I decided to split up some tasks and have new pages up and update the current pages, and that's what we did. By the time everything was done, we realized that this was the biggest update we have ever done in the history of this site.
I wish that was the end of the design story, but it wasn't. As I said, we put up the new white (bright design as you guys say) on Monday, January 5th, 2004. The majority of you liked it, although hated the colors because they were too bright. Then we ran into a major problem. The design wasn't compatible with WEBTV users, old IE users, old netscape users, etc... We thought it was compatible, until I was bombed with e-mails saying it wasn't compatible with certain browsers. Therefore we got right to work. We apologize for that, trust me it won't happen again because we won't be switching designs for a very ling time :) Again, I want to thank Duane O'Brien for fixing the incompatibility issue and for his help with the CSS. Anyway, since we were going to fix up the design, I decided to kill two birds in one stone so to speak, by having Duane remake the design and myself adding the "darker colors" in the process. I decided to make this design match our forum colors (which makes sense) and like that everyone is happy. I personally believe these colors are better than the two older colors.
I am sure there are a few other things about the history that we're forgetting, but hey's it's better than nothing.
Any Regret(s)?
YES, Only one regret. I still regret not having bought the domain WrestleView.com when I first started in 1997, instead of using free home pages. Other then that, I am enjoying every bit of it.
Anything else to say?
I have said this many times. I don't know how I was able to accomplish all this without the people helping out. Even alone, doing my part with tons of other things going on is very difficult. I mean get this. You're a hockey player in winter, Soccer player (all season for 13 years), you're in College, you're a Computer technician, plus family and friends and a website owner. I don't know how I am still able to this, or for how much longer. BTW, I meant the last paragraph in the most un-egotistical way possible :)
That's it for now!
MORE HISTORY COMING AS
THE MONTHS/YEARS DEVELOP!
If anyone has any questions regarding me/WrestleView.com, feel free to e-mail them to me at webmaster@wrestleview.com and I'd be happy to answer them on here.
Name Association
Bill Clark (former co-webmaster): What can I say? I've always wanted you to come back, but I know you've been really busy. We'll make a deal... The day Bret Hart comes back, you're going to have to come back for the same amount of time.. That's the least you can do :) Bill just isn't a Bret Hart fan! He likes Steve Austin, hey, that's cool with me, as long as it's not HHH or HBK. But the fun part in all of this is, I still get to make fun of him because Hart beat Austin every time they had ever fought :-)
Wrestling Historian: If there is one guy that can beat me at wrestling trivia, it's him and no one else :) Mainly NWA though :)
William Martinez: TSN CHAT ROOM BASHING! E-mail him or me to know more about this! lol
Steve Gerweck: Smart guy. Stays out of "politics".
Kevin Romano: A CGI GOD! Had TWNP since 1996, one of the longest reigning sites around!
Triple A: Very good friend of mine. Lost interest in wrestling, and I don't blame him.
WrestleView.com and its staff: Priceless. :D Without the staff, WV wouldn't be where it's at.
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