If you have been watching the show for the last few months, you will see that we cover all types of wrestling - professional, independent, and amateur. You will also notice that there is one type of wrestling that we do not and will not cover - and that's backyard wrestling.

For those of you who do not know what backyard wrestling is - maybe it's better that you don't - but I will tell you simply for the sake of this story. Backyard wrestling is when a group of kids get together and mimic what they see the professionals - hence the word - do in the WWF, WCW and ECW. By mimic, I mean they actually wrestle each other the same way it's done by the pros - there's that word again. They do all the same moves and even use chairs tables and kendo sticks to basically beat the crap out of each other. While these "wrestlers" try their best to make their "matches" look authentic - they're not - and one day, someone's gonna get hurt - bad.

Now I'm not trying to sound like a killjoy, but let's face facts. Professional wrestlers, although participating in pre-determined matches, trained for years to do what they do. They have spent day after day in gyms and wrestling schools practicing, training - and learning to take bumps and give them in a way that will not injure themselves and their opponents. Whether they are giving their opponent a suplex or their opponent is giving one to them - they know what they're doing - I wish I could say the same for those that choose the backyard as their arena.

These backyard wrestlers are not only putting themselves in danger, but are also telling those that watch them that what they are doing is cool. Forget the fact that a handful of kids have already gotten badly hurt, paralyzed - or even killed - that's a given. But what about the younger brother of one of these "backyard superstars" who wants to do the same thing that his brother does and then whacks his buddy over the head with a chair and rips his head open - then what?

For those who say that the wrestlers and wrestling shows are to blame - I disagree. Both the WWF and Ring Fever, as well as the WCW and ECW have disclaimers on all of their shows and websites that the athletes shown on television are trained professionals and what they do should not be tried at home by anyone. Besides, I have been a fan of movies like Terminator, Die Hard, and Lethal Weapon all my life - and I have never tried to mimic Arnold, Bruce and Mel by trying to blow up half the city and kill everyone I ran into that day. So I think that the kids - and that's what they are - that are doing this backyard stuff need to realize that if in their next "match", they decide to attempt a moonsault or swanton bomb and wind up being pinned to a hospital bed instead of pinning their opponents - they will have no one to blame but themselves.