How Professional Wrestling is benefiting from Zeb Coulter

I won't lie to you.

I won't try and tell you that Jack Swagger has anything to do with him being over as much as you may think. Sure his look has changed. His gimmick, his mindset. That may all be true, but if that were the case, when I wake up tomorrow annoyed with the fact I have to go back to my residence hall, I'll ignore that.

Okay, so I got off track.

Zeb Coulter is a character played by the famous pro wrestler Dutch Mantel. That glory of a full beard and all rests on the face of someone shifting the attention of pro wrestling.

Let me start out by saying this. Yes. Pro wrestling is fake. Yes, people have used steroids in pro wrestling. Yes, I am extremely good looking, but no, you may not take my picture.

Zeb Coulter's outlandish works, along with Dutch's beautiful shifting of personality has given the mainstream media to oddly enough see WWE in a better light than it has before. Usually, when you mention pro wrestling to someone in the media, they will pull out names like Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Hulk Hogan. Guys that have for better or for worse not put the best light and let people outside of our world lay their vile minds into what they feed is the best thing for an industry they don't understand.

Which is wrong.

Pro wrestling is about entertainment. It's about emotion. It's about being able to believe in a character, but ultimately being able to identify with a character. Challenging authority, questioning laws, simple things. Wrestling allows for someone like me to know I'm okay with being different because I don't have a bountiful list of friends who like wrestling. Most just don't bother to listen to me when I bring up the fact something happened.

But I continue to enjoy this industry

Why?

Because of people like Wayne Maurice Keown. Because of him, I feel confident in being a fan of pro wrestling. I feel confident in being able to continue to write when many years ago I really never had the clear understanding to write blog posts or columns. I can identify with the "good guys" who have to face the bad guys and defeat the odds.

Wrestling is fun.
Wrestling is unique.
Wrestling is something I love and lets me feel identified.

And that's why I watch.

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