Putting the "O" in "Tha O Show"

What up wrestling fans! Now some of you may have already heard of me and some of you may not have. But I'm sure that many of you may be wondering, "what's a rapper doing with a wrestling website"? The answer's simple: I'm about as much of a wrestling head as I am a hip-hop head. And by the sounds of what's on the radio these days, probably even more so. (However, please log on to www.dan-e-o.com if you're into the good stuff...or just want to learn more about me).

I, like many of you, grew up watching wrestling. I most recently found a daily journal that I used to write in when I was in Grade 5. Nearly every entry has a comment about watching wrestling, including who won and lost on the last edition of Saturday Night's Main Event. I would always watch the show on Sunday, of course...being too young to stay up until 11:30, I had to set up my VCR to tape it. Contrary to Big Daddy Donnie's assersion that I'm a Hulk Hogan mark, I never was. But I am a HUGE mark for Eddie Guerrero (God bless him)...which means I just lied. Of course I grew up a Hulkamaniac! Who didn't? Seriously. I had the action figure, watched his cartoon and even got a copy of The Wrestling Album on vinyl which is still in mint condition.

I have not only watched wrestling for what feels like my whole life but I've studied it. I just so happened to get an A+ in my last year at York University for an 18-page essay on wrestling that I wrote for a "Popular Culture" class. Top that, wrestling nerds! I even trained as a wrestler with the AWF (Apocalypse Wrestling Federation) in 2000 for my music video "Corrida De Toros" (which most fans incorrectly refer to as "the boxing video"). You can check it out at www.feedlynks.com. I stayed on with the AWF for a while as a sometimes-used guest referee and later a manager for "Club Stud" Tony Mack and Traci (currently Matt Bentley's valet in TNA) during her feud with La Felina (Gail Kim of TNA). AWF can also boast training such superstars as Edge, Christian Cage and Trish Stratus.

The "Corrida De Toros" video features the likes of Synn (formerly of TNA) and Jason Sensation (once in WWE). Jason actually appears in skits on my See No Evil, Hear No Evil album as the voices of Marge Simpson...and none other than Stone Cold Steve Austin! You may best remember Jason as a member of Degeneration X's sarcastic tribute to the Nation of Domination several years ago on Raw. Remember? Triple H played The Rock, X-Pac was Mark Henry and Jason played the late, great Owen Hart. His impersonation, as always, was dead on.

It was during the course of writing my magnificently brilliant essay that I met Big Daddy Donnie....lucky for him, years later I would coin the term "O" as an exclamation of impressiveness during a professional wrestling performance. Yes, I created "Tha O Show". And I invite you all to be a part of it. If you're anything like Donnie and I, you ALWAYS have a comment about the last Raw, SmackDown! or pay-per-view event. Maybe, you're sick of WWE and prefer the alternatives. I'm really starting to get into TNA myself. Whatever, the case may be, log on to "Tha O Show" often and give us your opinion...because this is our new way of sharing ours...and it's always no holds barred! We'll have all kinds of articles on this site that we urge you to comment on. You won't always agree with us and the Big Daddy and I won't always agree with each other (he is, after all, human...he makes mistakes), but we encourage you to use "Tha O Show" as an outlet for your thoughts on our favourite pastime: pro wrestling.

So the next time you scream out "OOOO!!!!" during a sick move during a Kurt Angle/Chris Benoit match, forget about the "star" rating and think about its "O" rating....and remember Dan-e-o...the one who put the "O" in "Tha O Show".

Welcome one and all.

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