{"id":47111,"date":"2018-10-23T16:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=47111"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T21:10:04","slug":"perkins-natural-consequences-blog-the-things-that-matter-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/23\/perkins-natural-consequences-blog-the-things-that-matter-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Perkins&#8217; &#8220;Natural Consequences&#8221; Blog: The things that matter most"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-1014249413\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong>By Nick Perkins<\/strong>, Prowrestling.net Staffer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternRebel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WesternRebel<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I have been a professional wrestling fan for as long as I can remember. My very first memory of a \u201cwrestling angle\u201d was seeing Shawn Michaels kick a wheelchair-bound Bret Hart in the face. I didn\u2019t know, at the time, that wresting was fake and I was aghast at the abuse that had just befallen the handicapped man.<\/p>\n<p>20 years later, I have experienced all of the highs and lows that come with following professional wrestling. I\u2019ve attended WrestleMania. I\u2019ve almost gotten beaten up by Scott Steiner after being a little too vocal at a TNA house show. I watched Shawn Michaels give his Hall of Fame Speech live, and I\u2019ve watched Daniel Bryan fight for his dreams. Those were the highlights.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also had to watch Michael Cole wrestle, I saw Triple H hump a mannequin, and I\u2019ve had to explain HLA and the \u2018Kiss My Ass\u2019 Club. I\u2019ve watched my heroes become mortals when friends of theirs died. I have to watch Baron Corbin every week. Those are the lowlights.<\/p>\n<p>Through it all, I have continued to follow this sport (s) entertainment. Professional wrestling has seen me through my own highlights and lowlights as well. When my mother died, I was able to distract myself with a DX reunion and with Rob Van Dam winning the WWE Championship. When I struggled with addiction issues, it was the stories of Shawn Michaels and Eddy Guerrero that convinced me I could battle my own demons and come out on top.<\/p>\n<p>Professional wrestling has served as a distraction and as a reflection. It has made me laugh and cry. It has challenged and inspired me. More recently, professional wrestling has taught me that if I fight for my dreams, my dreams will fight for me.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m trying to say is, professional wrestling is important to me, but it\u2019s not the most important thing. There are more important things in my life; such as God, country, family, and making sure my facial hair is the perfect length.<\/p>\n<p>There are more important things than wrestling in my own world and in the world in general, which is why this Saudi Arabia debacle is such a pivotal moment for WWE.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist for the Washington Post was tortured, murdered, and disembodied, allegedly at the direction of the Prince of Saudi Arabia and carried out by his \u201cpeople.\u201d While the Saudi Government is denying involvement, it\u2019s pretty obvious that it was them who lured Jamal Khashoggi into the Saudi consulate building, under the guise of giving him papers for his upcoming marriage, and then brutally murdered him.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same country that WWE, not even a year ago, ran a show in and produced a propaganda video for. It is also the same country that they are about to go back into to produce a WrestleMania-level show. And therein lies the problem.<\/p><div id=\"prowr-282816681\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>WWE has been backed into a corner, due to their deal with Saudi Arabia. Yes, WWE would be giving up a lot of money if they were to back out of their contracted shows. But there are more important things in this world than money, there are more important things in this world than business. There are, believe it or not, more important things than professional wrestling.<\/p>\n<p><b>*Update as of 10\/23\/2018<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I began writing this article on Sunday, October 21. On Monday evening, Roman Reigns announced that he was relinquishing the WWE Universal Championship and taking a hiatus from WWE to fight a much bigger battle with leukemia; a battle that we all hope\/pray\/believe he will win.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, this article was supposed to be about how integrity is more important than money and how life is more important than professional wrestling. This was proven in spades on Monday night, as Reigns shocked the world with his announcement. While the Saudi Arabia show is still an issue, and we\u2019ll discuss it further at another time, sometimes life is more important than politics, as well.<\/p>\n<p>I, like the majority of adult male wrestling fans, have not been a believer in Roman Reigns as the top babyface over the years. I cringed every time he won a Royal Rumble or a championship or cocked his fist to hit somebody with a Superman Punch. None of this was his fault, really. Reigns is a tremendous performer; he was just being forced down our throats relentlessly. This was frustrating, even infuriating at times. That\u2019s the price we pay for being passionate wrestling fans. We may have even stated that we hated Roman Reigns; I know I did. It was easy to get on the anti-Reigns bandwagon. In fact, it was suggested that I avoid writing about Reigns with my first article on Dot Net because \u201cit was too easy.\u201d Every pro wrestling writer ever has waxed poetic about how to solve a problem like Roman Reigns.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that his announcement on Monday was not a scenario any of us had imagined, and rightfully so. Fans might be bored with Roman Reigns. We might have booed him mercilessly. But we never, at least the vast majority of us, said \u201cI wish Roman Reigns would get cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I heard about Reigns\u2019 announcement before I saw it and, admittedly, I was nervous about how the crowd in attendance would react. I hoped they would be respectful or at least quiet. That whole \u201cif you don\u2019t have something nice to say, don\u2019t say anything at all,\u201d y\u2019know? When I actually saw the segment, I was floored &#8211; not only by the content of what he said, but by the audience\u2019s reaction. I didn\u2019t think anybody would make me feel the way Daniel Bryan did when he announced his retirement. It was the \u201crealest\u201d moment in a predetermined sport that I had ever experienced. I\u2019m a grown ass man and have no problem admitting I choked up when Bryan retired. He was my favorite wrestler of all time and I couldn\u2019t believe what I was hearing. I never thought I would feel that way about a wrestler again. I sure as hell didn\u2019t think those emotions would appear because of Roman Reigns. But that\u2019s exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p>I did not think I would hear a \u201cThank you, Roman\u201d chant for a long time. The things Roman said, the emotion behind his eyes and his words, as well as the respect from the crowd, blew me away. I got choked up again because I was reminded, yet again, that life is more important than wrestling. Roman Reigns is a character created by WWE. Joe Anoa\u2019I is a man with a family and he has a hard journey ahead of him. I hope he knew, standing in the ring on Monday that, this time, he really did have a shield in front of him and an empire behind him.<\/p>\n<p>Wrestling fans are fickle and notorious for building wrestlers up, only to tear them down. That\u2019s the name of the game and wrestlers know what they\u2019re getting into when they step foot in the ring. But fans are also incredibly protective. It\u2019s like a big brother relationship. We can be mean to our little brother, but nobody else can and, if they do, we\u2019ll kick their asses. The same can be said for how fans treat wrestlers. We might boo them. We might grow tired of them. We tell them they can\u2019t wrestle. But they\u2019re still our wrestlers and we will go to the ends of the earth to remind them of that. Cancer cannot have Roman Reigns; he\u2019s ours and we\u2019re not giving him up without a fight. Reigns is going to fight, too. He\u2019s going to fight harder than he ever has before. And he\u2019s going to win the fight because that\u2019s what Roman Reigns does. This time, though, we are solidly on his side. This is one battle that Roman will not be fighting alone. He has his friends, his family, and his fellow wrestlers by his side. He also has the fans. We may give Roman Reigns a hard time when he\u2019s battling for the Universal Championship, but that\u2019s just wrestling. In life, Joe Anoa\u2019I is a true champion and we will champion for him, for as long as we need to, until he comes back.<\/p>\n<p>There are things more important than wrestling; Roman Reigns proved that. But one day, he\u2019s going to come back to wrestling, with a newfound respect from fans. In the meantime, however, Reigns has become more than a mere professional wrestler. He has become a champion for the afflicted, as well as for survivors. It had to have been hard for Superman to admit he was a mortal, just like the rest of us. He did it to raise awareness and to show the world that a leukemia diagnosis is not a death sentence; it\u2019s just another battle to be won. It had to have been hard to be that vulnerable, in front of that many people. But he did it to send a message. In the battle of Roman Reigns vs Cancer, Cancer doesn\u2019t stand a chance.<\/p><div id=\"prowr-3815290030\" class=\"prowr-content-5 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_3 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Roman Reigns has been called Superman, but it\u2019s Joe Anoa\u2019I who is the real hero.<\/p>\n<p>***Nick Perkins is a state-renowned writer who dreamt of being a professional wrestler, until he realized that he was a) the opposite of athletically gifted and b) really, really afraid of being hurt. So he became a writer instead, and has been proclaimed (by himself, as well as close friends and relatives) to be a \u2018natural.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><i>\u2018Natural Consequences\u2019 are defined by various sociologists and child psychologists as \u201coutcomes that happen as a result of behavior that is not planned or controlled.\u201d As somebody who also works with troubled youth via his \u201cgrownup job,\u201d Nick has seen the benefits of natural consequences on a daily basis. Coincidentally, the world of professional wrestling is full of natural consequences. 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