The dust is beginning to settle from WWE’s Battleground, as we all head towards Brooklyn’s annual wrestling festival of sorts – SummerSlam. Plenty of solid in-ring action (and not so solid action, as well, if we’re being honest) took place this week, but overall we are in high spirits.

SmackDown Live is leading the charge with a nice resurgence. That’s not to say RAW faltered, but it’s nice to see the blue brand doing their thing again (even in the absence of Talking Smack… LONG LIVE SMACKING TALK!!!).

Featuring: Joshua Schlag (@thesteelcage / @schlizzag) and ‘The Mayor of Reseda’ Derek (@cap_kaveman).

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Joshua Schlag

For most of the last 30+ years of my life, I've been watching WWE. As a kid, Monday Night Raw hooked me from the start. From Bret Hart and Razor Ramon, to Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, to CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.. I've witnessed the ups and downs and I'm proud to have enjoyed pro wrestling through the years.

Though I now watch in a much different fashion than I did when I was a kid (finding out Vince McMahon was the owner and Jack Tunney no more than a figurehead was like finding out Santa Claus did not exist), I feel like I have a much greater appreciation for the hard work pro wrestlers do and the things they sacrifice to entertain us.

It's still real to me, dammit!