Alright, let’s talk about this wrestling thing, the WWE Knoxville 2024, you know? I heard it’s comin’ to town, that big ol’ Knoxville Civic Coliseum place. Folks sayin’ it’s gonna be a real barn burner, like a fire in a hay barn, all flashy and loud.
They’re callin’ it the “Road to WrestleMania,” which sounds fancy, but I reckon it just means they’re gonna be wrestlin’ and thumpin’ each other somethin’ fierce. Heard tell it’s on Saturday, February 3rd. That ain’t too far off, is it? Gotta mark that on the calendar, right next to the day the chickens need vaccinatin’.
Now, I ain’t never been to one of these wrasslin’ shows before, but my grandson, that little rascal, he’s all fired up about it. He keeps jabberin’ on about “suplexes” and “clotheslines” and all sorts of words I can’t make heads or tails of. Sounds like a whole lot of hootin’ and hollerin’ to me.
- Wrestlers: I hear there’s gonna be all sorts of fellas there, big ones, small ones, some with masks, some without. Sounds like a county fair, but with more spandex and less prize-winning pigs.
- Tickets: My grandson says we gotta get tickets, and they ain’t cheap, mind you. He says somethin’ about buyin’ ’em online, which is another one of them newfangled things I don’t quite understand. Back in my day, you just showed up and paid at the door, simple as that.
- Civic Coliseum: That big building downtown? Yeah, that’s where it’s at. I’ve been there for the county fair a time or two, but I never thought I’d see a wrasslin’ match there. Times sure are changin’.
They say this is the first time in four years them wrasslers have come to Knoxville. Musta been busy beatin’ each other up somewhere else, I guess. My grandson says this show is a big deal, somethin’ about gettin’ ready for an even bigger show called “WrestleMania” down in Las Vegas. That sounds like a long ways away, might as well be on the moon for all I care.
I reckon it’ll be a good time, though. Even if I don’t understand all the fuss, it’ll be fun to see my grandson get all excited. And who knows, maybe I’ll even learn a thing or two about wrasslin’. Maybe they’ll teach me how to do one of them “clotheslines” so I can handle that ornery rooster of mine. He’s been givin’ me the stink eye lately.
February 3rd, that’s the day. Gotta remember that. I’ll have to wear my good shoes, the ones I only wear to church and funerals. And maybe pack some earplugs, just in case all that hollerin’ gets to be too much. My grandson says it’s gonna be “electrifying,” like lightnin’ in a bottle. Well, I’ve seen lightnin’ in a bottle, and it ain’t nothin’ to mess with, so I hope these wrasslers know what they’re doin’.
They say this whole thing is the “Road to WrestleMania,” like I said before. Sounds like a long and bumpy road to me. I hope they got good shock absorbers on that wrasslin’ ring, otherwise them fellas gonna be feelin’ it in the mornin’. Wrestlemania 41 is gonna be in Las Vegas this year. They say it will be on April 19 and 20. Well that’s too far, I ain’t goin’ there, no sir.
Anyhow, I’m lookin’ forward to it, I guess. It’ll be somethin’ different, somethin’ to talk about at the next quilting bee. And who knows, maybe I’ll even become a wrasslin’ fan. Stranger things have happened, I reckon. Like that time the cow got stuck in the outhouse. Now that was a story for the ages.
So, if you’re in Knoxville on February 3rd, and you hear a bunch of hollerin’ and thumpin’, don’t be alarmed. It’s just them wrasslers doin’ their thing. And if you see an old lady with her good shoes and earplugs, that’ll be me, tryin’ to make sense of it all.
Gotta remember, get them tickets, and Saturday the 3rd, Knoxville Civic Coliseum. Don’t wanna miss it, even though I don’t know what half of it is about.
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