The following is an excerpt taken from an article Barry "Bull" Buchanan recently wrote on the Voice of Wrestling message boards. The message is pretty strong with a very touching ending that displays his true love for the wrestling business:
"...Not long ago, I was watching the movie Men In Black with my kids. In one scene Tommy Lee Jones asks Will Smith to use a device on him that will totally erase his memory and replace it with a different one. Tommy Lee looks at the stars and says "they're beautiful aren't they; I never look at them anymore". He wants to forget all the aliens and all the perils that await Earth out there, and just look at them as stars like he once did. Sometimes I want the same thing, to be able to look at wrestling just as I did on Saturday nights, just a kid, happy to be with his dad in Carrollton, Ga. Watching Tommy Rich and Mr. Wrestling 2 make the world right for one more week.
I would like to forget some of the things I've seen. I would like to forget all the time I've missed with my family, all the times I've seen good people taken advantage of just because they were good people. But, most of all I would like to forget that feeling , like someone just kicked you in the stomach, when I here that one of my brothers is gone. Memories like the night I got the call that Ray Traylor had died or the morning I found my friend Jerry Tute in his hotel room are memories I could live without. However, when I forget the reason I fell in love with this sport, all I have to do is look at my 3 year old son. He has the same look in his eyes when he watches wrestling that I did many years ago. It's like watching myself all over again which both thrills me and scares me to death.
Do I want my son to be a wrestler? No. I want him to be a doctor or a lawyer, just as my parents wanted for me. Will I stop him? No. No more than my parents did me. I only hope that if that is the path he chooses that I can help him avoid the many perils that I know await him. So maybe I don't have to have my memory erased with some futuristic laser, because I can see the sport I love and have dedicated the last 13 years of my life to through his eyes, and all the other eyes of every small child who lives for Monday night or Saturday morning so there hero can make the world right for another week for them..."
Buchanan is currently in Japan, but has still been active on the Voice of Wrestling Forums answering and responding to questions submitted by the fans. You can read the rest of Barry's article, plus submit questions for Barry Buchanan (and Kevin Kelly, Dr. Tom Prichard, and TNA's Trinity) exclusively on the Voice of Wrestling message boards. Enjoy.
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