Beyond The Beermat

Our relationship with the superstars we see on a weekly basis is a uneven one. Especially when you mix their personal lives with their professional. Now – more than ever – these connections matter. Becky Lynch announcing her pregnancy and subsequent vacation of the Raw Women’s title on Monday highlighted a very real sentiment. We don’t often get the chance to feel any great happiness for wrestlers as people and it is only once they are gone – be it retirement or injury – that we fully appreciate what we had. Not only that, our emotional association with wrestling when we’re young takes on a whole new meaning that disappears as the years go by. Beyond The Beermat is here to be your wrestling psychiatrists as we go through our own personal highs and lows, just know that we charge by the crate of beer rather than the hour.