AS I SEE IT
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
PWBTS.com
In 2008, PWBTS.com had 2,483,216 page views, with readers from 96 nations and territories including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Mexico, Poland, Israel, Argentina, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Denmark, New Zealand, Taiwan, India, Austria, Peru, South Korea, Russia, People’s Republic of China, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Sweden, South Africa, Portugal, Romania, Switzerland, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Greece, Chile, Norway, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Finland, Philippines, Venezuela, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Turkey, Slovakia, Thailand, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Croatia, Bermuda, Indonesia, Colombia, Lithuania, Vietnam, Jordan, Morocco, Uruguay, Yugoslavia, Cyprus, Kuwait, Fiji, Panama, Hong Kong, Estonia, Bolivia, Guatemala, Qatar, Syria, Libya, Iceland, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Guyana, Greenland, Ghana, Georgia, Dominica, Cambodia, Albania, El Salvador, Paraguay, Ecuador, Lebanon, Oman, Algeria, and the Ukraine.
In noting the countries above, I can see countries like Kuwait and Qatar, and assume there’s a good possibility that at least a few of those PWBTS.com visitors are from the US military. According to AddFreeStats, I already know there have been 2,074 separate visits from US military hostnames. For those of you in the US military, wherever you’re serving, thanks for taking time to read PWBTS.com. I hope we’ve given you some enjoyment in the middle of your difficult task, especially during this holiday season we’ve wnow wound up.
In other milestones, AS I SEE IT also begins its twelfth year with this column. Additionally, PWBTS.com, its flagship site has now reached over 38 million page views during its 12 year plus history.
As I’ve said in New Year columns past, that means that PWBTS.com has visitors from every region of the world… from every time zone…and from languages and cultures too numerous to count; reading about wrestling on our flagship site. To all of you… wherever you are from, thank you for taking time out of your day to read PWBTS.com’s mix of wrestling news and opinions.
Thanks also go out to those websites that link to PWBTS.com and provide us with a wide variety of visitors such as:
In 2008, AS I SEE IT and PWBTS have discussed various issues concerning independent wrestling, as well as puroresu, lucha, and WWE, including such subjects as:
And believe it or not…someone who actually interviewed me.
The human side of the business, with such stories as:
In 2009, as every year, here’s hoping that AS I SEE IT gives you a lot more chances to make you think… that it can comment and report on many more moments of enjoyment… less moments that I feel moved to criticize… and FAR less where I have to report on or think about someone in wrestling that we’ve lost…and that it serves as the viewpoint for one longtime fan to share his opinions with all of you.
Until next time…
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