Yesterday, Ric Flair retired from wrestling after 36 years. No worries - this is not yet another long sappy tribute to Flair. The tribute stuff has been done to death already, and personally, better than I would have ever written it anyway. And anyway, yesterday’s tribute at the end of RAW was about as well done as it could get.

Allow me to be the one zillionth person to say: Thank you, Ric.

With Ric moving on, and with me getting this new promotion, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the topic of moving on. I got another dose of that today. I won’t talk about it publicly but today opened my eyes in a lot of ways.

With that being said, this will mostly likely be the Safe House’s last update.

This was a long time coming - ever since I moved to Kansas, my life has changed dramatically. I just haven’t had the passion (or the time) for blogging like I used to. Honestly, the only reason I didn’t close it several months ago was for the simple fact that it was the only way some people kept up with me anymore.

I would rather turn out the lights now than just keep fading away. For better or worse, it was never my style online to go quietly. And with the retirement of probably the only untarnished wrestling hero I had left, the timing seems appropriate. I’m not going to 100% rule out a return. You know how retirements are in wrestling. But right now, I feel pretty confident that this is the end of the Safe House.

My time online has been marked by a lot of crazy things. Made a lot of good friends, made two best friends, made a fair share of enemies (both deserved and undeserved). Had a lot of fun, got into a fair bit of trouble, wrote a lot of (at least I think) cool efed stuff, and created 4 plus years of insanity right here in this space.

If I pissed you off, sorry. Really.

If I made you smile, good.

If I made you laugh, great.

I love you guys. It’s been really fun doing this.

-Rob

P.S. I’ll still be around on IM occasionally, and those who have the cell and/or email are still free to use those as needed.