I can't really speak much for my "nerd" status. I don't read comics aside from the Coheed and Cambria related ones, I don't watch anime, but I do play a ton of video games.
However, I love professional wrestling. I was raised on WCW, then of course the WWE after the buy-out. Nowadays, however, my focus is damn near completely on Ring of Honor and Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Both companies always seem to put on a great show every time, although 2009 was a pretty poor year for Ring of Honor.
Whenever someone asks me why I like wrestling (indie wrestling specifically), I always find it kind of hard to answer. The athleticism is certainly a big part of it. These guys go through hell sometimes, putting their lives on the line to entertain a few hundred to a couple thousand people a night, and still walk out under their own power.
I also love that fact that two guys can go out in that ring... take anywhere from 200 to 70,000 people in the palm of their hands, and tell a story and leave everyone's jaw on the floor by the end of it. I have watched Tyler Black VS Davey Richards from ROH's "Death Before Dishonor VIII" multiple times, and every time I watch it I'm dumbfounded by how amazing it is.
Speaking of story-driven... how about the upcoming ROH show "Best in the World 2011", huh? Davey Richards VS Eddie Edwards, former tag team partners, battling for the ROH world championship. I haven't been this excited for a wrestling match in a long, long time.
Just look at the hype video...
Goosebumps, every time.
Kind of off-topic but, I also love listening to and seeing wrestlers outside of the events. Like listening to Colt Cabana's "Art of Wrestling" podcasts. He talks to fellow wrestlers about how they fist got into wrestling, how they got their start, and they share funny stories from the road. Another example is the documentary "The Wrestling Road Diaries." Colt Cabana, Bryan Danielson, and Sal Rinauro documented like a week and a half of them just on the road. It's an amazing DVD, I recommend it to any wrestling fan.
Of course, we wrestling fans can't make everyone like wrestling. There will always be people who are indifferent to it and, of course, the people who flat-out hate it. The least we can do is try to at least show people that wrestling isn't the side-show attraction that it used to be.