Becoming a WCW fan long after it went out of business...

[britstap]

Does anyone find themselves watching more WCW/NWA wrestling more than old-school WWF? I didn't start watching wrestling until late 1999-early 2000, and I only watched WWF, so I didn't see the mess that was WCW 2000 at the time. I didn't even know anything about WCW until the Invasion angle, and by then WWF had me convinced it was some low-rent company that wasn't on their level. Now when I want to watch old-school wrestling, I always watch old Nitros, SN, PPVs and Thunder as opposed to the Attitude Era (which does NOT age well at all IMO) that I grew up with. I even like the pre-Bischoff era, as WrestleWar 1992 is one of my favorite PPVs. Just curious if there's anyone else that does.

[Deleted]

I started watching wrestling around 1989-ish, and at the time, I liked WWF way better. It wasn't until recently that I realized that most of the time, WCW stuff from that era was mostly superior.

[________ has left the building]

You missed out going on a rollercoaster of emotions as a WCW fan during the years the company was active.

[chazraps]

I started watching WCW in '96 at the age of 10. After being a mostly WWF kid, trying to play catchup on WCW history was at times like watching wrestling from another planet. It was great, just so different from the style I was accustomed to.

I really recommend checking out the double shot of Spring Stampede '94 and Slamboree '94, arguably the two greatest consecutive pay-per-views of all time. Those were the last WCW shows before Hogan came to town and really showed what a unique and diverse roster they had at the time.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

I watched both NWA/WCW and WWF until around 1997. After the whole shock of the nWo invasion died down, WCW became stupid to me and I actually started to really hate it. I was a WWF guy during the Attitude era. I still don't like WCW during that time, but I find myself watching a lot of NWA/WCW on YouTube from the 80s/early 90s because (aside from a few stupid gimmicks like the Ding Dongs) it was very good. I challenge you to find a moment more thrilling than watching the Mulkey Brothers upset the Gladiators.

[percymania]

WCW was the first wrestling company I began watching on a regular basis sometime in the early 90s. I always preferred their product over WWF (until Russo came aboard).

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

WCW in that era often had goofy storylines and stuff that didn't make sense, but compared to the WWF for most of the 90s - and this even applies for a lot of when WWF was on top in the late 90s - the wrestling standard, main events usually separated unless Flair was champion, is of a higher standard across the board.

[Mc Mc Mannequin]

Yeah I have become a fan in recent years aswell.

I did watch WCW during the Monday night wars, but only until Raw came on and I always viewed WCW as a crappy version of WWF back then.

[Chip]

With the help of the Network yeah, mainly because I've already been exposed to most of the old WWE PPV's whether in full or segmented. I already know or can pretty accurately predict what's going to happen on an old WWE PPV, I don't have that with WCW, it's all new to me with performers I'm not all that familiar with.

[TGM]

I was 11 when I first started watching WCW in 1997 and I loved it.

It's funny how 15 years of WWF has convinced me that I hated WCW.

[Deleted]

I've been watching tons of my favorite stuff from the 80's and 90's lately, and while WWF mostly had better story lines, WCW mostly had better wrestling. I do think WWF upped their game around 2000 with the Radicalz, Jericho, Angle, RVD, etc.