Dub H
Crow T. Robot
Captain Pixel: the Game Master
I ❤ Aniki
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Post by Dub H on Sept 3, 2018 21:58:39 GMT -5
Bad repetitive storylines.
Pushing people that are honestly not that good or engaging and killing over talented acts for the sake of the same people .(mainly Roman and Charlotte,but there has been other cases).
If you are not Roman, you are getting overshadowed by old/part timers which I am not engaged at all at.(The fact I can list a bunch of people that got the spotlight removed from then ,Ranging from Ryback/Punk to Kevin Owens and Braun is insane)
treating the fans like morons and actively booking against what they want.
Honestly I`m sure I could think of more but then it becomes a rant
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MiLB Fan
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by MiLB Fan on Sept 3, 2018 22:13:13 GMT -5
Mostly burnout, I guess. I can’t pinpoint a specific moment, or a particular wrestler. It’s just that there’s so damn much of it.
I became a wrestling fan in 1992, and started watching regularly the following year once I figured out when and where the shows were. Every Monday night, my TV was tuned to channel 25 as Vince McMahon welcomed us to Monday Night Raaaaaw!
I first decided it was time to take a break when Raw went to three hours. I enjoyed Raw 1000 but the next week, I was falling asleep by hour two. I didn’t watch another show until Jerry Lawler had his heart attack, and that was only because I happened to see the thread on this forum. Naturally I wanted to know what happened, so I flipped over to USA.
I cut the cable cord in January 2015, which reduced my WWE watching significantly. I can stream USA through Sling, but I just can’t muster up the energy to watch. I’ll try now and then, but I end up having it on as background noise and turning it off before it’s over. I can’t remember the last time I watched a show from beginning to end.
I subscribed to the WWE Network on Day One and I thought I would keep it forever. Instead, I’ve canceled and restarted my subscription more than once; it’s usually the allure of WrestleMania that draws me back in. And now that show has become a slog to sit through.
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Allie Kitsune
Crow T. Robot
Always Feelin' Foxy.
Celestial Princess in Exile.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 3, 2018 22:19:04 GMT -5
Something Something Big Dog. Something Something Oooouahh. Something Something Babygurl.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 22:21:44 GMT -5
Not watching at the moment and more than anything it's a mix of the product being f***ing boring, their insistence on dragging everything out WAY too long, and the open seething contempt for their audience.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Sept 3, 2018 22:24:56 GMT -5
When WWE entered a new era of not only ignoring the fans' opinions but actively trying to shit all over them.
Other factors were 3 hour RAWs, being sick of The Authority and just not being interested in Roman Reigns as the new "guy".
When the overriding feelings you get from watching WWE is boredom and annoyance, you know it's time to stop watching. My enjoyment of the company has been dwindling since about 2012 and this year my interest has continued to reach all-time lows. I can go months at a time without watching Raw or SmackDown and be perfectly content with it. The last PPV I watched was Greatest Royal Rumble.
I really can't see myself becoming a regular watcher of WWE again anytime soon, or maybe ever again.
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Chainsaw
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It is what it is
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 3, 2018 22:29:08 GMT -5
Roman. Just in general.
The same matches week after week, with very little variation, as well as doing the same matches on Raw and SD that they had done on the preceding PPV. And then doing the same match in the follow up PPV.
The general attitude of the company deciding finally that they were going to do things their way, no matter how much the fans shit on it.
I've got better things to do with my time, man.
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King Devitt
Grimlock
It gets better the longer you stare at it
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Post by King Devitt on Sept 3, 2018 22:32:14 GMT -5
Vince McMahon.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 22:38:40 GMT -5
When WWE entered a new era of not only ignoring the fans' opinions but actively trying to shit all over them. This is getting so bad that it's actually turning me off of wrestling in general. It's kind of like if you ate at a specific burger place and kept getting sick every time, eventually you just couldn't even look at a burger anymore.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Sept 3, 2018 22:41:55 GMT -5
Around 2007-2008 is when I slowly started to not care about wrestling as much. I'm pretty good at remembering wrestling minutiae before that period, but my memory starts to get hazy after it.
More specifically, John Cena. The years when Cena was the main guy killed a lot of my enthusiasm for wrestling. Everything people have said about Reigns since 2014 can be applied to Cena during 2005-2010. What exactly his gimmick? Why do his moves look so badly performed? Why does he run roughshod over the roster? Why doesn't WWE turn him heel if the fans are going to boo him? The existence of 'John Cena, main eventer' is partially the reason why I can't be too annoyed by Roman Reigns, since the Cena years were the precedent for the Reigns push we see now. If there were no Cena then, would there be a Cena now?
(but yeah, the Reigns years have been bad as well)
What killed my interest in wrestling dead was Triple H winning the WWE title in 2016 at the Royal Rumble. I've been tired of Triple H and McMahon shenanigans since the early 2000s. That it was still a major component of WWE was frustrating beyond belief; since the early 2000s, from the McMahon family we've seen non-wrestlers hogging TV time, 30 minute promos to start Raw, the most unsympathetic heel characters unconvincingly trying to turn babyface. Triple H winning the title again symbolized everything I don't like about modern WWE, and I canceled my subscription to the WWE Network the following day. I haven't really watched current WWE TV or PPVs since, barring a clip or two on YouTube.
And unlike other fans, when I quit watching wrestling, I went cold turkey. I didn't try to seek out Lucha Underground, New Japan, Ring of Honor, or any of the All In promotion stuff. Barring posting on this discussion board, I don't ever think about wrestling anymore, besides reminiscing about the day when I found it to be enjoyable.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Sept 3, 2018 22:44:57 GMT -5
I've been turning off shows and doing something else lately. Kind of half-watching to be honest. For me, it's the obvious stuff like horrendous booking, incredibly paper-thin characters like smilin' Finn Balor, and the excessive Roman Reigns/RemembahTHESHIELD? stuff. Some people are honestly just defined by an entrance they have - that doesn't cut it for me.
But it's also the advertising and philanthropy as a marketing tool thing they do where they pat themselves on the back. Modern advertising is excruciatingly obnoxious in my opinion, and having to sit through 3 hours of it on top of WWE fellating themselves to appeal to advertisers and improve their image to an audience that frankly isn't even watching just irritates me. Then you factor in so many C-level characters, bad actors (and hyper-choreographed scripted promos that sound so unbelievable it's impossible to invest in), and the lack of anything really mattering or going anywhere, and the result is a show that just isn't for me anymore. SDL isn't great but it's much better than Raw is on average, so I tend to watch SDL in full still.
I often do like several aspects of the show, and can muster through a lot of it, but it's like eating a sandwich with stale bread, D-grade ingredients and a delicious slice of gourmet cheese to cover it up.
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Allie Kitsune
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Always Feelin' Foxy.
Celestial Princess in Exile.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Sept 3, 2018 22:45:20 GMT -5
When WWE entered a new era of not only ignoring the fans' opinions but actively trying to shit all over them. Vince doing every single thing he possibly could to spite the fans was kinda humorous for a little while (mostly because I was never a Daniel Bryan ride-or-die type), but now it's just old and grating.
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Post by CubsFan71 on Sept 3, 2018 22:48:38 GMT -5
Vince McMahon burying half the damn roster to put over Roman Reigns
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Sept 3, 2018 22:58:12 GMT -5
If the WWE doesn't care about me (the fan) or my opinion (the cheers and jeers), why should I care about them?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Sept 3, 2018 23:07:45 GMT -5
Honestly, just boredom. Every week is pretty much the same as the week before. You can literally skip months, and it not matter one iota.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Sept 3, 2018 23:08:56 GMT -5
Between being frustrated as a fan and just having other stuff I would rather do or have to do.
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riseofsetian1981
King Koopa
"I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left."
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Sept 3, 2018 23:09:59 GMT -5
For me it was the Summer of Punk aftermath and what happened with Bryan after he won the championship. After those particular abominations of storylines I literally tapped out and said no more. If only others on here would do the same and actually stick with it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 23:13:46 GMT -5
The abundance of rematches and neverending feuds, people I’m actually interested in being misused/underused
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Bub (BLM)
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Fed. Up.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Sept 3, 2018 23:15:21 GMT -5
A combination of boredom and frustration, most of which falls squarely on the writing/booking.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2018 23:18:23 GMT -5
i accepted the fact that WWE doesn't want me to watch their product
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nisidhe
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Post by nisidhe on Sept 3, 2018 23:23:05 GMT -5
The general attitude of the company deciding finally that they were going to do things their way, no matter how much the fans shit on it. I could understand their perspective if their vision for the product made any sense, was geared to maximize revenue and profit, or to generate interest. However, that's not what's being presented and, indeed, it seems as though WWE the company is out to destroy its own wrestling promotion.
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