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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2020 23:10:25 GMT -5
It's still cool to me, damnit!
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Dean-o
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Post by Dean-o on May 1, 2020 23:24:23 GMT -5
In middle school, wrestling was only discussed amongst my close friends. By the time I hit hit high school in 1998, it seemed like EVERYBODY was a fan. By 12th grade, it was pretty much back to my close friends again.
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Post by koreycaskets on May 2, 2020 0:25:44 GMT -5
It's still cool to me, damnit! Actually .. I agree
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Post by eJm on May 2, 2020 4:11:26 GMT -5
Pretty much in 2001, either when Austin turned heel or when WWF brought WCW. I know at my primary school none of the cooler kids had any interest in talking about it.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on May 2, 2020 10:23:58 GMT -5
It was never “cool” in my schools or social circles.
I think at the height of the Attitude Era, people might have been more aware of it, but it was only a handful of people I knew who actually liked it.
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Post by Mid-Carder on May 2, 2020 10:30:12 GMT -5
For me personally, late 2001 into 2002 was when I was the last wrestling fan in my group of friends and suddenly we had nothing in common anymore.
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Post by wildojinx on May 2, 2020 14:21:52 GMT -5
I will say that in the mid-90s, while it wasnt exactly cool, the video games (ie, Raw, Wrestlemania The Arcade Game) were still seen as cool games, even if you werent a fan of the product.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on May 2, 2020 14:26:47 GMT -5
I remember some of the catchphrases and gestures like the crotch chops crossing over into mainstream culture when I was in high school, then it all faded away once WCW was out of business and the product got way less interesting. I personally quit watching until the pipe bomb piqued my interest again.
For what it’s worth Wrestling did seem to be a topic of interest among my hipper friends before all this Corona guff happened.
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Post by segaz on May 2, 2020 15:02:28 GMT -5
When I was in school here in the UK it was never really cool in the mainstream sense. It hit a peak of popularity in '99 where half the kids in my class were watching it, and we'd all wrestle during break times, but that was it. It seemed pretty niche beyond that. After 2001? Shit, I knew about three people in total that still watched it. That sounds like the narrative put forward by people where 'no one around them' ever had Nintendo consoles ever in the UK. That's strange, because I remember both Rumble 92 and even more so Summerslam 92 being popular here in the UK. In school us 8 year old kids talked about it, and my family got together to watch SS92 in the front room. After that though.....probably not until 1998/97 here, 14/15 year old kids seemed to be into it. It was on the level of...a popular video game. Everybody knew about it, but only about a third were actually big into it. Far more popular was wrestling in the playground and pokemon cards.
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Post by thegame415 on May 2, 2020 18:23:59 GMT -5
2001-2002
But, I think now wrestling is cooler than it was 10-15 years ago. In the mid and late 00’s it was like “you still watch that”. Over the last decade there’s been a lot of nostalgia that made it cool, but not necessarily the current product.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2020 18:49:29 GMT -5
It didn’t take long after I became a fan, honestly. I started watching big time in 1996 when I was 5 years old, and then I remember being in first grade and having a girl I had a crush on tell me how stupid wrestling was. That’s when I realized that to people outside the bubble, it was a joke. At 6 or 7 years old, the thing I enjoyed the most was already getting ripped on by people whose opinions I valued.
So after that for a while I mostly kept my wrestling stuff at home. Then I got to a point where I’d wear a wrestling shirt to school, but if anyone asked me what it was for, I would lie.
Didn’t really get comfortable as a wrestling fan at school until I was probably 15 or so.
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