Am I the only one who's getting sick of wrestling?

[Hiroshi Hase]

jackrabbitslim said:

yjc1019 said:

Even at times, it's hard for me to find at least one thing to care about. I'm not expecting a OMGBBQMOTYC!!111 or anything. Perhaps I'm getting older, I dunno.

If I had to choose, I guess the Jericho thing has me interested, but that's it.

I don't know that its age necessarily as I'm a few years older than you as it is from my perspective even if a show is mostly crap, there's usually like I said bare minimum a cool spot or interview or some odd that keeps my interest enough to tune in. I just like wrestling, even when it's really bad it's still pretty good if nothing else for the same reason people watch Ed Wood movies or Mystery Science Theater. When it's great it's great, when it's horrible, it's hilarious.

But that's just my viewpoint.

To each his own I guess, It's difficult for me to sit through an actual 2 hour broadcast of Raw without changing the channel or turning off the TV nowadays. It's just not that interesting to me anymore, I'll probably watch a segment or two just to see what's happening, but I just don't have that same interest and it's not really horrible as it is just plain boring to me.

[Matt Rogers]

It varies. My interest wanes and I don't watch it for a few weeks or something, then I see something that blows me away and I remember why I watched it in the first place.

[ddt]

I began watching wrestling in the late-70s, when I was living just outside of Edmonton. I was watching Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling, which by far has been the most exciting mat product I've ever seen. No matter what the match -- curtain jerker or main event -- the fans were always into it, and there was always a story to tell.

In the 80s, I began watching the then-WWF, and got caught up in the larger-than-life entertainment. The wrestling wasn't anywhere near as good as Stampede Wrestling, but it was entertaining and had some good storylines.

Around late-86 and all of 1987, wrestling hit its peak for me. It was so much fun to watch, and the talent was amazing: Savage, Roberts, the Harts, the Bulldogs, Bigelow, Rude, Strike Force, the Islanders, Honky Tonk Man (just for how well he played the heel), Steamboat, Muraco, the Rougeaus, Demolition, Orndorff, etc., and even the announcing likes of Monsoon, Ventura, Okerlund and even McMahon (when he was teamed with Ventura, anyway). The wrestling was good (for the most part) and the storylines continued to be interesting. Feuds were slowly built and went on for months, with only Wrestlemania and the new Survivor Series (followed by the Royal Rumble and Summerslam debuts in 1988) as PPV culminations. Everything was great -- other than Hogan being the be-all-to-end-all.

Things were fine from 1988 into the first year or two of the '90s, other than my extreme boredom and frustration with Hulkamania. Then, 1993 hit and things started going south for me. Stampede Wrestling was long gone, and the then-WWF was struggling with a smaller base of good talent, along with stale storylines and ridiculous cartoon characters.

This continued until the Hart/Austin WM 13 match. I have never liked Austin, and was quite sickened by how he became a hero and role model, while people turned on Hart. I guess people got sick of Hart the way I got sick of Hogan, but I could never understand the Austin love. But Hart's turn, and his re-formation of the Hart Foundation, was fun to watch. I loved the whole heel-in-the-States-but-a-face-everywhere-else angle.

But then the Attitude era hit, and then the Montreal Screwjob. Both turned me right off McMahon's product, and I haven't watched since. (I've only read about a lot of what has gone on there since Hart's departure, and I'm glad I don't watch.)

I turned over to WCW, which was interesting to watch at first. Probably only because it was new to me. And the nWo thing was really entertaining. Soon, it all got old. The nWo was going nowhere and was loaded with third-rate talent like Bagwell, Vincent and Norton, the storylines were silly, predictable and inconsistent, and the backstage politics were obvious and frustrating.

So I turned off wrestling and began watching my old tapes from the '80s and early '90s, over and over again, hoping that wrestling would return and leave the "sports entertainment" with just a minor role in the product.

Last year, I started watching TNA, and started getting into it. It was fun to see wrestling again, with so little emphasis on politics and silly skits. But now I'm getting turned off again, because I see TNA doing a lot of WCW silliness right now with its storylines, predictable situations, backstage skits and overabundance of Angle; not to mention the obsession with bringing in "WWE guys" (most, of whom, are deadwood, like Fatu and Rhodes).

So, yeah, I'm getting sick of wrestling, simply because the current product is anything but. It's all unbelievable, predictable and political, with too much focus on "sports entertainment", backstage skits (presented during PPVs, no less!), meaningless shock value, having style over substance, and overinflated silicone wonders.

Thanks for enduring my long commentary.

[bubbles]

I don't really watch much new stuff any more. There's so much older stuff I'd rather see and still haven't so I'm just gonna buy more old videos from 80s/90s WWF/WCW/ECW once I get an amazon account set up.

[Red 'n' Black Reggie]

it really depends sometimes when it's been a crappy week for wrestling, i'll just get to the point where i can't really be bothered with it, but then i'll see a match or a storyline which catches my attention again, and i'm back. it really varies. but in my opinion, wrestling is on the up. with the exception of a few things (benoit, the little bastard angle, batista vs khali as the main event etc.), this year has been good for both wwe and roh. tna haven't been going so well, but they're starting to get their groove back. once edge and jericho return, and the mass of OVW guys who've been there for ages debut, things could get pretty awesome.

[Mr. Mediocre]

I'm much more interested in ROH and Chikara than I am in any thing on my TV.

[i.Sarita.com]

Going to Bound For Glory and being part of that crowd and that PPV really sparked my love for wrestling again...so much so that I'm going to try and go to ROH in Toledo in Novemeber...

[BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps]

kiddobradley said:

Actually, I've had a renewed passion in some ways. This board really refreshed things for me.

Same here.

As odd as it might sound, I was about to go into one of my off-periods after Wrestlemania before I registered here.

[Sajoa Moe]

I'm still fine with it. I'm glad I have something to fall back on now that baseball season is over.

[KEJB]

No way. I LOVE wrestling. You guys are all just watching the wrong wrestling. Of course your going to get tired of what WWE and TNA is putting out there. It is horrible. There is great wrestling out there. ROH, PWG, Chikara here. NJPW, AJPW, DRAGON GATE, Z1MAX in Japan. I dont watch wrestling for the skits, and stories. I would watch a movie, or a tv show for that. I watch for the wrestling. I wont get sick of it either, because there is great wrestling happening everyday, somewhere.

If you all are getting bored, and turned off, then try something new. Expand your horizons, and see that the answer to your trouble is out here.

[voiceboxisback]

ck3count said:

No way. I LOVE wrestling. You guys are all just watching the wrong wrestling. Of course your going to get tired of what WWE and TNA is putting out there. It is horrible. There is great wrestling out there. ROH, PWG, Chikara here. NJPW, AJPW, DRAGON GATE, Z1MAX in Japan. I dont watch wrestling for the skits, and stories. I would watch a movie, or a tv show for that. I watch for the wrestling. I wont get sick of it either, because there is great wrestling happening everyday, somewhere.

If you all are getting bored, and turned off, then try something new. Expand your horizons, and see that the answer to your trouble is out here.

The thing is, I watch those

[Near Fantastica]

I'm not really getting sick of wrestling. I don't really watch it enough to get sick of it. I am growing tired of a certain selection of fans.

[Big DSR Energy]

I don't have the funds to pick up indy DVDs like I did in college, and when I graduated, I had to move back home, away from all my friends who were into wrestling. Plus, the Benoit fiasco really disenfranchised me from the whole wrestling thing. So yeah, I "walked away" from wrestling (and this here board) for awhile. I'm slowly trying to get back into things now.

["Magic" Mark Hurr]

In my position, I haven't been able to watch Raw in weeks. I've also been missing ECW as well.
My computer isn't allowing me to view wrestling. ROH took down their matches on DM. I've yet to seen TNA since they've went to 2 hours.

Sooooooooooooooooo I'm starving for some wrestling right now.

[Dave the Dave]

Whenever I have this problem I go to youtube and type in "WCW." Or more specifically "La Parka","Psicosis","Juventud" or " Rey Mysterio jr"

It always picks me up.

[Styx Cover Band]

I'm definitely not sick of watching wrestling, BUT the mast majority of the wrestling I see is live and I really only watch/go to IWA-MS (with the occasional ROH and NWA-Midwest show thrown in). I find that IWA-MS has (for me) the perfect blend of technical/high flying/brawling/deathmatches (so i won't get burnt out on one aspect of wrestling) and sitting front row with no guard rails makes you a part of the show, making it that much more enjoyable and not causing me to get burnt out on (overall) wrestling.

[Mozenrath]

nate25 said:

In my position, I haven't been able to watch Raw in weeks. I've also been missing ECW as well.
My computer isn't allowing me to view wrestling. ROH took down their matches on DM. I've yet to seen TNA since they've went to 2 hours.

Sooooooooooooooooo I'm starving for some wrestling right now.

You can find plenty of Attitude era on youtube. WWE doesn't seem to give a crap about removing it anymore.

[hobo]

I get burned out every few years and take a break from it. I stopped watching in 2001 right before WCW went out of business, picked it up again for a few months around 2003 or so, and haven't watched it again until I started watching TNA a few months ago. For me, wrestling is a lot more fun to watch after I've taken a break from it for a while.

[Blindkarevik]

A few years back, I took it easy on watching wrestling. Not due to any sort of burn-out... just that I was never around while it was on the air. However, no matter how bad the product, I just enjoy wrestling.

Quite honestly, if it wasn't for NBC's Thursday night lineup and wrestling, I would have no use for cable at all.