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Post by Cyno on Jan 2, 2008 15:41:46 GMT -5
I actually had stopped. I got back into it because my roommate watched, so I started again, too.
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Post by mattperiolat on Jan 2, 2008 15:49:33 GMT -5
It's often said many kids watch wrestling at one point or another of their childhood/adolescence, but they then grow out of it or lose interest. Since we're all here, some well beyond the "expiry date", I was wondering... what made you stay? Why do you still watch wrestling? To be honest, I blow hot and cold. I got hooked in by a combo of Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling and by staying up late one night for the real thing: Saturday Night's Main Event, Hogan/Orndorff in the cage. I just grew from there as I gradually discovered more programming until by 1989, I was hooked. I stayed around until right after Wrestlemania X. This was a forced vacation as high school and whatnot just cut wrestling out. Finally was drawn back in by both the WWF and WCW. The monday night wars were just too awesome not to miss. As a fan, to this day, I still look back and marvel and how WWF basically came back from the dead, but only because WCW never was able to pull off a killing blow. Left again in 2004, mainly due to work. I worked too many nights to watch and just didn't have enough money for PPVs. I finally started coming back just this past spring with the WWE Hall of Fame and all the classic stuff on DVD. I suppose the little kid in me who fell in love with the classic stuff still enjoys it and thanks to DVR, I can check out the current programming and at least be up on what's cooking. Am I the same as I once was with this? Only with the classic. Current WWE just... lacks something. I watch, but not with the passion I used to have. But you put on a RAW from the heat of the Monday night wars or a classic Saturday Night's Main Event and the mark kid I used to be lives once more.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 2, 2008 15:50:38 GMT -5
Let's throw a monkey-wrench into this - I'm here more for the awesome and funny and friendly posters rather than wrestling itself. Wrestlemania 20 was my last hurrah with wrestling. The last time I watched a full show. I came to a point in my life where wrestling just didn't interest me anymore and still doesn't.
WM 20 - Watching it was my way of saying thank you to the industry for entertaining me greatly in childhood, and feeling I owed it to McMahon and co to watch the 20th anniversary of wrestling's greatest spectacle. But now it is all said and done. Finished.
Youtube provides me with the means to watch things out of morbid curiosity e.g. Khali's debut, or stuff you guys talk about, but I've never sat through a full wrestling show in nearly four years.
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Post by Stu on Jan 2, 2008 15:52:56 GMT -5
Because she asked me to.
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Post by Mac on Jan 2, 2008 15:55:06 GMT -5
It's a good story to get lost in for a couple of hours. Even when its bad I usually find something positive to take out of it. It's almost like booze. Just realy weak booze.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jan 2, 2008 16:04:45 GMT -5
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Post by The Line on Jan 2, 2008 16:07:04 GMT -5
the free food
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Post by -Lithium- on Jan 2, 2008 16:14:46 GMT -5
I started watching in 97 right before it got like REAL popular. I stopped for a little bit in 02 but was still kinda interested and started watching again by 03.
I guess I kept watching for like 04-onward cause I became more of a "smark" and appreciated it as more then just two guys hitting eachother with steel chairs...
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Post by Bishblast on Jan 2, 2008 16:19:43 GMT -5
Well, I often take breaks every year or so for about 2 months, then something happens (good or bad, cuz I also always love wrestlecrap) to make me watch regularly again.
I was not watching wrestling from July '98 to until Owen Hart died, then I started watching again. Watched fairly consistently until mid '05, and picked back up in early 06. Stopped for a few months in late '06, watched a little bit of the Mania build. Didn't watch any from Backlash til Vengeance, then been watching since GAB.
Yeah, I just love wrestling, at my very core. It's my favorite form of entertainment, barring music, so it's always there and always will be. Even if I'm not watching current product, I always watch the older stuff.
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Post by BitterAF on Jan 2, 2008 16:39:50 GMT -5
I'm not sure how I got into wrestling, but I started watching it in the early 90s around the age of 4/5. I watched it till around 2000 when I was in 7th grade. It kind of got boring for me, or I was changing. Then in early 2007 I started watching it when it was on and enjoyed it. Not too sure why. But I still love my classes from 93-97.
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Post by Se7en: Horse That Wrote Poems on Jan 2, 2008 16:44:33 GMT -5
I stopped watching WWF routinely and was mostly only watching WCW around 2000. My late aunt who got me into wrestling was dying and HATED the Attitude Era's raunchiness. SO i had to watch WCW's worst.
But you know what got me back into the mix with WWF?? The InVasion!! I loved it and even though it was an abortion of a booking situation, i was never disappointed.
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Post by nerdinitupagain on Jan 2, 2008 16:50:15 GMT -5
I think most people have their hiatus after high school it seems. Mine was from 2002-2005. I really didn't find interest in anything so I stopped watching. Considering I was never a WWF guy, always WCW/ECW, it kind of made sense. I started watching again when Heyman was booking Smackdown and heralded as the best wrestling show in forever. When he was gone, so was my viewership. Nothing happened.
Then some old Newsletter I subscribed to years before came back and started doing weekly things. I read them more and more, and then I heard about ECW One Night Stand. That got me back into slightly.. and after One Night Stand 2.. I just kept watching.. and the TNA Styles/Daneils vs. LAX feud got me excited to be a fan again.
However, I may catch one Raw a month and never TNA since it's on Thursdays... and I'd much rather drink than watch TNA because TNA makes me want to drink.
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Post by MGH on Jan 2, 2008 16:56:43 GMT -5
I didn't stay. In 2002 I stopped and didn't come back until 2004 when Benoit won the Rumble. I really did get burned out and lose my love for it. If every show was like Raw usually is I think I woud have left again by now. Luckily there is a big variety for me to choose from. When Raw sucks Smackdown usually delivers. When all WWE sucks iMPACT! gives me some fun action. When I get sick of crappy writing in both of those companies I turn to ROH. When the serious wrestling in general is wearing on me I turn to CHIKARA for their goofy take on wrestling.
I can't ever see myself leaving again because there is enough variety to the point that whenever something gets old, something new is waiting.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jan 2, 2008 17:06:28 GMT -5
I think it's fun to watch. Nothing more to it.
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Post by phenomphan on Jan 2, 2008 17:15:33 GMT -5
I kinda took a hiatus from wrestling from about 2004 - early 2006, but since then and from 1997-2003 I watched all of it, and continue to do so today. I don't know why I stopped for those few years, but the reason I continue to watch today is because I find it entertaining and just plain fun. I enjoy the soap opera elements of it. And yes, some of the storylines are complete crap (Katie Vick), but there's nothing better than watching a great fued and storyline build up to a major PPV like the Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania. And of course, the wrestlers themselves. It's always fun learning about the real people behind the superstars I see on TV. I just love it and probably won't ever stop loving it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -5
I started watching as a very young child in the late 80s and watched until late 2000. Around that time, my life got very busy and hectic and I didn't have any time at all to watch anything on TV.
Early 2003 comes along...my life is back on track and I'm able to actually have some time to myself. So, I'm flipping through the channels on TV one night and I see RAW is on. I figured I should see what's going on since I never stopped liking wrestling...I just didn't have the time to watch it. So, I watched the rest of that show and have only missed a handful of WWE and TNA shows since.
Shortly after getting back into wrestling, I found out that there were wrestling websites and forums. That's what has gotten me into the indy scene...which I love, too.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 2, 2008 17:40:29 GMT -5
It's unpretentious. I view it as something I can enjoy without having to decipher a hidden meaning.
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Post by Jam on Jan 2, 2008 17:56:56 GMT -5
It's the best thing on T.V. No re-runs.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 2, 2008 18:09:13 GMT -5
I've finally admitted that I'm addicted to wrestling, I've given it up for months even years at a time but it always sucks me back in.
I almost "left" forever after the invasion angle due to the poor product and having to pay for PPVs which is something I will never do as after 10 years of getting them free it's like charging me for oxygen. Without the pay-off to the feuds watching Raw and Smackdown seemed pointless.
The launch of TWC saved me and turned me into a full blooded smark thanks to the free TNA PPVs and ROH. Strangely I rarely watch TNA now (mainly as it moved channels) and prefer the WWE again due to it's recent goofy style.
So in conclusion the reason I stayed at first was the great matches between AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Low Ki and Brian Danielson, then because I could watch it for free again, then because I like the the fun stupidity of the current WWE.
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Post by SassovsHart on Jan 2, 2008 18:19:09 GMT -5
To me it's a fun, campy escape from the grind of day to day life. I also watch for the feeling when I get sucked into the drama of a really good match, and start acting like I'm a kid again cheering for my favorite wrestler.
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