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Post by macdaddysquid on Jan 3, 2008 3:35:22 GMT -5
I have tried stopping, during the height of the cena hate but couldn't
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Post by ghostgrabber on Jan 3, 2008 5:50:27 GMT -5
I always told myself that I was going to stop watching when Bret retired but I keep putting it off (I rarely make it through an entire Raw or ppv without boredom setting in)I guess it's the entertainment factor
that draws me back.
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Post by Leaving after 1,600 on Jan 3, 2008 5:58:40 GMT -5
It's always been an escape for me. No matter how bad life got wrestling was ALWAYS there. It's always been a comfort thing for me.
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Post by Libertine on Jan 3, 2008 5:59:49 GMT -5
Force of habit.
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Post by krill on Jan 3, 2008 8:21:09 GMT -5
Apart from little snippets on youtube I havnt watched wrestling in about 6 years.
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Post by seano on Jan 3, 2008 8:55:15 GMT -5
My own stupidity?
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Jan 3, 2008 9:48:29 GMT -5
I did actually stop watching for a while last year. Now I watch some of the shows, but not all. To be perfectly honest, today's product just doesn't excite me anymore.
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Post by Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture on Jan 3, 2008 9:50:01 GMT -5
I still watch to see the old guard (HBK, Taker, HHH), and I will until they bow out of the business.
Hopefully, all 3 will end their careers on very, very high notes.
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Post by dermitderbrille on Jan 3, 2008 11:43:46 GMT -5
Honestly? It entertains me. At the end of the day, I watch wrestling because I can depend on it to take my mind off real life for a couple of hours Same with me. I watch wrestling since im 4 years old, which would be 16 years by now and i always loved and never saw a reason to stop watching even my girlfriend begs me to stop. I just had a time out for 2 years, cause there was no wrestling on german free tv. |
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Post by Dynamite Kid on Jan 3, 2008 11:46:08 GMT -5
Oh, just an addendum to my post:
I didn't stay, I left and came back. And I came back because Mick Foley was against Ric Flair in an I Quit match.
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Post by Avalanche Alvarez on Jan 3, 2008 12:01:18 GMT -5
Entertainment, whether well thought out or poorly crafted is STILL entertainment. Wrestlings done that for me for almost 3 decades. I'm a fan, for the good and the bad.
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Post by tartsonawire on Jan 3, 2008 12:29:50 GMT -5
I was one of those that had been watching for as long as I could remember. Then, around '93, there was a lot going on in my life and I just kinda lost interest/outgrew it; this was mainly due to the fact that I watched with my Dad, and when he and Mom divorced, I stayed with her and everyone else in the house wouldn't shut up when I tried to watch. I still would watch a little when I was with Dad every other weekend. After he died in '99, I would stop on wrestling for a minute if I was flipping channels and saw it on. Eventually, I got re-interested and started watching all the time again around 2003. I watch because I enjoy it, obviously. I like the drama and the silly skits. I like the larger-than-life personalities and and crazy-looking outifts. It really is like a real-life comic book, complete with super heros and super villians. The on-going epic struggle between good and evil. The weddings that never go as planned. I also like the athleticism. There's nothing like a well-preformed wrestling match. I wasn't much into Superman and the like growing up; these were the ones I looked up to and followed their stories. And now, it's also kinda a way to stay "connected" with Dad. BTW...Heff, I love your sig  |
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Post by YouStayClassy on Jan 3, 2008 18:06:33 GMT -5
I've been watching the WWF my entire life. I grew up worshipping Bret Hart to the point of obsession.
I watched all the way up to 1995, when Diesel made the entire fed completely unwatchable to me. I didn't come back until late '96, when I started hearing a lot about this Austin guy. Needless to say, I was hooked again.
I quit again in 2003, in COMPLETE DISGUST over how wretched HHH made Raw that year. The Hall Of Fame performance HBK put on at Survivor Series '03 was enough to draw me back.
Hulk Hogan 3000 a/k/a Cena once again made me quit watching this year. It was around this time I discovered Ring Of Honor and the glory of independant wrestling. Ever since Hogan 3000 got injured I've been watching Raw again, but am completely ready to bail if he comes back with the exact same Superman gimmick.
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Post by wolfmoon103100 on Jan 3, 2008 18:30:27 GMT -5
i've watched sence 85 so I feel it's a part of my life.I love wrestling and the History of.
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Jan 3, 2008 18:51:37 GMT -5
Once I started watching, I just never ended up stopping. I actually don't have a clue why I watch today. I just do. ^ Yeah, ditto that for me. It's just a part of my life, and what I do. I still like a lot of the guys that currently wrestle, and were big during my childhood. People like Austin, Taker, HBK and Sting still entertain me. |
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Jan 3, 2008 18:57:51 GMT -5
It's always been an escape for me. No matter how bad life got wrestling was ALWAYS there. It's always been a comfort thing for me. What he said. |
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 3, 2008 19:45:06 GMT -5
Me finding the Internet/"IWC" in 2003/2004 (oddly enough, it was because I discovered the 'Crap). If I hadn't found it, I would've likely never gotten back into wrestling (or at least not any time soon) and gotten into the indies/puro.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 3, 2008 19:48:17 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? Actually....well, I don't. Haven't seen TNA since the first year, Have seen all of maybe five WWE shows since 2001 and the only ROH I've seen was a DVD I got a couple years back. Never really watch any of the old stuff I have on disc or tape either. I just hang out here for the conversation basically. |
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Post by nerdkiller4life on Jan 3, 2008 20:11:56 GMT -5
I actually started watching when I was 9, around the time when Angle won the KOTR, which means I got to see the last couple of years of the Attitude era. It wasn't until I got Sky in late 2001 that I could watch RAW. Then in 2002, that things took a downward spiral whith the brand extension. For some reason, I only ever watched SM, maybe cos 2003 was a bad year for RAW but a brill year for SM. In feb. 2004, just when Eddie won the title...I forgot about wrestling. I don't know why but, it wasn't until 06, the night when RVD lost the WWE title that I started watching again. And right now I'm older and bolder and enjoy beating up nerds for a living, that I'm still watching rasslin' to this day.
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Post by wrestlecrapcrap on Jan 3, 2008 20:15:18 GMT -5
I think there will be a point for most people perhaps when they hit 16/17/18 where the stop watching regularly or at all. Then when they are slightly older after a few years away they may catch a show and get reminded of why they love it in the first place, and from then on not really stop again, because they already know what if they stopped they would come back so it would be pointless.
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