How Many of Your Classmates Watched Wrestling?

[thegame415]

When I was in 5th grade in 1998-1999, I think every boy in the class except 2 (there were about 15 boys in the class) watched wrestling. I'd say six were WWF only, and the rest watched both WWF and WCW. No ECW fans.

By the time I was in the eighth grade, it was down to about 5. This is 2001-2002. Most of the "cool" kids who watched wrestling now made fun of us remaining fans. I remember wearing a Dudley Boyz shirt to school and some kid said "you still watch that crap, that's for babies". I'm pretty sure his parents stopped allowing him to watch WWF in 1999

[Celgress]

Nearly every boy, and many of the girls, watched pro wrestling. What can I say, I attened all rural schools growing up in the late 1980s' through 1990s'.

[lildude8218]

in elementary school there were hardly any. I do remember having an odd conversation here and there. an argument about whether or not Mike Tyson was going to be the guest referee at the Main Event and another about whether or not Ric Flair could beat Jim Neidhart on Superstars.

then I was "the wrestling kid" up until the nWo and Goldberg blew up. I wore the original nWo shirt to school a bunch of times and then after Thunder aired for the first time (the first one was in Daytona) the next day in school I saw tons of wrestling shirts everywhere.

[wildojinx]

Not that many sadly. There were a fair amount of fans in the 4th grade (which is when i first became a fan) through 6th, but the popularity started decreasing around 7th grade, and 8th through 11th grade it was hard to find fans (though there were some still around). Of course, after WM14 everyone started wearing austin shirts (one kid even wore a homemade austin shirt) but i wonder how many of those fans werent just jumping onto the fad (i did live in the northeast around this time so they may have been closet fans).

[joebob27]

LOL at the homemade Austin shirt.

It was a big deal after high school for me. A group of us were tailgating at Summerslam, keep in mind this was 97, and kept running into people we knew.

[sawcesome]

In 1st-3rd grades-ish, pretty much all the boys were fans of WWF (I was a fan of both, but mainly WCW). About 4th grade on, no wrestling fans present. When I returned to the fold in 2007 (the first semester of my senior year in high school), I was the only one.

[suave]

At my school, literally nobody watches wrestling (that I know of).

[lodirulz]

"Why do you watch that crap? It's oily naked men rolling around in a circle!" - Everybody in my school, expect for maybe two or three people.

[Deleted]

Me, my best friend, and some other guy we know. In Elementary, I think there was about 4.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

I never really got into wrestling until the Monday Night Wars. Everyone would quote wrestler catchphrases all the time.

I was never branded "the wrestling kid", but I did develop my own wrestler-like persona complete with catchphrases and mannerisms (basically think of The Miz on The Real World).

In high school I had two different circles of friends who I would discuss wrestling, along with other popular things.

When I started college, I would see wrestling shirts all over the place, mostly Carlito or DX shirts.

[DragonMasterP]

Ever since I got into it, I've really known two people who were really into it, but that's about it.

[notasmark]

I became a fan pretty late (I was 10 or 11) and that was in the early 2000's

There were a few fans I remember an early 2002 discussion about Ric Flair Vs Undertaker at Wrestlemania but I wasn't a big fan. My friends kept talking about it so not wanting to be left out I rented a tape (Always liked the video games) and became a fan.

As time went on more and more people stopped watching it. I think the last of it having a big following near me would of been 2003. Last conversation with a bunch of us was a discussion about Armageddon 2003.

[Professor Chaos]

Kindergarden thru 3rd grade (85-88) EVERYBODY DID. It was the coolest thing to do for a kid that age. 4th Grade till I finished High School you were a dork if you'd dare let anyone know you still watched it (which I did). I started college in the fall of 96 after the NWO started and wrestling was The Shit again. People walking around campus in NWO and soon after Austin shirts. That lasted all 4 years of college. After graduating college never heard anyone I went on to interact with mention it until twitter.

[MolotovMocktail]

A handful at my first elementary school, literally nobody at my second.

Junior high was the beginning of the Attitude Era, so it started in 8th grade, and was popular through 9th and most of 10th, before everyone slowly started losing interest.

[mybraveface]

Some of the boys in elementary school were fans around the early 1990's. I remember bringing in the issue of WWF Magazine with the "non-touched" photos of Randy Savage and Elizabeth (the ones Flair "touched"), and them all looking at them, because I got the issue before they did since I was a subscriber and they weren't, and it seems the magazine was sent out through the mail before it was available on newsstands. One of those boys actually attended a Madison Square Garden house show and was the one Bret Hart gave his shades to.

Years later circa Junior High, after I pretty much stopped watching wrestling, I did notice a number of boys wearing Steve Austin/The Rock t-shirts.