ibdude
Don Corleone
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Post by ibdude on Jul 25, 2013 19:47:48 GMT -5
I've been watching wrestling since 1998 when I was 8 years old. I've stopped watching twice on purpose. The first time was in 2008, I had just transferred to a new college. There was a great Monday Night Football game on between the Eagles and the Cowboys. I kept it on that game and didn't once flip back to Raw. It took me until around Wrestlemania season the next year that I started watching again because of the awesome storyline between Orton and HHH.
The next time was in the summer of 2010 after the Nexus debuted. It was just boring and I had no desire to watch. So it took me The Rock coming back the next year to get me to watch again.
The other times were on accident when I forgot to DVR it or erased it from my DVR, and just didn't bother to catch up until a month later.
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Razor Gives It A 4/10
Unicron
Look At Me and My CRAZY Custom Title!
I'm back...and I'm pretty much the same as before.
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Post by Razor Gives It A 4/10 on Jul 25, 2013 20:32:01 GMT -5
When Orton beat Christian for the WHC, I stopped watching Smackdown until Mark Henry became the #1 contender.
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Post by crowwreak was WRONG on Jul 25, 2013 20:44:29 GMT -5
watched nothing between RR and WM this year the fact that the main event was between captain Status Quo and mr "I've known I'm getting the belt for at least 6 months but I'm not doing any cardio training whatsoever" is worse to me than any time a veteran was pushed in TNA.
I did, however watch Elimination Chamber perfectly legally and every single person apart from The Rock performed perfectly
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metylerca
King Koopa
Loves Him Some Backstreet Boys.
Don't be alarmed.
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Post by metylerca on Jul 25, 2013 22:39:52 GMT -5
Fall of 2010. I watched so much indy and mainstream wrestling during the early part of 2010 that I hit a wall. The Nexus angle wasn't anything special to me, the wrestling wasn't memorable either. Over with TNA was that TERRIBLE EV2.0 crap and then THEY. ROH lost Tyler Black and the Roddy Strong era wasn't attractive. Steen/Generico at Final Battle that year, along with the build to the 40 man Rumble and that awesome TLC 2010 4-way was what brought me back. But that fall, man.. geesh.
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Desi
Dennis Stamp
Do Not Approve
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Post by Desi on Jul 25, 2013 22:56:44 GMT -5
I pretty much stopped watching WWE altogether (2010-late 2012) when Heel Michael Cole dominated the commentary. It got to the point where I was watching 95% of the shows on mute and I couldn't take it anymore. The Shield's debut brought me back to watching full time.
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Viva
Dennis Stamp
THAT'S MY PURSE! *kick to the groin*
You can dance if you want to.
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Post by Viva on Jul 25, 2013 22:59:17 GMT -5
I stopped watching until around 08 after WWE botched the invasion. It lost all appeal to me at that point for a long while.
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mizerable
Fry's dog Seymour
You're the lowest on the totem pole here, Alva. The lowest.
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Post by mizerable on Jul 26, 2013 0:08:26 GMT -5
Right after Wrestlemania 27 was REALLY a point where I came extremely close. I absolutely hated the product, the fact that they took everything that I looked forward to, and just completely shit all over it. Miz was champion, Nexus was toast. It was actually Edge's retirement that kept me watching...which again was ruined when Christian lost the title in a mere couple days after winning it. So I missed the pipebomb live. MITB was THE PPV which started to turn the product around for the better, for me at least, after a decline over the coarse of 6 years.
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Post by thegame415 on Jul 26, 2013 0:49:48 GMT -5
I started watching WWF full time in early 1999, I quit watching after Summerslam 2003, resumed at WM XX, quit after Unforgiven, resumed around Summerslam 2005, quit around WM 24 and started again when Breat returned to host.
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MrBRulzOK
Wade Wilson
Mr No-Pants Heathen
Something Witty Here.
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Post by MrBRulzOK on Jul 26, 2013 1:45:04 GMT -5
Honestly, when Raw went to three hours initially. That made it very difficult to sit through every week. But lately the shows have mostly been worth watching.
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legendkiller1985
Don Corleone
If I'm going to have a past, I'd prefer it to be multiple choice
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Post by legendkiller1985 on Jul 26, 2013 1:58:09 GMT -5
There are periods where I don't constantly tune in but the two that stand out for me and going a few months not watching are
June 2007 (after Chris Benoit) until November 2007 (Jericho returns). May 2009 until October 2009 (I watched Smackdown and ECW on Youtube).
I just got burnt out and just got bored with it.
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Cranjis McBasketball
Crow T. Robot
Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Peace Love and Nothing But
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 26, 2013 2:18:49 GMT -5
Right now. After they butchered CM Punk's storyline with him returning in two weeks, I basically quit. I've seen fragments of Raw and the past Rumble and parts of Mania, but yeah, it sucks bad right now.
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Deleted
Deleted Member
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 5:32:36 GMT -5
I've never quit watching entirely, but I remember not watching Raw for a few weeks after Survivor Series 2008 when Cena returned and won the world title from Jericho, who at the time was doing some of the best work of his career.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 26, 2013 6:24:30 GMT -5
I stopped watching in early 2002 when Channel 4 dropped WWF programming with absolutely no warning, having completely f***ed with it for years on end. I also didn't have Sky any more and so couldn't even watch the Saturday morning shitty edit of Smackdown.
Couple that with WCW/ECW having just been molested during the InVasion and I just walked away. I came back in 2006 when I heard Mick Foley was wrestling Ric Flair and could not believe what I was seeing, product wise. I've been back ever since.
Longest other break I took was two weeks during the Benoit situation. I came back when I found a video of WCW on Family Feud in 1992, which may be the most fun thing I've ever seen.
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Deleted Member
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 6:34:35 GMT -5
"Nearly quit?" 1994-95 would probably have been the tipping point for me, had I not bought a couple of ECW tapes out of PWI. WCW was recycling old WWF feuds, the WWF was throwing crap against a wall to see if it sticks. Thanks to ECW, I was "reborn" as a wrestling fan.
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ERON
Hank Scorpio
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Post by ERON on Jul 26, 2013 9:45:55 GMT -5
I was so put off by the more disgusting parts of the Attitude Era - pepper steak, Mae Young birthing a hand, etc. - that I pretty much only watched Raw whenever Nitro was on a commercial break, until WCW became unwatchable under Russo and Ferrara. After WCW was gone, I stuck with WWF/E through the InVasion until the night Undertaker shoved J.R.'s face into Vince's ass. I quit cold turkey after that. I didn't watch WWE for years, getting my wrestling fix from lucha libre on the Spanish channels and the occasional PWG or SHIMMER DVD. It wasn't until I happened to catch the Nexus riot while channel surfing that I decided to give WWE another shot, and I've been watching fairly regularly since then.
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Post by JordynCantDance on Jul 26, 2013 12:22:09 GMT -5
If it wasn't for Smackdown (specifically the Punk/Hardy feud) in 2009, I would've definitely quit watching WWE altogether. I just follow what's going on through you guys and/or I'll watch the last 30 minutes when I come back from work.
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thecrusherwi
El Dandy
the Financially Responsible Man
Brawl For All
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Post by thecrusherwi on Jul 26, 2013 12:28:04 GMT -5
I've never quit fully on WWE. I've taken breaks where my viewership is down (mostly during football season), but I've always checked results.
The only company I've ever completely quit on was WCW. After the NWO reunited with the fingerpoke and then proceeded to win ALL of their blowoff matches at SuperBrawl IX, I threw in the towel. I probably watched WCW less than 5 times during the rest of it's existence and never a full episode. My dad still watched it, so I sort of knew what was going on, but I did not have any interest at all.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jul 26, 2013 12:41:45 GMT -5
I go through periods of following stuff but not really watching it.
I checked out for a while in summer 2003 because a lot of stuff felt flat. The Benoit tragedy had me stop watching Raw and SD for a good long while (oddly enough not ECW though). I've largely stopped in these past few months other than checking out some highlights.
As far as actual enthusiasm, its funny, the HHH reign of terror couldn't dampen it, not the guest host stuff, not even the godawful period of Michael Cole heel commentary; but three hour Raws have. Its a shame because from what I read there's good stuff going on, I have no real emotional attachment to the product so I can see stuff like the Shield, the Wyatts, and stuff with Bryan and technically recognize it as good, but none of it really instills excitement in me.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 26, 2013 12:45:55 GMT -5
I have stopped twice-once back in the day when Hogan faded from the scene and the last time I pretty much gave up watching religiously was the summer of 2006. It just didn't grab me anymore and aside from the Rock coming back and WM season, I just don't watch it anymore. But I've never quit watching out of frustration except for the crappy (IMO) product that never really got any better.
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Nikki Heyman
Fry's dog Seymour
EXTREEEEEME Pony Manager
✬ Believe In The Fight ✬
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jul 26, 2013 13:54:29 GMT -5
Nearly quit? A couple of times....
-Vince McMahon, ECW champion
-Orton beating Benoit CLEAN for the WHC in 2004
-Heel Announcer Cole. He actually made me turn off Raws and Smackdowns because I couldn't stand his commentary.
Most of the other things mentioned in this thread I brush off.
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