When did you start watching WWE ?

[Mike Bockwinkel]

I don't remember there being a time where I consciously started watching wrestling. But I know my uncle is and always was a huge fan. I later learned my dad was a fan, so maybe through him. My grandparents had old tapes of World Class, Mid South and Wcw amongst their tapes of soap operas. I had most all the old Hasbros. There's pictures of me as a kid getting different stuff of my favorite wrestler at the time, The Ultimate Warrior (shirts, figures, wrestling buddies, slippers, cups). At that time, i didn't know there was WCW.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Watch it around 1999-2001, then kinda "grew out of it" when I was at school and had a long absence where I didn't even follow it.

Started watching it again in 2006. Had a few absences from watching but always followed the results and reports. Actually in an absence from watching now because it just doesn't seem that interesting to me at the moment. I'll probably catch Wrestlemania though for the clusterf*** IC title match which are always fun, Reigns vs Triple H and Ambrose vs Brock which should be great.

[nm]

First show I ever watched was the Smackdown where Austin beat up Booker T in the grocery store. Hooked for life

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

The first wrestling thing I did was play HCTP, rented it from BlockBuster all the time.

I vaguely remember watching bits of RAW Homecoming.

My first full episode was Eddie's tribute show. Sounds morbid looking back, I dunno how that kept me watching.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Saw my first TV show in 1987, got hooked in '89.

[Urethra Franklin]

My first memory of watching was a Hulk Hogan vs. Bob Orton match when I was 3.

That would have been 30 years ago.

[comahan]

Not sure exactly, but i'd guess '96. That's around the time I started watching Raw/Nitro, and most importantly going to Movie Gallery every tuesday to rent old WWF PPVs for 99 cents a piece because they had a deal on non new releases on Tuesdays. I had seen almost the entire library of 80s/early 90s WWF PPVs by the time i was 10 years old, no WWE Network needed

[thetower52]

November 26th 1999

[Sparvid]

Around September 2004. Looking up the earliest events I can recall (Carlito beating Cena in his debut, Snitsky's debut), the single earliest one seems to be Big Show returning to Smackdown on September 9th.

[Mid-Carder]

My whole life, really. I started by renting all the VHS of the first WrestleManias and the first one I remember in "real time" is WrestleMania 9.

[CubsFan71]

1978 at 7 years old. Didn't get really hooked in till I saw Dusty Rhodes deliver the hard time blues promo. Been hooked ever since.

[celticjobber]

I started watching the WWF around 1990, but didn't become a regular viewer (Superstars, 'Challenge, and Prime Time) until 1992 during the build up to Wrestlemania 8.

While I watched WCW every week (Saturday Night from 1993-96 and Nitro from 1996-2001) I actually enjoyed it more before the nWo angle. And I was always more of a WWF fan.

[LexExpress]

I'm nearly 26. I started watching in the summer of 2000, just after King of the Ring had happened iirc. I got really into the HHH/Steph/Angle love triangle that year.

[crashmatsbazz]

was raised on World of Sport, but i had mumps in early 1992 and had to stay indoors at my Grans house (she had sky) and i watched superstars and saw the Rockers split, Ric Flair and The Natural Disasters and i was hooked.

[Deleted]

I was about 9 in 1984. Friend's brother flipped around after we watched Weird Al's "I Lost On Jeopardy" video on MTV.
Saw Andre the Giant take on 3 scrubs in a handicap match and he pinned all 3 at once. Took note of the time and tried to catch it the next week.
Found it one random Saturday morning at 10am and I've watched it since.

[PrimeTyme]

When I was a toddler my brother watched wrestling and I'd always be in the vicinity of it. He eventually grew out of it but I never did. My earliest memory is Wrestlemania 7 so I guess that makes it exactly 25yrs ago today.

[Macho Pichu]

I was 7. It was 1999, and I was equally enjoying WCW and WWF. I watched Thunder regularly, and occasionally Raw, Nitro or SmackDown. When the Invasion happened, I watched every Raw, SmackDown and Sunday night Hear I could. I wanted to see which WCW guys would show up next. By the time I realized none were coming, I had already made routine of watching everything WWE put out. I stopped watching around 2005 or so. I came back in 2011 after a few years of watching bit segments on YouTube, reading storyline recaps on TVTropes, and eventually seeing Stone Cold host the Tough Enough reboot. Around this time, CM Punk would cut the Pipe Bomb Promo and I was once again hooked.

[Perfect Timing]

It was May 1993 when my sister started tapping it for me and I got hooked. I remember once one of my sister exes brought round a vid when I was probably about 5. I really had no idea wtf it was and remember seeing Hogan and just didn't understand it. So 1993 was when it was really introduced to me I would start doing every wrestling related, watching WWF Mania and jumping off the coach on to Teddys aged 9.

I would purchase older videos of the Big 4 and would get really excited everytime I got a new one to watch. My only live events of the 90's was when I went to UK House Shows in August 1994 and November 1996. My sister would tape it for me from 1993 all the way up to 1999 which was when I got cable so Summerslam of that year was my first time watching live.

[RI Richmark]

Shortly before Wrestlemania III.

I was around 10 years old at the time. My brother turned me on to wrestling which is funny now since he stopped watching a long time ago. So whenever he gives me a hard time about still watching I just remind him "Hey, you got me hooked on this! This is your fault."

[auph10imitated]

Summerslam 1991 was the first one I watched, but I was already aware of all the wrestlers as I collected this in probably late 1990ish?