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Post by willywonka666 on May 23, 2018 8:07:48 GMT -5
Whether you've watched it before or not?
For instance, I pretty much faded out of wrestling in 1991-1995 and I have a very low interest in watching it now-probably because it was a transitional period and some of my favorites faded away.
I stopped watching regularly again in 2006 and I have little desire to watch anything from 2000 on again.
I kinda keep up with what's going on now, but I will never get nostalgic for it.
Anything else is fair game, though admittedly, I haven't seen much pre 70s, but I'm certainly up for it when the mood strikes
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 8:15:22 GMT -5
TNA from the formation of the Main Event Mafia to present day.
Anything Bullet Club related since AJ left New Japan.
PWG are a promotion I've tried to watch a few DVDs of, but I find their presentation incredibly smug, for want of a better word.
There are guys within companies I won't watch for a variety of reasons either. Rock unless he was with Hunter, and currently Daniel Bryan I skip.
Most UK promotions because I find they have a bunch of guys who while technically gifted have no idea how to work a gimmick and just do a bunch of moves. I avoided the majority of the UK title tournament in WWE for that reason too.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 23, 2018 8:29:35 GMT -5
The Attitude Era WWF, from 98 onward. I don't like smut, head trauma or the Rock's non sequitur catchphrase promos and nearly 20 years of McMahons vs the Roster has just destroyed my enjoyment of Austin vs Vince.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on May 23, 2018 10:24:54 GMT -5
The Sheik's later years in Detroit, it sounds like complete garbage.
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Post by Instant Classic on May 23, 2018 10:41:09 GMT -5
I started watching in 2002. I have no interest in watching anything before 98.
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Post by berlynwright on May 23, 2018 10:43:29 GMT -5
ROH with Cody Rhodes as their top star
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 10:43:30 GMT -5
The current era of WWE is there for me now. It's hard to break the habit of settling in on Monday nights to watch wrestling, but every time I try to watch Raw, it's just so awful I have to turn it off after a few minutes of the opening segment and just watch Simpsons reruns on FXX. I pretty much only watch certain PPV matches from the current product.
I have no desire to relive the Ruthless Agression era or Vince Russo era WCW. The Attitude era is really hit or miss. I'm not a fan of the Jerry Springer style trash TV, but there's still some gold buried in there.
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on May 23, 2018 13:59:58 GMT -5
Current WWE is pretty f***ing bad. We are in a golden age of talent, and we get shit shows every week.
Honestly, I was watching all content from what I consider the beginning of New Generation (Spring 1994) til Wrestlemania X-7, but jesus these 1994 Raws are just atrocious. You get one featured match of the week, followed by two squashes, a promo and King's Court with Randy Savage and Vince McMahon making mainstream references every other line during the matches. Its beyond terrible.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on May 23, 2018 17:16:08 GMT -5
NJPW in the Okada Era.
ROH in the Cody/Bullet Club worship era.
Lucha Underground ever.
Smackdown as long as Orton and Bryan are around.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2018 18:08:06 GMT -5
NJPW in the Okada Era. ROH in the Cody/Bullet Club worship era. Lucha Underground ever. Smackdown as long as Orton and Bryan are around. Oh LU for me too. And anywhere else with Vampiro and/or Striker.
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Post by The Barber on May 23, 2018 18:31:07 GMT -5
Most, if not all, of the pre Hogan era of wrestling. I tried watching a few matches and they put me to sleep. Too many rest holds for me to get into.
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Post by sfvega on May 23, 2018 18:42:57 GMT -5
The Attitude Era WWF, from 98 onward. I don't like smut, head trauma or the Rock's non sequitur catchphrase promos and nearly 20 years of McMahons vs the Roster has just destroyed my enjoyment of Austin vs Vince. I started watching WWE again in 06 after about a 7 year break, and yeah for the most part from 98-07/08 you aren’t missing a ton of depth or ya know things that aren’t severe McMahon overpushes.
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Post by Gus Richlen: Ruffian on May 23, 2018 22:26:48 GMT -5
NJPW in the Okada Era. ROH in the Cody/Bullet Club worship era. Lucha Underground ever. Smackdown as long as Orton and Bryan are around. Oh LU for me too. And anywhere else with Vampiro and/or Striker. Avoid AAA like the plague, then. The few shows I saw recently had Vampiro overload.
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Post by Starshine on May 24, 2018 0:17:59 GMT -5
ROH after around say 2013-ish. Especially when the company basically transitioned into New Japan's US B-brand.
New Generation WWE doesn't interest me in the slightest. I struggle to even muster up enough enthusiasm to listen to podcasts about it.
Also 3 hour RAW's can get f***ed. I have a real life to live.
New Japan in recent years. I appreciate what they do, and they have some incredibly talented wrestlers. But the layout of the promotion's year makes it so hard to consistently give f***s about things that go on time to time. Too many meaningless tournaments, and a lot of boring big b-shows with nothing undercards, and over saturated rematches on top.
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Post by agent817 on May 24, 2018 9:17:47 GMT -5
That is a good question for me. Hell, I have been enjoying early-to-mid 1990's stuff when watching Superstars and Wrestling Challenge on YouTube. I just haven't watched much of 1996 stuff. I remember last summer I watched some 1995 stuff, but I think it was also because the videos were longer, and that usually meant seeing the hilariously dated commercials for nostalgia reasons.
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Post by MWC on May 24, 2018 9:47:35 GMT -5
ROH from 2015-present.
I've been a diehard ROH fan and have a whole large collection of DVDs from 2002-2015. Just have fallen away from it from about Best in The World 2015 and on.
I still attend ROH over NXT on Mania weekend and I'll fly out to Vegas for Death Before Dishonor weekend in September, but outside of those bigger shows, or when they make a stop in Minneapolis, I don't have any interest in watching their live events. Why I haven't signed back up yet for HonorClub.
Doesn't help when almost every show they do now seems to have a 6 or 8 man tag as the main event. Bullet Club vs. X. Feels like I've seen it a million times over.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 12:19:14 GMT -5
I've never seen '70s to early '80s WWF. Part of me wants to see some of it, so that I can say I've seen certain names in action, but I have this feeling it'd be real slow and real terrible in too many parts.
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Post by M.A.R.T.Z. on May 24, 2018 12:28:53 GMT -5
WCW 1997-1999. I'm convinced that the only reason WCW was bigger than WWF at one point was not because WCW was actually good, entertaining or even cool but because WWF was unfathomably awful to the point where WCW itself was "good" by comparison. I tried to watch a couple of Nitro's after the nWo formed and don't want to waste any more time on it - hated it.
At least the rest of WCW prior to that was at least so bad it's actually fun to laugh at - 2000-2001 WCW would fit that as well.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on May 24, 2018 12:42:20 GMT -5
Attitude Era.
It's aged horribly as has most of the stuff from the 1990s. I prefer the 1980s.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2018 19:49:23 GMT -5
I will never, ever watch the Attitude Era again. It got real good at the tail end of 2000 into mid 2001 and then went down a bit, but yeah...hasn't aged well.
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