Your top channel-changer of all time

[bitteroldman]

Eric Embry in World Class

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Nov 3, 2018 0:28:03 GMT -5 @phoenixtrigger said:

Bray Wyatt is number 2.

Number 1 is Shane McMahon, a guy who is literally bad at every single part of being a pro wrestler AND a character on TV. He can't do anything a thousand other guys on the roster can't do much better but because he's Vinces son he gets opportunities no one else gets.

Shane had a period where he was entertaining, around the McMahon/DX feud in 2006, because he was Vince 2.0, willing to look the fool and was never going to be booked as an equal to HBK or Hunter. But aside from that, he's exactly as you say.

[ronnie2hotty]

When I started watching wrestling sometime around '82 or '83, the only time I ever took a break was for most of 1995. My interest started waning in late '94 around the time Hogan signed with WCW and brought all his friends with him. It just became such a different product than when I was a diehard-WCW-guy around '92ish. Then when the super-cartoon style took over the WWF around that time, I tapped out for a few months. However, I can now look back at that era with a smidgen of fondness just for the pure nostalgia. Plus, I had zero access to any independents like ECW, Smokey Mountain, or the USWA, which I'm sure would have kept me interested.

There have been other times too when I would gradually just stop watching a promotion for a while. Normally, it's just due time constraints on my end (only so many free hours in a day to just sit around and watch wrestling) or out of lack of interest in the product in general (2010 TNA, I'm looking at you!).

I only really remember one time when I turned the channel out of pure disgust/laughability at what was happening. It was June 18, 2001 episode of Raw when DDP made his debut as Sara Undertaker's stalker. I still remember saying "Oh jesus" out loud, turning off the TV, and rolling over to go to bed.

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Miz is up there for sure, though upon my recent Attitude Era rewatch I'd have to say Marc Mero tops the list. God he sucked.

[Alice Syndrome]

Oh yeah, I watched some 1998-9 era RAWs on the Network a while back, and after that segment where Road Dogg called Debra's tits Puppies for the first time, I genuinely had to mute every segment with a woman in it because King was THAT bad.

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

Carlito

[sfvega]

The "What?" chant. I didn't watch the WWE for 4 years because of that chant.

Close 2nd to anyone in the McMahon family opening Raw anytime in the last 17 years.

[Psicofreak667]

Yuji Nagata in WCW was the first wrestler who ever caused me to change the channel over to Raw. I think it was a combination of Sonny Onoo, Nagata's karma houdini tendencies, and how even though he was a slow paced submission wrestler he kept getting paired with cruiserweights.