Your wrestling lost years

[BatPunk]

I’m thinking around Wrestlemania 10 through to roughly around the tail end of the attitude era. Mostly because we lost the television coverage and vhs were rare to come by.

What did I miss?

[DZ: WF Legacy]

It was a combination of The Invasion being botched, Austin going heel, and getting my first girlfriend around that time, and being grounded for who knows what, but I went kinda on-and-off around 2001 to 2002. I never fully stopped, but I was hazy on who the champions were and things like that. I distinctly remember being out of the loop for the Two Man Power Trip angle. Mr. Perfect being in the Rumble and nWo coming back in 2002 peaked my interest again. I didn't watch Smackdown much at all (and I missed out on some great stuff) for awhile.

[bogussting]

I didn't really get into pro wrestling until 1992 and was fully locked in by 1993. I maybe started to slip a little in 1999. By 2000, I was on and off until late 2004 through early 2006. I got back into it very briefly around late spring/early summer 2007.


Other than a few clips here and then, I'm retired from watching the new stuff.

[Eunös ✈]

I missed a good majority of the Attitude era as I lost interest in Wrestling around 1996..

I missed the Montreal Screw job.

The whole Austin/Mcmahon feud.

A lot of the DX stuff.

I kinda jumped back in at the tail end of the Attitude era at the start of 2000 round the Royal Rumble.

Even though I'm not watching now I still follow what's going on.

[The Legendary Ring Troll {BLM}]

Jan 25, 2019 22:07:02 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

I've taken three breaks. I first got into things in '84 and stayed a huge fan until somewhere around 1993 and that's about where I zoned out, and then moved to where I didn't have any real access to any TV shows. My first job at a convenience store in 1996-97 came with two coworkers who were old guys but geeking hard over the early days of the NWO and all the names they started talking about had me tuning in to see what was going on with all these old names. Went back into it hardcore until right after the Invasion and had such a bitter taste over that I gave up until the Pipebomb. And while they aren't lost, the years since the week after Punk left up through right now I have taken a hard sabbatical on watching a lot of it. I keep up mostly on here now, and check out YT clips when something piques my interest.

Mine is similar, except it was 89 where I became a huge fan when a neighbor I would stay with used to be a huge WWF fan and would rent VHS tapes of all the PPVs. I was a kid, so I didn’t have a chance to lose interest during the New Generation, which remains one of my favorite time periods. Caught the Attitude Era and rise of the nWo as a teenager and couldn’t be happier that my love for wrestling was suddenly mainstream and everyone watched it.

Then the Invasion happened. Then the nWo was unleashed. Then my favorite ever, Shawn Michaels, was wearing bike shorts, a stupid hat and an nWo shirt (tied in the front?). I stopped watching about there. I caught One Night Stand 1 and 2, and watched a couple months of WWECW before I couldn’t stand it anymore.

In 2009, after getting divorced and finding a lot more time on my hands, I caught TNA one day, where a combination of the Knockouts division, the tag-team division and the Main Event Mafia made me a fan. Then Hogan and Bischoff showed up and I tapped out in June 2010 (approximately).

And finally I decided to give WWE a chance, as I’d heard Shawn Michaels just retired and Bret Hart had come back. I tune in to find the Nexus destroying John Cena and a masked CM Punk, and taking apart Raw. I was mesmerized. This was what I remember from being a kid. It took a few months to realize how much I had been mis-led by that episode. But Punk held my attention for the next year (loved him on commentary, and New Nexus Punk is amazing) and then the Pipebomb happened. Between him and Daniel Bryan’s amazing heel run with AJ Lee, I stuck around until Crown Jewel. Couldn’t do it anymore. Now I just follow things here mostly.

[adamclark52]

I’m not sure if I stopped in 1992, 1993 or 1994 but I know I missed all of that bad times of the mid-1990s and came back in 1998. Then I kinda dropped out from 2009 to 2013, I knew what was going on but only watched the Royal Rumbles in those years.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

Only really end of 95 to lateish 96, was to do with access, so couldn't keep up with results etc and internet wasn't a thing on my radar then

[BitterAF]

Took a break beginning in 8th grade, right after the invasion angle started. This was the first year in school I was doing soccer, swimming track, marching band in the fall and spring, and some random punk bands outside of school. My only tv viewing was Seinfeld at 10pm.
Got back into it after my sophomore semester of school ended and was home for summer. The first raw I watched in 6 years was the week before the Benoit incident. I had picked up the Rise and Fall of ECW documentary which had brought back some fond memories.

[Citizen Snips]

Don't know if I missed a show from 1986 until early 1991. Early 91 to after Wrestlemania 9, I became very casual with watching for unknown reasons. Then started dedicated watching from spring 1993 until the 2009. Then we got various things (guest hosts, AJ Lee's ascendance, the 3 hour Raws, etc) that made me tune in less and less frequently, and then bailing earlier and earlier on the show.

Haven't watched on any sort of consistent basis for the better part of 10 years now. I watch the Big 4 PPVs still (and the Takeovers if I'm home) and maybe the first hour of Raw the next night, as well as the odd PPV during the year (again, if I'm home with nothing else to watch) but it's been about a lost decade for me at this point.

[cabbageboy]

The main time I stopped watching was basically 1990-91. I don't even remember why I stopped but it just seemed like there was nothing much going on in either company and I just drifted out of it. Oddly enough I started watching again when my mom told me about the SNME in Feb. 1992, the one where Sid turned on Hogan. I was once again hooked and started watching everything again like I never stopped.

[Slingshot Suplay]

2004- mid 2007.
The combination with the Rock and Brock leaving, the Reign of terror, and just dissatisfaction with the product and then lack of time to invest in watching with adult problems (marriage, newborn child, working nights, moving) made it easier to not watch anymore.


I tried the WWE again after the Benoit stuff, but it was TNA that brought me back to wrestling.

[David-Arquette was in WCW 2000]

My biggest break was early 2006 until mid 2010. We just couldn't get it on TV where we lived, mind you it was becoming a damn chore to watch. I kept up with stuff on here though, until we moved, got Sky and I started watching Superstars here and there and after Summerslam '10 I was really in to WWE again.

However I stopped watching WWE again on a weekly basis in mid 2013. I just didn't have the time to keep up, and to be honest, I didn't see the point.

I've never stopped watching all together. I always find time here or there to watch old tapes, dvds, clips and podcasts.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jan 26, 2019 23:29:25 GMT -5 BatPunk said:

I’m thinking around Wrestlemania 10 through to roughly around the tail end of the attitude era. Mostly because we lost the television coverage and vhs were rare to come by.

What did I miss?

Same here. I think I realized it was fake and thought it was lame. I don't know when I stopped exactly, but I know Bret Hart and Undertaker were my favorites as a kid. I remember watching the Survivor Series with the All Americans vs the Foreign Fanatics.

Played the N64 wrestling games without knowing who anyone was.

Got back into it at the tail end of 98. Caught Mankind on an episode of RAW or Sunday Night Heat and got sucked back in with Royal Rumble 99 being my first PPV ordered after getting back into it.

Got sucked back in hard, down to backyard wrestling all over Michigan and Ohio and nearly getting professionally trained (which I wimped out of)

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Numerous times.

The first time I got out was around Spring 2003 because Raw was putrid and wrestling as a whole just wasn't connecting with me anymore. I returned to my fandom in the Fall of 2004.

The second time I got out was after the Summer of 2007 when Benoit went down. I returned at the beginning of 2009.

The third time I got out was after Wrestlemania 32, where I became a part-time fan and have done so since. I now only watch if its a special occasion. I'm not sure how long I'll stay out this time, but its been nearly 3 years and unlike the other times where I went back, I have little desire to even be a wrestling fan at this point.

Hell, as an OG on the Proboards version of Wrestlecrap (joined in April 2005), I've started only coming here for old school talk and a different perspective on news and sports.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

January 2002 when Channel 4 just didn't show the Royal Rumble until summer of '06 when I found out Foley was wrestling Flair at Summerslam.

And I've been here ever since.

[Nickybojelais]

I started watching WWF in early 1991. I watched until mid '94 and didn't return until the Austin/Tyson saga kicked off in 1998. I then continued watching WWF until 2005, albeit with declining interest from around the time the brand split occurred after Wresltemania 18.

The reason I stopped watching WWE in 2005 was because I discovered TNA and made the instant switch to watching their programming. I stuck with TNA until 2010 when Hogan and Bischoff came on board, and apart from a brief period five or six years ago when I watched WWE purely for CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, The Shield and The Wyatts, I've not watched current wrestling programming for almost a decade now.