Why do you still watch?

[RKTaker]

i'm pretty sure these threads come up at least once a month, (at least when i come in this section it feels that way) and the responses are always the same

[KofiMania]

Because there are still so many entertaining segments and matches each week. I do watch through DVR so that I can fast forward commercials and recaps, which makes the shows much more palatable.

[Perd]

If I’m home, which I usually am, I’ll turn on Raw or SDL. But, more and more, I find myself zoning it out. And it’s strictly on as background Moises’s I had SDL on; tonight, but I could not tell you much that bappened. And that’s because I’m not paying it any attention. It’s jist on while I’m catching up on podcasts, texting with friends, and stuff like that.

Like; I like to post in the live threads. But the shows are so crushingly boring, that I run out of steam about an hour in.

[sportatorium]

It’s wrestling & conveniently available.

[King Devitt]

I do reviews, and like to torture myself for all 27 of my subs.

[Tea & Crumpets]

I've not watched WWE regularly in full for years, been a highlights & clips man for a long long time. That said, and I know this is a controversial and unpopular opinion, but, I do think the negativity online does not help. I watch Lesnar goofing around this week and laugh my ass off, I come here andI see people seeming to find any excuse to complain about how it makes no sense or devalues things, when a few months ago people wanted Lesnar appearing more or showing more personality beyond BROCK SMASH or otherwise giving a shit. Got that, still not happy. I watched Wrestlemania with some friends and found it thoroughly entertaining. Still see a ton of negativity and poring over EVERY possible criticism.

I am NOT saying the fans are the problem. WWE doesn't have my interest anything like NJPW or AEW, and has a lot of problems with the product. But I enjoy it a lot more when I step back from the internet, because at the end of the day humans are conformist creatures and a few loud voices being ultra-negative will influence other people to focus on and be more negative and so on and so on, especially if they're made to feel bad for enjoying/supporting WWE, and honestly it does sometimes just feel like people are watching either to spite themselves, or because it's the MST3K/'ironic humour' thing where they either are trying to have the best zingers or just want excuses to yell about why Vince McMahon is the worst human alive and deserves to lose everything and die miserable. And again, I'm not even a regular watcher now, I can't sit through a full Raw, I'm jaded with WWE and have only had a few solid viewing periods in the past 11 years, I'm going to be all over AEW once it starts regular. But that's my point. I don't watch what I don't like. And the endless negativity really does suck away any enjoyment I MIGHT gain from WWE programming, which just puts me off even more. Again, I'm not saying the fans are the problem. But there sure is a toxic atmosphere from the fanbase now which does not help.

[GuyOfOwnage]

Because for all the shit they serve up nowadays, the times they DO get it right, boy do they ever get it right. And those scant few times make the rest of the time worth it.

[Deleted]

I only watch the pay per views and the show is perfectly fine if you do that. Some of the best wrestlers in the world having great matches and - since it's clearly their scripting is designed around creating snappy zingers for hype videos - I feel like it's the ideal way to consume their shows

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I simply don't know how to have a life without a promotion I gave some 20 years to.

But I am working on it.

[Deleted]

It was background noise for years. I’d pick my head up when my favorites came out. Now they have all left or retired. Every time there’s a guy I want to get into like Bray or Ambrose they book them like shit til I lose interest.

Now I just watch the PPVs. Like the the Rumble is my favorite show of the year. There was enough good stuff at mania to keep my attention. Elimination Chamber and MITB are such trainwrecks that those shows are guilty pressures. But sitting through three hours of raw and smackdown where the same six guys fight over and over for months at a time? Screw that.

[mattyy]

I watch NXT. I don't even look at clips for RAW and SmackDown anymore. Like, I loved Firefly Funhouse, but at this point I can't even bring myself to watch those. NXT, I actually feel rewarded for paying attention. RAW and SmackDown are thrown together the day of the show and make no sense. NXT lays their stories out for months in advance, and while injuries may mess with them, they at least make sense.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

There is people I like such as Bayley and Becky and they are still capable of getting things right

Like Double or Nothing might have stole it's thunder but MITB had a lot of postivity coming out of it from people

[sfvega]

I watch the Takeovers and Rumble this year. I saw like three matches on WM, but almost entirely FF'ed through it. The consensus is that the product right now is bad, but some people like it and some people just watch because that's their long-held viewing habit. Nothing wrong with that, but you couldn't pay me to watch it right now.

[The Barber]

May 28, 2019 19:36:38 GMT -5 BoomPeriod said:

Because I am being forced to. In a dungeon. Please help me. I don't know why this is being done to me. I am literally tied to a chair in a tiny room and forced to watch Raw and Smackdown on a weekly basis. For the love of God save me!

[California Superstar]

Lack of interest in others programs. I don’t watch much tv outside of sports so there’s not much else on a lot of he times.

[thecrusherwi]

I really don’t watch anymore. I’ll throw the PPVs on if I’m not busy but I’m usually not watching them. I had Money in the Bank on as I was working around the house but probably didn’t watch more than 5 minutes of it. I haven’t turned on Raw or Smackdown for ages and haven’t watched NXT since WarGames.

I follow from a distance because I still love wrestling and I hope it gets better someday. I bought All In at full price on PPV to support it. I subscribe to the Network and will continue to do so no matter how shitty modern WWE is, because the classic archive is the single greatest thing to ever happen to wrestling fans and worth way more than $9.99 a month to me.

[HMARK Center]

Whenever we have one of these threads, I always end up wondering about being able to watch the show for however many years straight. It's not an insult, we're all wired differently, but it's always been easy for me to walk away from wrestling products that don't do anything for me anymore so I've never had a promotion where I've been all "Man, I've watched every show for the past 10 years, I can't walk away that easily" or what have you, just makes it tough to relate to that way of watching wrestling.

I do get that WWE remains the most accessible wrestling product for most people in the US and Canada right now, but I'll always just encourage people to seek out the increasingly accessible alternatives that are out there today, especially with how much more visible and affordable many of them have become. Obviously when money's an issue then it is what it is, but there's such a huge variety out there nowadays that's so much easier to find than it was even five years ago that it'd be a shame to let them go by if you have the time/means.

[salz4life]

It's a habit.... plain and simple. However, I'm now at the point where I'm watching the condensed version of Raw on YouTube and fastforwarding through most of Smackdown, watching enough to know what's going on. If it wasn't for the massive tape library and to a lesser extent NXT, I'd cancel the WWE Network.

[ayumidah]

I've watched since I was 12. My father got me into WWE back then, and it was the first thing we really bonded over once he earned early retirement from work and I got to spend more time with him. He's been gone about eleven years now, but there's still a kind of comfort there, because it reminds me of him. Beyond that, there are still things I enjoy about it (205 Live, NXT especially) and guys I still like to see on Raw and Smackdown.

That said, I do watch ROH and NJPW, and will watch AEW this fall, and I guess if TNA gets back on a channel I get, I'll start semi-watching that again too, so WWE isn't my only source of wrestling.

[edgestar]

I've always watched.