When did you stop enjoying pro wrestling?

After 2000

It started a HUGE decline with the closing of WCW. Once it went....My heart went

I actually thought the Attitude Era was the worst offender for guys all dressing the same.

All of a sudden, everybody wore black, and half the guys were wrestling in baggy jeans with shirts on, like they just arrived from the skate park.

Anyway, I have yet to completely lose my interest in wrestling. But it took a big nose-dive around 2007, in terms of the current product. I am still amped for stuff like the Hall of Fame, or the old school DVDs. I still watch every Raw episode and about half of the Smackdown episodes, but I find myself fast-forwarding through the parts I don't care about.

dead on for me too.

I started losing interest in 2006 probably.

Around 2000, as I couldn't ignore the stuff about it (whether it was WCW, WWE and even ECW) that to some degree insulted my intelligence...

The stuff I'd enjoyed about wrestling was gone, as nothing made sense (booking-wise, and in-ring-wise) so I sought out other avenues within the realm of pro wrestling to 'challenge' me, so to speak, so I immersed myself in independent wrestling and Puroresu.

TNA in 2005 achieved this to some degree, as the WWE's corporate sports-entertainment machine provided nothing but sizzle and no steak. Make no mistake, the WWE-produced DVDs around that time due to the access of the video library was great and I liked a few of them, namely the 'Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen' and 'Triumph and Tragedy of WCCW' DVDs.

As time went on, TNA lost their identity and soon the crisp action and Scott D'more's booking disappeared, WWE went from strength to strength with their own business plan, but I wasn't interested.

...and now I'm here.

I stopped enjoying wrestling when the wheels fell off WCW (before it closed down). I had never been a huge fan of WWF/E style cartoon wrestling. Even the beloved attitude era was just too over the top and silly to me, though it featured some great characters. There was a brief period when TNA featured great in ring wrestling, but that was a while ago. I tried to watch ROH when it started showing on HDNet, but it was a charisma vacuum -- it was like they wanted me not to care about their wrestlers.

I disagree that the current product is anything like the NWA. Back then, guys relied on compelling, down-to-earth charisma, and in-ring skills. They didn't need goofy gimmicks or occupational characters. The whole point was to package wrestling as a legit contest. Why the hell would a cop be fighting a millionaire, or a clown fighting a dead guy? But just because modern guys aren't wearing costumes doesn't mean they're like NWA guys. They're just goofy characters without costumes giving awful scripted promos. No real emotion, which is what drove old school wrestling. Even what is considered good in-ring work these days wouldn't have flown in the kayfabe era.

Honestly, though, I don't see how wrestling can be better these days. Without kayfabe, you can't really have the old style of mat wrestling with low-key characters. And our current culture is just too faux-cynical and snarky to have over-the-top gimmicks. Seriously, modern fans can't even root for a true babyface character -- they have to be anti-heroes, or the internet fans will boo them.

Same here..I really fell out of Wrestling in 2005....2007 Though is the one year since 94 I really didn't watch at all..I got back into it again in 2008 ..I don't think I could ever stop watching for good.

I still enjoy wrestling, just not as much as I used to.

I fell out of love with it in 2004, it got really boring. 2005 my interest picked up again, but after Eddie's death it declined. 2007 was an all-time low for me, but 2008 was decent. 2009 was pretty bad, but 2010 has been pretty good so far.

2001 was still my peak though.