To those who miss the good old days and don't watch anymore

Started in 85 as a very young kid watching with mom and uncles. Stopped being a fan 2014/2015 I’d say? I still watch the big shows and catch raw/smack down occasionally (background noise).but definitely not a fan anymore. It’s such a habit to watch wrestling on mondays that I usually put on a classic show from the network.

Fan since 1992, WM8 was my first PPV as a little kid. I inherited many of my cousins Coliseum tapes, so I watched stuff from 84-92 quite quickly, by the time I was 6 I had the timeline down pat. 84-87 are my favorite years. Hogan, good guy Andre Piper, Savage, Sheik, Steamboat, the MTV crossover. I could go on all night.


My love for wrestling started to decline around 2009, HBK retiring was the final blow. I hate the current product, a roster full of guys beating each other each week does nothing for me.

I was never a ROH or NJPW workrate guy, so these little guys being more athletic, does nothing for me. My idea of a great match is something like Rock 's Hogan in Toronto. Give me a hot crowd and ring psychology over these spot monkeys any day.

CM Punk was legit though, he was as old school as it gets imo.

Started with WCCW in 84 or 85. Not exactly sure. WWF in late 85/early 86, definitely before WM2. Slow fade out began around SummerSlam 91. Totally stopped after WM8. One of the last things I remember watching was Berzerker trying to impale Taker with the sword. Watched WCW casually from 96-98, mostly for the nostalgia trip. Started again with Punk’s pipebomb promo until sometime last year. I think early 2016.

Growing up in England, I used to watch the old World of Sport British wrestling with Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks (later Loch Ness in WCW) from around ‘86 or ‘87.
It always used to leave me wanting more and seemed so legitimate and realistic, but when I look back on it now, I find quite it boring and ridiculously unrealistic!
I missed it when it got cancelled in ‘88/89 and it wasn’t until late ‘91, when my parents got satellite tv, that I discovered WWF properly. Sure, I’d heard of Hulk Hogan, although I can’t remember how, but he did make a brief appearance in the title sequence for World of Sport in his white (presumably) AWA attire and even then I wanted to see more of him. In that 2 second clip his size and charisma stood out.
Anyway, WWF in ‘91 seemed so brash, with all these unique gimmicks and huge personalities and entertaining wrestling style! I just caught the fallout from SummerSlam ‘91, so Survivor Series ‘91 was my first PPV (Technically, it was ‘Battle Royal at the Royal Albert Hall’)
To me, it seemed that Hogan, Savage, Piper and Sid Justice were the big faces and Ric Flair, Undertaker & Jake the Snake were the main heels. Coz I still thought it was real I couldn’t understand why people like The Warlord, Ted DiBiase, The British Bulldog and Big Boss Man weren’t pushed more!
Anyway, I was hooked instantly and I was straight down to the shops and bought or rented loads of videos and caught up on the history pretty quick.
So, to now. I still watch out of habit, but only go out of my way for PPV’s. I usually catch up with the weekly stuff on YouTube. This started a couple of years ago. I’m a fan of the talent, but as with others, the booking just ain’t what it could be.

It absolutely was a "had to live through it" era. Im not saying there werent good/cool moments or matches but for the most part it was very juvenile. Which, as a juvenile then, I enjoyed it at the time but now I very rarely go back to watch anything from the Attitude Era. Going back I find WCW in that era to still be a lot more enjoyable then WWF was. The nWo story line to be is still one of if not the greatest story lines in the history of wrestling....they just went too long with it.

I started watching in the late 80s.

Probably 1st stopped watching around 02-03. I would still watch Mania and maybe Royal Rumble and some Raws between the 2.

I have watched sporadically over the last decade. My kid was interested around Mania 28-29 but lost interest. I have always kept up by reading online but I have nearly zero interest in the current product.

I prefer Hogan era WWF and pre Hogan WCW.
The Attitude era was great when I was 16yrs old but it's tough to watch for me now. Too fast paced and while the main event scene is okay much of the undercard is garbage.

About 1988-89 is when I started watching whenever I saw it was on. I was drawn in by Rick Rude vs Ultimate Warrior. Then the mega powers explode angle made an impression. Granted I was 7. I was never really a big Hogan fan for some reason. I really got into the Rockers as well.
After about 1992, I lost touch. But HBK brought me back in 1995. Since I was a fan of the rockers, his climb was intriguing to me. From that point I was a huge Shawn fan and watched every week until I got to college. I still watched a good bit of those early - mid 2000 years but I wasn’t into it like I was the 90s. When Shawn retired, I think that really did it for me.
I try to keep up with it some but it’s just not the same. Some of that is the product and some is the fact I’m older.
NXT drew me in and I had heard of Prince Devitt and then saw wwe signed him, so I watched that. Now I will check in and see how Balor and AJ are doing, but that’s about it.

I vividly remember watching Hogan/Warrior WM6 on a cheater box and thinking it was the greatest thing a six-year-old could ever see. But I didn't get hardcore into wrestling until '93, but I was utterly obsessed until early '97. Only a couple years but felt like 20 cause I loved it so much (Hasbros, birthday cakes, you name it). Then once I got to 7th grade I got into girls and punk rock and lost interest ... the Attitude Era just wasn't for me. (I'm binging it now on the Network and mostly feel the same way -- the main events are awesome but 85 percent of the shows are pretty bad.) I preferred the 80s/90s type of wrestling and still do.

Fast forward to early 2009 and I needed a new TV show to watch and just happened to give Raw another chance. Turns out the Undertaker and HBK are feuding and ... I'm totally in. Ordered WM25, watched their match, and between that, Jericho vs. the Legends and Punk's summer feud with Hardy I was all the way back.

Like a lot of others I'm not in love with the current product ... lately I just skim through Raw/Smackdown or skip 'em and stick to the big stuff. But I've gotten huge into NJPW -- this year was amazing and I recommend it to anyone disillusioned with the current WWE, the matches are out of this world -- and have a blast binging old shows on the Network. Ever since I came back in 2009 I'm a lifer, but I don't think there's anything wrong with skimming the current product.

I could never stop watching wwe it's been my only interest/hobby since I was young.