Why do We continue to watch...?

I watch out of habit, but it's really just background noise. I am aware of the storylines and what is happening with the product but I'm not sitting there glued to it.

I continue watching because despite a lot of the content not being good, there's still a few things I enjoy about WWE that I continue watching. The only nights I really sit down and watch are Raw on Mondays and TNA Impact on Thursdays. Last week, for the first time in YEARS, I can say I enjoyed Impact more than RAW. I sit down every Monday and Thursday, hoping to be entertained and hoping that I like the shows. If I expected the show to suck, I would not waste my time watching when I could watch other things. I always expect Smackdown and Main Event to not be enjoyable, so I use my Wednesday and Friday nights to do something else worth my time. I always DVR both shows just to skim through them to see if there's anything worth watching.

Also, I don't get why wrestling fans, mainly the IWC, continue watching if you expect the show to suck. Like I heard Don Tony say one time when someone who was listening to the show said the show sucked, "If you don't like it, don't eat it. If you don't like it, don't listen, if you don't like it, don't watch it." So I tuned in because there's stuff I like and even though I'll have to sit through stuff I dislike, I could always switch the TV to my PS3 when there's something I don't like.

Because of DVR. It allows me to watch exactly what I want and skip the majority of the show, which is largely crap. Everything after the Shield attacked Punk last night was garbage, so I skipped it. That's an entire hour of my life I could use to do far more important stuff, like twiddle my thumbs. I complain far less when I only watch the segments involving the people I care about, which is dwindling. Look at the horrendous string of PPVs they've had and we all just buried Survivor Series for being one of the worst ever. WWE doesn't care about you, or me. So why invest so much energy into the product to keep seeing ADR, Big Show, Randy Orton and John Cena haha? I love wrestling, I will support the wrestlers I enjoy to the ends of the earth, but Raw as a start to finish show sucks, and it largely hasn't changed since 2006.

I agree with a lot of this. DVR is huge. I'm not sure I would still be watching regularly if it weren't for the ability to fast forward through the garbage.

With that being said, I watch for the occasional magic moment. Times that remind me why I love it so much. They're rare nowadays, but every so often, you see a spark.

I'm in a really weird spot right now. Summerslam, to me, was by and large one of the best shows WWE has put on in a couple of years. I was riding such a high after that show, and now, just over three months later, I'm dangling by a string. Night of Champions, Battleground, Hell in a Cell, and Survivor Series were absolute trash (Battleground and Survivor Series being particularly awful). As a result, I have never been so emotionally uninvested in the product, and that sucks. But I continue to watch, in the hopes that things will come around. They usually do.

I'm with you. Hopefully the start of the year will reignite some creative effort. My biggest problem though, is the lack of effort. It's not that I don't enjoy guys on the roster. I think most guys could be entertaining if they were given something entertaining to do. I just don't see WWE trying to give us that anymore. Most of the guys on the roster are aimlessly thrown on the show. Mix that with WWE not really listening to us and it's not worth my frustration. There are so many other great shows on TV now, and Netflix, that it's a shame, and moderately unbelievable, that WWE truly believes they don't have to work to maintain their audience anymore.

The landscape of WWE should always be changing. Cliffhangers, shock value, new talent, new match-ups and feuds, and a level of excitement that makes us feel like we can't miss what we're watching each week. When is the last time you could say that about WWE?

I think that's important to bring up - there's so many guys on the roster that I'm a big fan of right now. And to that point, there's still some really good wrestling happening on a nearly weekly basis. That's great, but it means nothing because there's never a story there. How am I supposed to get invested in watching The Shield vs. Cody Rhodes & Goldust for the 20th time when their feud is about as vanilla and underwhelming as it gets? They have great matches together, but that only goes so far.

It's almost as though WWE realizes that they have fairly consistent high quality wrestling, and so that should be enough. It isn't, and it never has been. A five star technical classic still needs a story to be memorable, and story is lacking tremendously right now.

I.Hate.These.Posts!

if you don't like wrestling, don't ing watch. It's that simple. If you like wrestling, watch it and shut your mouth. Don't complain after every event.

I'd you do have a complaint, then be specific and give examples of what you would like to see done differently.

triplehfanisback, i wish you wouldn't post anything, ever.

Probably because I'm held at gunpoint while being forced to watch it.

Or because I genuinely enjoy the product. One of those two.

I watch because I enjoy it... Funny that.

It may suck but so does the girl I met last week... So I've been told.