a time you stopped watching?

I've never full on stopped watching. I've become less interested due to the quality of the product or taken short breaks either because life got in the way or because I felt like I needed to step away and come back with a fresh perspective.

I was having a hard time keeping up during 2008, my senior year of high school and first semester at college. Getting adjusted to a whole new way of life left minimal time for wrestling. I kept up with the shows and tried to watch when I could, but I don't remember a lot from that year.

Other than that, it's just always been self-imposed breaks for a few weeks here and there. I tend to do that whenever I find that I can't find anything positive to say and feel like I'm watching out of obligation rather than interest. I think the last time I did that was shortly after Wrestlemania 29. I would've done it last year around TLC and leading into the Rumble, but I attended TLC, so I was more invested despite the product being really bad at the time.

I mentally checked out as a fan during the Invasion angle but kept going through the motions for a few more years. WWECW was it for me. I didn't watch for at least 5 years after that.

I stopped 2014, that Daniel Bryan stuff made it so boring, only tune in for ppvs on occasion

The time I stopped watching was aroun 2009-2010 - couldn't stand Matt Striker's commentary, because he had a school teachers gimmick, he always sounded smug and fake, and always corrected JBL and Michael Cole if they got the name of a move wrong (but maybe that was just Striker's on-screen character, maybe he's nice in real-life)

the annonymus raw GM, where the computer would beep, and Michael Cole would get up on the stand and say: 'CAN I HAVE EVERYONES ATTENTION PLEASE.....'

absolutely hated 2009-2010, the product was dire.

I stopped a couple times. I started watching in 93, my first break was after wm2000. Wasn't really interested with the product with no stone cold. Came back for the 6 man hell in a cell. Then I stopped again in 2006. It was really bad then. Came back in 2009 when I went to survivor series. Now i only really watched ppvs. Raw is hard to watch these days.

Since probably around the end of high school (2004), I have watched wrestling on and off. And while I was in college and grad school(all the years between 2004 and now), I chose not to watch because I had other, way more important things to do.
Wrestling became a holiday viewing thing, over summer or Christmas break. But there were many times I'd watch for a few weeks and realize I did not care and quit watching again. I am pretty sure I have gone months up to years that I didn't watch. Kept up with it, but thats all.
Also special events (outside of ppvs) can convince me to try again. I watched leading up to the 1000 ep of raw. I mostly stuck around this summer to see what would happen with the draft.

But with my new job starting in a few weeks, I am probably going to stop watching again. Once again more important things to do. But also, most of the stuff post draft I feel like I am fastforwarding through and not caring about. So now seems like a good time to stop anyway.

There has also been a few times that the product was just so bad, boring, and uninteresting that I would rather play with my wrestling figures than actually watch.

I just pulled the plug, literally maybe 15 minutes ago. I was up to the August 1st show, but decided to hit the dvr x to delete.
I have been 3 weeks behind for awhile now. But with my new job starting in a week, wrestling would just be a distraction and take time away from things I actually need to be doing.
Plus, looking at all the future results especially for Smackdown, I would have fastforwarded through most of whatever WWE show anyway.

With the exception of a few eps of NJPW, I am now done for awhile. Granted, they could always promote something to draw me back in.