EastCoastFan
Championship Contender
I'm one of the guys who got caught up in the hoop-la of WrestleMania 1 and became a fan way back in 1985. Not just of the WWF, but pro wrestling in general. I watched WWF, AWA, and JCP/NWA, plus I followed UWF, World Class, Memphis, Florida, Japan and other areas.
I remember back in the 90's when the Monday Night Wars were at their peak. It was a great time to be a fan with WWF and WCW throwing everything they had at each other, plus ECW turning the wrestling world on its ear. I missed a lot in the 90's because I didn't have cable (thankfully, my friends did) and I was working three jobs but I kept up with it as much as I could.
Then Vince won the war. WCW and ECW were no more and we were left entirely with Vince's vision of what pro wrestling should be. It was still fun for the first couple of years, but slowly, the cracks started to form. By spring 2004, I was only tuning in occasionally until one day in late-summer 2004, I just stopped watching.
I occasionally checked in over the next 5 years, but not much grabbed me. Vince's limo blowing up grabbed my attention, but then it waned again after the Chris Benoit tragedy. I didn't start following wrestling again until 2009. I still follow WWE (TNA and ROH not as much) but the product doesn't grab me enough to watch it every week religiously like it used to. It's not "fun" like it was for so long. Maybe the product's gone stale, maybe I've grown too old to enjoy the current wrestling scene, I don't know.
I remember back in the 90's when the Monday Night Wars were at their peak. It was a great time to be a fan with WWF and WCW throwing everything they had at each other, plus ECW turning the wrestling world on its ear. I missed a lot in the 90's because I didn't have cable (thankfully, my friends did) and I was working three jobs but I kept up with it as much as I could.
Then Vince won the war. WCW and ECW were no more and we were left entirely with Vince's vision of what pro wrestling should be. It was still fun for the first couple of years, but slowly, the cracks started to form. By spring 2004, I was only tuning in occasionally until one day in late-summer 2004, I just stopped watching.
I occasionally checked in over the next 5 years, but not much grabbed me. Vince's limo blowing up grabbed my attention, but then it waned again after the Chris Benoit tragedy. I didn't start following wrestling again until 2009. I still follow WWE (TNA and ROH not as much) but the product doesn't grab me enough to watch it every week religiously like it used to. It's not "fun" like it was for so long. Maybe the product's gone stale, maybe I've grown too old to enjoy the current wrestling scene, I don't know.