What Keeps You Interested In Wrestling When All Else Fails?

[Calderownz]

Sometimes, you lose interest in the shows and the product. Sometimes, it's just that string of shows or what have you. My question is....

What keeps you watching?

For me, it's the athleticism and the humor. Those two things can generally speaking remain constant.

Santino just makes me laugh. He can brighten up an otherwise lame match or show. Watching a few Kaval or Daniel Bryan matches on the net keep me interested. Or watching a Delirious match. Or a classic match involving Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold. So, I guess it's also the ability to hearken back on other events that keep me interested in the lulls.

What about you guys?

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

Sometimes, you lose interest in the shows and the product. Sometimes, it's just that string of shows or what have you. My question is....

What keeps you watching?

For me, it's the athleticism and the humor. Those two things can generally speaking remain constant.

Santino just makes me laugh. He can brighten up an otherwise lame match or show. Watching a few Kaval or Daniel Bryan matches on the net keep me interested. Or watching a Delirious match. Or a classic match involving Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Stone Cold. So, I guess it's also the ability to hearken back on other events that keep me interested in the lulls.

I agree with your choices. It has always been the athleticism that makes me keep watching, and that will never change. If I am ever bored with the current WWE product then I will just watch some classic matches on the Internet or some of my wrestling DVD's which feature matches that I love.

Also the humour. Some of the Attitude Era material was hilarious, even during the Invasion where Austin was at his comedy heel peak. I always find something to enjoy, even if the humour on WWE is reduced to John Cena and his childish un-funny insults.

If the storylines suck, I can always appreciate the athleticism especially, some of the things wrestlers can do in the ring astounds me, and probably always will

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

I've been watching wrestling non-stop for almost ten years now. I've been through the good and the bad and I have to say there have been points where it boils down to routine mainly. I found myself simply sitting down and going ‘why am I watching this(?)’, but in the back of my head I knew that the quality would have to get better and it did. This past year has been a real thrill ride for me as a fan of WWE (mainly). I've seen the quality of programming shoot up and it's at it's best for several years. New stars are emerging whilst the old guard is stepping aside and everything is running together pretty well. I watch wrestling because I enjoy it. And that's the truth.

 

[Tastycles]

I often compare watching wrestling to when I used to watch Hollyoaks. Fundamentally, they are the same, they are soap operas that rely on a big gimmick. Wrestling offers staged fights and Hollyoaks offers attractive ladies. The gimmicks are what makes them special, but they're not enough I stopped watching Hollyoaks when they stopped having long term story arcs, and I would do the same with wrestling. I can see attractive ladies elsewhere, and I would watch old matches that are good rather than continue with wrestling pot luck. The fact that wrestling poses more questions that it answers, generally speaking then, is what keeps me watching regularly, I think.

 

[scottyshowman82]

My #1 thing is honestly the personalities. They're over the top they make me laugh. I grew up loving cartoons and Jim Carrey and funny movies. Wrestling is a reflection of life that is bigger, funnier, and just zany where everything and anything is possible.
Where eles will you see a guy mouth off to his boss and humilate him week after week?
A guy who comes out and and just says the funniest more outlandashish things to people with such great delivery and gets away with it.
A guy throw a football to himself and catch it on the other end of the football field and score a touchdown? It's gold, it's clever it's hilarious.

And you like these characters and you get emotionally envolved in them and you want to see what happens to them, threw angles and the art of storytelling threw matches. A lot of people don't get but the ones that do...it's amazing and there's on the planet like it. lol.

 

[Himura84]

First off I have to agree with Funkay. The majority of it is the fact that I have bben watching since I was a little kid and it became a habit. I honestlt started waitching wrestling since the days before Hulkamania began and didn't stop until around 2002 i started watching again when I heard Eddie Guerrero died and I was instantly hooked again. the one thing that never changed was the fact that I can be drawn into the stories and then it becomes a betting match at my house at PPVs because everyone has a favorite and we stick up for them like we were kids again. So in essence what keeps me watching is my family that helps make matches interesting. When that fails we all love to watch and more importantly listen to Santino Marella he always cracks us up.