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What is your story of being a wrestling fan? (lemmy.world)

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With the other place going private, we're here! This is basically an introduction post to introduce ourselves.

My earliest wrestling memory is having a recorded VHS tape of Royal Rumble 1990. I consider being a fan since the mid 90s around 6 years old. I loved Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and Diesel. Royal Rumble 1995 is my favorite Rumble. Just one foot. I felt sorry for the British Bulldog, though. I thought Mabel was a good wrestler. He won the King of the Ring! I mainly watched WWF Superstars weekend mornings and Coliseum Home Video. I was "banned" from watching wrestling during the Attitude Era lol. I started watching regularly again in 2002. The Ruthless Aggression era and TNA 04-09 is technically the era I grew up on. Today, I mainly watch AEW, but keep up with what goes on in the WWE. It's neat seeing all the young stars become experienced veterans.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Started watching in the mid 90s as a kid trading VHS with friends and mostly watched Heat on TV. I feel like I saw Taz quite a lot. Kane was my favourite.

Carried on into the early 2000s, remember the Invasion storyline blowing my mind but I didn't know much about WCW back then. Caught up on history via the internet and probably stopped watching just before the rise of Cena. Checked in from time to time and got back into it around the Summer of Punk. Had lots of catching up to do but it was easy to get into.

After Punk left, I was reading more about wrestling than watching but dipped my toe into NJPW and briefly subscribed to their streaming service instead of WWE Network. Got into AEW and here I still am. I'll still watch the rumble and mania every year but not much else besides that WWE wise. I had high hopes for HHH taking the reigns but look how that turned out and post mania, I haven't bothered.

Hoping Collision breathes new life into AEW as well as that's felt a bit lacking to me too. Not sure wrestling will ever capture me like it did when I was a kid but I'm still fascinated by it. As an adult sometimes 'the business of the business' is more interesting than the product itself.