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Wwe is sucking me back in

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#1 ·
After the attitude era and the shitty invasion I switched off at the time I missed quite a bit of the ruthless aggression era and the late noughties. But then Brock Lesnar returned and it captured my interest.

I was getting my wrestling fix elsewhere is tna and various indys. As the major stars left tna I got into new Japan because of an styles and then when Lesnar and taker was announced a few years back at wm I was gripped. Then sting turned up for what was a brilliant send off to the Monday night wars and now I'm signed upto the network and getting tickets for my first wwe show in years

Unreal. I know a lot of people don't like the booking at the moment but honestly i can't be the only fallen fan from the attitude era who's interest has been rekindled with returns and cameos from certain guys. Outside of wrestle mania I very rarely kept up with www until Brock beat taker then beat cena etc

I'm really captivated by the wwe product for the first time in years and I'm actually enjoying wrestling again.

New Japan is unreal and features great talent from all over, I caught triplemania and the last two matches where fantastic. I'm now giving in and catching up on LU following that show.

The wrestling business at the moment is starting to turn around in terms of entertainment and yes there is flaws in nearly every promotion but it's hard not to find decent entertaining wrestling each and every day at the moment. I for one I'm made up am not going to make a statement about a wrestling boom been imminent I'm just enjoying been a wrestling fan more then ever at the moment then any time over the last few years

Anyone else
 
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#2 ·
I like what's going on with Sting and Rollins and Cena. Such a unique alignment of talent and an uncertain end at the crossroads.

I like the war between the Wyatt Family and Reigns/Ambrose.

I'm optimistic about new talent like Braun Stowman, Kevin Owens, and Baron Corbin.

I'm not optimistic about anything or anyone else though.

I'm following the product closer than in the last few years. But I still don't feel like actually watching most of it, and I don't.
 
#4 ·
I saw WWE and Sucking in same sentence, assumed you mean WWE was sucking in another way.

I don't feel sucked in, but rather pushed away, but they leave a few lines to keep me reeled in.

If it wasn't for Ryback getting title, and Cesaro getting a slight push this summer, I was 99% ready to cancel after Ambrose cleanly won on Rollins, and the BS call to not give it too him. I mean that wasn't even attitude like, the only thing that was like was Vince taking belts and screwing people, but at least used that in the story.
 
#6 ·
I agree. I watch wwe, tna, roh, lucha underground, new japsn, dragon gate, aaa and as I type this I'm watching live cmll from Mexico city.

I think the key is to understand and appreciate the different feel and style of what you're watching. Right now, a midget in a green gorilla suit is on my screen. Don't understand it, but it's lucha libre
 
#7 · (Edited)
I watched it for years than dropped it after Smackdown was getting demoted. Picked it up again like some years ago. It's getting better and better, but at a slow pace. I watch every episode of Raw but not Sd or NXT. Picked up Lucha Underground/AAA a while ago.
 
#8 ·
Just make sure it doesn't spit you back out.

WWE is off and on but when it's time to deliver, they fucking deliver. If that isn't your thing, there are a handful of great alternatives. Couldn't say that 5, 10, 15 years ago. A company like ROH has rebuilt itself, PWG found their own way to do awesome business, New Japan finally crossed over to American fans and Lucha Underground puts out a solid, innovative product. The rest of the independents are always churning out great young talent just waiting to be discovered. I don't think there can be any excuse now for fans who aren't happy with the wrestling they're watching since there are so many other options.
 
#10 ·
Smack down still feels like an afterthought but I did have to check out the dudleys return this week. Maybe I'm just a nostalgia nonce for the attitude era and that's what's drawing me in at the moment.

Wrestling has at least one hot product in each major wrestling country now. Perhaps with the world getting smaller the need for a domestic number two isn't there and we will start to draw more comparisons between the different international products going forward.
 
#12 ·
Weird. They sucked me in in 2013 and I am done this year. I've barely watched all year and don't intend to watch much for the next few years till the next babyface act gets hot.

The WWE is a once a year in a decade kind of a business. I can't imagine myself watching more than a year or two in ten or twelve years.
 
#13 ·
Don't let the negative nancies in here pull you down OP. WWE just seem worse than other promotions because they are way overexposed. Pretty sure you can find shit in every promotion that are glossed over because 'it isn't WWE or TNA'. WWE is always better if you take a break from it every so often and come back instead of having the same 90's mentality that you need to follow the product every week to enjoy it.
 
#15 · (Edited)
I think it depends on how much you consume. I am very similar to the OP. I grew up in the early 90's loving Hulk, Bret, HBK, Mr. Perfect, Taker, etc. and then disappeared until late mid 97 when I discovered most of those guys were still huge names in the business - the Hart/Austin rivalry in particular had me interested. I was a pretty big fan throughout the Attitude era, although that period gets way too much respect. The wrestling from 1998-2000 was horrid outside of the main eventers and most of those raws were tough to get tthrough as well.

I watched up through the Invasion era and once wcw and ecw went away my interest waned. I kept moderate interest throughout the mid 2000's watching RVD, Jericho, Benoit, Angle, Lesnar, etc. I've actually just come back within thr last few weeks and battleground was the first live ppv ive watched in 14-15 years and thats bc of Lesnar. I watch very little raw - just the important segments and interesting matches but I don't get too consumed with it. I like to just appreciate the wrestling and the big matches and dont need to consume evrything. I think that really helps, as i really appreciate talents like Rollins, owens, New Day, Wyatt and so on as i just see their big matches ans important moments and not all the filler. I really think wrestling or at least the WWE has to be watched in moderation.
 
#16 · (Edited)
I got suckered back in during the Summer of Punk. The AE years ended around the time I entered my 20's. Life got hectic and since Austin was gone, Rock wasn't around much, and some of my other favorites were moving in directions I didn't care for, my love of wrestling slowly disappeared. Well after some years, word of these guys named John Cena & CM Punk started peaking my interest. So I checked out some stuff on youtube. Watched Cena and immediately thought, "what a fucking cornball!" Watched Punk and thought, "this dude is badass!" So I started watching again and got introduced to the new WWE PG-rated style. I just couldn't take it. Once Punk was gone, nothing about the product was worth me going out of my way to continue watching it. Especially with Lucha Underground doing a much better job at providing an entertaining wrestling show. I still keep up with the WWE through podcasts and I only watch bits & pieces of certain storylines/matches. But that is only through youtube and torrents. When the WWE can at least make 2-hrs worth of a 3-hr Raw must see TV on a consistent week to week basis. Then and only then will I start watching again.
 
#17 ·
It seems to me there is more entertainment since Brock has returned. I stopped watching around 2008 (when the new "brand" was introduced along with Cena) but more recently in the passed few years have picked up some shows. I'm not as interested in Smackdown as I was before, but I've always been interested in RAW anyway. I think with wrestlers returning like Brock and Dudley Boyz is exciting. They've also introduced several other new faces than the same old, same old, which is fun to watch. And I've also watched ECW and the like. TNA. I enjoyed TNA at the time, but didn't watch much. Suddenly wrestlers who worked for WWE were appearing, I still enjoyed it, and the matches. Hey, they had matches that WWE didn't have much of. And then they changed channels.
Sadly to say, I'm not so much interested in Undertaker coming on anymore unless he has the American Badass gimmick back. I mean, he's got the hair for it. But his reign in the darkness era has gone stale; I liked him better when he was facing Shawn Michaels for a career match at WrestleMania; even I believe he thinks he's too old for that. Same for Kane; I preferred, since he had the mask removed, when he was in the era of Jacob Goodnight. But both are still nice to watch once in awhie. Bray is entertaining, and even though he's not Undertaker by any means, he's still fun to watch with that "new darkness." I also like the new guy they've introduced.
I only watch for certain matches, storylines and/or appearances. It seems though when I do look away, WWE always brings excitement back (for me who's felt nostalgia back when Sting was in WCW or hearing Undertaker's entrance). I don't look so much as to compare anymore or look back to the Attitude Era or what once was; most of us grew up during that time to enjoy for what it was; and now seeing a lot of known wrestlers pass away, reading stories about past wrestlers doing other jobs outside of wrestling; I try to focus more on the shows today than comparing, although of course nothing is like before. Yet they continue to bring certain ones back and they know that's what draw some in.
They do certainly seem more corportized than before but then again, maybe for SOME good reasons. They also have a lot of sponsers, and forbid they do anything mostly out of the ordinary...but they seem to save some of that for PPVs anyway. And that is also somewhat entertaining. What seems like boring shows throughout the week, and mentioned before...they sometimes bring back excitement into the shows...especially after big PPVs.

I don't know how much it appeals to certain viewers anymores, but it seems to have a balance once in awhile. Then again, most days I just don't seem interested, more commercials and I skip to something else, take a nap...and then the show drags on. Yet whenever I don't watch much on that show, they seem to bring unexpected things. I don't follow any news on WWE or spoilers. And more than ever, kayabe seems to be coming up than has before when I first watched for several years.

My wonder is when new management actually takes over when Vince steps down, and how it would be. Over the passed several years and more, WWE has changed wrestling for better and/or for worse...but sometimes again they seem to draw many to PPVs and viewing of the shows. For now, I'll enjoy what comes on every now and again and just not pay much attention to certain matches and wrestlers and not once was....
 
#18 ·
I tried to get back into it after a year of not watching by checking out Summerslam and the Raw after and just realised that WWE doesn't engage me anymore. Everything on Summerslam was either pretty boring or pissed me off besides Cena/Rollins and New Day and Raw just had me back on my usual thing of sitting there and thinking how they will take all their potentially good ideas and fuck them up. I just have no faith that they are going to pull anything good and they never show me that they can anymore. The idea they might put the tag titles on the Dudleys is ridiculous, they should just put someone over, Taker and Lesnar main-eventing a PPV in 2015 is ridiculous and is a by-product of WWE not building stars to fill the void of their leaving talent, a guy like Braun Stowman gets to skip NXT because he fits the Wyatt Family look and rhey needed someone while guys like Zayn, Itami and Breeze toil away in NXT before they get a shot at the main roster. Everything they do either bores me to death, pisses me off or has me questioning all the terrible routes they could go with it.

WWE isn't sucking me back in, it's pushing me away.
 
#19 ·
I think there needs to be a thread on what exactly people are looking for.

Are you looking for WRESTLING or are you looking for a mix of wrestling & entertainment.

With the answer to that question it should make it easier for the viewer to decide to keep watching WWE or not to keep watching it because Vince & Co have a clear view of what they want their product to be.
 
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