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What brought you back to the product?

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#1 · (Edited)
Most of us have either had a time where we quit watching for a while and eventually came back to watch. So what made you quit watching and what brought you back? Also, if you haven't quit watching since you started, name one time you thought about quitting the product and what made you stay. I'll start.

I was going to quit watching a little after WM27 when Cena won the title back and that god awful ppv known as Capital Punishment (R-Truth vs Cena for the world title...terrible), but decided to stick around after Punk's pipebomb and the match at MiTb 2011. I was sure I was going to quit watching after the match, but then Punk walked out with the title and came back a few weeks later keeping me invested in the product ever since.

I used to watch full Raws but they've been borderline torturous to get through ever since Punk and Bryan have been gone, so now I just catch highlights and ppv's. Also thought about quitting after The US Champion (Cena) totally made the World Champion (Rollins) his bitch four times in a row and even made him tap out, but Ambrose, Owens, and Wyatt have kept my interest.
 
#3 ·
I watched religiously from as far as I can remember until I left high school in 2003, then I drifted in and out for a few years until eventually in about 2005, I stopped not because of the product I just had other things that took my attention. I always kept up with the shows and results and happenings, used another forum to keep up with it, and caught highlights here and there, but didn't watch a whole show.

Then, I was watching football on Sunday and seen an advert for Royal Rumble that night, and out of the blue couldn't wait to watch it, and I've been back each show since. That was Royal Rumble 2007, and rather than anything particularly getting me back into the product it was just right time, right event (as I'd always had a soft spot for the Rumble).
 
#5 ·
I remember quitting wwe back in 2009. The guest host crap was too much. At the time tna was a lot of fun to watch.

In 2010 it all fell apart in tna and I started watching wwe again when the product improved.

This year I'm on hiatus again from wwe. Who knows, maybe 2016 will be better and I can watch wwe again. Never say never.
 
#6 ·
Around 2008 I stopped watching, I just lost interest in wrestling all together and then before this year's Mania I just had a nagging feeling to watch some wrestling, I decided to watch Mania and I thought it was a decent PPV so I kept on watching, not really sure why I still am, it was a pretty long hiatus
 
#7 ·
I had quit watching when I met my future wife in June 2001. I casually watched until 2011 when Punk made the pipebomb and since then I've been keeping up with it much more than before but HHH/Nash getting a match out of the Summer of Punk made me watch much more casually again.
 
#8 ·
I quit watching for a few years in around 08 or 09. I'd still look up the PPV results, but I didn't bother watching except for the big 4. Got my wrestling fix from DVDs of old stuff I have. I started watching a bit again when The Rock came back then I got fully back into it when Brock returned. Nearly stopped watching again immediately after Cena beat him.
 
#9 ·
Jericho made me watch again in 2008. I stopped watching again when Miz became champion in late 2010. I started watching again when I learned that Brock was coming back at Extreme Rules 12 and I watched ever since until a few weeks ago when I stopped watching again after Rollins' injury.
 
#10 ·
I stopped watching religiously probably in about 2008 i remember watching Jeff come back then stopped all together soon after that, I went to a live event in London once in probably 2011 although i wasnt watching the show, I started watching this year after Wrestlemania mainly cause of Brock, but i have started to drift off again because it's incredibly boring
 
#11 ·
Struggled to watch it with it being on a paid sports channel, my family barely had a pot to piss in so I just lost contact with it really - but it was TNA in the early days that got me back into it with it being on Spike - then obviously the internet got better and the ease in which you could keep up to date and watch was so easy. I have always been on and off with WWE because it is either boring or just cba and I just watch the round up show on Sky (which I am currently doing); plus when you compare it to NJPW or LU my standards have been greatly lifted, even Evolve and PWG is a better if not regular watch. Plus even socially, in the UK it became really unfashionable after the Attitude Era so when you are in your teens, being cool means everything (totally in the closet wrestling fan up until about 3 years ago)
 
#13 ·
I stopped watching in 2001 as my parents got rid of Skysports. Watched I watched the odd royal rumble or mania over the years. I watched Mania 28 hell in a cell match live and I was so blown away by it it reminded me how much I used to love wrestling so the following night I tuned into Raw for the first time in over ten years. Watched every week since then but I won't be watching the next two Raws, I'll watch TLC and take it from there.
 
#14 ·
I started watching in 1998, but I wasn't a massive fan of wrestling like I am now. I think I stopped around the end of 2000, mainly cos we didn't have cable TV to watch WWF or WCW (we used to watch everything on video lol), and I lost interest.

I came back to WWE in 2007 when we finally got cable haha. My Mum, my Grandma and my Uncle kept watching throughout that 7 year period and I got annoyed with listening to them discuss it all the time and decided I wanted in on it. So one night, I sat down with my Mum to watch Raw. It was during the time John Cena & Shawn Michaels were feuding and they won the tag titles together - the first PPV I ever watched live and not on video or DVD was Wrestlemania 23. Cena & HBK got me hooked and the rest is history! I'm now more into wrestling than my Mum & Uncle combined (my Grandma passed away in 2013, and the day after her funeral, I won a trip to Summerslam, it was like the most terrible thing, then something awesome happened!).
 
#15 ·
After i heard truth about Chris Benoit i stopped watching since was my favourite wrestler.

Then a friend of mine talked me so much about WWE that made me watch again after this Wrestlemania.

But now without Rollins,Cesaro and so on i guess i'll take another pause.
 
#17 ·
The Shield in 2012.. Only stopped watching for over a year.. CM Punk killed my interest in 2011 when he became a main-eventer and won the WWE Title at MITB.. That was the last straw for me. Luckily when i started watching again in 2012, he wasn't around for much longer.
 
#19 · (Edited)
I've had a few down times. I had stopped watching in 94-95 and of course Hogan's heel turn brought me back. Was pretty consistent up until around the time Batista left. I went through a few spells after that like when Rock returned, but Brock brought me back to being a regular viewer. There's only a few WM's that I've not watched live. Always made it a point tondo at least that much.
 
#20 · (Edited)
I moved home in 2009 and Sky Sports was pretty expensive to run at the time, and I was only using it to watch WWE (by which point, my favourites were leaving) so we cancelled our Sky Sports subscription. I was watching TNA at the time too (since 2005), but I generally lost interest in wrestling as a whole and I decided to focus on other interests instead. Fast forward to 2014, I heard WrestleMania 30 was coming up and the legends from the Attitude Era (Stone Cold, The Rock, NAE, Kane, Undertaker, Triple H) were confirmed to be there, so my family ordered the PPV. Sky were offering a £1 deal for Sky Sports for 6 months, so I began to watch WWE regularly again and the people who kept my interest were; Dean Ambrose, John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Wade Barrett, and Sting.

I'm slightly regretting the decision to watch WWE again, mainly because the recent content has been worse than I've ever seen in my 17 years of watching WWF/E.
 
#21 ·
Stopped watching religiously from as long as I can remember until about after around WM25. Kept up with and watched until about WM26. Stopped watching after that - WM 27 was the first Wrestlemania I never watched. And then I randomly put on RAW one night when CM Punk won a number one contenders triple threat match for the WWE title. Said that his contract was up in July, and that he was gonna win the title.

The next week was the pipe-bomb promo and I was back in.
 
#23 ·
I'm 17, this is my story:

The first thing I saw from wrestling was in 2001, when my grandpa was watching Austin/HHH (3 Stages of Hell), I was 3 years old, so...I didn't watch anything related to wrestling again until 2006, when I watched Armaggedon at my Cousin's house (dat Joey Mercury spot had me like crazy). I watched Royal Rumble from 2007 with my cousin in my house, we watched the Rumble match only because he forgotted that the PPV was that day lol. One day I watched Summerslam and since, I was hooked. Only one thing was weird: I loved Benoit in the Rumble and he was gone, I learned the truth around 2008. I watched until 2010 when the TV Channel that broadcasted WWE stopped doing that.

When I heard Rock returned, I began watching...youtube clips, because I didn't know how to watch it live or the full shows on the internet lol. What hooked me again was R-Truth heel turn, and what hooked me to stay was the rise of CM Punk. I thought in 2012 "Maybe I need to stop watching WWE", I liked TNA more at the time, but, you know, in 2013 WWE was fucking great and TNA went to shit (I stopped watching TNA then and never watched it since). Since April of 2014 my interest in WWE has been very little tbh. Sometimes now I watch EVOLVE, PWG or NJPW when I have time, and Lucha Underground is the most fun I have with wrestling. In fact, Survivor Series from this year was the final straw for me. Maybe I start watching again next year, I don't know. But WWE is so boring, a lot of people are injured or gone, the storylines are monotone, everyone feels the same, they ruined Ambrose & Wyatt, maybe Reigns even.

So yeah, I'm currently on a break.
 
#24 ·
I had a 2k15 panel pop up as a suggestion after watching a GoT panel. I decided to give it a try because SCSA was asking the questions. I liked the banter between Cesaro and Sheamus. I was suprised to see Sting. With John Cena sitting next to Hulk Hogan it made me think he wasn't wrestling anymore, not sure why I made that assumption but I did. I thought Roman seemed very uncomfortable but he carried himself well considering who he was up there with. I could tell he was new but that's what made curious. I wanted to see how all of the new guys were doing. I watched the panel months after it happened, right around Wrestlemania 31, and what better show to watch to see the new stars? Well, I thought the whole thing was very lackluster but I was an instant Rollins fan when I saw his match with Orton. Then I got to see him again with that awesome cash in!

TLDR: Roman, Cesaro, and Sheamus got me watching. I stayed because of Rollins.
 
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