I have to do some cleaning due to friends coming over to watch Wrestlemania this weekend but I was curious if there were any wrestling fans here. I’ve been watching off and on since I was a little kid and my mom told me not to watch it. My first memory is my dad watching Hogan and Mr T doing a promo for the first wrestlemania. 80s wrestling was fun to watch as a kid and late 90s/early 00s were another boom period. Now they aren’t as edgy as they once were but can still be entertaining although some things have gotten woke. WWE network is worth the subscription just for its library of classic wrestling. Japan and Mexico have great wrestling as well.
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I'm from the south so I started off on WCW (THE MOTHERSHIP!), New Japan tape rentals, Smoky Mountain and some ECW (which I thought was mostly bad), I stopped watching weekly when Nitro went to shits, got back in during the golden era TNA which at the time week to week was putting out better stuff than WWE. Then there was those Lucha Underground episodes that scratched my wrestling itch.
Now I watch AEW and AEW adjacent stuff. It's not perfect, but it's as close to rasslin' as I'm going to find in 2023. I tune in to WWE but if I only have time to watch one show a week it'll be Dynamite.
I accidently made c/wrestling a few years ago. I was testing this site's features and hit the confirm button by accident. Sadly, it's a dead sub, I'm not the kind of user to post and feed kindling to grow a sub. Would love a place to rant about bad wrestling and you will never find a more wretched hive of troons and female wrestling fetish enthusiast than r squarecircle. Maybe one day this place get enough folks and we can try again, the fact that c/sports gets a handful of posts a week doesn't inspire much hope.
Also, Xfinity internet service comes with peacock included.
Our tastes and timelines align pretty closely. I was a big fan of NWA/JCP, AWA, WCCW, and WWF as a kid in the 80s, then stopped entirely around 92. I picked it back up in college when I was introduced to Fire Pro and ECW in 96. Started getting AJPW tapes a year later. Dropped wrestling when WCW died, watched a little early TNA and jumped back in at the height of ROH.
These days, I watch AEW weekly and catch as many NOAH and NJPW shows as possible. WWE can have it’s moments but it’s just generally not to my tastes.
AEW hits that sweet spot Nitro did back in the day of having something for just about everyone, and it’s a treat to just get to see Omega, AmDrag, and the like just go out and create magic.
I can list all the things AEW gotten right, I won't, I'll just mention one:
Watching 62 years-old Sting diving off the balcony, I remember I had this smile on my face, I felt like a kid again watching my hero Sting do his business. It's silly and marky but I was lost in that moment, and I felt like that kid again. It's moments like that that made me love wrestling.
Well, that and Jon Moxley and Adam Page beating the ever-loving shit out of each other at Revolution.
I’m so impressed by Sting. Hogan is my all time favorite but Sting is definitely top 5
Yea I get the old school NWA feel with AEW. Outside of the dude pretending to be a woman it’s solid.
The best thing I can say about Nyla Rose is that at least it’s a fake sport and you aren’t beaten over the head with it
True. I guess since it’s constantly pushed in everything I have a lower tolerance. But you are right
That sucks, honestly I don't even think I'm going to resubscribe when they offer those $20-$25 dollar for the year deals. Don't really want to give them money.
Nice. Good to be a smark. Lol