How long have you been watching wrestling?

Diabhal Beag · 24-08-2011 12:07PM #1

Easy question. Anybody who makes the "sports entertainment" joke will forever lose my respect.

I started in 2005 with the Eddie/Rey angle.

dlofnep · 24-08-2011 12:08PM

About 25 years. First Wrestlemania I saw was WM III.

gimmick · 24-08-2011 12:08PM

Approx 1987 ish. Whatever year WM 3 was anyway.

Stopped for a while in the 90s - 92-96ish.

chopperbyrne · 24-08-2011 12:18PM

I used to watch PPVs on the Super Channel!

Lord TSC · 24-08-2011 12:23PM

20+ years ago

Watched between ages of 4-10. Stopped watching for a while due to the times it was on but then started back at about 14...

Tinie · 24-08-2011 12:49PM

15-20 years ago

Started watching in about 96/97. Stopped watching then from about 2007 - 2011, apart from the wrestlemanias. Got back into it when The Rock returned back in February.

Penn · 24-08-2011 12:51PM

15-20 years ago

Started the beginning of 2000 a few weeks after Channel 4 started showing it. Fell out for a few years after that though. Tried to keep up every now and again but hard without internet at home and no Sky. Was just buying the odd PPV here and there. Started paying more attention when the Chris Benoit thing happened. Was checking wrestling news for ages after it, got me back into it.

GTR63 · 24-08-2011 12:59PM

Started watching it in the Summer of 98. There was times when my interest dropped a little but i'm still watching it.

thebostoncrab · 24-08-2011 01:01PM

From about 1990 (I was three!) because it was always on in our house. Never a time when I stopped watching since then and I was very lucky to have relations who would show me AWA, All Japan, New Japan and NWA tapes at a very young age, so I became educated on everything wrestling from the start. I intend on doing the same thing with my kids when they turn 3

steelcityblues · 24-08-2011 01:23PM

Just before Wrestlemania 5.

The Volt · 24-08-2011 01:55PM

15-20 years ago

1999 when we got Sky Sports in the house, Raw used to be shown on Friday nights

D2D · 24-08-2011 01:57PM

I remember the "Friday Night Wars", flicking between WCW on TNT at 9 and Raw on Sky Sports 3 at 10. Kept with it 'til bout mid 2005 (I remember getting up early every Saturday morning to catch football Italia on Channel 4 at 9 and SmackDown at 10 on Sky1). I fell out of it storyline wise around late 2004/early 2005 but watched the odd PPV. Came back to it around late 2007/early 2008 and have been with it since.

Machismo Fan · 24-08-2011 01:58PM

10-15 years ago

Late 2000/Early 2001-ish.

rovert · 24-08-2011 02:04PM

20+ years ago

Watched as a baby so Ive no real first match I saw story. My Dad and brother watched it but they deny that to the ****ing ground these days. 1987ish

Dancor · 24-08-2011 02:09PM

20+ years ago

From Rumble '93 to 2002. Then the Benoit thing happened and ive been keeping an eye on things since just hoping for something great to happen.

flahavaj · 24-08-2011 02:11PM

rovert wrote: »

Watched as a baby so Ive no real first match I saw story. My Dad and brother watched it but they deny that to the ****ing ground these days. 1987ish

I would say 1987/8 as well. I remember arguing with people in school about whether Macho Man or Hogan were better which is about right. My viewing was limited to glimpses late at night on Sky One though. Was avidly watching on a weekly basis by 1990/1 I'd say.

Mr. Presentable · 24-08-2011 02:31PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_PFJMRn72I

Jaysus

rossie1977 · 24-08-2011 02:34PM

early 1980s, probably 82 or 83, big daddy, giant haystacks and all that jazz, first wwf match i saw on tv was bob orton and hulk hogan in 1985, got talking to orton years later in 2006 and mentioned it to him, think i made him feel old

eh i dunno · 24-08-2011 07:33PM

From 92 til 2000 and now rarely watch it but still watch and buy old dvds

starviewadams · 24-08-2011 07:39PM

15-20 years ago

1994/95 or therabouts,I have a vivid memory of Yoko and Owen winning the tag titles for some reason.

Have been a massive fan ever since,only 'smartened up' at around the time of the WWF vs WCW invasion feud in 01,mainly cos my family got our first PC then!

waltersobchak · 24-08-2011 08:03PM

20+ years ago

I first saw WWF around 88/89 and can still remember seeing Ricky Steamboat dressed as a Dragon and blowing flames from his mouth, and thinking it was the greatest thing I'd ever seen, then I used to watch WCW with my Nan on a Saturday afternoon, stopped watching around 1994ish until 1998/99..

Furious-Red · 24-08-2011 08:07PM

15-20 years ago

I caught an episode of either Raw or SD when HHH married Steph and then got into wrestling really just before Summerslam 2000

Ruu_Old · 24-08-2011 08:09PM

20+ years ago

Since WCW was on ITV/UTV.

Got some Silvervision videos of all the early Wrestlemanias during that time as well.

Cianan2 · 24-08-2011 10:38PM

20+ years ago

Started when I was around 3, Hogan/Warrior/Savage era. Watched it religiously until just around when Eddie Guerrero died, not due to lack of interest but couldn't afford the channels anymore. Got back into it in the last year when I heard that there was an Irish fella "entertaining", and been hooked ever since. My first episode of Raw in about 6/7 years was awesome, Miz cashed in the MitB.

jaykhunter · 24-08-2011 10:40PM

gimmick wrote: »

Approx 1987 ish. Whatever year WM 3 was anyway. Stopped for a while in the 90s - 92-96ish.

Wow so very similar to myself! Stopped watching sometime 92ish and started watching again in the fall of 1996 (when we got Sky Sports back). And have been watching ever since. Got bitten by the wrestling bug twice! (Hulkamania Era and Attitude Era) so I'm a lifer now!

Pingi · 24-08-2011 10:49PM

20+ years ago

Too long! Sometime in 92 at a guess.

The first PPV I properly remember watching on was Wrestlemania 9 (the repeat at 6pm on sky cause I was only smmall)

Went to my first WWF live show then in 1994

Rjd2 · 24-08-2011 11:14PM

Barrington wrote: »

Started the beginning of 2000 a few weeks after Channel 4 started showing it. Fell out for a few years after that though. Tried to keep up every now and again but hard without internet at home and no Sky. Was just buying the odd PPV here and there. Started paying more attention when the Chris Benoit thing happened. Was checking wrestling news for ages after it, got me back into it.

Really similar to me, although I never bought the dvd's my homies used to record some of the bigger PPV'S for me because I was cool.

sky88 · 24-08-2011 11:28PM

ive watched since i was 4 which was 92 can strongly remember bret winning the wwe title

krudler · 24-08-2011 11:58PM

gimmick wrote: »

Approx 1987 ish. Whatever year WM 3 was anyway.

Stopped for a while in the 90s - 92-96ish.

exact same as me, would have around or maybe just after Mania 3, stopped around Mania 10, next one I saw was 14, watched consistently until about 2005 ish, then on and off over the last few years, interest peaked for the Wrestlemanias I went to, kinda drifted off the last year or so, dint even watch the Rumble this year, first one I've missed in well over a decade. Punk reignited interest, interesting to see where they go from here.

Ironman76 · 25-08-2011 12:00AM

Watched religiously from 1987-1993ish, then 1996-2002ish. . dont really watch anymore but great times an all that. I always remember the feeling of pure heaven seeing the new edition of Pro Wrestling Illustrated on the shelves in Easons in the 80s. WWF Magazine was for girls.

Insect Overlord · 25-08-2011 12:15AM

15-20 years ago

I remember watching Livewire and Superstars (iirc) on Sky1 weekend mornings. Definitely watched in 1998, not sure if I can remember anything from '97. Taped a few PPVs off Sky and Channel 4. Still vividly remember the day I showed up for an Under 10s soccer match to hear the guys talking about Owen Hart dying the night before.

Kept up with Smackdown and a few PPVs here and there over the last decade, sometimes the odd repeat of RAW.

I've been watching RAW nearly every week since 2008 (college sleeping patterns FTW) and started streaming a lot of PPVs this year.

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