| Re: Why Do You Watch?
I've been watching wrestling for about 17 years now on and off. I watched from about the late 80's to about the time of Wrestlemania VIII, then stopped watching for a while. The reason for this was because I was entering Junior High school, and just had more priorities. New things like girls, school, hanging out at friends houses seemed more fun.
Around the time of 10th grade, when King of the Ring '98 was nearing (The infamous Foley vs. Taker HIAC match) my friend invited me over his house to watch the pay-per-view. I hadn't watched wrestling in years, but thought "Alright, I've got nothing else to do tonight". After watching the Attitude Era for about 3 hours on PPV, I was hooked again. This was so different from the days of "Say your prayers and eat your vitamins". Besides, it became cool once again to like wrestling in my school. Kids would talk about it in class, and I wanted to discuss it as well so I began watching RAW each week.
By the time I graduated high school and entered the second year of college or so (2002), Wrestling was taking a slide in popularity. I only watched it once in a while, and during football season I became more interested in watching "Monday Night Football" than RAW because that's what my buddies watched as well.
Nowadays, when Monday Nights come around, we play poker every week. I decided one day to turn on wrestling while we were playing, and my buddies watched in amazement. They hadn't watched it in a while either, but they enjoyed it. The next week, they asked who was fighting tonight on RAW. I turned it on once again, and we watched again. The rest is history.
We still play poker at the moment, so wrestling is usually on, unless it's football season or a Tigers game is on, then we'll flip between the two. I think if we didn't play poker, or I didn't visit this site all the time....I probably wouldn't watch wrestling anymore. It's a social thing, I guess. Sometime to talk about with your buddies and other people on here.
I enjoy wrestling, but right now the current product is stale on me. Perhaps I'll be drawn away from it for a while again, and come back to it when it gets more exciting. People say wrestling is cyclical, and I think that's right. Very few girls I know watch soap operas like "All My Children" or whatever every single time it's on. They tune in here and there, so that's normal.
So I guess that's my (not so short) answer. I watch it because it's fun, and my friends and I enjoy the storylines and the action in the ring. We like those "Holy shit" moments, and also the moments where Donald Trump and Vince McMahon are having an arguement over one another, or another fun storyline of the like. |