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Post by marc91 on Jul 2, 2023 20:54:26 GMT 1
What do you guys watch?
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Post by Asaemon on Jul 3, 2023 18:52:45 GMT 1
Mostly classic 80s and 90s wrestling.
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Post by orion86 on Jul 7, 2023 10:39:25 GMT 1
Born in '86 and from London,UK - Grew up watching WWF in the late 80s and early 90s as that is all that was on. WCW also in the early 90s as it was on ITV1 on Saturday afternoon in the early 90s. Also WCW action figures were as available in the UK as much as the WWF ones were and cheaper so I had nearly every WCW action figure as a kid without really knowing who they were - what I watched on TV wasn't the same wrestlers. WCW Nitro was on TNT on Thursday nights in the UK so I watched every Nitro from the start to the finish. I was a WCW guy. Still watched WWF in the late 90s but I did not have Sky Sports so I only saw highlight show on Sky 1. Also watched ECW from around 1998 to 2001 as it was on the cable channel Bravo in the UK and I loved it. I was an ECdub guy too. After WWF bought out WCW and seeing what they did with it killed my passion for wrestling. Still watched WWE til about late 2002 early 2003. I remember TWC - The Wrestling Channel being on cable in the UK around this time? maybe 2004-2006? I used to watched that as I got to see a lot of ROH - Ring of Honor matches as well as MLW - Major League Wrestling. Also remember NWA-TNA being on the TV in UK in the early stages. Remember watching that as I was a big Jarrett fan and also for Raven. Defintely by 2006/2007 I stopped watching wrestling completely. Moved to Uni so I didn't have a TV. Not really followed wrestling ever since.
Last few years I've had all the cable channels in the UK so I've caught the odd RAW or Smackdown on TV and might leave it on for some background noise. Usually don't like what I see however. Seems to be a lot of bad acting and no wrestling. Getting the WWE Network in 2018 was a big game changer as I also found TEW 2020 and started playing mods from the era I watched wrestling whilst also rewatching the same era on the network. Also started listening to wrestling podcasts especially by Conrad Thompson which ignited the nostalgia even further.
In terms of modern day wrestling my exposure is on Twitter mainly. I see various clips of what is cool. Feels like enough of a recap of what is going on. Like I feel like I know the whole Bloodline angle in WWE right now despite not watching any show. Just seen enough on Twitter and heard enough talk about it on podcasts. Same with AEW too. If I was to start watching it weekly again it would probably be AEW. I'm also a big football fan though so any TV I watch its for the footy.
Also spend a lot of time watching Wrestling on YouTube. Mainly anything from 2007 to now because I've either heard it in a podcast or I've got a worker in my TEW 2020 save and have no idea about them because I wasn't watching wrestling. It's been great to retrospectively discover a lot of great wrestlers, matches, promos, gimmicks, momements etc.
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Post by Beejus on Jul 7, 2023 13:00:04 GMT 1
I have recently caught up with AEW, as about the time Sting showed up at the end of 2020 was when I started watching Dynamite from the first episode. It's a good thing that I'm caught up now too because I would have been left in the dust now that there's five hours of programming a week with Collision. But I am finally watching it within the week instead of being months behind.
As podcasts go, I listen to 83 Weeks and The Arn Show. I am caught up with Arn, but with Eric I am months behind and trying to play catch up. I got bogged down with the stretch of watchalongs that Eric was doing a while back, because I do like to watch the show when they do them, which is why I basically had to drop What Happened When despite not really wanting to. I just don't have the time. In fact the Nitro watchalongs are the only wrestling things I've watched on Peacock in I don't even know how long as I haven't watched WWE in a few years. It started off with dropping Raw and SD but keeping the events through the Network, but at a certain point, I want to say like 2017, I just gave up on those as well.
I am the definition of the "lapsed fan" that AEW has tried to bring back. It kinda has, because I have put a lot of time in on watching it, but it always hangs on by a thread until life and disinterest put a stop to it. It just isn't like it was when I was a kid and I couldn't get enough wrestling.
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