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When did you stop watching WWE, if you did?
- Thread starter Roadster
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Even as a kid, looking back at 2009 I really didn't get what they did or what they wanted to do. It all really sucked. I liked the HHH/Orton build as a kid and I actually really fondly remember the brawl in the house! It was dumb business, but the segment was really cool to me at the time.
Everything on RAW after WrestleMania 25 in '09 was the absolute worst. I never understood WWE comedy. I know people claim "it's for the kids", but as a kid (and being the funniest person I know), I thought everything was really really awful.
Everything on RAW after WrestleMania 25 in '09 was the absolute worst. I never understood WWE comedy. I know people claim "it's for the kids", but as a kid (and being the funniest person I know), I thought everything was really really awful.
For me it happens annually usually quickly after Summerslam I stop watching the weekly shows and then everything until the Rumble. I try not to every year but it just happens. But for some reason in the past few years now I can watch the weeklys legit and easier just on TV I somehow cba ?
WWE doesn't take a real chance on ANYBODY. Nothing matters because it all stays the same unfortunately.
Even if you don't like Asuka, her development shows what is wrong with WWE.
They built her up as this scary and unstoppable force. Fans would chant "Asuka's gonna kill you." They took this incredible over 900 day undefeated streak, made her tap out at Mania and then completely destroy the mystique of her character.
They do this with everyone. It's why Adam Cole, Jonny Gargano, Tommassa Ciampa and others don't want to go to the main roster.
Honestly, they would be better off in AEW
They built her up as this scary and unstoppable force. Fans would chant "Asuka's gonna kill you." They took this incredible over 900 day undefeated streak, made her tap out at Mania and then completely destroy the mystique of her character.
They do this with everyone. It's why Adam Cole, Jonny Gargano, Tommassa Ciampa and others don't want to go to the main roster.
Honestly, they would be better off in AEW
I really believe Cole, Gargano, Ciampa and those guys not wanting to go to the main roster is bullshit. However, they are the faces/identity of NXT at the moment and they need stars to combat AEW so the longer they stay, the better it is for WWE that they stay at the moment. You likely more than double your money working in main events on RAW/SD as compared to NXT.
I actually think it's weirder when people go back to NXT like Finn Balor. It's supposed to be the developmental league
Yo lackin welcome back
It's just another brand, at this point, marketed towards the 'mark' crowd. WWE loses sight of everything as soon as some money comes their way. I kinda hoped they'd actually create their own little territory-structure developmental league with NXT being the final step, but that's a little too small time for big boy WWE to try.
NXT UK is a complete joke as well. It was only made to combat World of Sports and is now just there to further penetrate a dead UK wrestling scene. Everything they do is a short-term thought.
Around about 2017-18 but strangly enough have been drawn back in by one of the reasons I switched off in the first place loved some of the work roman reigns has put in since siding with Paul haymen
Holy shit! Holy shit! Gav fn Chav! Gav BACK (in 9th place in the championship)
I've had two stopping points. First was in 2011, right between the New Nexus and the CM Punk mega run. I was just bored, the matches sucked, the stories sucked, everything sucked and I wasn't having it, so I left. I didn't pick it back up till 2015 with the return of Batista. I watched pretty religiously up until the Reigns Strowman HitC match where Lesnar interfered. With that I soft dropped it because of just how freaking stupid it was, it showed me WWE had no respect for me so much so that the megaboss ppv main event led to nothing. Soft drop means I stopped watching but still watched reviews and such. That was until HiaC Fiend vs Rollins one year later which was somehow worse, so I quit altogether. The last show I watched was the Rumble and it didn't entertain me enough to even soft pick it back up
I should specify HiaC is my favorite ppv, so having horrible finishes there really hurts, especially two years in a row.
I should specify HiaC is my favorite ppv, so having horrible finishes there really hurts, especially two years in a row.
I stopped watching consistently watching recently when they had ortons dumbass catch the fiend on fire and how poorly that match was booked. Fucking perfect example of stupid shit. Yeah, I get that he’s gonna come back “better” or whatever the fuck, but still horrible match and booking.
I’ve stopped watching here and there and stooped around when punk left. Bryan gave me some hope again for a while and that was fun, but idk, WWE is very stale and it takes them too long to realize what they actually have, like idk, having reigns as a mega heel.... he’s good at it, like we’ve all been fucking saying for years.
I’ve stopped watching here and there and stooped around when punk left. Bryan gave me some hope again for a while and that was fun, but idk, WWE is very stale and it takes them too long to realize what they actually have, like idk, having reigns as a mega heel.... he’s good at it, like we’ve all been fucking saying for years.