This is probably my most chill / casual / personal video I’ve made in a long time lol, let me know if you guys rocked with it and I’ll make more just like this! Don’t worry though, I got two bangers coming this upcoming week Oh and I’m definitely going to be doing a Survivor Series watch - a - long so stay tuned Thanks for all the love and support ❤️🙏🏼
Thanks pav after a long time..and I love wrestling(die hard fan? Yup) and your videos too.❤ thanks for uploading through the years and making my days and that meant a lot ..so thank you pav and we love you ❤
I stopped watching in 2016 and then I didn’t start watching wwe again and start watching it consistently till last year I feel like right now they’re in a lull period like they were around this time last year but after Survivor Series and they build towards Saturdays Night Main Event and Netflix it’s gonna be fire
From 2018 until November 2022, I completely stopped watching WWE and wrestling as a whole despite going to NXT Takeover Brooklyn IV and Takeover New York. The product was so stale and so bad that I completely just stopped watching wrestling other than black and gold NXT. I was going into high school and nobody cared about wrestling anymore where I live, so there was no point in watching. The Bloodline story with Sami Zayn brought me back to wrestling with the Royal Rumble last year being my 1st show I watched live since Takeover NYC and me and my homie have been hooked ever since
Whoever stuck through WWE in 2018, 2019 onward to when Vince resigned from power the first time, you’re a real trooper. Those times almost made me quit wrestling too
WWE got replaced with NFL and the NBA and others at that point. I remember Seth Rollins coming on First Take trying to sell himself vs Finn Balor at Summerslam and it felt like the lamest thing I’d ever seen at the time because unlike now, I just couldn’t get behind Finn Balor as a main eventer at that point and the feud wasn’t all that good at all.
It's wild how popular Jeff Hardy was at the time. I had two friends who were also wrestling fans and when Jeff Hardy left they both stopped watching Great video!
I stopped at the time too. 2009 post Mania 25 was WWE built around Jeff. He main evented so many PPVs over Orton, Cena and Triple H in that time period.
I’ve been a wrestling fan since I was 8 and I’ve never stopped watching. But I totally don’t blame anyone who took a break because of the garbage that was happening on TV
I stopped watching WWE in 2010 and didn't come back until AEW started up. So, I missed the YES movement, The Authority, The Shield, Plan B, Sting, The Wyatts, "you should've died in the womb", "Bayley, This is your Life", the Golden age of NXT. I missed a whole decade.
Honestly, I say good for you. I think everybody can agree that 2010s decade was easily the worst for WWE from a creative standpoint because you could tell Vince was just getting way out of touch with everything. Sure had some great moments here and there, but the product overall was just in a no Bueno. I’d say you dodged a humongous bullet, my friend.
Bro, same, I literally cried or tried not to cry. After Jeff fell from the top of the cage and stopped watching then as well. Jeff Hardy meant so much to us and the way they’ve done him. I don’t know, man. I’m praying we get at least one more single run with Jeff before he retires right now he in Matt are killing it in TNA, the tag team champions, and with punk being back, I’m hopingthe Hardy’s can have one last WWE run before retirement and their Hall of Fame induction and if Jeff can get one more really good singles push that would make my heart very happy never say never
I stopped right after Eddie's passing. I watched bits and pieces but I didn't fully watch again until Judgment Day with Rhea, Finn, Dom and Damian happened
@@voltexplayz Ok...I started watching when I was 10-11 years old, and I just stopped after Eddie passed because it didn't feel the same to me anymore. Plus I was getting into other things at the time
To me when I felt like I didn’t like it so much on 📺 was because in 2021 though the stories got better still the roster felt smaller like Mr Mchman wasn’t thinking to me anymore not giving the NXT guys a chance anymore. From 2018-2019 I tolerated the weird moments because the roster was still huge.
@@LetJIMMYCookI’d say that’s pretty common. Most storylines are at its weakest during the end of the year. Royal rumble - summer slam is when most storylines are at its peak.
There have been so many moments watching WWE that have legitimately fumed me, but there is no other storyline that I’ve hated more than The Authority. I legitimately almost quit watching wrestling forever because this angle/faction brings back so much bad memories that still keeps me awake at night. The Authority storyline not only had sucked the life out of the whole product but also the audience who were extremely sick to death of seeing them on their television screen opening every single episode of RAW spending 30 to 40 minutes bragging about how great they are for THREE PISSIN’ YEARS from 2013 to 2016. Not to mention the fact that they were bad guys who always got the last laugh because they never received any satisfying comeuppance especially Stephanie McMahon, who everybody will agree was the worst part of The Authority. Those were very, very dark times.
I agree 100% The Authority angle was so bad. It was fine at the start I guess and we got the yes movement and Seth Rollins from it but the rest sucked. It was a poor man’s Corporation that didn’t have nearly the same star power. Having Kane and Big Show in a main event faction in 2014/2015 was a fucking embarrassment. The one thing I can say is at least most of the time Triple H would get his comeuppance and put over the face going against them.
I personally stopped after Wrestlemania 36. Many of my favorites were done, those new I liked or usuals I loved weren’t being treated right, and the show just wasn’t something I cared about. While I saw something here or there I didn’t begin watching fully again until Summerslam 2022 The start of the Triple H era and I haven’t stopped since then. Very glad to be back as I jumped in just in time. Refreshed with much of what I missed and then some and here we are. It’s been a great return, I even got my little brother into it and he’s arguably a bigger fan than me at this point
Fax I stopped in 2016 and then I didn’t start watching it consistently till last year I feel like right now they’re in a lull period like they were around this time last year but after Survivor Series and they build towards Saturdays Night Main Event and Netflix it’s gonna be fire
Dang i also stopped watching after this and I completely forgot that wrestling was thing Then after the 2022 royal rumble is when I started watching again and I was confused throughout the match
I stopped watching after 2010 and when they moved Smackdown to Syfy. Missed out on 8 years of wrestling. When I came back all my childhood favorites were gone lol. Wrestling is never the same for me these days
I'm so glad for the highlights on the YT channel. I can't be asked to watch entire episodes of weekly TV, but checking out the clips to get a rough idea what happened is enough for me to stay in the loop. Makes it way harder for me to get burned out.
Man in 2009, once Jeff Hardy lost that match to CM Punk, it didnt feel the same. I stopped watching the weekly shows, I stopped watching paperviews but around 2016 I started to give it another chance and then it all went crashing down in 2018-2019. Romans gimmick was so bad (remember that dog entrance?) and I gave up on it. The final chance I gave it was 2020. I still watch it to this day. The bloodline drama is pretty fun to watch.
So For Me, I Stopped Watching Around Covid When There Was No Crowds. So All Of 2020 I Missed, But Just Happened To Tune In To Summerslam 2021 But Then Kinda Fell Back Again. So Then At The Day 1 PPV In 2022 Came Around, That’s When I Got Hooked Back On Wrestling. In My Opinion Not Having Crowds Made The Show Feel Weird And Unwatchable
Im honestly lucky that the time period where everyone around me grew out of wrestling was the pandemic, so I didn't ever have that feeling of being pressured to not watch because there was nobody around me to not talk about it anyway
Damn this vid got me reminiscing about my history with wrestling. I was watching from 06-13 when I played SVR 2007 and I stopped around wrestlemania 29 when John Cena beat the rock after that brutal night in Miami. Bro I was broken when rock beat him. I felt sick. Cena getting that rematch W was like Cody finishing his story. There was nothing left to prove. At the time I was 13 and in secondary school and all my friends who liked wrestling either stopped or I just didn’t see. Lucky I didn’t see the undertaker streak being broke. Then I came back around 2015-2016 when I finished my exams but when I went to college, I stopped again. Now I’m back, getting ready for John cena’s last dance because he was the guy when I was watching. Man I remember when I was watching wrestling everyday. Raw, smackdown, TNA, superstars, WWE vintage etc. finding out wrestling was ‘fake’ was the nail in the coffin. It was the equivalent of finding out the tooth fairy or Santa wasn’t real. It never hit the same after that even though I can still appreciate it as it is.
Omg I remember watching Superstars religiously and not giving a single damn that all the main eventers were in the video package but the match card was actually more like JTG vs Finlay, Yoshi Tatsu vs William Regal and Evan Bourne vs Mike Knox as the main event🤣
The Only Hiatus Took From Wrestling Was From Backlash 2020 To Summer Of 2021. Only Reason I Stopped Watching Was Because It Felt Weird Seeing WWE In The Empty Performance Center. In That 1 Year I Completely Stopped Watching Wrestling. I Was Keeping Up On The Internet For Like A Month Then I Stopped That Too. I Was Playing Games Online With My Friends, Chatting, Spending Time With Family ETC. Until I Randomly Saw A WWE Video Of John Cena's MITB Return, That Pop Got Me Feeling Something. I Found Out He's Wrestling At Summer slam So I Watched The Show. Then I Started Watching Weekly Again, I Found Out How Much Has Been Changed Then 2022 Revived My Love For Wrestling. 👑💓
I stopped watching raw after 2015 and smackdown after 2016. Really stopped watching until 2021 when Cena returned. Honestly didnt miss a lot except for edge return, that was something im upset about
Funny you mentioned Sheamus the way you did because when I started rewatching WWE again after the Covid Era, I thought the same thing about Shanky, Reggie, Rick Boogs, Ridge Holland, and Omos. Not hating on any of them at all. They just came out of nowhere to me
The one time i remember taking a long break was Jack Swagger winning the Money in the Bank briefcase at WM26. Good lord, I knew where that stinker was going, and for a while Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels was my last hurrah before the Wyatt Family brought me back in.
Man that’s wild to hear, I’ve never in my entire life enjoyed WWE more than I do right now. I watch all three episodes every single week and have for the last two years. That’s crazy to me.
I stopped after 2014, kind of paid attention until around 2020, where I got more invested after Covid hit. I’m glad that Roman’s tribal chef run, among some really great stories, occurred during that time and transitioned into other great stories. Also, shout out to Drew for leading the way in keeping WWE together at the start of Covid.
I began watching WWE when I was 6 around 2010, I was obsessed with wrestling for a good 6 years, after WrestleMania 34 I started to tune out of WWE, but I'd still be in the know of what happens in the shows and watch a few clips here and there, but I actually began to stop paying attention to wrestling completely in October of 2019. With the worst version of Baron Corbin in PPV main events, the disaster class of a Hell in a Cell match and overpushed Lesnar squashing one of my childhood favorites who had just started to get a main event push Kofi Kingston in 6 seconds, I had enough and stopped watching. It wasn't until I randomly decided to watch Fastlane 2021 that I started to watch it again.
Never really had a wresting hang-over been a wwe fan since 2006-Now yes i agree wwe has had it's bad times but i have enjoyed most of it for years now great video man ☺❤
I started to watch the product in the Summer of 2012 and didn't stop until Fall 2019. The dog food angle killed my love, for the WWE. I came back for WrestleMania 38, and now I'm just a casual.
Great video! I stopped watching wrestling around 2009 because in my opinion the product got a lot boring when it turned to PG. Occasionally I would watch a show or two, but until the pandemic in 2020, I saw one of your videos on the undertaker documental and it was awesome, you genuinely brought my attention back to WWE with that and other videos you had in your channel. I can say I’m a true wrestling fan ever since, thank you!
It's funny how I started watching wrestling by hating it. It was 2012 and I was only 6 and I would only watch cartoons on TV. My elder brother was a huge die-hard fan of WWE since 2005 and he would tune into wrestling by snatching the TV remote away from me and I would cry but nothing would matter as being the elder son he was more beloved so my parents couldn't do much to give me the TV remote from him. As a result, I had no choice but to watch WWE with him. It was WM28 and I was hooked with the Hell In A Cell match between HHH and Undertaker. I loved the match from the depth of my heart and became a wrestling fan that day. It was a shame that that match was the end of the era I would probably love the most. I had fun watching wrestling after that. I don't remember much from 2012 to pandemic era despite watching wrestling a lot. Maybe because I was too much restricted watching TV at night as my parents would watch at night wouldn't let us to watch and all PPV would happen during night in my area. I would also have tuition classes during afternoon and evening when RAW and SD would happen in my area. So I had no choice but to watch casually until 2016. In 2016, the channel I used to watch WWE then brought live RAW and SD. Before that the channel would give us pre-taped shows. Now I could watch live WWE programming at early morning so I would wake up early and watch every WWE shows I could before going to school. I think I watch the most wrestling from 2016 to 2019 and I would say 2018-2019 was pretty boring but I was a kid and would love anything I watched. The most I was out of wrestling was after pandemic hit. I only watched first few episodes of Raw and SD then completely stopped watching wrestling coz they were just giving us recap of old matches most of the time so I felt I was watching nothing new and it was the most boring to watch wrestling on 2020 as I got into internet and then had access to lots of interesting content. I would watch TH-cam all day long and forgot about wrestling. I can remember every title changes from 2016 to early pandemic even the tag titles which was hot potato that time but I struggled to remember title changes from 2020 to 2021. I still watched big PPVs during the absence from wrestling. I really wished I could watch Roman Reigns hell title run from pandemic. I would only watch PPVs and nothing else so had no idea about the build ups of the matches. Later when pandemic completely went off, I slowly started watching wrestling again and it was on late 2021 I think. I would only watch top 10 moments of weekly shows instead of watching them to have the minimum idea of PPV build ups and continue watching PPVs or PLEs. Still didn't watch B type PLEs until late 2023. When Vince left and HHH took over the creative, I began to watch WWE more and eventually ended up watching every single major weekly shows every week. Now, I watch RAW, SD and NXT every week and every PLEs including B type and NXT ones. No one watches wrestling around me even my brother only watches big PLEs and watches some TH-cam videos to keep up-to-date with wrestling. None of my schoolmates watch wrestling but they used to before pandemic. They tell me to stop watching this scripted fight and move on watch movies, series and dramas and real sports. But I will follow my heart and watch wrestling, screw them. I felt the moment when you told you were forced not to watch wrestling but later followed your heart and continued watching it. I did the same thing and now here I am. Never loved wrestling more than now.
It's good to see that I'm not the only one who has stopped watching WWE for a while this time, I know what's going on but I haven't watched anything since WM, only a week ago I returned to SS 100% and because of that I'm now watching what I missed because during that time I only watched two channels
I've watched wrestling since 2 before I spoke words, and I never stopped, if WWE was real bad I'd watch other promotions. I'm a pro wrestling addict for life.
Same here I've barely watched since Bad Blood and couldn't care less to watch Crown Jewel but Once January hits it's gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥! Survivor Series will probably be good too.
The Saudi shows really do ruin things bc it doesn’t feel authentic. It is a cash grab but saudis having a say in what they want in there own show and how they want it js sucks. And again I get it, it’s the money but that’s what ruins it. That’s why there never taken serious
I stopped watching wrestling in 2019, but the Uncle Howdy storyline got my attention, because Bray was one of my favorite wrestlers, so I turned back in this year.
I started watching wrestling on a full time basis in the summer of 2008 and I honestly have not stopped since then. There were many times where I was disgusted with the product, but I kept watching every show every week. To me, WWE is addicting in the best way possible because it gave me an escape from the stress of the real world. 2015 was the hardest year for me because everything was about Roman Reigns. The only 3 things that kept me watching that year were Cesaro, The New Day, and the John Cena U.S. Open Challenge. I know there will be times in the future when I won't like what I see, but I know I'm going to keep watching every week because my love for WWE will never die.
The only time I stopped watching wwe was after that Corbin drew Bobby stand tall closing raw 2019. Then I came back to watch WrestleMania 36 because of COVID.
I have been watching pro wrestling in general ever since i was a tween in the mid 80s. I remember the golden age, watching stuff like saturday night main event back in the 80s with so many classic feuds that went on and renting the PPV's months later than they happened at my local VHS rental shop then by about early 1992, right as the Hogan era was nearly done I stopped watching, just through sheer disinterest because none of my friends watched them anymore. I was a senior in HS and had better things to do... but even then, I had my finger on the pulse of the New Generation and early attitude eras of wrestling, just by talking to a friend or two or playing the video games at the time. Years later, out of curiosity, and playing a terrible WCW game for PC, I figured I'd watch it again around 1999/2000 but then I was watching WCW because they had all the guys I watched back 10 years earlier. I figured the product would be better. Boy, I was wrong. So I didn't watch super long, maybe a year. I got out of watching it again. And then, after the WWE bought WCW, I picked it up again in the middle of the Ruthless Aggression era back in late 2004. I watched for a LONG time then, on & off, mostly on until early 2015 right after Wrestlemania 31. After that, i was so burned out, of the bad booking, bad characters, bad storylines, people like Roman Reigns being shoved down my throat, CM Punk leaving, that I finally stopped watching again. Then, in late 2018 I said, "Eh, lets pick it up again." Same thing. By the time Wrestlemania 35 came around again, around 6 months later I quit watching because it sucked so bad again, for the reasons I mentioned before, shoving Reigns down throats, years later.... and I hated how they booked yet again. I was frustrated with Vince, and said, screw it, I will never watch a product where Vince is doing creative again, it's a waste of my time. Then, in early 2023, I started watching again, because I knew that Triple H was doing creative again, watched WM 39, loved it and have watched it pretty much religiously ever since. The product has been so phenomenal, that it is as good as the Ruthless Aggression era and even is starting to rival the Golden & Attitude eras of wrestling. I always keep coming back though, because of the video games. I love them, they're always fun to play so I guess it's why I've peeked in over the years, it drawing me back to the product. I'm glad I'm watching it again. It's the best it's been in years and honestly, living through SO much of the bests of wrestling history and watching the streaming library for a lot of old stuff has made me realize, my love for pro wrestling will probably never go away. At this point, it's been in my life for almost 40 years. It's the best entertainment around, bar none. Wrestlemania 40 was awesome, the best since WM 30. I can't wait to see WM 41. Even though you & I started watching at different times, that's how life is. We wrestling fans are always gonna be fans even if we don't watch every day. Burnout always happens. Take a break from it until you love it again. Peace.
wwe right now is so good it's good, the product's been ass for awhile so to just see this quality, consistently, is huge, but I still don't wanna watch the weekly shows
It was 2015,was a sophomore in HighSchool , and I waited until the raw after Mania ‘31 to leave. I’ve been watching religiously since 2008. CM punk was the only one left that gave me real interest in wrestling as I felt that everything else lost its magic for me so when he left. It took me 9 YEARS to come back in 2024 Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes bought me back, Mania ‘40 was special. The magic has been back ever since
John cena getting Injured in 2007 was basically the same thing with your Jeff Hardy moment the dude was on top of the world as wwe champion for 380 days and I was excited for their last man standing match and then he got injured and relinquished the title and I was sad because it felt weird watching shows without John cena and coincidentally when I started watching again in early 2008 he comes back at the royal rumble I could never hate John cena I didn’t agree with him winning at wrestlemania 23 or beating Rey Mysterio but I loved John cena and that’s why I’m hoping to be at elimination chamber in Toronto because I want to see him perform in person before he hangs it up I saw edge’s last match I would like to see the same with John cena
I can pinpoint a few times that I completely tuned out of the product. 2008 was the first time and it was mostly because I was sick of Cena winning all the time, the draft made everything weird like seeing Mysterio on raw was just so wrong and the commentary team being switched around made things so weird for me. The second time I tuned out was when Punk left WWE and later on when the Bella twins started having the spotlight. After that segment where one of them said “I wish you died in the womb, I just tuned out after that for a bit, that was it for now for me Atleast 😂 The third time was during the pandemic, Raw specifically. I felt that raw during the pandemic was such a nothing burger of a show and I wasn’t too interested in the Seth vs Rey feud that was happening at the time so I tuned out. So yeah those were some of the times i stopped watching WWE lol thank you Pav for always uploading amazing content! Keep up the amazing work broski !!!
"If you dont love me at my worst,then you dont deserve me at my best" That's the one line i want to say to all the guys who came back now that wwe is good again You werent there where we had to watch all those dog food segement,a half and hour long shane mcmahon thing and goldberg shit We had to sit through all of that and not to mention the mockery of all AEW fans day in and day out. And i never missed a wwe show and proud to call myself wwe fan then.(kinda similar to aew current fans now) You guys werent there during the rough times.
Think the problem is that the product is in need of a change. A fresh start in other areas. Judgement Day needs to end, Rhea and Liv's feud needs to end. Drew and Punk's rivalry ended, so it's left a void. People are also waiting for Tiffy to cash in on Nia. Roman vs Rock if it's happen needs to come sooner then later. Like don't get me, there are nice things about the product, but it needs a fresh coat of paint. Funny enough on Sheamus. He was one of the reasons I came back, as I took a break after a bit, other things that brought me back was Kane being World Champion, and Nexus.
I just want Triple H to move on from any iteration of Bianca and Damage CTRL being on screen together. She was making them look like absolute clowns 1v3 so having Asuka and Alexa involved was just to give them something to do. She's beaten every member who was/is currently in Damage CTRL more than 5x each at this point and for some reason Triple H just won't stop booking them against each other. And Iyo being on team Bianca after she told Naomi she hasn't forgiven Bayley earlier this year is stupid
The product is certainly better under Triple H but his commitment to long-term storytelling can have issues. As you say, storylines can start to drag after awhile and they usually seem pretty predictable. For example how long has Xavier Woods been showing heel-ish tendencies? It's been _months_ and he still hasn't turned.
The only time I stopped watching is during the pandemic, I even missed WWE 2K22, and the only thing that made me start watching wwe again was the return of CM Punk
When I was a kid, the entirety of my wrestling consumption was through the video games between 05 and 11. Then my parents started letting me stay up to watch SmackDown on Thursday nights when it was on SyFy, but around that time is when I realized that none of my friends cared about wrestling in the slightest. Then one day which I believe was my 17th birthday my dad randomly asked if I wanted to go to Raw and I said sure why not. It was a very good time and it made me think why I ever stopped watching then I realized I never truly watched so I tried to watch the WWE, but this was 2019 and I randomly asked myself where is Cody Rhodes because I loved his theme song back in the day. This is when I found out AEW was about to happen and I was so hooked on the thought of a new product that I became a full AEW super fan and did not miss a show for four years until I graduated college. I am now in the current state of not watching wrestling again, WWE and AEW.
As dramatic as this will sound. Jinder Mahal winning the WWE championship is the moment in time that did irreversible damage to my love for wrestling. Up until that moment, i was pretty consistent from 2004 to 2017. But the moment they took this guy who was a generational jobber and made him champion. Is just when i stopped watching. And i have tried going back to watching weekly. But I just can't do it. I watch 2-3 weeks and I just fall off. I've never been sble to watch consistently since 2017.
Only time i almost stopped watching wrestling was around 2020/2021, hated majority of what WWE was doing and almost gave up but luckily AEW was around lol
Same here lol from 2019 to 2022 i stopped watching until the bloodline story started picking up from 2022 and it has been a blast since triple h took over and wrestlemania 40 was one of the best wrestlemania experience since wrestlemania 31
I stopped when they decided to release Bray. Dat ish made me SO mad. And when he came back lt didn't feel the same it felt like smth was off. Say I would only watch it when Bray was on the TV. Now I can never watch him again. 😔 Fly High man we miss u. 🕊
I watched WWE late 06'- 15' stopped watching cus i started going out & watching real sport. I came back in 2023 to watch it again & got back hooked on🔥💯.
We basically went through the same phases in terms of when we would stop watching. What got me back in fully was Vince’s removal from the company & CM Punk coming back. Been keeping up since and have been openly supporting in front of my friends
I feel you man, when CM Punk left in 2014-2015 I never really returned to it. At times I would hear some big news and watch these kinds of videos for entertainment but I could never really enjoy it. CM punk has returned but life has passed since then lol, still enjoy these kinds of videos ofc
This is so spot on, pretty much the same timelines when i checked out. Havent been enjoying as much since the first half of the year but punk and bloodline wargames is starting to heat things up a little for me!
When everyone left after wm 26 I stopped watching. The rock got me back when he returned I was on and off until 15 never have watched regularly since when ever I watch live I always regret it. Unless it’s a ppv
Jeff Hardy loosing that match to CM Punk in August 2009 and then legitimately leaving for me was devastating. WWE never felt the same again for me. And I cried 😢
As someone who is near the same age as Pav I feel that being a modern wrestling fan is convincing yourself that it still hits the same as it did 10+ years ago. Would you agree that nostalgia is what is keeping longtime fans tuning in? I feel like anytime modern WWE or other promotions posts something that feels like a throwback it gaslights us to think "OMG I gotta watch this!" but pretty much everytime it feels disappointing. RAW XXX (30th Anniversary) is the most recent example i can remember, that episode sucked.
I started watching since 2005 and stopped when the Undertaker’s streak was defeated at WM30. I am always an Undertaker fan and that Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker match will always be my trauma effect. I started to watch again since 2K22 was out and I have wrestling a chance and somehow I am now a fan again. 😅 I swear I am sorry that you guys had this experience through your years of watching wrestling. I swear being an Undertaker mark is my life. Great video btw. Always delivering bangers
I may have stopped watching when ai was a teenager, only to come back when Edge returned in 2020; BUT when I was a kid, I did at least get to see Bret Hart's return live in 2010/11 before I did stop; though I didn't understand the gravity of his departure at the time. I do now, of course, and will never forget that night
Been a fan of WWE since 2002 when I was 6, now I'm 28 and I can safely say that I've never stopped watching since. There have been lowpoints in my fandom, but I've always found something to latch on to.
Wrestling is best when you take breaks from it. You gotta remember there's no off season, so you have to decide when the off season is. Sometimes it's a few weeks, a few months, maybe even a year or two. It's all good man. Can't love a thing 24/7 without fatigue.
I remember i stopped watching wwe from late 2017 to early 2021 but then when roman vs edge vs bryan feud started i again started to watching wwe and till now 2024 I'm watching regularly
I started watching wrestling in late 97 early 98.. lost interest around Mid 01.. Fell back into it around early 05 and lost interest again around 09 and would only tune in for the yearly Undertaker mania match. 2014 came around and my buddy told me Brock beat the streak and while I didn’t have interest in watching the week to week product, I stumbled across wrestling podcasts and they’ve helped me stay up to date since then more or less.
TH-camrs got me back into wrestling when I almost quit in the mid 2010s. people like TWFS, Adam Blampied, The Great One, and of course big shout-out to whatculture's articles, cause if the raw and SmackDown highlights looked boring I was just gonna read about it and move on
Bro the way you felt about Jeff in 09 is how I felt with Punk 2014 I was always hooked from early 2000s to 2014 but after that i pretty much watched here and there until maybe late 2015 to late 2017 I was completely disconnected from it, and then I did it again in 2021, didn’t stop completely but I did miss a lot that year but hey I’ve been watching again so.. we’ll see when I get over it again😂
This is probably my most chill / casual / personal video I’ve made in a long time lol, let me know if you guys rocked with it and I’ll make more just like this! Don’t worry though, I got two bangers coming this upcoming week
Oh and I’m definitely going to be doing a Survivor Series watch - a - long so stay tuned
Thanks for all the love and support ❤️🙏🏼
Thanks pav after a long time..and I love wrestling(die hard fan? Yup) and your videos too.❤ thanks for uploading through the years and making my days and that meant a lot ..so thank you pav and we love you ❤
You are just a chill guy.
I stopped watching in 2016 and then I didn’t start watching wwe again and start watching it consistently till last year I feel like right now they’re in a lull period like they were around this time last year but after Survivor Series and they build towards Saturdays Night Main Event and Netflix it’s gonna be fire
From 2018 until November 2022, I completely stopped watching WWE and wrestling as a whole despite going to NXT Takeover Brooklyn IV and Takeover New York. The product was so stale and so bad that I completely just stopped watching wrestling other than black and gold NXT. I was going into high school and nobody cared about wrestling anymore where I live, so there was no point in watching. The Bloodline story with Sami Zayn brought me back to wrestling with the Royal Rumble last year being my 1st show I watched live since Takeover NYC and me and my homie have been hooked ever since
You never stopped watching though don't cap😂
Whoever stuck through WWE in 2018, 2019 onward to when Vince resigned from power the first time, you’re a real trooper. Those times almost made me quit wrestling too
Those times were bad
We were in the trenches
I still watched during that time but the Covid Thundermone was when I stopped
WWE got replaced with NFL and the NBA and others at that point. I remember Seth Rollins coming on First Take trying to sell himself vs Finn Balor at Summerslam and it felt like the lamest thing I’d ever seen at the time because unlike now, I just couldn’t get behind Finn Balor as a main eventer at that point and the feud wasn’t all that good at all.
When the new day kneeled for George floyd.... I stopped watching for a while
It's wild how popular Jeff Hardy was at the time. I had two friends who were also wrestling fans and when Jeff Hardy left they both stopped watching
Great video!
Me 2, same exact story
The great one in wrestlingifs now i see all
I stopped at the time too. 2009 post Mania 25 was WWE built around Jeff. He main evented so many PPVs over Orton, Cena and Triple H in that time period.
Next video when?
The Great One!!
I’ve been a wrestling fan since I was 8 and I’ve never stopped watching. But I totally don’t blame anyone who took a break because of the garbage that was happening on TV
Yeah most I've done was stop watching live and watch on yt back in 2019
Same, I was 8 too, after I went to the 2008 Royal Rumble, I've been obsessed ever since.
@@faizkhan99945 yeah but that can simply be most people don't have cable these days
I completely stopped watching in 2019.... SmackDown and raw was the worst to me
@@faizkhan99945that’s mainly because television streaming is getting less and less viewership, once they’re on Netflix that will go up for sure
I stopped watching WWE in 2010 and didn't come back until AEW started up. So, I missed the YES movement, The Authority, The Shield, Plan B, Sting, The Wyatts, "you should've died in the womb", "Bayley, This is your Life", the Golden age of NXT.
I missed a whole decade.
Honestly, I say good for you. I think everybody can agree that 2010s decade was easily the worst for WWE from a creative standpoint because you could tell Vince was just getting way out of touch with everything. Sure had some great moments here and there, but the product overall was just in a no Bueno. I’d say you dodged a humongous bullet, my friend.
You didn’t miss anything except cm punks rise but you already saw it in 09
the authority, plan b, and sting all sucked (the storylines) but yeah a lot of those were some diamonds in the rough
I did too. I stopped watching completely in 2011-2012. Came back in 2022 didn’t know a single wrestler besides the guys from my time
@@cameroncolayea I stopped watching in 2011 too when they brought back 50 year old Kevin Nash and the Cody Rhodes gimmick with the mask was happening
Bro, same, I literally cried or tried not to cry. After Jeff fell from the top of the cage and stopped watching then as well. Jeff Hardy meant so much to us and the way they’ve done him. I don’t know, man. I’m praying we get at least one more single run with Jeff before he retires right now he in Matt are killing it in TNA, the tag team champions, and with punk being back, I’m hopingthe Hardy’s can have one last WWE run before retirement and their Hall of Fame induction and if Jeff can get one more really good singles push that would make my heart very happy never say never
Matt said he would be a part of the Wyatt 6 storyline hope that still happens
I stopped right after Eddie's passing. I watched bits and pieces but I didn't fully watch again until Judgment Day with Rhea, Finn, Dom and Damian happened
You missed like 20 years brother 💀
@@voltexplayz Ok...I started watching when I was 10-11 years old, and I just stopped after Eddie passed because it didn't feel the same to me anymore. Plus I was getting into other things at the time
I stopped watching wwe when nick mysterio coulldnt be found,the horrors that dom and nick got seperated
Bro, it's Tom and Nick Mysterio
To me when I felt like I didn’t like it so much on 📺 was because in 2021 though the stories got better still the roster felt smaller like Mr Mchman wasn’t thinking to me anymore not giving the NXT guys a chance anymore. From 2018-2019 I tolerated the weird moments because the roster was still huge.
Is it me or I always have a wrestling hangover from late September to December every year then around royal rumble season I become a mark again
@@LetJIMMYCookI’d say that’s pretty common. Most storylines are at its weakest during the end of the year. Royal rumble - summer slam is when most storylines are at its peak.
For me I definitely was out between 2019-21. But nah it’s a good day every day u post mane keep it up
Only time i stopped since i was born when they broke undertakers streak i was so mad 😂 i didn’t watch it for like 5 years
😂😂😂😂 can’t blame you.
Wow really i remember watching mania 2015 was sad brock won but still got over it
Bro 6th grade me stopped watching for a year when that happened 😂
There have been so many moments watching WWE that have legitimately fumed me, but there is no other storyline that I’ve hated more than The Authority. I legitimately almost quit watching wrestling forever because this angle/faction brings back so much bad memories that still keeps me awake at night. The Authority storyline not only had sucked the life out of the whole product but also the audience who were extremely sick to death of seeing them on their television screen opening every single episode of RAW spending 30 to 40 minutes bragging about how great they are for THREE PISSIN’ YEARS from 2013 to 2016. Not to mention the fact that they were bad guys who always got the last laugh because they never received any satisfying comeuppance especially Stephanie McMahon, who everybody will agree was the worst part of The Authority. Those were very, very dark times.
If WWE fans can read, then they'd be really upset.
I agree 100% The Authority angle was so bad. It was fine at the start I guess and we got the yes movement and Seth Rollins from it but the rest sucked. It was a poor man’s Corporation that didn’t have nearly the same star power. Having Kane and Big Show in a main event faction in 2014/2015 was a fucking embarrassment. The one thing I can say is at least most of the time Triple H would get his comeuppance and put over the face going against them.
It was tough to sit through that time period killed me watching live every week which I still not have done again
Bro this is facts lol.
Literally traumatizing 😪
I personally stopped after Wrestlemania 36. Many of my favorites were done, those new I liked or usuals I loved weren’t being treated right, and the show just wasn’t something I cared about. While I saw something here or there I didn’t begin watching fully again until Summerslam 2022
The start of the Triple H era and I haven’t stopped since then. Very glad to be back as I jumped in just in time. Refreshed with much of what I missed and then some and here we are. It’s been a great return, I even got my little brother into it and he’s arguably a bigger fan than me at this point
Fax I stopped in 2016 and then I didn’t start watching it consistently till last year I feel like right now they’re in a lull period like they were around this time last year but after Survivor Series and they build towards Saturdays Night Main Event and Netflix it’s gonna be fire
Dang i also stopped watching after this and I completely forgot that wrestling was thing
Then after the 2022 royal rumble is when I started watching again and I was confused throughout the match
I with you on that
Summerslam 2022 is when I came back too
I stopped in 2017 only watched wrestlemania from 2017-2019, returned when Roman became tribal chief in pandemic
I stopped watching after 2010 and when they moved Smackdown to Syfy. Missed out on 8 years of wrestling. When I came back all my childhood favorites were gone lol. Wrestling is never the same for me these days
I'm so glad for the highlights on the YT channel. I can't be asked to watch entire episodes of weekly TV, but checking out the clips to get a rough idea what happened is enough for me to stay in the loop. Makes it way harder for me to get burned out.
Man in 2009, once Jeff Hardy lost that match to CM Punk, it didnt feel the same. I stopped watching the weekly shows, I stopped watching paperviews but around 2016 I started to give it another chance and then it all went crashing down in 2018-2019. Romans gimmick was so bad (remember that dog entrance?) and I gave up on it. The final chance I gave it was 2020. I still watch it to this day. The bloodline drama is pretty fun to watch.
So For Me, I Stopped Watching Around Covid When There Was No Crowds. So All Of 2020 I Missed, But Just Happened To Tune In To Summerslam 2021 But Then Kinda Fell Back Again. So Then At The Day 1 PPV In 2022 Came Around, That’s When I Got Hooked Back On Wrestling. In My Opinion Not Having Crowds Made The Show Feel Weird And Unwatchable
Im honestly lucky that the time period where everyone around me grew out of wrestling was the pandemic, so I didn't ever have that feeling of being pressured to not watch because there was nobody around me to not talk about it anyway
Loving the consistency
2:27 when you find out you wasn’t the only one that lose your WWE fandom when Jeff Hardy left
It’s insane, we have the exact same viewership patterns. You literally just reviewed my own fanhood experience. Wtf man 😂
Twins out here🫡
I feel like 2009 Raw was the beginning of the end for my wrestling fandom
Can’t blame you for not watching as much lately it’s getting super stale watching the storylines we’ve had since summerslam
ALWAYS ANTICIPATING YOUR VIDEOS BRUDDA !!! All love from Toronto
Damn this vid got me reminiscing about my history with wrestling. I was watching from 06-13 when I played SVR 2007 and I stopped around wrestlemania 29 when John Cena beat the rock after that brutal night in Miami. Bro I was broken when rock beat him. I felt sick. Cena getting that rematch W was like Cody finishing his story. There was nothing left to prove. At the time I was 13 and in secondary school and all my friends who liked wrestling either stopped or I just didn’t see. Lucky I didn’t see the undertaker streak being broke. Then I came back around 2015-2016 when I finished my exams but when I went to college, I stopped again. Now I’m back, getting ready for John cena’s last dance because he was the guy when I was watching.
Man I remember when I was watching wrestling everyday. Raw, smackdown, TNA, superstars, WWE vintage etc. finding out wrestling was ‘fake’ was the nail in the coffin. It was the equivalent of finding out the tooth fairy or Santa wasn’t real. It never hit the same after that even though I can still appreciate it as it is.
Omg I remember watching Superstars religiously and not giving a single damn that all the main eventers were in the video package but the match card was actually more like JTG vs Finlay, Yoshi Tatsu vs William Regal and Evan Bourne vs Mike Knox as the main event🤣
The Only Hiatus Took From Wrestling Was From Backlash 2020 To Summer Of 2021. Only Reason I Stopped Watching Was Because It Felt Weird Seeing WWE In The Empty Performance Center. In That 1 Year I Completely Stopped Watching Wrestling. I Was Keeping Up On The Internet For Like A Month Then I Stopped That Too. I Was Playing Games Online With My Friends, Chatting, Spending Time With Family ETC. Until I Randomly Saw A WWE Video Of John Cena's MITB Return, That Pop Got Me Feeling Something. I Found Out He's Wrestling At Summer slam So I Watched The Show. Then I Started Watching Weekly Again, I Found Out How Much Has Been Changed Then 2022 Revived My Love For Wrestling. 👑💓
That was the same time i dropped wrestling too. Yeah the covid era made wrestling seem like the twilight zone imo 😂
This is the most relevant video of all time you hit so many talking points I talk about all the time. Great vid
I stopped watching raw after 2015 and smackdown after 2016. Really stopped watching until 2021 when Cena returned. Honestly didnt miss a lot except for edge return, that was something im upset about
I stopped watching wwe on 2018 because cena left wwe and started rewatching on 2022
Crazy to find another Nexus fan. I named my tag team as New Nexus Merc or NX Mercenaries.
2018-2019 , 2022 - that's just tired of wwe but was a huge AEW mark in the summer of 2022
Funny you mentioned Sheamus the way you did because when I started rewatching WWE again after the Covid Era, I thought the same thing about Shanky, Reggie, Rick Boogs, Ridge Holland, and Omos. Not hating on any of them at all. They just came out of nowhere to me
2015 and 2017-2022 were the years where I either stopped watching entirely, only watched highlights or only watched PPVs so I felt this
Early 2017 - 2023 Royal Rumble was when I very casually followed along. I'm glad I'm back into it now though!
I stopped watching when the undertakers streak ended, that was the death of my childhood.
Wrestlingifs this is literally me for some weird reason im more into nfl right now and Im casually missing weekly tv and some ppvs
@@MrMoose08-x3g bills Super Bowl!!
The Precise Moment I stopped watching was when Batista lost his World Heavyweight Championship to Edge at Armageddon 2007
The one time i remember taking a long break was Jack Swagger winning the Money in the Bank briefcase at WM26. Good lord, I knew where that stinker was going, and for a while Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels was my last hurrah before the Wyatt Family brought me back in.
Man that’s wild to hear, I’ve never in my entire life enjoyed WWE more than I do right now. I watch all three episodes every single week and have for the last two years. That’s crazy to me.
2017 is when i fell out of Wrestling
my nephew bought me back
my wrestling fandom peaked in 2010 - 2016
i started watching wrestling in 2007
I stopped after 2014, kind of paid attention until around 2020, where I got more invested after Covid hit. I’m glad that Roman’s tribal chef run, among some really great stories, occurred during that time and transitioned into other great stories. Also, shout out to Drew for leading the way in keeping WWE together at the start of Covid.
I began watching WWE when I was 6 around 2010, I was obsessed with wrestling for a good 6 years, after WrestleMania 34 I started to tune out of WWE, but I'd still be in the know of what happens in the shows and watch a few clips here and there, but I actually began to stop paying attention to wrestling completely in October of 2019. With the worst version of Baron Corbin in PPV main events, the disaster class of a Hell in a Cell match and overpushed Lesnar squashing one of my childhood favorites who had just started to get a main event push Kofi Kingston in 6 seconds, I had enough and stopped watching. It wasn't until I randomly decided to watch Fastlane 2021 that I started to watch it again.
Never really had a wresting hang-over been a wwe fan since 2006-Now yes i agree wwe has had it's bad times but i have enjoyed most of it for years now great video man ☺❤
I started to watch the product in the Summer of 2012 and didn't stop until Fall 2019. The dog food angle killed my love, for the WWE. I came back for WrestleMania 38, and now I'm just a casual.
Great video! I stopped watching wrestling around 2009 because in my opinion the product got a lot boring when it turned to PG. Occasionally I would watch a show or two, but until the pandemic in 2020, I saw one of your videos on the undertaker documental and it was awesome, you genuinely brought my attention back to WWE with that and other videos you had in your channel. I can say I’m a true wrestling fan ever since, thank you!
It's funny how I started watching wrestling by hating it. It was 2012 and I was only 6 and I would only watch cartoons on TV. My elder brother was a huge die-hard fan of WWE since 2005 and he would tune into wrestling by snatching the TV remote away from me and I would cry but nothing would matter as being the elder son he was more beloved so my parents couldn't do much to give me the TV remote from him. As a result, I had no choice but to watch WWE with him. It was WM28 and I was hooked with the Hell In A Cell match between HHH and Undertaker. I loved the match from the depth of my heart and became a wrestling fan that day. It was a shame that that match was the end of the era I would probably love the most. I had fun watching wrestling after that. I don't remember much from 2012 to pandemic era despite watching wrestling a lot. Maybe because I was too much restricted watching TV at night as my parents would watch at night wouldn't let us to watch and all PPV would happen during night in my area. I would also have tuition classes during afternoon and evening when RAW and SD would happen in my area. So I had no choice but to watch casually until 2016. In 2016, the channel I used to watch WWE then brought live RAW and SD. Before that the channel would give us pre-taped shows. Now I could watch live WWE programming at early morning so I would wake up early and watch every WWE shows I could before going to school. I think I watch the most wrestling from 2016 to 2019 and I would say 2018-2019 was pretty boring but I was a kid and would love anything I watched. The most I was out of wrestling was after pandemic hit. I only watched first few episodes of Raw and SD then completely stopped watching wrestling coz they were just giving us recap of old matches most of the time so I felt I was watching nothing new and it was the most boring to watch wrestling on 2020 as I got into internet and then had access to lots of interesting content. I would watch TH-cam all day long and forgot about wrestling. I can remember every title changes from 2016 to early pandemic even the tag titles which was hot potato that time but I struggled to remember title changes from 2020 to 2021. I still watched big PPVs during the absence from wrestling. I really wished I could watch Roman Reigns hell title run from pandemic. I would only watch PPVs and nothing else so had no idea about the build ups of the matches. Later when pandemic completely went off, I slowly started watching wrestling again and it was on late 2021 I think. I would only watch top 10 moments of weekly shows instead of watching them to have the minimum idea of PPV build ups and continue watching PPVs or PLEs. Still didn't watch B type PLEs until late 2023. When Vince left and HHH took over the creative, I began to watch WWE more and eventually ended up watching every single major weekly shows every week. Now, I watch RAW, SD and NXT every week and every PLEs including B type and NXT ones. No one watches wrestling around me even my brother only watches big PLEs and watches some TH-cam videos to keep up-to-date with wrestling. None of my schoolmates watch wrestling but they used to before pandemic. They tell me to stop watching this scripted fight and move on watch movies, series and dramas and real sports. But I will follow my heart and watch wrestling, screw them. I felt the moment when you told you were forced not to watch wrestling but later followed your heart and continued watching it. I did the same thing and now here I am. Never loved wrestling more than now.
It's good to see that I'm not the only one who has stopped watching WWE for a while this time, I know what's going on but I haven't watched anything since WM, only a week ago I returned to SS 100% and because of that I'm now watching what I missed because during that time I only watched two channels
I Will Watch WWE Until I Pass Away
And after i passed away
I've watched wrestling since 2 before I spoke words, and I never stopped, if WWE was real bad I'd watch other promotions. I'm a pro wrestling addict for life.
Same here I've barely watched since Bad Blood and couldn't care less to watch Crown Jewel but Once January hits it's gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥! Survivor Series will probably be good too.
The Saudi shows really do ruin things bc it doesn’t feel authentic. It is a cash grab but saudis having a say in what they want in there own show and how they want it js sucks. And again I get it, it’s the money but that’s what ruins it. That’s why there never taken serious
I don’t watch Sadi shows but stay tuned for wargames
I stopped watching wrestling in 2019, but the Uncle Howdy storyline got my attention, because Bray was one of my favorite wrestlers, so I turned back in this year.
I stopped watching WWE from 2015 to 2023 and boy did I not miss anything 😂
I started watching wrestling on a full time basis in the summer of 2008 and I honestly have not stopped since then. There were many times where I was disgusted with the product, but I kept watching every show every week. To me, WWE is addicting in the best way possible because it gave me an escape from the stress of the real world. 2015 was the hardest year for me because everything was about Roman Reigns.
The only 3 things that kept me watching that year were Cesaro, The New Day, and the John Cena U.S. Open Challenge. I know there will be times in the future when I won't like what I see, but I know I'm going to keep watching every week because my love for WWE will never die.
The only time I stopped watching wwe was after that Corbin drew Bobby stand tall closing raw 2019. Then I came back to watch WrestleMania 36 because of COVID.
6:24 Again, "War of Change" was a good song. But not for that show with THAT main event
2017-2019 was the dark ages man I seriously loathe that period of WWE
I have been watching pro wrestling in general ever since i was a tween in the mid 80s. I remember the golden age, watching stuff like saturday night main event back in the 80s with so many classic feuds that went on and renting the PPV's months later than they happened at my local VHS rental shop then by about early 1992, right as the Hogan era was nearly done I stopped watching, just through sheer disinterest because none of my friends watched them anymore. I was a senior in HS and had better things to do... but even then, I had my finger on the pulse of the New Generation and early attitude eras of wrestling, just by talking to a friend or two or playing the video games at the time. Years later, out of curiosity, and playing a terrible WCW game for PC, I figured I'd watch it again around 1999/2000 but then I was watching WCW because they had all the guys I watched back 10 years earlier. I figured the product would be better. Boy, I was wrong. So I didn't watch super long, maybe a year. I got out of watching it again. And then, after the WWE bought WCW, I picked it up again in the middle of the Ruthless Aggression era back in late 2004. I watched for a LONG time then, on & off, mostly on until early 2015 right after Wrestlemania 31. After that, i was so burned out, of the bad booking, bad characters, bad storylines, people like Roman Reigns being shoved down my throat, CM Punk leaving, that I finally stopped watching again. Then, in late 2018 I said, "Eh, lets pick it up again." Same thing. By the time Wrestlemania 35 came around again, around 6 months later I quit watching because it sucked so bad again, for the reasons I mentioned before, shoving Reigns down throats, years later.... and I hated how they booked yet again. I was frustrated with Vince, and said, screw it, I will never watch a product where Vince is doing creative again, it's a waste of my time.
Then, in early 2023, I started watching again, because I knew that Triple H was doing creative again, watched WM 39, loved it and have watched it pretty much religiously ever since. The product has been so phenomenal, that it is as good as the Ruthless Aggression era and even is starting to rival the Golden & Attitude eras of wrestling. I always keep coming back though, because of the video games. I love them, they're always fun to play so I guess it's why I've peeked in over the years, it drawing me back to the product. I'm glad I'm watching it again. It's the best it's been in years and honestly, living through SO much of the bests of wrestling history and watching the streaming library for a lot of old stuff has made me realize, my love for pro wrestling will probably never go away. At this point, it's been in my life for almost 40 years.
It's the best entertainment around, bar none. Wrestlemania 40 was awesome, the best since WM 30. I can't wait to see WM 41.
Even though you & I started watching at different times, that's how life is. We wrestling fans are always gonna be fans even if we don't watch every day. Burnout always happens. Take a break from it until you love it again. Peace.
Loved reading this brother, thanks for sharing 🙏🏼
Wsg bro
I was invested From 2002-2014
Haven't really cared since lol your videos are the only thing that bring me back to be honest
I've never really stopped watching wwe I've watched the lows
Jeff Hardy leaving the company in 2009 was truly heartbreaking
wwe right now is so good it's good, the product's been ass for awhile so to just see this quality, consistently, is huge, but I still don't wanna watch the weekly shows
It was 2015,was a sophomore in HighSchool , and I waited until the raw after Mania ‘31 to leave. I’ve been watching religiously since 2008. CM punk was the only one left that gave me real interest in wrestling as I felt that everything else lost its magic for me so when he left. It took me 9 YEARS to come back in 2024 Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes bought me back, Mania ‘40 was special. The magic has been back ever since
John cena getting Injured in 2007 was basically the same thing with your Jeff Hardy moment the dude was on top of the world as wwe champion for 380 days and I was excited for their last man standing match and then he got injured and relinquished the title and I was sad because it felt weird watching shows without John cena and coincidentally when I started watching again in early 2008 he comes back at the royal rumble I could never hate John cena I didn’t agree with him winning at wrestlemania 23 or beating Rey Mysterio but I loved John cena and that’s why I’m hoping to be at elimination chamber in Toronto because I want to see him perform in person before he hangs it up I saw edge’s last match I would like to see the same with John cena
I can pinpoint a few times that I completely tuned out of the product. 2008 was the first time and it was mostly because I was sick of Cena winning all the time, the draft made everything weird like seeing Mysterio on raw was just so wrong and the commentary team being switched around made things so weird for me.
The second time I tuned out was when Punk left WWE and later on when the Bella twins started having the spotlight. After that segment where one of them said “I wish you died in the womb, I just tuned out after that for a bit, that was it for now for me Atleast 😂
The third time was during the pandemic, Raw specifically. I felt that raw during the pandemic was such a nothing burger of a show and I wasn’t too interested in the Seth vs Rey feud that was happening at the time so I tuned out.
So yeah those were some of the times i stopped watching WWE lol thank you Pav for always uploading amazing content! Keep up the amazing work broski !!!
4:56 why he caught a stray here ☠️☠️☠️
Because nexus got burried
Jeff hardy definitely disappointed me as a child but that’s when I started liking the bad guys like edge and Randy
"If you dont love me at my worst,then you dont deserve me at my best"
That's the one line i want to say to all the guys who came back now that wwe is good again
You werent there where we had to watch all those dog food segement,a half and hour long shane mcmahon thing and goldberg shit
We had to sit through all of that and not to mention the mockery of all AEW fans day in and day out.
And i never missed a wwe show and proud to call myself wwe fan then.(kinda similar to aew current fans now)
You guys werent there during the rough times.
Bruh chill, it's just a fu*king wrestling show. I don't understand why you have to take sides in Wrestling, same thing happens with AEW fans.
I love your videos and commentary, never stop making content💜 it’s so pure
Think the problem is that the product is in need of a change. A fresh start in other areas. Judgement Day needs to end, Rhea and Liv's feud needs to end. Drew and Punk's rivalry ended, so it's left a void. People are also waiting for Tiffy to cash in on Nia. Roman vs Rock if it's happen needs to come sooner then later. Like don't get me, there are nice things about the product, but it needs a fresh coat of paint.
Funny enough on Sheamus. He was one of the reasons I came back, as I took a break after a bit, other things that brought me back was Kane being World Champion, and Nexus.
I just want Triple H to move on from any iteration of Bianca and Damage CTRL being on screen together. She was making them look like absolute clowns 1v3 so having Asuka and Alexa involved was just to give them something to do. She's beaten every member who was/is currently in Damage CTRL more than 5x each at this point and for some reason Triple H just won't stop booking them against each other. And Iyo being on team Bianca after she told Naomi she hasn't forgiven Bayley earlier this year is stupid
The product is certainly better under Triple H but his commitment to long-term storytelling can have issues. As you say, storylines can start to drag after awhile and they usually seem pretty predictable. For example how long has Xavier Woods been showing heel-ish tendencies? It's been _months_ and he still hasn't turned.
Dopest wrestling content creator out here, much love to you and your family this holiday gang❤
The only time I stopped watching is during the pandemic, I even missed WWE 2K22, and the only thing that made me start watching wwe again was the return of CM Punk
Valid it felt like a fever dream watch8ng them wrestle with no fans
@darkgaming8883 Plus, half of the roster got fired and the product itself was .. meh
@Shady_FS yeah I didn't watch then either only things I did was watch the roman reigns segments on yt
When I was a kid, the entirety of my wrestling consumption was through the video games between 05 and 11. Then my parents started letting me stay up to watch SmackDown on Thursday nights when it was on SyFy, but around that time is when I realized that none of my friends cared about wrestling in the slightest. Then one day which I believe was my 17th birthday my dad randomly asked if I wanted to go to Raw and I said sure why not. It was a very good time and it made me think why I ever stopped watching then I realized I never truly watched so I tried to watch the WWE, but this was 2019 and I randomly asked myself where is Cody Rhodes because I loved his theme song back in the day. This is when I found out AEW was about to happen and I was so hooked on the thought of a new product that I became a full AEW super fan and did not miss a show for four years until I graduated college. I am now in the current state of not watching wrestling again, WWE and AEW.
As dramatic as this will sound. Jinder Mahal winning the WWE championship is the moment in time that did irreversible damage to my love for wrestling.
Up until that moment, i was pretty consistent from 2004 to 2017. But the moment they took this guy who was a generational jobber and made him champion. Is just when i stopped watching.
And i have tried going back to watching weekly. But I just can't do it. I watch 2-3 weeks and I just fall off. I've never been sble to watch consistently since 2017.
Happy to know that we had the same wrestling hangovers💀
Only time i almost stopped watching wrestling was around 2020/2021, hated majority of what WWE was doing and almost gave up but luckily AEW was around lol
Same here lol from 2019 to 2022 i stopped watching until the bloodline story started picking up from 2022 and it has been a blast since triple h took over and wrestlemania 40 was one of the best wrestlemania experience since wrestlemania 31
I stop watching wwe every year from after wrestlemania to whenever school ends. The hangover is real
You guys can’t help that WWE is doing good right now so you come up with this.😊
@@kamfisher1714 it’s not that wwe is bad it’s just boring…
Brother watch the video it was uploaded 3 minutes ago brain dead take before even listening
mf is hating without even having seen a second of the video, crazy
@@kamfisher1714 yes because I am known for my negativity on this platform right 😹😹
@ He’s made videos like this before
I stopped when they decided to release Bray. Dat ish made me SO mad. And when he came back lt didn't feel the same it felt like smth was off. Say I would only watch it when Bray was on the TV. Now I can never watch him again. 😔
Fly High man we miss u. 🕊
I watched WWE late 06'- 15' stopped watching cus i started going out & watching real sport. I came back in 2023 to watch it again & got back hooked on🔥💯.
Watched religiously from 2005-2011. Definitely always watch the old vids to feel nostalgia.
The only time I stopped was 2019, I just couldn’t do it anymore. Nothing brought me back until early 2024 and now i’m all in
We basically went through the same phases in terms of when we would stop watching. What got me back in fully was Vince’s removal from the company & CM Punk coming back. Been keeping up since and have been openly supporting in front of my friends
I feel you man, when CM Punk left in 2014-2015 I never really returned to it. At times I would hear some big news and watch these kinds of videos for entertainment but I could never really enjoy it. CM punk has returned but life has passed since then lol, still enjoy these kinds of videos ofc
i completely skipped over the dark period of WWE because i stopped at 2016 and started again in 2024, shame i missed 2022-2023 tho.
I stopped watching wrestling in 2009 when they started doing those celebrity guest as the host every week.
This is so spot on, pretty much the same timelines when i checked out. Havent been enjoying as much since the first half of the year but punk and bloodline wargames is starting to heat things up a little for me!
My dad let me start watching when I was 2, back in 1997. Im forever thankful that he got me into wrestling.
When everyone left after wm 26 I stopped watching. The rock got me back when he returned I was on and off until 15 never have watched regularly since when ever I watch live I always regret it. Unless it’s a ppv
Jeff Hardy loosing that match to CM Punk in August 2009 and then legitimately leaving for me was devastating. WWE never felt the same again for me. And I cried 😢
As someone who is near the same age as Pav I feel that being a modern wrestling fan is convincing yourself that it still hits the same as it did 10+ years ago. Would you agree that nostalgia is what is keeping longtime fans tuning in? I feel like anytime modern WWE or other promotions posts something that feels like a throwback it gaslights us to think "OMG I gotta watch this!" but pretty much everytime it feels disappointing. RAW XXX (30th Anniversary) is the most recent example i can remember, that episode sucked.
@@jacobsendejo8788 of course bro we are like drug addicts chasing that high we used to get.
I’ve been watching since I was 5 (2007). 2018/19 almost made me stop watching but I pushed through. 2020 was where I checked out. Came back in 2022
I started watching since 2005 and stopped when the Undertaker’s streak was defeated at WM30. I am always an Undertaker fan and that Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker match will always be my trauma effect. I started to watch again since 2K22 was out and I have wrestling a chance and somehow I am now a fan again. 😅 I swear I am sorry that you guys had this experience through your years of watching wrestling. I swear being an Undertaker mark is my life.
Great video btw. Always delivering bangers
I may have stopped watching when ai was a teenager, only to come back when Edge returned in 2020; BUT when I was a kid, I did at least get to see Bret Hart's return live in 2010/11 before I did stop; though I didn't understand the gravity of his departure at the time. I do now, of course, and will never forget that night
Been a fan of WWE since 2002 when I was 6, now I'm 28 and I can safely say that I've never stopped watching since. There have been lowpoints in my fandom, but I've always found something to latch on to.
Wrestling is best when you take breaks from it.
You gotta remember there's no off season, so you have to decide when the off season is. Sometimes it's a few weeks, a few months, maybe even a year or two.
It's all good man. Can't love a thing 24/7 without fatigue.
I was a die hard fan from 03-07 but I still keep myself in the loop on what’s going, just don’t watch it live anymore
Black ops 2 was the good old days
I remember i stopped watching wwe from late 2017 to early 2021 but then when roman vs edge vs bryan feud started i again started to watching wwe and till now 2024 I'm watching regularly
I started watching wrestling in late 97 early 98.. lost interest around Mid 01.. Fell back into it around early 05 and lost interest again around 09 and would only tune in for the yearly Undertaker mania match. 2014 came around and my buddy told me Brock beat the streak and while I didn’t have interest in watching the week to week product, I stumbled across wrestling podcasts and they’ve helped me stay up to date since then more or less.
TH-camrs got me back into wrestling when I almost quit in the mid 2010s. people like TWFS, Adam Blampied, The Great One, and of course big shout-out to whatculture's articles, cause if the raw and SmackDown highlights looked boring I was just gonna read about it and move on
Bro the way you felt about Jeff in 09 is how I felt with Punk 2014 I was always hooked from early 2000s to 2014 but after that i pretty much watched here and there until maybe late 2015 to late 2017 I was completely disconnected from it, and then I did it again in 2021, didn’t stop completely but I did miss a lot that year but hey I’ve been watching again so.. we’ll see when I get over it again😂