I used to be a big wrestling fan. I was on vacation with my parents and my dad was watching wrestling on the hotel television. I thought it was like boxing, two guys go in, fight for a while, and that was it. I wasn’t interested. Then I saw Hulk Hogan get betrayed by “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Ordorff and realized “hey, they actually have stories going on and there are characters and stuff and good guys and bad guys”. Of course I thought the wrestling part was real back then; they wouldn’t come clean for a decade. But the fact that they added stories to make it more interesting got my attention. That belt up there is part of a series I made myself, and I still have them all, except for one I gave to a friend. (This is the only one still blank because I never did anything with it.)
Somewhere around the time of the WWF’s “new attitude” and the change to “WWE”, I started losing interest with the organization and drifted more towards WCW. I would drop that long before the buyout. Wrestling just wasn’t as fun for me anymore.
Why am I bringing this up? You may have heard that the WWE isn’t doing as well as they had hoped to the point where Vince McMahon may no longer be a billionaire anymore. My Reviewers Unknown colleague Rowdy C. Moore wrote an opinion piece for Yahoo Voices (which sadly no longer exists) going over why he thought the stock dropped as much as he did, but he’s focusing a lot on behind the scenes stuff, which is probably the biggest part of it. Speaking for myself, however, I know why I faded away from wrestling and why I haven’t really been inclined to go back.
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