That match gave me the kick I needed to just walk away. Bray did keep pulling me back in and I am trying to keep up with the Sick6 but I haven't watched a WWE show since.
I gradually watched wrestling less and less since WWE went PG, but the final straw for me was the Greatest Royal Rumble. Watching and hearing WWE heap praise on Saudia Arabia as a "progressive" country was beyond the pale.
Brock Lesnar wins a Money in the Bank match that he wasn't even in. So he can get another boring, suplex filled title shot. I legit quit for a while, I was just so tired of the Brock Lesnar Show
Is it a moment when it's 15 years? 😂😂😂 That may be a joke, but god damn it, 2017-2019 really seem like three whole years that are just a bad moment. One love ❤
I didn't stop watching when JBL won the championship. I kept watching because I hated him so much and it brought me joy whenever someone like Big Show or Undertaker beat the crap out of him.
I’ve stopped watching twice in my life; once as a child when Jeff Hardy stopped appearing (the first time) and then Brock V Kofi took me out until the RR.
Given what was done to Matt because she was an unfaithful cheater, I say it's karma. And I say that as someone who actually knew Amy before she was Lita. I trained with her at Terry Funk's school, back in the late 90's and early 2000's. She was a sweetheart, but what she did to Matt killed my opinion of her.
I turned the channel during the Piggy James segment in 2010 and didn’t bother watching again for five years. I’ve never gone back to being a regular viewer.
@@thegreatynot5049 In terms of crowd passion, it's even better. It's insane when you look at some WWE shows from 20 years ago: there were so many incredible talents on that roster, yet the crowds were just dead, more often than not. They were still in that post-Attitude hangover period.
Katie Vick was an idea that came straight from Vince McMahan himself. And even after all the backlash, he has the balls to say it was the fans' fault for not finding it funny. He said this on WWE Confidential and it just makes me think 2 things: 1. How was Vince McMahan ever successful, and 2. Vince is an idiot.
Katie Vick was my brake back in the day. It broke me so much that I never went back to regular viewing. I became a casual viewer and nowadays I just keep up with wrestling news on UA-cam and watch maybe the big ppvs
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
Started watching WWE back in 2005, and 2019 was the worst year i had ever witnessed. Like Simon said, no wonder why everybody was on board with AEW. Thank god for the competition, WWE had to reorganise and now the product (wrestling in general) is awesome
The Benoit thing turned me off wrestling entirely for years. It was the black and gold era of NXT and the Mae Young classic that brought me back in 2017. I mostly missed the Cena years, no big loss.
A few years back Shane McMahon kicked off either Raw or Smackdown and talked for 45 minutes. It was 50 minutes into the show before the first match. I immediately stopped watching WWE aside from the PPVs and Simon’s Ups & Downs.
I’ve definitely had periods when I would quit watching wrestling for long periods of time. But yeah that squash of Kofi by Brock in the thumbnail was it for me until AEW came around.
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
I stopped watching after Eddie passed away, he was probably the last wrestler I was heavily invested in and all the other superstars had already left. he made wwe entertaining af RIP Eddie
The ridiculous 2019 HIAC ending plus the Kofi squash that happened soon afterward were the combination that had me cancel the WWE Network, though I started watching again after Vince left. It's definitely a far better product now.
I knew a guy who worked for WWE for several years, and I'd beg for free tickets most times they came to town. I passed on them, however, when Smackdown came through a week or two after Baron Corbin and company covered Roman Reigns in dog food. That was indefensibly bad.
I stopped watching when they tried to smear naomi and sasha banks’ name and made it seem like they were at fault for feeling uncomfortable enough to walk out. It felt so racist and made me realize how racist the fans are
For me, there was no moment that made me rage quit. I simply relocated back in 2015 and opted NOT to get cable to save some money. That's when I realized you could essentially just watch clips of the shows here on UA-cam and I never felt like I missed a thing. With the exception of big matches here and there, I still no longer watch. Now that I am married, my wife and I have other things we want to watch besides wrestling. I feel like, for the most part, I've kind of moved on from it.
The Michael Cole v Jerry Lawler angle was awful. It was something that you just had to tolerate on Raw and then while the mania match was awful, at least it triggered the end of the rivalry. But it didn't! They carried on!
I stopped watching on April 15 2020 when WWE laid off 20+ wrestlers and plenty of backstage talen at the start of the pandemic to keep their profits up
Dude, most businesses issued layoffs at that time. Get a grip and find something real to be mad about. If that bothered you, I know you've never held a job before.
Yeah. I stopped watching wrestling because I got sick of the King going on about "Puppies!" I mean, fucking hell! I didn't come here to watch softcore porn. Even then, it was easier to watch the real stuff. Just give me Brett Hart vs Owen for the entire show. I'd have stayed hooked.
The “Lesbians” getting assaulted by Three Minute Warning made me quit watching for a long time. It wasn’t just women being attacked, it was that it seemingly went on FOREVER and NOT ONE WRESTLER came out to “make the save”. Like everyone in the back was just cool AF with a couple of small women being body slammed and smashed by two 300lb maniacs. Nope. Not for me. And it colored my feeling on Eric Bischoff as well. Still don’t like that dude.
No particular moment but it was somewhere around 2010/11. Black & Gold NXT got me back in to it around 2016, then AEW had me back as a full time fan but even that’s dwindled now too. Good times never last 😢
The 2015 rumble made me stop being a consistent watcher up until AEW became a thing. At first they put out exceptional shows and as time progressed I stopped being a consistent watcher due to the storytelling not being up to par.
Yeah 2019 aew was great but I stopped watching by early 2021 I returned when cm punk debuted but left again 2 months after the all in show where cm punk was fired the constant high spots, moxley bleeding, super kicks, finisher kickouts just got too much for me I'm a big fan of Chris jericho but he's starting to get overexposed like seriously the learning tree and I find the young bucks and Luke perry's kid unlikeable
2004 JBL run is when I left. My interest started to wain when the Invasion angle featured almost none of the big WCW guys and they buried the few they had. I just got bored of the baby faces never getting a good long run with the title. That's when I knew they didn't know how to write with the crowd favorites on top.
@@tonyo2675 That was my personal moment as well. Now years later I have went back & watched a few random shows from after that night just because of how much other fans would mention them. One I found on my own was Road Wild ‘99 & the “rematch” of The Finger Poke of Doom. 😂 😂
@@EvaFull nice, i didnt even know that occured. I caught a few episodes, but the only memorable one was the final simulcast. The Wolfpac were so over, and that stopped all of the momentum for them and eventually the company. I'll have check out that deepcut. Thanks for the tip.
@@tonyo2675 Just recently found it when wanting to watch some late era WCW that was August/September/October because I was feeling in a late Summer/early Fall Mood. The stipulation is what really made it stand out. 😂
Kevin Federline pinning John Cena, although I did go to Wrestlemania in Orlando that year to cross it off the list. Never went back to WWE but have been an AEW fan since the first Dynamite aired.
I loved wrestling. But in 2016 I stopped watching all the time. I would watch now and then. Started following again during Kofi Mania and then completely stopped after that. I, one night that I could not sleep flipped the channel to The WWE Channel and it was the 2020 Royal Rumble. The exact moment I saw Bianca Belair enter the match. I watched this Women and then heard she was on NXT. Started watching NXT and the main roster shows. When she moved up. Now I follow wrestling again
I remember back in 2007 I stopped watching for 3 years. I turned on raw and for the 1000th time it was Randy Orton vs John Cena, or was it HHH vs John Cena. I was so sick of seeing these matches I turned it off. I was just done. What made me come back? Randomly one day turning the tv on for old time sake and seeing Daniel Bryan and the YES movement. I was awestruck.
What made me stop watching? Nothing. But I have stopped hanging out with other wrestling fans, because so many of them failed to mature past elementary school, and want to act like the industry owes them something. Far too many Pachiti's and not enough Miller's.
Mine is admittingly weird, but I stopped watching when Becky and Kairi left back in 2020. 2018 and 2019 were such god awful years that I only tuned in for certain wrestlers, not the show. The last two I stuck around for was Becky Lynch and Kairi Sane. Becky left to start a family and 2 months later Kairi left to be with hers. After that I was done for nearly two years. I only came back when HHH took over and even then, it was almost an entire year later in 2023 that I started to regularly watch again.
For me, it wasn't a single moment but an accumulation of "late stage Vince McMahon" trash. After seeing him squander, job out, or pointlessly repackage SO MANY amazing young talents (Neville, Keith Lee, Luke Harper [RIP], The Revival, Adam Cole, Aleister Black, Shayna Bazler, Ricochet, etc.) I just couldn't take it any more. I "somewhat" came back around Sami joining The Bloodline. And then I was fully back in after the senile old man was booted out.
Hell in a Cell 2019 made me stop watching!! In fact I was originally gonna go but my mom couldn’t take me since she was in the hospital. I remember watching it and then I called my mom and told her “Thank you for not taking me.”
Wow. Here's my experience: I watched every bit of content from 1985 to 1994. Then, I got busy with various stuff. Missed the entire Attitude Era, started watching again with WM18. Haven't missed a second since then., lol.
It's unfortunate (but also fascinating) that wrestling does have a tendency to do that, drive us away, but for some reason we (generally) keep coming back.
When brock was champion and he couldn't be arsed turning up most weeks, and when he did he couldn't be arsed saying anything just let heyman do all his talking
Adding Charlotte to the Becky/Ronda feud with absolutely zero creativity or valid justification almost got me outta here for good. I have so much respect for Charlotte but that move was a disservice to all 3 women and that main event.
I stopped when the pandemic started but that 2019 was such a rollercoaster of emotions man. Rip Bray Wyatt. I’ve gotten back on the train with this past WM and I can definitely say I’m much more entertained. Any big moments/matches I should watch to catch up proper? I’ve not seen a single moment of Roman’s Tribal Chief arc and I find it hard to believe people actually WANT to see him lol.
JBL was a super underrated heel champion. LEGIT heel heat. It started as go away heat because people didn't want to give it a chance. But it was clear as day he captured the moment.
2009/2010 and the major Cena push, hated the gimmick and didnt enjoy his in ring work, I haven't watched WWE since because it just seems to have been a succssion of other wrestlers getting the same treatment, with the most important factor being how closely related to Dwayne Johnson you are above anything else! 😅 I'd also have been 21/22 at the time and it just didnt seem like something I should be watching as an adult. Thankfuly AEW made it feel acceptable to be a wrestling again and I'm a year into watching that full time.
Despite all the awfulness that wrestling has had… I can’t really say I’ve been close to stop watching. I guess I just don’t take it as seriously as some people do. And it’s a time killer for me
The weirdest thing is most WWE fans think that WWE only has awful moments in the PG/Reality/New Era, but the Golden/Attitude/Ruthless Aggression Era also had awful moments.
There have been so many times where I stopped watching WWE out of frustration. Sometimes for weeks. Sometimes for months. Sometimes years. It was always just too frustrating. Especially in cases where the audience would actively be cheering for someone, but because they werent someone that WWE wanted to push, they either let it drag out until they hoped the crowd would get bored, or they quickly ruined it themselves Basically, dont get yourself over unless they wanted you to be over. Hell. Even in cases where someone would be over in NXT, but as soon as they got to the main roster, they would ruin them.
I laughed, I'll admit it. Hunter did his best to make it as over the top and as ridiculous as he could because yeah, it's absolutely absurd that these guys were asked to do this. It also cemented Kane as the ultimate company guy. Of all the things he could have said no to, that was the most reasonable one and he still went through with it.
The mishandling of Dean Ambrose, especially his match against Brock Lesnar, it was disappointing and for a few months at least, I just didn't wanna bother with the Product.
JBL was playing himself 😂 He had success as a Wall Street investor. He actually is still a featured commentator on Fox Business and had his own segment as well. Funny enough, he became an investor in OVW with one of his companies.
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
Stunned the end of the Invasion angle isn't on here. That slow realisation that there was to be no proper alternative product and having only a declining, post-Attitude WWE to watch as a fan was enough to make me stop watching/caring
Summerslam 2010. Cena coming back after being dropped on his head, then winning? Nah, made me quit being a full time fan, I barely kept up with it until Mania 33, and even then, it was more or less part time until 3 years ago. I hated that they essentially buried the Nexus with that PPV Main event.
Mine started sometime during the whole CM Punk walk out, I was gone by the authority angle and really remember the treatment of Dean Ambrose being the real nail in the coffin for me. I had seen promos from him a few years before and it was crazy work. Then he becomes a lunatic with a mustard cart. Now I'm just WrestleMania season and even then its just the PPVs
yeah, I stopped watching wrestling after the Benoit stuff. I'd watch TNA and RoH Matches that I heard were really good but mostly just focused on my own wrestling. Didn't start watching regularly til I heard Sting was going to WWE. that was a huge let down but I got hook on NXT and now AEW since then.
The 2015 Rumble could've been salvaged if they at least let Daniel Bryan come in later (since he had just returned from a neck injury) or let him make it to the end. Fans may have still protested Reigns winning, but they could've at least had a competitive final 2 to keep them invested and it wouldn't have left a bad taste over the entire second half of the match after Bryan was foolishly eliminated early. It also would've been better if it wasn't the tired 2015 versions of Big Show and Kane tossing everybody else out like bums, but instead had Bray Wyatt and Rusev being the dominant monsters of the match for our final two "heroes" to overcome, instead of Bray being dumped out by Big Show/Kane and Rusev running back in and getting immediately tossed out by Reigns. The biggest problem with Kofi getting squashed by Brock wasn't so much the loss, its that there was no follow-up. Brock just went on to fight Cain Velasquez and Rey Mysterio while Kofi went right back to being a tag team guy the next week. I know New Day is all about the "power of positivity" and all, but shouldn't Kofi have been a little upset instead of just shrugging his shoulders and carrying on as if it never happened?
After Eddie passed and Benoit allegedly did what he did, i stopped watching. They were 2 of my favourites. Undertaker was my all time favourite but him losing his streak at wrestlemania to Brock took the cake. Haven’t watched wwe in forever. I just got 2k24 and it’s crazy that I don’t know 85% of the wrestlers in the game. Man it’s changed for the worse.
If I remember correctly, I stopped around 2010 because I was just getting tired of the old plot lines that would ruin good things, and the one that finally happen that made quit watching cold turkey, was when Undertaker and Kane was a team but the story made Kane turn on Undertaker in the middle of a match. Keep in mind I start watching in the mid 80's and the NWO era is still by far my favorite time watching wrestling.
How exactly was Kofi as WWE champion booked poorly? He successfully defended the titles against Ziggler, Samoa Joe, Owens and even Randy Orton!!! Swear wrestling fans just love to blame the booking for everything
He was booked as a successful KAYFABE champion. He had no really big storylines, and the ones he was in weren't very engaging. Which resulted in his reign being a bust due to him losing the audience quite a bit. So yes, this was all down to booking And I will never understand the ending either
Vince fumbling the op on undertaker TWICE is what did it for me. Cody Rhodes winning the title at Mania this past year is what for a really satisfying very very fun night drew me right back in. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
With 2015, another point to be made for cheering for Big Show or Kane versus Roman, is while it's also a "Anyone but Roman" and a "We want Daniel Bryan" moment, I think deep down a lot of us, me included, still believe Kane and Show had deserved a Royal Rumble win for basically their whole careers, ESPECIALLY KANE. Now at this point it would've been weird for them to win cause it was the Authority versions of them, but I feel like a percentage of fans would've said "Finally" if Show or Kane tossed out Roman and it was either of them winning..
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
I didn’t quit watching wrestling even though I suffered through all of these terrible moments but all of these moments are equally terrible especially the royal rumble I was livid
Goldberg squashing The Fiend made me quit for a while
@zanethindthat was the beginning of the end for my me. basically started my biggest break from wrestling until 2022
Same tbh. The first time I was genuinely angry with WWE.
Same
That match gave me the kick I needed to just walk away. Bray did keep pulling me back in and I am trying to keep up with the Sick6 but I haven't watched a WWE show since.
@zanethindRandy Orton vs The Fiend was terrible as well
I gradually watched wrestling less and less since WWE went PG, but the final straw for me was the Greatest Royal Rumble. Watching and hearing WWE heap praise on Saudia Arabia as a "progressive" country was beyond the pale.
Brock Lesnar wins a Money in the Bank match that he wasn't even in. So he can get another boring, suplex filled title shot. I legit quit for a while, I was just so tired of the Brock Lesnar Show
Vince era in last 15 years were definition of awful moments
Is it a moment when it's 15 years? 😂😂😂
That may be a joke, but god damn it, 2017-2019 really seem like three whole years that are just a bad moment.
One love ❤
I didn't stop watching when JBL won the championship. I kept watching because I hated him so much and it brought me joy whenever someone like Big Show or Undertaker beat the crap out of him.
JBL was such an incredible heel. You could genuinely loathe him.
I’ve stopped watching twice in my life; once as a child when Jeff Hardy stopped appearing (the first time) and then Brock V Kofi took me out until the RR.
Lita retirement angle with Crime Time in 2006. She has done so much for women's wrestling in WWE and didn't deserve such a disgraceful send-off.
Given what was done to Matt because she was an unfaithful cheater, I say it's karma. And I say that as someone who actually knew Amy before she was Lita. I trained with her at Terry Funk's school, back in the late 90's and early 2000's. She was a sweetheart, but what she did to Matt killed my opinion of her.
I am so pissed all the blame went on Lita, while Edge benefitted like winning the lottery, not to mention the crappy booking of Matt Hardy.
what her and Edge did to Matt Hardy I could never forgive
I turned the channel during the Piggy James segment in 2010 and didn’t bother watching again for five years. I’ve never gone back to being a regular viewer.
Now is a good time to join again. It's finally good after many years of Vince booking a show to entertain himself
That shit is funny cuz Mickie James is absolutely stunning
.. like wtf was that lol
FACTS.
@@hitman036 Consider it, now that Vince is gone, WWE is the best it's been in almost twenty years.
@@thegreatynot5049 In terms of crowd passion, it's even better. It's insane when you look at some WWE shows from 20 years ago: there were so many incredible talents on that roster, yet the crowds were just dead, more often than not. They were still in that post-Attitude hangover period.
Katie Vick was an idea that came straight from Vince McMahan himself. And even after all the backlash, he has the balls to say it was the fans' fault for not finding it funny. He said this on WWE Confidential and it just makes me think 2 things: 1. How was Vince McMahan ever successful, and 2. Vince is an idiot.
Katie Vick was my brake back in the day. It broke me so much that I never went back to regular viewing. I became a casual viewer and nowadays I just keep up with wrestling news on UA-cam and watch maybe the big ppvs
Goldberg squashing the fiend made me cancel the network for years. The rage was real
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
Started watching WWE back in 2005, and 2019 was the worst year i had ever witnessed. Like Simon said, no wonder why everybody was on board with AEW. Thank god for the competition, WWE had to reorganise and now the product (wrestling in general) is awesome
PG era really did it for me.
Being raised on "attitude"....and then "sufferin' sucotash"😅
....i turned my channel 🙄
PG era begin in late 2008. I stopped watching during the pandemic era. But 2009-2010 was horrendous.
For me it was LayCool and their Piggy James stuff as well as heel Michael Cole and him constantly asskissing the Miz
the miz was super annoying back in the day
Undertaker losing the streak made me quit for a good 10 years and only came back at this year's WM.
RIP eddie guerrero u are missed
Where is early 2010s Michael Cole? That's when I stopped watching.
I'll admit I hated heel michael Cole but it was funny hearing him burying nxt the game show
Lesnar burials were a lot of reasons I tuned out.
Vince McMahon: ah yes let’s let a part timer have the world championship for 2 years…and only defend it 6 times
Only legitimate guy left. Nerd.
The Benoit thing turned me off wrestling entirely for years. It was the black and gold era of NXT and the Mae Young classic that brought me back in 2017. I mostly missed the Cena years, no big loss.
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Super cena was the worst good thing you didn't suffer through that
Hell in a Cell 2019 was the closest I ever got to quitting
A few years back Shane McMahon kicked off either Raw or Smackdown and talked for 45 minutes. It was 50 minutes into the show before the first match. I immediately stopped watching WWE aside from the PPVs and Simon’s Ups & Downs.
I’ve definitely had periods when I would quit watching wrestling for long periods of time. But yeah that squash of Kofi by Brock in the thumbnail was it for me until AEW came around.
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
I loved JBL as champion
My first world champion
I stopped watching after Eddie passed away, he was probably the last wrestler I was heavily invested in and all the other superstars had already left. he made wwe entertaining af RIP Eddie
The ridiculous 2019 HIAC ending plus the Kofi squash that happened soon afterward were the combination that had me cancel the WWE Network, though I started watching again after Vince left. It's definitely a far better product now.
I knew a guy who worked for WWE for several years, and I'd beg for free tickets most times they came to town. I passed on them, however, when Smackdown came through a week or two after Baron Corbin and company covered Roman Reigns in dog food. That was indefensibly bad.
We called it "KofiMania", not "Kofi The Champion"; *I think* it sounds *slightly* better...
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After the Kofi and Lesnar debacle, and that Fiend and Rollins HIAC....i haven't watched WWE since
Lmao, #10 is the reason i stopped watching.
All these years later, I just keep up with wrestling on UA-cam and Twitter now.
The Rock looked so disappointed 🤣 that whole thing was embarrassing & shoulda made me stop watching too
I stopped watching when they tried to smear naomi and sasha banks’ name and made it seem like they were at fault for feeling uncomfortable enough to walk out. It felt so racist and made me realize how racist the fans are
*FACTS*
Vince and creative ruining Dean Ambrose's character after his heel turn made me so mad, that I quit watching wrestling for over 3 years.
Kofimania was running wild
For me, there was no moment that made me rage quit. I simply relocated back in 2015 and opted NOT to get cable to save some money. That's when I realized you could essentially just watch clips of the shows here on UA-cam and I never felt like I missed a thing. With the exception of big matches here and there, I still no longer watch. Now that I am married, my wife and I have other things we want to watch besides wrestling. I feel like, for the most part, I've kind of moved on from it.
I haven’t started watching yet but if taker losing the streak isn’t on here, we riot. 😭
Riot then
Are you rioting
"I just screwed your brains out" made me stop watching for 3-6 months.
The Michael Cole v Jerry Lawler angle was awful. It was something that you just had to tolerate on Raw and then while the mania match was awful, at least it triggered the end of the rivalry. But it didn't! They carried on!
I stopped watching on April 15 2020 when WWE laid off 20+ wrestlers and plenty of backstage talen at the start of the pandemic to keep their profits up
Dude, most businesses issued layoffs at that time. Get a grip and find something real to be mad about. If that bothered you, I know you've never held a job before.
Yeah. I stopped watching wrestling because I got sick of the King going on about "Puppies!" I mean, fucking hell! I didn't come here to watch softcore porn. Even then, it was easier to watch the real stuff. Just give me Brett Hart vs Owen for the entire show. I'd have stayed hooked.
The “Lesbians” getting assaulted by Three Minute Warning made me quit watching for a long time.
It wasn’t just women being attacked, it was that it seemingly went on FOREVER and NOT ONE WRESTLER came out to “make the save”. Like everyone in the back was just cool AF with a couple of small women being body slammed and smashed by two 300lb maniacs.
Nope. Not for me. And it colored my feeling on Eric Bischoff as well. Still don’t like that dude.
No particular moment but it was somewhere around 2010/11. Black & Gold NXT got me back in to it around 2016, then AEW had me back as a full time fan but even that’s dwindled now too.
Good times never last 😢
That upward inflection every other sentence is brutal to listen to 😂
nexus being buried still freaks me out.
The 2015 rumble made me stop being a consistent watcher up until AEW became a thing. At first they put out exceptional shows and as time progressed I stopped being a consistent watcher due to the storytelling not being up to par.
Yeah 2019 aew was great but I stopped watching by early 2021 I returned when cm punk debuted but left again 2 months after the all in show where cm punk was fired the constant high spots, moxley bleeding, super kicks, finisher kickouts just got too much for me I'm a big fan of Chris jericho but he's starting to get overexposed like seriously the learning tree and I find the young bucks and Luke perry's kid unlikeable
Everything about the nexus made me stop watch WWE was trying to rip off the NWO with wrestlers who AT THE TIME where a bunch of nobody’s
2004 JBL run is when I left. My interest started to wain when the Invasion angle featured almost none of the big WCW guys and they buried the few they had.
I just got bored of the baby faces never getting a good long run with the title. That's when I knew they didn't know how to write with the crowd favorites on top.
What about “Ten Moments that made you stop watching WCW during its run.”?
#1 is the finger point of doom between Nash and Hogan.
@@tonyo2675 That was my personal moment as well. Now years later I have went back & watched a few random shows from after that night just because of how much other fans would mention them. One I found on my own was Road Wild ‘99 & the “rematch” of The Finger Poke of Doom. 😂 😂
@@EvaFull nice, i didnt even know that occured. I caught a few episodes, but the only memorable one was the final simulcast. The Wolfpac were so over, and that stopped all of the momentum for them and eventually the company. I'll have check out that deepcut. Thanks for the tip.
@@tonyo2675 Just recently found it when wanting to watch some late era WCW that was August/September/October because I was feeling in a late Summer/early Fall Mood. The stipulation is what really made it stand out. 😂
It was the creation of the red and black nwo for me. WWE was already becoming a better product. The nwo was a gimmick that definitely ran its course
Kevin Federline pinning John Cena, although I did go to Wrestlemania in Orlando that year to cross it off the list. Never went back to WWE but have been an AEW fan since the first Dynamite aired.
Don't listen to the haters. AEW is quite good still, as you know. Dont like the E trolls try and convince you otherwise
I loved wrestling. But in 2016 I stopped watching all the time. I would watch now and then. Started following again during Kofi Mania and then completely stopped after that. I, one night that I could not sleep flipped the channel to The WWE Channel and it was the 2020 Royal Rumble. The exact moment I saw Bianca Belair enter the match. I watched this Women and then heard she was on NXT. Started watching NXT and the main roster shows. When she moved up. Now I follow wrestling again
I remember back in 2007 I stopped watching for 3 years. I turned on raw and for the 1000th time it was Randy Orton vs John Cena, or was it HHH vs John Cena. I was so sick of seeing these matches I turned it off. I was just done. What made me come back? Randomly one day turning the tv on for old time sake and seeing Daniel Bryan and the YES movement. I was awestruck.
What Made Me Stopped Watching WWE? When They Turned PG Thank The Good Lord For TNA Wrestling At The Time.
What made me stop watching? Nothing. But I have stopped hanging out with other wrestling fans, because so many of them failed to mature past elementary school, and want to act like the industry owes them something. Far too many Pachiti's and not enough Miller's.
Just an idea, 10 best episodes of RAW, NXT & Smackdown on their former networks!!
Mine is admittingly weird, but I stopped watching when Becky and Kairi left back in 2020. 2018 and 2019 were such god awful years that I only tuned in for certain wrestlers, not the show. The last two I stuck around for was Becky Lynch and Kairi Sane. Becky left to start a family and 2 months later Kairi left to be with hers. After that I was done for nearly two years. I only came back when HHH took over and even then, it was almost an entire year later in 2023 that I started to regularly watch again.
For me, it wasn't a single moment but an accumulation of "late stage Vince McMahon" trash. After seeing him squander, job out, or pointlessly repackage SO MANY amazing young talents (Neville, Keith Lee, Luke Harper [RIP], The Revival, Adam Cole, Aleister Black, Shayna Bazler, Ricochet, etc.) I just couldn't take it any more.
I "somewhat" came back around Sami joining The Bloodline. And then I was fully back in after the senile old man was booted out.
Hell in a Cell 2019 made me stop watching!! In fact I was originally gonna go but my mom couldn’t take me since she was in the hospital. I remember watching it and then I called my mom and told her “Thank you for not taking me.”
Wow. Here's my experience: I watched every bit of content from 1985 to 1994. Then, I got busy with various stuff. Missed the entire Attitude Era, started watching again with WM18. Haven't missed a second since then., lol.
Stone cold heel turn is tough because it was premature. But he did it so well.
I quit after vince beat WCW and wasted the potential of the WCW stars.
It's unfortunate (but also fascinating) that wrestling does have a tendency to do that, drive us away, but for some reason we (generally) keep coming back.
2019 made me quit till last year....never quit Whatculture 👊
There was also a real funeral going on in the next room while the Katie Vick angle was being filmed
I wasn't mad with the kofi stuff. I never thought of him as a world champion material.
When brock was champion and he couldn't be arsed turning up most weeks, and when he did he couldn't be arsed saying anything just let heyman do all his talking
Adding Charlotte to the Becky/Ronda feud with absolutely zero creativity or valid justification almost got me outta here for good. I have so much respect for Charlotte but that move was a disservice to all 3 women and that main event.
I stopped when the pandemic started but that 2019 was such a rollercoaster of emotions man. Rip Bray Wyatt. I’ve gotten back on the train with this past WM and I can definitely say I’m much more entertained. Any big moments/matches I should watch to catch up proper? I’ve not seen a single moment of Roman’s Tribal Chief arc and I find it hard to believe people actually WANT to see him lol.
I Literally Stopped Watching WWE Pro Wrestling Ater Cena Buried The Nexus & AEW Literally Brought Me Back.
I’ll never understand why folks get mad when the person they want to win doesn’t…. But also gets mad when it gets predictable
Fans are fickle.
JBL was a super underrated heel champion. LEGIT heel heat. It started as go away heat because people didn't want to give it a chance. But it was clear as day he captured the moment.
2009/2010 and the major Cena push, hated the gimmick and didnt enjoy his in ring work, I haven't watched WWE since because it just seems to have been a succssion of other wrestlers getting the same treatment, with the most important factor being how closely related to Dwayne Johnson you are above anything else! 😅
I'd also have been 21/22 at the time and it just didnt seem like something I should be watching as an adult. Thankfuly AEW made it feel acceptable to be a wrestling again and I'm a year into watching that full time.
Despite all the awfulness that wrestling has had… I can’t really say I’ve been close to stop watching. I guess I just don’t take it as seriously as some people do. And it’s a time killer for me
The weirdest thing is most WWE fans think that WWE only has awful moments in the PG/Reality/New Era, but the Golden/Attitude/Ruthless Aggression Era also had awful moments.
There have been so many times where I stopped watching WWE out of frustration. Sometimes for weeks. Sometimes for months. Sometimes years. It was always just too frustrating. Especially in cases where the audience would actively be cheering for someone, but because they werent someone that WWE wanted to push, they either let it drag out until they hoped the crowd would get bored, or they quickly ruined it themselves Basically, dont get yourself over unless they wanted you to be over. Hell. Even in cases where someone would be over in NXT, but as soon as they got to the main roster, they would ruin them.
The Katie Vick story was so over the top it was hilarious I think people hating on it take it to seriously.
I laughed, I'll admit it. Hunter did his best to make it as over the top and as ridiculous as he could because yeah, it's absolutely absurd that these guys were asked to do this. It also cemented Kane as the ultimate company guy. Of all the things he could have said no to, that was the most reasonable one and he still went through with it.
Michael Cole talking about the "WWE universe" every 5 mins, Jesus wept.
OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYY
The mishandling of Dean Ambrose, especially his match against Brock Lesnar, it was disappointing and for a few months at least, I just didn't wanna bother with the Product.
Back in the day, Brother Love and The Bushwackers made me quit watching for almost decade.
JBL was playing himself 😂
He had success as a Wall Street investor.
He actually is still a featured commentator on Fox Business and had his own segment as well. Funny enough, he became an investor in OVW with one of his companies.
Goldberg, whenever he buried talent between 2016-2019, wasn't great either
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
What we gonna do Roman reigns is the reason I have stop watching we I feel like they've been pushing him for 10 years or more too hard
Wrestlemania IX is the event that turned me from a casual wrestling fan to an active fan. So, it did NOT stop me from watch wrestling.
Stunned the end of the Invasion angle isn't on here. That slow realisation that there was to be no proper alternative product and having only a declining, post-Attitude WWE to watch as a fan was enough to make me stop watching/caring
Summerslam 2010. Cena coming back after being dropped on his head, then winning? Nah, made me quit being a full time fan, I barely kept up with it until Mania 33, and even then, it was more or less part time until 3 years ago. I hated that they essentially buried the Nexus with that PPV Main event.
I started watching AEW when they arrived on the scene and watch orgs as of now, because wrestling has become great again
Mine started sometime during the whole CM Punk walk out, I was gone by the authority angle and really remember the treatment of Dean Ambrose being the real nail in the coffin for me. I had seen promos from him a few years before and it was crazy work. Then he becomes a lunatic with a mustard cart.
Now I'm just WrestleMania season and even then its just the PPVs
yeah, I stopped watching wrestling after the Benoit stuff. I'd watch TNA and RoH Matches that I heard were really good but mostly just focused on my own wrestling. Didn't start watching regularly til I heard Sting was going to WWE. that was a huge let down but I got hook on NXT and now AEW since then.
Becky taking the title from Bianca in 27 seconds..
Controversial opinion, I remember the Katie V storyline as Funny at the time because it was so ridiculous
Hogan winning at wm 9 better be on it
Don't question your existence, Simon. Question Vince Mcmahon's sanity.
The 2015 Rumble could've been salvaged if they at least let Daniel Bryan come in later (since he had just returned from a neck injury) or let him make it to the end. Fans may have still protested Reigns winning, but they could've at least had a competitive final 2 to keep them invested and it wouldn't have left a bad taste over the entire second half of the match after Bryan was foolishly eliminated early. It also would've been better if it wasn't the tired 2015 versions of Big Show and Kane tossing everybody else out like bums, but instead had Bray Wyatt and Rusev being the dominant monsters of the match for our final two "heroes" to overcome, instead of Bray being dumped out by Big Show/Kane and Rusev running back in and getting immediately tossed out by Reigns.
The biggest problem with Kofi getting squashed by Brock wasn't so much the loss, its that there was no follow-up. Brock just went on to fight Cain Velasquez and Rey Mysterio while Kofi went right back to being a tag team guy the next week. I know New Day is all about the "power of positivity" and all, but shouldn't Kofi have been a little upset instead of just shrugging his shoulders and carrying on as if it never happened?
I was so ready to give up wrestling after:
-Pat Mcafee vs Vince Mcmahon at Wrestlemania 38.
-Raw after Wrestlemania 39.
After Eddie passed and Benoit allegedly did what he did, i stopped watching. They were 2 of my favourites. Undertaker was my all time favourite but him losing his streak at wrestlemania to Brock took the cake. Haven’t watched wwe in forever. I just got 2k24 and it’s crazy that I don’t know 85% of the wrestlers in the game. Man it’s changed for the worse.
Wrestlemania 28 was me coming back after a 3 year hiatus, I stopped watching wrestling in the summer of 08 after going to an awful raw 🤦🏽♂️😂
If I remember correctly, I stopped around 2010 because I was just getting tired of the old plot lines that would ruin good things, and the one that finally happen that made quit watching cold turkey, was when Undertaker and Kane was a team but the story made Kane turn on Undertaker in the middle of a match.
Keep in mind I start watching in the mid 80's and the NWO era is still by far my favorite time watching wrestling.
How exactly was Kofi as WWE champion booked poorly? He successfully defended the titles against Ziggler, Samoa Joe, Owens and even Randy Orton!!! Swear wrestling fans just love to blame the booking for everything
He was booked as a successful KAYFABE champion.
He had no really big storylines, and the ones he was in weren't very engaging. Which resulted in his reign being a bust due to him losing the audience quite a bit. So yes, this was all down to booking
And I will never understand the ending either
The pandemic made me stop watching until fans came back in the attendance
Vince fumbling the op on undertaker TWICE is what did it for me. Cody Rhodes winning the title at Mania this past year is what for a really satisfying very very fun night drew me right back in. Made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Best part is I’ve seen peoples take on the Katie Vick situation and people so disgusted, they don’t even realize that was HHH in a Kane mask
Fans still being marks for Danielle Bryan. Gets a down 👎
With 2015, another point to be made for cheering for Big Show or Kane versus Roman, is while it's also a "Anyone but Roman" and a "We want Daniel Bryan" moment, I think deep down a lot of us, me included, still believe Kane and Show had deserved a Royal Rumble win for basically their whole careers, ESPECIALLY KANE.
Now at this point it would've been weird for them to win cause it was the Authority versions of them, but I feel like a percentage of fans would've said "Finally" if Show or Kane tossed out Roman and it was either of them winning..
I really did stopped watching after Brock squashing Kofi
Didn't stop watching but to squash Kofi and for what?!
@@edgarmalone7694 for a Cain Velasquez match, which went great by the way!!! 🤦
FACTS same.
The reason why I haven’t been fully invested in WWE since. Vince didn’t know talent at all after Punk had left. And Vince *LOVED* burying NXT stars. It was like a fetish for Vince to use part-timers to ultimately *SQUASH* anyone extremely over such as Bray. I *STILL* will never forgive WWE or Vince or Goldberg for that decision. And to know that Bray is gone on top of that means The Fiend was actually killed.
We don't talk about someone giving birth to a hand? That made me stop watching.
I didn’t quit watching wrestling even though I suffered through all of these terrible moments but all of these moments are equally terrible especially the royal rumble I was livid
I took a 19 year hiatus after Benoit and came back when they booted Vince.
Good timing!