I was just watching Smackdown in my room with my door open (college dorm) and some kids walked by and I heard them make a joke about it which got me thinking, why are we the outcast? That question does not have to be answered, because what I really started thinking about was why do I like wrestling?
I started liking wrestling when I was little. I always used to get taken to the video store and was allowed to rent one video per week. I cannot even remember why I picked up a wrestling dvd, but once I got home and started watching it I was absolutely amazed. I was young, so I believed everything that was going on but I just could not get over how cool guys like the undertaker, shawn michaels, razor ramon, etc were. I wanted to be just like them. Not only did I fall in love with the characters, I also fell in love with the "spectacle" part of the events. Entrances, the pyros, the stories, you name it I just loved everything about it.
Fast forward to today where I know everything is staged and I still love the product almost as much as I did before. I feel that my interest has fell a little bit only because the roster is basically totally different and the fact that I am seeing all the guys I grew up watching, leave the company and grow old and whatever other personal problems they are having.
I like watching wrestling because of the storylines, the spectacle, and the personalities. Seeing a storyline come together infront of thousands of people every single week with one of your favorite superstars is a great feeling. Just watching guys fued with eachother and have it all come together at a big PPV is real cool to watch. I think I like it so much because at the PPV everything is a big deal, it is the "big time". So much goes into the PPVs to make the stories come to an end (or accumulate even more) that is is just real fun to watch.
So what are your backstories to wrestling and why do you like it?
I started liking wrestling when I was little. I always used to get taken to the video store and was allowed to rent one video per week. I cannot even remember why I picked up a wrestling dvd, but once I got home and started watching it I was absolutely amazed. I was young, so I believed everything that was going on but I just could not get over how cool guys like the undertaker, shawn michaels, razor ramon, etc were. I wanted to be just like them. Not only did I fall in love with the characters, I also fell in love with the "spectacle" part of the events. Entrances, the pyros, the stories, you name it I just loved everything about it.
Fast forward to today where I know everything is staged and I still love the product almost as much as I did before. I feel that my interest has fell a little bit only because the roster is basically totally different and the fact that I am seeing all the guys I grew up watching, leave the company and grow old and whatever other personal problems they are having.
I like watching wrestling because of the storylines, the spectacle, and the personalities. Seeing a storyline come together infront of thousands of people every single week with one of your favorite superstars is a great feeling. Just watching guys fued with eachother and have it all come together at a big PPV is real cool to watch. I think I like it so much because at the PPV everything is a big deal, it is the "big time". So much goes into the PPVs to make the stories come to an end (or accumulate even more) that is is just real fun to watch.
So what are your backstories to wrestling and why do you like it?
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