How serious do you take your rasslin? 2022 edition
 

Some people are die hards and others are casual fans who watch rasslin occasionally. So what kinda fan are you? I take my rasslin super serious bc it's awesome. Woooooooooooooooooo

So you're dead set on running this shitck into the ground, eh?

Dude answer the question.

Casual. I catch a show whenever I can and generally follow by reading results online.

I remember the days when Shisen Kopf was funny.

I'd kill a man,or smack a lady over my wrasslin.

I don't.

What shtick?

When was this?

Also, very casual about it. Never watch Smackdown and tune into Raw every now and then.

Massive fan, except for the fact I can't watch WWE coz I can't afford Sky. I check the news and results online (mainly TPWW) and I have to depend on YouTube if I want to watch shows/segments.

I DVR RAW, never watch Smackdown, and never watch TNA. I stream PPV's if I got nothing going on, and read online about the rest.

asking this question on a wrestling forum....

I used to watch Raw every week and Smackdown sometimes, then I lost cable so I just read the results and now even with cable I don't watch either much and usually just look it all up

R A S S L I N That's rasslin

"I don't watch any wrestling and haven't for 5 years. However, I still come to this wrestling forum so that my well-informed opinion may be heard by others."

I just realized today that I may take my rasslin more serious than even the Internet because that is serious business. I should be a mod on this forum bc of how super serious I take rasslin and internets. I'm announcing now I'm a candidate for mod Kopf 12 "change is on the way". Woooooooooooo!

Watch RAW & SD every week. Mostly on YouTube lately because of work, though.

Haven't been able to follow TNA for a while & haven't seen the "new" ROH yet.

So I guess I take my rasslin super serious.

That is good to hear screech. Rasslin must be taken super serious or else what's the point. Just ax some of the mods here.

Seriously, I watch Raw on Tuesday morning, Impact on Friday morning and Smackdown on Saturday morning. Being in the UK/not having Sky/working nights makes watching live difficult.

As for PPV, I've watched a lot more stuff live this year and if not caught up the next day. Last year I barely watched PPVs.

Pretty casual tbf. I record Raw every Monday, catch the odd PPV, have an interest in the history of the business/people in it and I'm quite willing to defend against those who call it 'fake'.

In saying that I'm not going to follow the WWE around so I can become known as 'The Sign Guy' and I won't be going to any Q&A sessions, breaking down and sobbing whilst shouting "IT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMN IT!" so I'm not going to consider myself a hardcore fan.

I think there might be some "middle ground" between "casual fan" and "wrestling obsessive".

If there's a middle ground between casual and obsessive, I think that's where I'd be. I watch Raw every Monday and try to catch the PPVs, but I also stop watching if I'm not interested in what's going on.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm. But you don't watch SmackDown or TNA? Maybe closer to casual that "middle groud".

Maybe closer to casual in a sense, but I'm sure I'd watch them if I was home. With the hours I work, I haven't seen Smackdown or TNA in a long time nor do I feel like busting out the VCR to tape them. I generally just read the results for those shows. But, if I read about a good match or segment on one of those shows, YouTube is a good friend.

Wherever it, that would probably be a more appropriate title for myself.

I take it even more serious these days. Very serious indeed.

I don't take it seriously, can't see myself wearing a wrestling t-shirt or defending it like a favorite band or something.

I enjoy watching RAW and if I miss RAW, it's nothing to panic over - I can watch the highlights on youtube or read the results. I usually catch PPV streams if I'm home. I don't really care for Friday night Smackdown, I'll watch it if I have no plans Friday night even if I read the results- unless it's a really shitty episode or I forget about it.

I basically like coming home from work, smoking pot and watching WWE.

raw gets dvr'd then i watch the first segment predict in my head what will happen. fast forward to the end.

read smackdown spoilers here

no respect for tna or roh etc

watch alot of youtube vids of past matches and read up on guys careers and backstage stories

rassle rassle E

Watch RAW Every week, and read TPWW.net everyday on the latest gossip!

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I take my wrestling so seriously that I wonder why a bigger wrestler will often Irish whip his smaller opponent into the ropes and then try to grab him or her but get headscissored, when he could have done a slam, DDT, whatever because in the first place he was already in grappling distance. :roll:

I also wonder why a taller opponent will usually go for a clothesline or high elbow strike on a shorter wrestler who easily ducks it when a low kick or drop toe hold would be much more strategic. :|

randy, i AM the wrestling.

I don't take it very seriously. I am a huge fan but it doesn't kill me to miss a show or two if I am busy doing other stuff. I really enjoy it but it doesn't consume me or anything.

As a Jerry Lawler heart attack....i.e. serious enough to tape it, but not serious enough that I wouldn't poke fun of it with friends.

Let's just say that you all should be happy that Triple H didn't retire at WrestleMania XXIX.

Exactly. Heath Slater would have to draw responses for some other over the hill guy.

I've been a fan since 1988ish. Maybe a little before that. I'm a die hard even when a month goes by and I don't post here I'm still watching. I've taken breaks over the years. After the invasion angle lost steam I faded away for a few years actually. Missed angle, Eddie, Rey, Benoit and Lesnar at the top but I'm ok with that. That's the only significant gap I can remember. Luckily wi YouTube and streaming services I feel I haven't missed anything of significance ever. I started at the height of wrestling and have lived thru the highs and lowest lows.

I don't get uber emotional and argue like other guys here....I tend to think I'm a smart fan who doesn't need to force my opinions on others but rather do more detailed threads where discussions can have points and launching pads....rather than debate scenarios that will likely or already never happened.....

I think I have transcended mere rasslin fandom and am now a rasslin expert of the business of seriousness. Perhaps I am more than a mere mortal. I now need to find Palaestra.

http://www.theoi.com/Georgikos/Palaistra.html

Was this triggered by the death of rasslin?

Rasslin died last week RIP. But now we can usher in a new epoch guided by the timeless wisdom of fandango.

Fandango is WWE's make it or break it point.

I think I'm in too deep at this rate when it comes to wrestling, just have to stop myself from being to cynical about it.

Well, I must be a faggot gay then! I do find Kenta quite cute...

careful, youll offend the sensitive closeted homofags here

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In all seriousness. I catch Raw, Smackdown and Impact online coz I don't have Foxtel (Australia). I have however learnt a valuable lesson; if you didn't grow up watching wrestling you won't like it. I have tried to break down the whole business to adult friends and they won't, understandably, get it.

So yeh I only take my rasslin seriously if there is someone else around I can talk kayfabe with. I'm over trying to explain what a tv show is to other people.

This is th best thread ever in the history of here.

This is where we finally talked some good ol fashion rasslin

Medium well.

'Bout an 8.7/10

Let's see here, a bunch of oiled up guys touching each other... XD

I think I take my rasslin even more serious today. Like I'm gonna tape Smackdown on Thursday night on UPN.

I hope you like those two episodes of White Collar. :rofl:

Yes it is 9/10

fucking serious

i take it very serious

just for the record

We all should take it seriously or what's the point of posting at a rasslin forum?

Might as well smear poo all over your face if you don't take it seriously. Elbow Drop, mom yelling at me to ERAG after dinner/10

The Wrestling Forum needs to be changed to the Rasslin Forum. We need to petition AAA.

How about the USA #1 rasslin forum presented by Shisen Kopf? I think as forum champion,or whatever it's called that I'm gonna win, that it's a great idea. Wooooo!

I've wondered similar stuff like how many wrestlers countered a chokeslam with a triangle choke or has any countered a Pedigree with a jacknife pin. And countering a suplex with a cradle, I've seen that in a few overseas matches. And the triangle choke thing I've seen in a couple of indy matches.


As for how much I watch, I've been watching RAW and Smackdown since Survivor Series 99 and took a break in 2008 when it suffered creatively. Watched casualy for a year before watching a full RAW after Summerslam this year and now I'm digging it. But I rarely catch Smackdown, 3 hrs. is enough for me.

Is John Cena still THE CHAMP?

I think so.

2015 check in. I think I take my rasslin pretty serious these days but not as super serious as I did in 2012.

I've bumped up my level of seriousness from SRS BSNSS to "Wrasslin' is super-duper über cereal, OK?!"

From about 8.7 - about 9.25/10 over the past 2 years.

Serious enough to rub one out whenever I watch.

I am a hardcore fan, at least I was when I had satellite television. Truthfully, I hate having to read results because the opinion of the reporter can at times cloud my judgement on the matches before and sometimes after I see them on Youtube, but the anxious fan in me keeps me from waiting to know regardless. There were several instances where the matches and skits were far better to me than what the reporters were painting them to be. All things considering, I am a fan enough to bitch when the show really isn't fulfilling my expectations and piss myself when they exceed them. Lord, I'm pathetic....

even more serious than ever. Wooooo rasslin!

Going to Rasslemania so I'm super serious about rasslin again.

I watch RAW, Smackdown and NXT every week and every PPV. Traveled to the other end of the country to watch the UK Title Tournament and watch local indy shows as well.

But at the same time I don't watch TNA or any of the other US indies, mostly due to lack of coverage in the UK combined with a lack of time.

So reasonably seriously I would guess.

One end of the UK to the other end is what? 100 miles?!

I regularly drive 300 miles for work. Thank goodness texting and driving is still legal here.

Virtually everything i loved about wrestling is gone. So about 2% serious. Even puro has been driven into the ground

I like a good underdog still. I really enjoyed Daniel Bryan's title chase years back.

I like a good underdog story too. Like even though Kevin Owens is mentally retarded and fat he still became Champion of the Universe

It was a 450 mile/9 hour round trip.

It's not that far, but traveling that far North also involves going back in time 30 years.

6/10 on the serious scale

NO FUCKING DICK FLIPS

Stop no selling powerbombs through tables off ladders

I'll kill a man if they talk bad about Alexa Bliss.

Me too. She's so hot

2020 check in. It's still real to me dammit

We’ve guys arguing about ratings on Christmas Day. TPWW very serious about wrestling.

Ratings are very serious business, evidently.

i like that Riddle guy. I dont really follow rasslin that much anymore but I like his gimmick that he is a stoner and he forgets to put his boots on.

I have lost track of what Chad Gable is doing.

I don’t like what wrestling has “evolved” into. It’s not a evolution, it’s an unnecessary deviation into trivialization. I miss guys calling matches in the ring and making things seem organic. That’s “better” to me than everyone trying to go out there and dance their little hearts out.

AEW sucks. It’s not good television. At its core, WWE has some stuff they do really well, but I don’t know how people can watch whole shows anymore. I hope something they eventually change is the emphasis they put on shows. You can still break them into clips for YouTube, it’s just that the television packaging would be better.

I’m hungry for something resembling the wrestling I cared about to come back. I think it will have to come from WWE expanding though. My latest hope is that when the TV deals are up, WWE will want to get as many networks/streaming services on side as possible, so they dig deep and generate more content with a different flavor to it. Maybe they send Cody Rhodes to run a revived WCW or something? I dunno, just a pipe-dream.

Maybe a scandal pushes The Rock to create something with Disney/ABC? Right now it seems that he’d just waltz into WWE though. But maybe an Amazon Prime or someone who feels like they miss out on WWE deals next round throw their own hat into the ring? Come on wrestling, something needs to happen.

Maybe Freddie Prinze, Jr. will actually get his show on the CW Network or something?

Much less serious now than before a 43 year old MMA failure was made a World Champion, then injured himself trying to dive into a crowd :shifty:

I used to tell myself I really want wrestling to get better. I wonder how much of that is “habit” though? Because I catch myself wondering if I even give a shit. We deserve what we get. Fuck it. Let it all burn. Maybe once the earth is scorched something can grow in 50 years or something?

I dunno. It makes me sad to think I’ve given up. But I might just be stubborn in trying to convince myself that I haven’t.

Only genuine joy I get from modern wrestling are podcasts about better times and looking up the history.

I was fucking wrestling obsessed and would catch fucking Heat and Velocity. Now you couldn’t pay me to sit around and watch it all. I’d go fucking insane because it’s gotten so bad. And we’re all supposed to just pretend that it’s stellar. Have another Young Bucks match, watch Kenny Omega overperform and underdeliver, here’s another weak sauce champion that can’t throw a punch delivering another dramatic monologue that reminds you it’s all fake and they’re not even trying.

Wrestling just gets more and more insulting of its audience. It’s not just WWE either. Everyone wants to tell you that God isn’t real and then pass around the collection plate. And it’s considered bad manners to point out that it’s a cult and it’s not even good at recruiting.

It’s like community theatre. If you see something that could almost be considered professional, you’re allowed to laud it. But when the old woman with one tone to her voice gets up and puts everyone to sleep, you’re not supposed to say it’s fucking awful.

Oh, and the critics are “out of touch” and don’t get it. Meanwhile the most popular wrestling on television is the WWE and they’re the only people turning a profit.

Wrestling is the only form of entertainment I can think of that has claimed to evolve by running off 90% of its audience.

People would watch it if it were good. It’s in people’s DNA to be drawn to conflict. Wrestling is almost a primal example of that. But everyone gets it so fucking wrong by putting so many fucking obstacles between what they’re trying to achieve.

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This. Except for the part about pro-wrestling being “it.”

i loved wrestling for decades. its reasonable to say it was the great love of my life. i certainly sacrificed more for it than anything else. but now its like seeing an ex but when you see them not only do you not see what you loved burried under the layers but instead shes become the kind of person the two of you used to laugh at together.
its a betrayal on top of the heart break. you want to miss her but the her she was is never coming back. nostalgia literally means "our pain." im very nostalgic for wrestling.