I cannot really recall or say what got me interested in wrestling. Back in the late 80's, 1987/88 to be exact, back when there was such a thing as Saturday morning cartoons, my brother and I would watch all our favorite sweet 80's cartoons, then at 12 noon WWF Superstars would be on and we would always watch it.
Back then, everybody watched/knew wrestling. Wrestling....excuse me, WWF was a household name, I'd go as far to say it was almost in the same league as sporting leagues... NHL, NFL, NBA, etc. 80's kids grew up on wrestling, it was a kids/family show and it was awesome. Not like today's "sports entertainment" in which I will not even get into discussing the content because we are all aware of it.
80's - mid 90's wrestling
late 90's - present

(there are exceptional moments, it's not all that bad)