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If I didn't start watching wrestling when I was a young kid I probably never would have. I can't see myself with my personality flipping through the channels one day and stopping on wrestling and being entertained by it. I'd probably think it looked corny and stupid like Rollerjam and Slamball.
I think this is a good thing as I believe I am one of the people that will always watch wrestling no matter how bad or predictable it gets. Had I started watching wrestling around a certain event or storyline, the habit would probably die off when that storyline ends. Alot of the people I know, who started watching wrestling around the DX/NWO days no longer watch. All the people I know that watched since they were 3 are still watching. I can't explain why, I'm sure a phsycologist could.
I'll use my dad as an example. When he was younger he used to watch Rowdy Roddy Piper and Gene Keniski and Eric Bischoff on Channel 4 wrestling here in Vancouver. He watched, albeit not religiously when Hulkamania started running wild. Then he just stopped. I came around, he never really watched with me or anything but he didn't stop me from watching. I was young in the Brutis Beefcake day, the Warlord, Bushwackers, LOD, Hart Foundation, The British Bulldogs, The Ultimate Warrior, The Macho Man ect ect, I'm no history buff but I guess that's Wrestlemania 4ish. My dad didn't watch during that time. He'd casually flip through the channels and whatnot but never got into it. Then one day he watched Wrestling With Shadows. The documentary on Bret Hart. He was hooked. Along came the DX days and the Rock and his favorite, Mick (foley). Then those all died down and are no more. Steve Austin came back, so my dad started watching again, then he left, so did my dad. Now he watches when nothign else is on but he doesn't even remember that Raw is on at 6pm like he used to.
My point is, my dad got hooked on storylines and certain events in wrestling history. When those storylines ended, so did his attention span. I thin kthis is very common. The people who watched wrestling since they day they were born will always have a place for it, everybody else, just stumbles apon it when the time is convienent.
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