With the other place going private, we’re here! This is basically an introduction post to introduce ourselves.
My earliest wrestling memory is having a recorded VHS tape of Royal Rumble 1990. I consider being a fan since the mid 90s around 6 years old. I loved Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and Diesel. Royal Rumble 1995 is my favorite Rumble. Just one foot. I felt sorry for the British Bulldog, though. I thought Mabel was a good wrestler. He won the King of the Ring! I mainly watched WWF Superstars weekend mornings and Coliseum Home Video. I was “banned” from watching wrestling during the Attitude Era lol. I started watching regularly again in 2002. The Ruthless Aggression era and TNA 04-09 is technically the era I grew up on. Today, I mainly watch AEW, but keep up with what goes on in the WWE. It’s neat seeing all the young stars become experienced veterans.
I saw Vader on Boy Meets World and thought he was awesome. Became a loyal WCW kid until Undertaker threw Mankind off hell in a cell, then this little Stinger got bit by the Texas Rattlesnake. I stuck with WWF well past the Attitude Era into early Ruthless Aggression but somewhere between the brand split and all these stupid new faces replacing my old favourites I made like my hero Stone Cold, took my ball, and went home.
2016 comes along and my stepson is getting deep into WWE with his older brother on his dad’s side. I agreed to take him along to a local NXT house show which gave me a taste of everything I’d been missing in the 12 years since Goldberg and Brock at Mania had driven me away for good. The house show introduced me to Balor, Bayley, Becky, Joe, Nakamura, etc. My love was reborn.
Turns out that was a pretty good year to get back into wrestling. AJ, Ambrose, Bray, Sami, KO, and on and on. We went to a few TV tapings and some more house shows whenever they came by, and I ate it up more than my kid.
But a few years on, late 2018ish, the sheen had worn off again. Too much time spent on r/sc left me smarky and jaded. My stepson had long since moved onto UFC without looking back and I was ready to tap out again too. Thank god for AEW.
Since the Elite came into my life I’ve gone back and embraced all I missed in NJPW, even taking a few baby steps into the deep end with the vintage puro King’s Road stuff. I occasionally have the odd month where I sub to Wrestle Universe too.
But life gets in the way and these days I have too much work and too many kids to really keep up with every little thing like I used to, though I do still follow the highlights for my favourite promotions. That’ll probably be the hardest part of losing r/sc for me if it never comes back since it made keeping up to date so easy. So for now it’s mostly just AEW. That was longer than I meant it to be. Oh well. Hi, anyway.