What Made Us Fall in Love with Pro Wrestling and WWE?

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[@RareGamer99]

The entire Eddie Guerrero motivation for Rey Mysterio storyline. The ultimate underdog with so much emotion. Instantly hooked.

[@desertchrome4538]

Damn unc

[@robertmugabe516]

Since Def Rebel seem to be leaving the WWE soon, I think you should rank every Def Rebel theme

[@IamNster]

I think he did that already but idk when

[@mariocamacho5890]

All F except for a couple of them.

[@wright-k6o]

Tbh Roman Reigns, the way he tells the story of the Bloodline really made me interested

[@jdubsbrandeis]

Jeff Hardy and the Undertaker’s runs from 2007-2010 had me hooked every week. Armageddon 2008 was the first PPV my parents let me buy and the energy of Jeff winning his first title made me a weekly watcher.

[@oktover3031]

same man Armageddon 2008 was an amazing night for me. Royal rumble 2023 was when I started watching weekly again

[@kevinuchiha6830]

Undertaker and Edge are the two that got me into wrestling. Never forget that feud in 08. Good times. 😂. Ironically, they're also my one and two all-time favorites

[@tmac731]

Edge was my biggest heel so having him sent to hell put a big smile on my face

[@kelv77]

Wow same bro We're the same 😂

[@zeospark9715]

Dude same here! I started really getting into WWE in 08 as well and I remembered when I got into it: It was a Friday night after school and I used to like watching the Dog Whisperer from 8 to 10 before going to bed. However, they stopped airing that show at one point and I was trying to find something to watch in it's place. Then I remember my cousin telling me about a wrestling show that comes on Friday nights at 8 and I decided to tune into Smackdown. Been a WWE fan since I even remember the episode where Vickie Guerrero stipped 'Taker of his world title because he used the Hell's Gate against Edge at WrestleMania.

[@cerebralassassin2185]

I gotta rewatch that feud. I remember watching it but i don't remember anything about it lol

[@pfeiferkidz141]

Mine was the entire bloodline story. I was getting into wrestling and this just helped define wrestling as one of my favorite things.

[@corbinaderprod]

Same

[@bewarrior3576]

Same here

[@IDontKnowWhatToNameThis]

I would agree if I hadn’t literally been born watching WWE. Like literally a day after I was born my dad turned on the TV and made me watch WWE

[@CMD69Yt]

My dad was always a wwe fan but I didn't fw it, I watched a few clips of the bloodline and said damn, Roman has aura, got in, and funny enough my favorite wrestlers are Seth and Orton with Roman at a close 3rd

[@zanethind]

Damn you're lucky because you started watching in the Triple H era and one of the best storylines of all time although you also then know how bad Vince McMahon is 😂😅

[@TheKendeHD]

2006, used to play Smackdown vs. Raw with my cousin for HOURS on his ps2. Finally got my Xbox 360 in 2007 and when I got SvR 2007 I fell in love. Shawn & H became my longtime favs, but I fell out of love in 2011, when Jeff Hardy and Shawn left wrestling respectively in 2009 & 2010. It wasn’t all the way until when WWE 2k22 come out and I became reimbursed into my childhood. Greatly enough, the new storylines with this deep roster got me into wrestling all together since again, recently got into AEW a couple of weeks ago.

[@JakeFromYoutube]

Smackdown vs raw 2007 is one of my favorite videogames of all time. First WWE game I actually got when it was the newest game. Even got a sick deal on it from a small videogame shop because it had been returned without the case so it was only like $20😂 still have it actually

[@crimson-cloud]

Bray wyatt. Everytime. The fiend, and from there I branched out into the other horror based gimmics, from wyatt and others, and it grew from there

[@GatlinThompson-c5e]

Am I the only one who enjoys the hotel room setting over his casual recording setup?!

[@wolvgrizz7763]

Ilja vs Walter will always be a yearly rewatch, wrestling, slaps and MEATTTT.

[@sandiletwala3001]

That match was fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@srttp2]

For me it was CM Punk vs The Miz vs Alberto del Rio, TLC 2011, it was the first ever wrestling match I saw and was instantly in love with Punk, been a fan ever since

[@TheKimharv]

I’m a recent fan, I started watching in March. I happened to be in the room while my brother was watching a promo between The Rock/Cody Rhodes that caught my attention. A couple weeks later I also happened to be in the room when the Rock beat up Cody in front of his tour bus; that was the moment I became a fan. I’ve watch every Raw, Smack Down, and PLE since. When I’m bored at work I’ll watch old PPV or famous matches, on occasion I’ll watch NXT. Hoping to attend my first live event soon.

[@PIE50100]

Like with you I had to fall in love with Wrestling twice, the first was in 2008 with the Undertaker and Edge feud. The second time for me was in 2020 with the Thunderdome era, while it's a time everyone wants to forget for me it was a time where WWE had to get creative. The Boneyard Match, the Money in the Bank in the WWE HQ, the Wyatt Swamp fight, the Hurt Buisness. I grew an appreciation for Drew Mcintyre and Bray Wyatt the latter of which becoming my new favroite. This time around I never saw WWE as a serious sport and it made me appreciate the good storylines and characters all the more.

[@kevinuchiha6830]

Yes, sir Edge and Taker, for the win. That's how I started, too. Although I wasn't watching too hard. I really got into it in 2010, and I was already contemplating what was going wrong? It was a low, but I stuck through. 😂

[@ToMito1017]

Triple H vs Randy Orton’s fued in 09 is what got me into wrestling , i was 7 at the time, my pops and i would watch the raw re runs every saturday on telemundo , i remember watching Triple H break into Orton’s house and i thought it was the realest thing ever, lmaoo, was hooked ever since 👍🏼

[@kevinuchiha6830]

2009 was a good year for wrestling. Bald Orton was the biggest meance that year. 😂

[@darkgaming8883]

Whenever he rkod Steph and kissed her. Bros a menace 😂😂

[@SUSMAN312]

In 2012, my dad introduced me and got me into WWE. He started watching WWFas it was then in 1998 and still watches today.

[@mariocamacho5890]

Shawn Michaels. The Undertaker. Kane. Stone Cold. Triple H. Batista. Randy Orton. Ric Flair. Need I continue? 😅 Oh, and perhaps hot take, but Carlito was always so underrated. Loved that caribbean cool gimmick.

[@JakovMartinovic-ic5js]

My dad watched WWE/WWF and had Undertaker as his fav wrestler and in 2021 ko vs reigns at the royal rumble made me a fan.

[@DanielMartin-om3vo]

Crazy how ones worst year ever as a wrestling fan (2010-11) was my childhood nostalgia 😭😭😭

[@ajanithegreat8431]

Mine was as a kid in 08 when i came across SmackDown and the first match I saw was Jeff Hardy vs The Big Show. It blew my mind at the time to see a guy Jeff's size fighting Big Show

[@dada-t7p2x]

Me too but I watch wrestling because Randy Orton 08

[@hannahhiebert6717]

The Judgement Day was a huge part of why I fell in love with professional wrestling. I was honestly drawn to their “darker” aesthetic and it made it go “Huh, where are they from?”. Rhea Ripley was the first wrestler to catch my eye, once again because of her style and just the POWER that she exudes is truly inspiring to me. Damien Priest was the next one to grab my attention, and eventually I got wrapped up in the Bloodline storylines and Roman Reigns is definitely another inspiration to me. The Judgement Day being the first faction to bring me to the world of WWE though, is the reason SummerSlam 2024 broke me a little, as beautiful as it was

[@syednoorerasul]

For me it was the pipe bomb. I came into wrestling as an 11 year old thinking it's gonna be a simple two people wrestling each other, then cm punk drops the pipe bomb, opening my mind to all the drama and politics involved in this and then boom i was hooked

[@beausummers8508]

TLC 2010 was the first ple I ever saw, however, what brought me in was a segment with The Miz the 3 ghosts of Christmas(aka Alex Riley Michael Cole and the angry girls face of when The Miz won the WWE title), Randy Orton Sheamus, John Morrison and Jerry The King Lawler on a random episode of raw.

[@starquoise3343]

I had a cousin who was a fan back in 2012 but I never got into it back then. It wasn't until a friend and I watched Wrestlemania 31 live that made me fall in love with WWE and pro wrestling as a whole. I'll always hold fond memories of that mania.

[@darkgaming8883]

Underrated mania for sure

[@matthewpuckett6122]

I watched WWE casually on and off since 2004 but Jeff Hardy winning the WWE title in 2008 is what hooked me into watching full time. When Punk left WWE I stopped watching for about 2 years but then got back into watching casually with AJ Styles debut in 2016 and have been a fan since.

[@daxmoney5011]

Mine initially was SuperEyePatch wolf’s video about Roman Reigns it was really well made and got me to dip my toes in pro wrestling. Then what really got me hooked was watching MJFs best insults and his feud with CM Punk who instantly became my favorite.

[@waterbreathinggod1962]

I started watching wrestling in 2013 (when I was 9) soon after the shield debuted. I absolutely fell in love with the shield and everything they did, especially Dean Ambrose. I was even watching when Seth Rollins turned on them. That moment, my reaction to it, will always be engrained in my memory forever

[@AwesomeSauce11823]

I have recently gotten back into WWE. I had started watching around 2014 and fell out when Covid hit. I decided to come back when I saw a commercial for the WM 40 tag team match. I wanted to see the Rock wrestle for real for the first time. I came for the Rock, stayed for the story. I have been 120% all in since then. I know a lot of modern and classic knowledge now

[@jimmy41212]

I became a wrestling fan in 1999, it was Kane that got me hooked, I was so into it I started school wrestling (6th grade) in 2001 and would continue until I finished high school in 2008. I then found a local promotion started training there in 2009, had my first pro wrestling match within 4 months of training and have been killing it ever since.

[@ariesfire99]

yeah, randy orton vs triple h that ended at wrestlemania 25 is what got me into it as well. i stopped watching entirely after undertaker lost his streak then started watching religiously again after i seen wrestlemania 40. Randy Orton is and has been my favorite superstar. Iyo Sky is probably my favorite woman wrestler.

[@TwistedGooner]

I have to say what brought me back was the road to WrestleMania 40 with Cody Rhodes and the Bloodline, I've stopped watching WWE for 7 years and this storyline is easily one of the greatest stories I've ever seen. And now we have our big two babyfaces Cody and Roman in light of Hogan and Savage, Rock and Stone Cold, Cena and Batista etc.

[@moobslikejagger5653]

I started watching pro wrestling as a teenager in 1999, and have been absolutely obsessed ever since. There's nothing in human culture anywhere on Earth quite like it. NB King Bookah was fucking amazing, I genuinely think that was the angle that turned me into a "some people just wanna see it burn" smarky asshole type of fan

[@austinphelps5629]

i will say as a kid it was john cena, growing up in the PG era in all, but man the bloodline storyline more specifically the 4 month adventure with sami zayn is some of the greatest wrestling work i have ever seen

[@blondedhead]

I started watching wrestling in 2015. The first match I watched was Daniel Bryan vs Kane in a casket match on a random smackdown. I really liked how smooth it was compared to MMA or boxing. I kept watching it until wrestlemania 31. I didn't understand the concept of PPVs, so I just skipped it, and suddenly, on RAW after WrestleMania 31, Seth Rollins wasn't Mr. Money In The Bank, he had a Championship I've never seen before, cause I was a casual and Brock Lesnar was a part timer. Seth Rollins as WWE Champion, and all of his feuds with Dean Ambrose, John Cena, Sting, Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar made me a consistent fan. John Cena's US Open Challenge also kept me watching RAW every week. The Lucha Dragons and Neville were my favorites because of their unique high flying at the time. I started watching NXT by august tho, and Finn Balor was Champion. It was a whole different mood, which made me take a while to get used to. But NXT and AJ Styles debuting in 2016 made me a crazy wrestling fan, which I still am to this day. Sorry for the big text guys 😂😂😂

[@jjay5355]

literally the same with me i started a little earlier and i never got to watch nxt because i didnt know about it but that era was something special fr

[@tmac731]

I became a fan when I saw Kane set MVP on fire in 2006 lol

[@nagatubimaru]

MVP has been very underrated in my opinion.

[@tmac731]

@@nagatubimaru definitely, he wouldve rocked the wwe spinner belt better than Cena

[@nagatubimaru]

@@tmac731 🙏

[@ludwigvanbubthoven5692]

I'm a Gen Xer, so my first experience with pro wrestling was Hogan, Macho Man, Andre, Hart Foundation, etc. In my early adulthood it was the Attitude Era, so. Wrestling and I have parted ways many times through out my life, but we always seem to come back together.

[@NickYousoufian]

I'm going to elaborate on Japanese wrestling and why I enjoy it. Oct. 2019 Jushin Liger announces his retirement for WrestleKingdom 14 in 2020. I think 'He wrestled in WCW with Brian Pillman multiple times and those are classics. And of course I love anime, and Liger is a Go Nagai character, so I watch WK14 and my god it was amazing. Then of course I want more and New Japan World (their version of the WWE Network) and KZbin lead to thousands of matches.

[@miguelmacias4296]

Mine was Kane ruining litas wedding, CM punk in royal rumble 2013, and Sami zayn vs John Knoxville

[@Belkez8188]

Edge was my guy in the late 2000’s til his retirement. Stopped not long after the Christian Randy feud, but came back briefly for smackdown live days which I loved tbh. Then i graduated highschool and my tribal chief Roman reigns and that bloodline story sucked my back in and now I love every aspect of it

[@tariqahmed9916]

Cena vs Punk, Raw 2013.

[@ww4l]

The end of Rock and Austin's time in WWE, we had rakishi, HHH, undertaker, Kane.... Then came John Cena and blew me away. I stopped liking wrestling when I seen Straigt Edge Society and the pipe bom promo. You can't just cut the woman's hair off like that, and quit complaining about working for the BIGGEST wrestling promotion in HISTORY. Fell back in love with Wyatt Family, 2017.

[@baowow205]

Also, hearing about Okada vs Omega. I was just like who are these guys and then I couldn’t stop watching their matches over and over again. This really got me back into professional wrestling and it led into my love for NXT black and gold

[@HeelSection3825]

I'm an old head who started watching when I was about 4 in the early 80's. It's hard to remember the territory days because I was so young. But even then, I was kind of a heel section fan. I remember Jake The Snake Roberts being one of the first people who really caught my attention. It was a very strange attraction, because his promo style would legitimately scare the 💩 out of me as a 4 year old boy!!! But there was also a big part of me who thought he was REALLY COOL!!!

[@crayon884]

My first time experiencing wrestling was a random Saturday morning. A channel had a tag match with the Undertaker (I don’t remember the rest of the wrestlers in the match). What really got me into wrestling happened years later with WrestleMania 31. Heist of the century, the US championship match, etc. I watched WWE highlights on KZbin (I was young and didn’t have the means to watch it live) until 2023 where I would watch it live after Sami Zayn’s betrayal of the bloodline.

[@cerebralassassin2185]

I fell in love with wrestling twice. The first time was during 09 woth the Triple H vs Orton feud going into wrestlemania. That scene of him breaking into orton's house is still the most badass thing i have ever watched in wwe. Then the night cm punk cut the pipebomb it made me fall in love with wwe all over again. It's no surprise both triple h and punk are my favorite wrestlers ever.

[@thomastizzy1987]

When I was about 8 years old I watched a vhs that my aunt had called “rock and roll wrestling.” That made me curious about wrestling. But what made me love wrestling was the lead up to wrestlemania 14. Austin vs Shawn michaels and the undertaker vs Kane. I’m only 37, so don’t think I’m old if you know that vhs

[@StuLost]

As a kid i enjoyed wrestling but sadly stopped watching when we lost cable. Late last year i lost my father and i was in a terrible rut. It wasn't till i was scrolling tiktok i saw a guy illegally streaming the royal rumble this year that i could feel my love of wrestling as a kid start to grow again. I had no idea what storylines were going on but i was invested once again and it was wwe that helped me in my dark times earlier this year.

[@american_chicken3378]

I started watching wrestling in late 2019, and I started with WWE KZbin videos. I usually watched the Royal Rumbles, they were my favorites, but I also remember loving the Team Authority vs Team Cena match, and something called Monster Mash Battle Royal, which included Kane, Mark Henry, Big Daddy V and Great Khali.

[@DamnittCam]

So I’m gonna age myself a bit here but I was 7 and I was flipping channels. It was the 30th of march 1998. If anyone doesn’t understand the significance of that date it was the debut of the DX that fronted the Monday night wars. I had seen a few random episodes of WCW previously, just flipping channels, but I had never seen WWF at the time. Well in my limited viewing of WCW I had seen Syxx and some of the NWO stuff. I happened to flip past Monday night raw. What I saw was Syxx, now known as X-PAC, walking down the ramp. I didnt know much of anything but I knew I had seen that guy before and it wasn’t on this show. Seeing his face made me sit down and tune in and that segment with DX instantly hooked me. Everything was so cool in my 7 year old mind and after that night I never looked back. I went to school the next day and it’s all I could talk about.

[@gravejello2331]

Mine was watching The Iron Claw last year. It was such a great movie that reinvigorated my love of wrestling. My dad introduced me to WWE in the mid 2000s when I was a kid but I don’t really remember much outside of loving Rey and Cena from that era and then I fell off of WWE around the time The Shield and Wyatt Family feud was starting IIRC. My dad continued watching but unfortunately he passed away in 2016 so I never really had the chance to start watching again.

[@aron4117]

I got into wrestling in the fall of 04 from my uncle and absolutely loved it until 08 because I felt I was told old for it at 13. Didn’t follow it up until the royal rumble this year because it was happening locally. Didn’t go but I was working downtown the day of the rumble and man the electricity of the fans just got me curious to check it out on peacock. Didn’t anyone other than the wrestlers who were in wwe in the 00s. Man that got me hooked and I’ve been following since then. Even went to a live show

[@zanethind]

Even though people can be toxic in glad there's an online wrestling community because it's been hard for me to find anyone irl that likes wrestling in my area. It's either they watched it and stopped or they're just a casual

[@tarad3576]

My interest was peaked for the first time when The Rock started posting this year about being involved again leading up to Wrestlemania 40 & Wrestlemania was actually the very first WWE event I had ever watched on TV. I didn't have access at the time to watch any Raw or Smackdown shows so I was fresh into WWE but after Wrestlemania I started watching more & learning as much as I could because I was hooked! I'll be going to my first live show in November! I also followed & subscribed to SanchoWest when he was doing more in the Fortnite & gaming scene & still kept up with what he was doing when he moved to more wrestling content so I credit him & The Rock for my new obsession! 😂

[@daultongray8]

My story is similar to yours. I don't remember why but my parents dropped me off at one of their friends house to watch me and they had a son that was watching WrestleMania X8. And I fell in love right after that. RAW aired to late so I never got to watch it, but SmackDown on Thursdays, I kept up religiously with. Angle, Edge, Benoit, etc. really got me into it. I fell away in 8th grade because it wasn't cool. Decided to watch again my senior year of high school which was 2011. in 2013 I fell away again because of college and jumped back into it in 2019 with Kofi mania.

[@agentorange1156]

Mine was a random raw in 2004, a battle royal to determine who faced triple h later in the show for the whc. Benoit and Edge hit the floor at the same time, and they both got added to the world title match where benoit submitted edge as edge pinned him. I was HOOKED. It eventually led to the Elimination chamber for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship, my favorite match ever.

[@danbruckelmeyer6017]

I was an original Hulkamaniac as a little kid. Tuned out until high school because I could never get Mom and Dad to pop for the PPVs during the HBK/Bret Hart era, then found a buddy with a "black box" during the Attitude Era and stayed with it through Ruthless Aggression. Completely turned off the product in the 2010s because it was pretty damn bad (sorry, Alberto Del Rio and JBL didn't do it for me) and got back into it with my kids during the Thunderdome/Covid era. But it was the Cody/Roman feud heading into 39 that sold us for good.

[@Algo1]

I have faint, probably made up, memories of watching bits and pieces of some stuff around 99 and 2002, but what I definitely watched and got me hooked was the Eddie Guerrero vs JBL feud in 2004, Eddie and Chris' coronations in WM XX and everything I have ever watched from Rey Mysterio. I fell out of love in WM 30 because I am an Undertaker fan and was done with the product when the streak ended, and only came back at this year WM 40. I never fully went without knowing what was going on, so I knew some stuff about Rock, Cody and Roman, but what solidified my newfound love for WWE was Seth Rollins doing the heavylifting.

[@eddiecampbell9663]

The attitude era made me love wrestling.....Stone cold....The rock...Undertaker....Triple h.....Mandkind....Kurt Angle.....The best era in the history of wwe

[@faithinchrist9089]

I'm 28 this year and back when I was 3 years old my father would tune in to smackdown and I will watch alone. Unfortunately my dad passed on the very next year and my family was against wrestling as they believe it was violence.. not suitable for me to watch. Until when I was 12 when I walk passed a DVD shop, I purchased WrestleMania 24 and my the first match that impress me was Shawn Michaels vs Ric Flair in a career threatening match. It make me fall in love then and then it come John Cena after I fully understand his gimmick of never give up. It was because of John Cena , I adapt a never say die attitude and cement myself as a wrestling fan. Without buying the DVD , I probably would just heard of John Cena as the famous wrestle but I won't be here today as someone that refuse to give up.

[@KyranLarocque]

Austin saving Steph on the cross! That is the marking moment. No one expected Austin to come out.

[@justinlynch3]

I'm with JAKE. SmackDown VS RAW 2011 on PS2 is what got me interested in wrestling.

[@desertchrome4538]

I was always ashamed to say my introduction to wrestling was through TNA. In the UK TNA was more easily accessible than RAW and Smackdown and I started watching TNA in 2006. And seeing guys like Joe, AJ, Daniels, MCMG, Angle, Sting tearing it up was so fascinating to me. Eventually when we could watch RAW and Smackdown I started watching that more and more and eventually I did stop watching TNA around 2012 because Hogan was unbearable but if it wasn’t for TNA I wouldn’t be a wrestling fan

[@luislazo4163]

Mine was when Y2J threw HBK onto the Jeritron but I was watching WWE for a year by then

[@danielcabrera4787]

I was introduced into pro wrestling by my uncles in 98. Stone Cold vs The Undertaker at SummerSlam. They were also the first wrestling figures I got

[@GlocksAndWock]

Jeff Hardy is the only right answer to the title

[@darkgaming8883]

Agreed. Always wondered what would of been if he got a handle on his substance abuse problems

[@eliteclapz4568]

Mine was a random smack down when DX, John Cena, and Undertaker went against legacy and cm punk

[@Zer0Brain]

DX got me into wrestling, when I was still at school the "Suck It" was popular and we were all doing the taunt in class 😂

[@Zer0Brain]

Big shoutout to the Undertakers streak which was must watch every year and Edge for being the best heel in the 2000's 💪

[@calebstewart2737]

wrestlemania 21 as a whole made me fall in love with wrestling the creation of 4 of my favorite wrestlers into the main event solidified my stay in this world that i am still in till this day

[@MetalCharlo]

I stumbled on a random episode of TNA back in the day on my local channel RDS. I got to watch Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Abyss, Ric Flair and the Woo-off etc. Golden times for me! Everything started with TNA basically haha.

[@WaxwingSlain]

Mine was the era of smackdown with MVP, jeff hardy, cm punk, rey mysterio, etc But i started falling in love when my older brother got me the judgement day 2005 dvd and i swear to god, every match was just a master piece to me. Someone gifted me SVR 2008 Then my brother took me to go see judgement day 2009, i was like 10 at this point

[@TheRavenholme]

Wow. Definitely feeling old. I was five years old, it was Summerslam 1994 and the first match I ever saw was Bret vs. Owen in the steel cage and being completely oblivious to anything wrestling at the time, I was absolutely thrilled when Bret got attacked after the match, as I'd really wanted Owen to win. 😅

[@IDontKnowWhatToNameThis]

For me it was Survivor Series ‘14, I was a huge fan John Cena and I really didn’t want to see him go, when Dolph Ziggler was the only one left I had no hope. Until my guy pulled the greatest comeback in history. I would then forever be a Dolph Ziggler fan.

[@Bylethlol]

The first episode of raw I ever watched was the debut of the nexus and I was hooked ever since

[@thespritesamurai7673]

YO JEY USO DID IT I'M SO UPSET HE'S NOT HERE TO WATCH THIS LIVE

[@jamiek9780]

Reading these comments, I feel old 😂 For me it was Triple H and Shawn Michaels’ blood feud in the early 2000s Edit: I started the video and noticed Santi and I have the exact same moments that made us fans, we both fell out of wrestling at the same time, and also came back to WWE in 2011 for the same reason 😂

[@b3rni3mac2]

My first episode of Smackdown was John Cena debut. First Raw was I think Mr America lie detector test. Then slowly faded away 08/09,came back but not all the way 11/13, faded back after. Then now back full time, but not AEW in 17 when a coworker said WWE was coming to LA for a PPV. Back then didn't have money for PPV let alone a live event. In 14 finally got money for PPVs well in the form of the WWE Network. And went to NBA games. The peak was getting 4 tickets for 4 days for WM 39. Was tired on Monday 😅

[@BobbyReyes-jg3to]

I've been a wrestling fan since 1976

[@ThatRandomGuyYeet]

Are you immortal

[@dondanno7995]

To be honest I fell in love again, because of your Tiktok videos, which brought me back to wrestling after becoming a father and just not having the time back then. So thank you for that ❤

[@baowow205]

Wrestlemania 31, I had no idea anything that was going on but the whole card caught me off guard. Seth Rollins vs Randy and that finish oh my god, then Rollins cashing in??

[@WWE4LlFE]

Dolph Ziggler vs AJ Styles vs Baron Corbin Smackdown 2016

[@MeiiMoose]

Cm punk and randy orton is what kept me in the wwe but I started watching being of rated rko

[@generalmcterror2718]

I have loved wrestling since I was introduced to it by my oldest brother in that period where it was too late for the attitude era but Ruthless Aggression was beginning. Whether it be Here Comes The Pain throughout the Smackdown vs Raw series to watching John Cena’s legendary battles with Edge to watching HBK and HHH terrorizing Vince McMahon. I was hooked so when it came time that I couldn’t watch it weekly I kept up with it on social media throughout the ups and downs of the 2010s. I started watching the PLEs once I got Peacock and I have been watching every PLE since. I even get to watch NXT weekly granted a day late or so because whoever is in charge of putting the newest episodes on there suck at their job. No matter what happens Professional Wrestling will always be apart of me, and I am happy it will because Wrestling is cool. Even when we have those wacky segments that make people think you’re a moron for loving it I couldn’t care less. Pro wrestling is pretty much a home to me.

[@Blue-Rose-25]

I vividly remember watching in 2014 (pre 2016 is A blur) and the three constants were John Cena, The Shield and the Wyatt family (honourable mentions: Gold Dust and Starr Dust, The Miz, Randy Orton, Hardy Boyz, Aj Styles and Batista), I kept watching until 2022 after Wrestlemania 38 and would stop watching weekly after Wrestlemania 37. 2023 and 2024 Royale rumbles AND elimination chamber (my two favourite match types) made me wanna watch every Wrestlemania leading to 40, Shawn Michaels ended up among me realize why I lived wrestling in the first place TL;DR 2014-2020 was weekly 2021/22 was casual 23/24 chamber and rumble sparked it HBK saved my love for wrestling

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

2002 was the year I was born and when I was five days old I watch SmackDown and slimes!

[@jjay5355]

mine was honestly seth rollins’s and dean ambrose in 2015 when seth had the wwe title it was just so much fun watching during that time and also when i got into it

[@Lothar-Wolfsbane]

I remember seeing Matt hardy doing his flying maneuvers a couple matches then i saw him against RVD which he lost. Rob Van Dam got me into wrestling, i had always seen wrestling here and there for 20 minutes. But it was a passing thing like watching a movie randomly while flipping channels. I remember watching his matches on youtube and everyone he went against he was just kicking their ass. Everyone was getting dominated by RVD. Then i saw him against Chris benoit and RVD was just playing defensive in the match. He wasnt doing his acrobatics he was avoiding making aggressive moves. Then i saw chris benoit pull a crossface i think and i was hooked. I watched his matches and i just loved the threat of a cross face, a quick mistake and he can pull you into a cross face and win. This just helped define wrestling as one of my favorite things. I just binge watched wrestling smackdown mostly, loved eddie too.

[@murnzo110]

Shawn Michael, made me a fan of wwe, jeff hardy made me love the wwe, cm punk made me stay a fan of wwe, roman reigns made me never miss wwe

[@mr.j7251]

I started watching because of Roman’s title reign

[@carsonford9601]

I'd say what clicked for me was Triple H vs Batista storyline, and JBL as WWE champion. Also, the Undertaker in general.

[@High_Drag0n]

For me, it was john cena United States open challenge matches

[@CzarAice01]

this is funny. the reason I first got curious about wrestling is because of how weird Val Venis was, that was in 1999. and it made me ROFLOL, but what seriously made me fall in love with wrestling was the debut of Rey Mysterio. why? simply because we're the same smaller stature people and I latched on to that and it inspired me

[@Amirupnext]

That Cm Punk Vs Undertaker🔥🔥🔥

[@mako1417]

I remember watching royal rumble 2020 but at this time I wasn’t following wrestling much so I just turned it because it was Royal Rumble and the moment when Edge’s music hit my jaw dropped

[@AbsAli02]

I mentioned it on the post, while I was a fan well before MJFs “Rolls Of Quarters” promo that is the promo that I relate to the most.

[@Pierrepaule]

What made me a Wrestling fans it’s a little weird story but I Saw Some segments of the 24/7 Title and I found this really fun. And when I saw that Smackdown was coming to Fox Channel I started to watch it to see more 24/7 title change but when I discovered that only jobbers were fighting for that belt and the real storylines were a different thing get the 24/7 title off my mind and that’s how I became a Wrestling fans.

[@darkgaming8883]

I love that lmao. R truth carried those segments they were fun for what they were 😂😂

[@FANETO2688]

mine was cena vs batista rivalry, that really sucked me into wwe. afterwards i fell out of wwe around 2018, got back into it with the bloodline story like 5 months into it, when roman was converting the usos

[@smitty2737]

When I was starting 2nd grade I was shopping for school clothes and saw a day night raw shirt including cena, John Morrison, Batista, Rey , and taker and even though I had never seen wrestling before i had to have it for some reason I was drawn to it, my parents would let me watch wrestling from that point on thinking maybe it was something I was into but I really didn’t know anything other than John cena is on the tv, however one day i eventually started to understand what was going on and what I was watching and that just happened to be the night that Randy orton kid led Vince’s skull in. From that point on I have been a wrestling fan, haven’t stopped watching to this day even through the tough times and it’s also the reason to this day why I will never boo Randy orton no matter what

[@FritaLay]

I started watching wrestling in 2003. But John Cena’s debut on RAW made me tune in every week including Smackdown. 🥲

[@abdulbulger7536]

Mine was 2008 royal rumble. Jeff hardy vs Randy Orton My first impression of john cena was when he returned at 30 Undertaker vs shawn michaels to begin the royal rumble Edge v rey mysterio What a PPV

[@RomanBurruel-g3z]

My first moment of falling in love with wrestling was when the shield ran WWE but my second go around was the bloodline idk what it was about both of these things but they just captivated me

[@joppaz1988]

Austin vs rock for the IC title when rock threw Austin off the bridge