This year will mark the 30th anniversary since I was introduced to wrestling by my late Grandpa in 1984. Back then my area only got the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) on Superstation TBS. My area would not get introduced to WWF/E until 1988 and ESPN had signed a deal with the AWA in 1986 and then begin show the WCCW in 1988. The NWA before it became WCW was awesome wrestling to watch. My Grandpa and I would watch it every chance we would get when I would go to see him. He had watched it long enough he could explain it to me. I was 7 years old then and I had decided that is something I might want to pursue one day but not as a wrestler either a manger, announcer, or promoter. Back when I started watching the NWA had a title for everything. I grew up watching some of the NWA's biggest rivals it was awesome times then. Ric Flair and the Horsemen were the men to beat, the Legion of Doom was on top of the tag team divison. I miss when wrestling was like that. I have watched some Ring of Honor matches and I do agree with some of the critics that compare it to the 80's NWA. When the cable system in my area expanded networks and gave us more channels is when WWE was being watched by me. I was not a big fan of the WWE in the early days, I was not a Hulkamaniac. When my Grandpa died in 1987 it broke my heart I lost the only person that I could talk wrestling with.
I still watch wrestling now and WWE does not do it for me anymore. I still watch it but I am not the big fan I used to be. TNA is using old story lines from WWE and WCW, but I know alot of fans have not noticed it. I watched ECW too mostly on YouTube the orignal was better than the reboot that WWE did. Ring of Honor keeps changing their free memberships around and now I can no longer watch it for free but I do read the reviews on line.
After 30 years I am still a wrestling fan and even though it is not as good as it used to be I will still watch the YouTube summaries.
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