Hey everyone.
I don't know if this applies to many members here, but from several informal conversations I've had over the years it would seem that pretty much every wrestling fan has had a moment where they've "dropped off", a period or hiatus where their interest in the business takes a nosedive and rarely recovers. It could be due to disillusionment, frustration, protest, boredom or sometimes just sheer embarrassment - maybe all of the above. Therefore, my question is: name a moment (or moments) that nearly killed your love of pro-wrestling entirely?
Was it something ludicrous like Big D's feud with the Bulk Fatty Thomas or Kendo's disco ladder match? The disastrous introduction of the Shockmaster or the Gobbeldy Gooker? Or was it something more serious/controversial?
**As a bonus - what (if anything) made you come back to wrestling?**
I continued to follow wrestling even after reaching the stage of knowing what was happening. The skills of the Roccos and Saints of the wrestling world could still be admired whatever the ‘legitimacy’ of the proceedings. I wasn’t surprised when Haystacks jobbed to Daddy in just a few seconds of farce, because Haystacks could never sell anything as far as I was concerned. But when even Quinn did a similarly ridiculous one round job to Daddy .. at a time when the effort of climbing in the ring looked as if it would finish Crabtree .. well that was that for me. The promoters never even bothered to think of a good line … and clearly thought punters would take any old tosh. So that was that for me.
MC