10 Times WWE Lost Fans FOREVER 

Quick correction, Austin's 3:16 promo was at King Of The Ring 96, not 1997 as I said here. Thanks for pointing that one out guys. I know you got this playa's back!

2009 for me. PG era mixed with John Cena overload

For me, it was the double buyout. They acquired two stacked rosters and gave basically everyone walking papers.

They lost me with the whole invasion storyline in 2001 when they buried my favourite WCW guys.

The Zack Ryder ( Matt Cardona ) thing killed me. I was freaking out like I was 12 when he finally got his IC Championship only to piss me off to no end to have it taken away the very next day on RAW.

The lack of direct competition bringing down the in match quality was my reason. I’d never been able to word it so well until your video. I got into TNA 2005-2007 somehow. One of the best unexpected experiences I had with wrestling that helped me sign off for good as I hit my teens.

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The Invasion angle was a missed gold mine WWF vs WCW vs ECW vs NWO imagine what that could of been

Once WCW shut down I was done with Wrestling, all these years later I now see what I missed.....not much clearly. Sad...WCW invasion could've been something so special.

The purchase of WCW was the beginning of the end for wrestling

I stopped watching WWF in 1992. It was entering that weird transitional phase before the attitude era, and I tuned out. But then, in 96’ sometime, I was channel surfing and landed on a WCW show on TNT, and it was entertaining enough to watch a couple more times and then a few weeks in, I saw the formation of the NWO and got hooked. Watched WCW for the next year, didn’t even pay attention to WWF, then I heard about the Montreal Screwjob and didn’t watch another WWF show until the Smackdown in Houston a couple of days after 9/11. I’ve intermittently followed wrestling since, but my favorite era is by far WWF in 1986-1992.

McMahon nearly in his 80's.. i hope he has repented for his own sake.

The whole Roman Reigns push is what turned me off. IMO, he was boring then and now.

It was a slow erosion for WWE from the end of the Monday Night Wars. By mid 2018 the rot had taken over totally (about the time that baron Corbin was heavily pushed). But somehow I stuck it out until WrestleMania 36, and that's the last WWE show I watched---TV or Pay per View. I have been watching AEW exclusively since, but even that has really gone down hill over the last 4-5 months. Having watched wrestling since the early 1970s (starting with the A.W.A.) I may find myself not watching any current wrestling for the first time in 50 years.

I watched less and less when WWE neutered themselves by going TV-PG, but the final straw for me was when my brother invited me over to his house to watch the first Greatest Royal Rumble, and much of the commentary on the program was spent talking about how great and progressive of a place Saudi Arabia was. That BS propaganda permanently turned me off.

Kane took his mark off I have t watched WWF every since

3 hour Raw episodes were only ever watchable with the ability to fast forward through them. There'd be 3 hour shows with 20 minutes of wrestling. Promos are an important part of the wrestling experience, but they should never go longer than 5 minutes each (and even that's a bit long). But the formula each week seemed to be something like 20 minute mic spot, recap of the mic spot, backstage segment, recap of last week, recap of mic spot, less than 5 minute match, another mic spot, recap of that mic spot, recap of the earlier mic spot, backstage segment, another very short match, another long mic spot, more recaps, slightly longer match, recap, promo for upcoming PPV, backstage segment, long mic spot ending in beat down, end. It wasn't worth it after a while. We made it to an era where it was easier to watch WWE than ever before thanks the the WWE Network but it was less worth watching than ever before. I've never completely given up on wrestling. There's been a few times where I've thought "right, that's it" and stopped watching for a while. I think the first was when Hulk Hogan left WWF in 1993. I tried to watch him in WCW but it just wasn't the same. I got back into wrestling in early 1998 after a friend online said I should give it another go and I was hooked again. I lost some interest after The Undertaker became the American Bad Ass, but I kept watching for a while until losing interest in the product by the end of 2001. I came back to wrestling in 2004 when a friend at college lent me a tape of Wrestlemania 20 which had just happened a few days earlier. From there, I kept watching until towards the end of 2013, but by that point I had started fast forwarding most of Raw and Smackdown. I didn't watch wrestling for quite some time after that but then that was more down to personal reasons. I did see bits and pieces and kept up with the news online, but didn't really watch it regularly. Now, I've discovered the WWE Tagged Classics DVDs and am enjoying reliving the moments I enjoyed before as well as finding some shows I'd never been able to track down before. As of right now, I've yet to see anything from WWE, AEW or TNA that makes me want to start watching the modern product again. I've given each of them multiple chances but they just don't seem to give me whatever it was I used to get from wrestling. I think I needed the larger than life characters like Hogan was in the 80s or Taker was in the 90s. They don't have that anymore. There isn't the variety of characters anymore either. They used to have everything from the walking dead to a wrestling clown to a shoot fighter to an androgynous living Oscar statue and so on. Nothing in the modern era has been able to capture my imagination in a long time.

The wheels were put in motion when the WWF/WWE went public on the NYSE. The shareholders ruined the company.

2:30 Um, I think you meant KOTR 1996 mate

Vince and Austin insulting God is the only one of these that made me turn the TV that is the only thing I ask is don't insult my God.

I liked wcw for the personality, but hated it for the actual matches, bc there was always interference by mostly the nwo. The only matches I really liked was the cruiserweight matches and a few other wrestlers matches like Steven reagle, lex luger, dean malinko and the 4 horsemen, which tbh there was a lot of interference by the horsemen too, but for some reason I was ok with that. I just didn't like watching the nwo wrestle and get all the glory when there were way better wrestlers on the roster that deserved to be treated the way the nwo was treated.

Vince McMahon was completely out of touch with what people truly wanted and he alienated the audience and people just move on to better things.

I've never gave up to WWE to be honest. I just had a pair of alternatives to watch along when they weren't doing well (mostly TNA and ROH, at least before AEW ruined it). But to be honest I don't get why some people praise AEW so much. For the standards of someone who watched wrestling for 20 years like me, it's utter unispired crap that tried so much to be a WWE alternative it ended up becoming the real NXT 2.0 and since Vince McMahon stepped down they even lost all of their meaning, becoming a promotion like many others but with even less inspired booking. And whenever I ask "Why it's so good to you" I get always the same parrot-like answers.

I kinda lost interest in wrestling as a whole back in 2019 when Kofi Kingston lost the WWE title to Brock Lesnar in 9 seconds on a random episode of Smackdown. It wasn't even just the way he lost, it was the fact that he went right back to skipping, twerking, and throwing pancakes the next week like his title reign never happened. And worse was how toxic the fanboys were over it. "Well that's what would happen in real life!" So you're telling me that Kofi Kingston isn't allowed to at least contend with Brock Lesnar in a fictional wrestling match, but Rey Mysterio is allowed to beat Mark Henry and the Big Show? Shawn Michaels is allowed to beat Vader and Ken Shamrock? Yeah, I had pretty much watched wrestling since I was 5 years old(2007). And while I would take breaks every now and then, this made me legit quit for over 2 years.

For me it was when they screwed Sting I was done after that.

Watched from like 89 at the grand old age of 4, fell in love with the rockers and became a huge shawn micheals fan. Watched his rise through the years that followed and cried tears of joy when he won his iron man match against bret heart. Fast forward to 97, dx formed, the start of the attitude era and things were just getting better and better. Then disaster struck, he broke his back, had to drop the title to stone cold and i thought that was that for hbk. Watched for another few years but without him it didnt feel the same. Then to find out years later he came bck and had almost another 10 years did me in 😂.. Will be forever greatful for the memories from hbk though, he made my childhood and teenage years, just wish id of got to see him the second time around 👍

"Eventually, Punk quit." Well... actually he was released on his wedding day. But yeah, he was taking time off because he had been working severely hurt and was almost dying of a MRSA infection, so calling that a walk out, justified as it was, isn't exactly untrue.

Jinder Mahal as WWE Champion. What’s awful is that the reason it was so terrible is that they weren’t trying to tell a story; it was just ‘jobber wins WWE Championship’.

In stopped watching wrestling YEARS AGO, but I still love the people and personalities. Your vids are great and you just gained another subscriber who's not even a wrestling fan anymore. Keep up the great work!!! 👍🏿

*The secret 'laptop general manager' read out by Michael fucking Cole* I got thru 2 or 3 of those episodes before quitting WWE for life and never going back it was THAT insufferable haha

I was a fan for 25 years. In June of 2004, shortly after I turned 30, I finally gave up and walked away and have never watched WWE since. It was not one single event that caused me to tune out for good. It was a series of things that did so. The Montreal Screw Job was where it started. Owen's death and the WWE's subsequent behavior in the aftermath of that tragedy was another. The positively abysmal Invasion storyline and how they could possibly manage to take an opportunity like that and bungle it that badly. Not to mention the mishandling of amazing talents like Diamond Dallas Page. And finally, there was the increasingly ridiculous/tasteless storylines and angles that were being presented along with an increasingly lackluster in ring product. By the time I turned 30, I didn't tune out of anger or frustration, I tuned out because after 25 years as a fan, I simply no longer cared. The WWE's combination of irresponsible behavior, backstabbing, incompetence and lackluster booking caused this lifelong fan to throw my hands in the air and give up for good.

The things this person cites are all very recent. Relatively speaking. I can think of a bunch of stuff that wasn’t mentioned.

How about the original brand extension in 2002? Fans were used to watching all the major stars on one show but now the roster was split in two.

the kofi squash in 2019 was it for me. i was put off entirely for 4 years

I watched from 1999 to 2007. After the Rock left. The quality definitely shifted downward from 2003 onward

I stopped watching shortly after Vince bought all of his competition. Nothing in particular, just got tired of Vince only putting out stuff that made him giggle.

Diehard fan from youth , last straw broke for me on wm Daniel Bryan beat all 3 members of evolution single handedly. Can't suspend disbelief anymore

It was the Raw after Wrestlemania 35 where I gave up on wrestling. That Kofi vs. Rollins match ending in DQ and then the tag match to close the show just told me enough was enough. I gave up in 2007 because the WWE was getting too predictable to me and I came back in 2011 because of nostalgia, but went along for the ride. 2019, however, the booking was just a headshaker for me. And I just can't find the interest outside of WWE. Maybe it's more of me getting older and not being too intrigued by sports entertainment anymore.

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Stone Cold turning heel was, in my view, the worst thing to ever happen to the WWE. It was when I stopped watching. Thank God I grew up with both NWO/WCW and WWF Attitude Era.

The treatment of Punk and Ryder was bad enough but the 3 hours of Raw was final nail in the coffin of my weekly watch. I just can’t.

Great uploads ,keep up the good work

i stopped WWE in 2005, took a look at TNA later and it was no better. American Pro Wrestling has gone to total shit.

I'm so glad that someone finally pointed out that CM Punk quitting actually hurt the WWE way more than anyone in the business cares to admit. Personally I have moved to only watching Wrestlemania and following the product in headlines ever since he left. Though I did watch from 2010-2014, I had stopped originally in 2004. No Austin, no Rock, no Lesnar, Randy Orton and Batista were just okay for top guys, and I never liked John Cena. So not really much of a reason to watch.

I lost interest when John Cena win his first WWE title and chose to watch TNA and ROH

WWECW was the end for me. I’ve never felt so disrespected as a fan.

AS A Kid Growing Up in The 90s I Was a WWF Fan me And My Friends Use to Make Replicas Championship Belts Out Of Plastic and Cardboard.I Only Watch Raw a Couple of Times I Couldn't Watch The Whole Show Cause I Had it To Get Up Early in The Morning For School. I Also Only Watch One PPV Summerslam 94 I Stopped Watching WWF On June !996 The Reason Was My Favorite Wrestlers Were Not in The Roster Anymore They Were Gone.I Knew About WCW From TV Commercials and Magazines Ads. I Started Watching WCW Saturday Nights Nitro And Thunder Also The Pay Per Views WCW Was Amazing. I Watch WCW To The Very End.The Only Time I Watched WWF is When They Brough The NWO Back After That I Stopped Watching It Again I Couldn't Stand The Comedy Gimmicks They Made Wrestlers Look Like Stupid.I Haven't Watched WWE Or Whatever is Called Now In 22 years

John Sheena was the reason for me. Yes, he was hot initially but his run was wayyy too long and boring...

2011 was when I stopped watching WWE full time Cody Rhodes reinstating the 1988 to 1998 Intercontinental Championship Guys like Undertaker, Kane, Triple H, The Rock, Steve Austin, Booker T were becoming part time acts or retired The #SuperCena mixed with PG and the Roman Reigns face push from 2014 to 2020

I left at the beginning of the PG era and came back after the pipe bomb. Left again in 2014 after Punk dropped the title to the rock. Funny enough I actually came back when Jinder won the title and I actually enjoyed his run lmao

WWE is just so trash now Triple H should not have been head of creative

Yeah that 3hr long Raw ran me off permanently but I was slowly ready to stop watching WWE after they made all those PPV events!

My interest in WWE was on life support during 2020 with the empty arenas. The energy was different and I had no interest in consistently watching. However, the straw that broke the camel's back was Goldberg beating the fiend for the WWE Universal Title! Bray Wyatt was the hottest thing in wrestling at the time and to have him lose the title to an old part timer, made as much sense as ending a 200-plus undefeated streak to Kevin Nash & a cattle prod!!! Wow how irony works!!!

I gave up when the WHAT? chants started

I feel the same way around roman, unwanted, that wack single punch and pretend morph hype its just non cannon that hhh turned jobber in the evolution vs shield stuff vince wanted to piss on us all however he is an icon, i really think we would all be saddened if he really died like that time with the limo scheme.

WWE just got dull for me. Same routine each week, two wrestlers arguing, Teddy Long coming and and having them fight, just so so dull. Storylines were weak, couldn’t find myself invested in any of them, yet before I’d get angry at how The Rock was treated during the attitude area, and him winning was epic.

🤔 I want to like wrestling, but I couldn’t get into it for some odd reason. I love to learn about it but hard to watch it without Stone Cold, the Rock, Hurricane, Cena, and other wrestlers all of those with attitude. Plus I can’t find it on any streaming services.

coming from a guy who supported WWE all along against WCW even in early 90s where the product was bad as hell. I managed to survive the ruthless aggression era and john cena's reign of terror going all the way to the first roman reigns babyface persona that sucked. I lost hope in WWE when they fed bray wyatt the fiend to goldberg and completely stopped watching after cody rhodes finishing his story which i personally think it is very lame storyline and there are more talented wrestler than Cody who deserve to be in that spot

It broke my heart when they screwed Bret. But then when they let Owen die doing something totally unnecessary that’s when I stopped watching wwf.

Hogan was way more popular in the 80’s than Austin in the 90’s.

I was a wrestling fan from a young age. While my family moved around to many parts of the country, I always was able to find a wrestling territory. Those years consisted of wrestlers who came to the ring and wrestled. The few moments of between match talking was usually quickly done to promote upcoming events. Then came Vince McMahon. I quit watching the soap opera. Then WCW came and I put up with the long dialog to see interesting characters and matches. Not the old school wrestling I grew up with but still the storyline was better than WWF. When WWF took over, it ment Vince McMahon. I watched as stars I liked belittled and embarrassed when they came to the WWF. The wrestling in general took a backseat to the ridiculous drama and talking. Before wrestling was wrestling, now it was a talk show with occasional action. I haven't really cared about today's show since.

The Wrestlemania 32 match with Brock v dean was before Dean’s WWE title run

The death of Owen Hart is when I stopped watching.

WWE started to go downhill after the WCW buyout. But, I didn't stop watching until the character change with Stone Cold when they had him out there singing songs. I haven't watched since.

To be fair I remember that Monday and I don’t think anyone thought Benoit had just pulled a murder

Kevin Federline was it for me for a very long time lmao

I never watched again after the screw job except for a couple high profile matches over the next 5 years. I can count those on one hand

I left when Kane set JR on fire 🔥

Wrestlemania 32 was such a shit show. I can’t believe I sat through all of it. I’ve been less enthusiastic about the company since. Yeah, it’s gotten better now that Vince is gone but it still has the stink.

For me, it was when triple h buried Sting.

I quit watching wwe after the roman's championship reign are almost full of assist win. He's match rarely have any win by clean. I was very frustrated, after he vs brock lesner match, i quit watching it and i watch aew and njpw instead. Till now i still can predict he will win by assist

2001 when rock went on that long break

I stopped watching them back in 2016. I started to feel like I was watching a children's show , instead of an adult wrestling program. All that Fandango and other circus hullshit was just awful. They are not better now too. They ruined the WHC belt and it's hype is over now. I only came back to watch because of it , but as WWE always does , they screwed it up again.

When WWE changed from TV 14, to PG, I was done forever. I refuse to watch the garbage it is now.

I peaced out on WWE when they introduced the PG era especially the current whatever era they got now is so bad I dunno a single name wrestler there that became a hit star as the legends in WWE that was so over now these guys in the WWE wrestling are just "OVER".

Ah yes... who can forget when EaZy-E and Sting defeated Dr. Dre and Goldberg for the belts

Ending the Undertaker streak and John Cena vs Brock Lesnar squash match

I would love to see an official WWE Superstar "God" , where it's just an empty package... That sounds like something McMahon would go for..

I straight up STOPPED for a bit after The Nexus got destroyed after Summerslam 2010. WWE had a VERY good opportunity with the Nexus. Could have had someone like Sheamus or Orton join them and it could have been really good.

The end of Undertaker WrestleMania streek did it for me. Stopped paying attention after that

You’re really growing this channel rapidly as of late. Probably because of the quality of content you’re putting out. Keep up the good work!

I gave up in 07 it was just getting awful with Cena everywhere

For me, it was the stupidity of how the Invasion angle was booked. Of course all the WWE wrestlers won, but Ol' Vicent Mac. could have made millions and millions of cash$ had Vincent Mac. made the WCW/ECW wrestlers a very real and legitimate threat. So much so all the WWE wrestlers friend and foe alike had to band together to stop them.

I enjoy the WWF and miss it very much I washed my hands and stopped watching WWE for 9 years because it still PG they lost me forever because of that

I was an avid fan of the wwf and even received the monthly magazine and I remember when I gave up on wrestling. For me was when I realized that "interference" was their main plot twist in major matches and the predictable nature of the show was obvious.

The exact moment I stopped watching forever was when Mae Young gave birth to a hand. It was like they didn't even care about whatever garbage they were writing at the time.

I don't remember hearing that much about steroids in the wake of Benoit. Rather it was the long term damage of CTE, and how WWE just didn't seem to want to care about it.

For me it was when HHH buried Booker T and any chance he had in the wwe. I remember the promo he cut throwing dollar bills. And when Vincd dropped the n bomb infront of Booker and his wife.

I quit watching when people wouldn't stop chanting "What?" after every....f*cking....word.

What killed them for me was the DQ decision for Bray Wyatt Vs Seth Rollins HIAC match, though I had been worn down over the years previous to that by the constant advert breaks, endless recaps and just plain intelligence insulting and disregard for continuity - Vince killed his own business - beyond repair remains to be seen, but I’ve had enough of them

Notice how Shane is slowly walking away from Vince as he is ranting in church

Now do when Fans quit WCW! Mine was when David Arquette won the title and I was 12 years old at the time. 🤣

I left for a while during the Celebrity Guest Host era and returned after The Rock returned and CM Punk became the man.

I gave up watching WWE after Eddie Guerrero died Saying Eddie was in hell was too much for me

Threw in the towel when WWE became saudi propaganda

...yeah it was the CM Punk thing for me. especially after all of those painful years of John Cena coming out and doing his bullshit every. single. night. It was sooooo bad I actually tuned out and haven't watched since. I hear I'm not missing anything though.

Stone Cold is one of the only wrestlers I have not heard negative comments about. Even people who didn't like Bret Hart like Austin

I stopped watching when WcW keep producing bad shows in the late 90's. The night after the buy out was the last show I watched as I knew it would be bad for the industry. I don't regret it as WcW stars treated like dirt and still are to this day. If you're not WWE's creation and they don't own you and your brand they treat you like trash. WWE could have made a lot more money if they use some of the big stars from WcW correctly but the petty grudge Vince has against other wrestlers from other promotions didn't allow that too happen. Was never a big Wwf/WWE fan but I refuse to give them a view/money whether it be RU-vid or TV I don't buy anything that's from them and I keep my ear to the ground regarding the wrestling industry by watching shows like this

i appreciate your videos getting to the point and not wasting time with excessive fluff. keep it up

Unlike the IWC marks, these people actually stopped watching when they didn’t like. Internet wrestling fans cried for years and still watched because they’re dumb