I was really into the WWF back in the late 80s/early 90s. I loved Macho Man, Bret Hart, and was a total Hulkamaniac. I still remember those epic battles for the Intercontinental title between Mr. Perfect/Bret Hart/British Bulldog. Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, Survivor Series, the oft overlooked Tuesday in Texas (This Tuesday, in Texas...), I watched them all. I then grew up a bit and lost interest. It was a down point for the industry in general (Psycho Sid anyone?).

I got back into it in the late 90s due to the Attitude Era and the Monday Night Wars. Man, that was a golden age of television. I was glued to Raw, Nitro, and Smackdown every single night. I would watch the first hour of Nitro and tape the rest, then switch over to Raw. I'd read Mr. Tito's Phat Daily Column which had a lot of the behind the scenes news and opinions. My favorites were The Rock, Steve Austin, Chris Jericho, Goldberg (only during The Streak), Mankind, Kurt Angle, Ken Shamrock, and Shawn Michales after he came back. The competition between WCW and WWF was insane. I had the games too. WWF Attitude (sucked), WCW Revenge (awesome), and WWF No Mercy (best wrestling game ever, it's Revenge with a better cast). I loved The Corporation ('...and The Rock, damn sure plans, on laying the smackdown, on your candy ass, with the most electrifying move, in sports entertainment today...the corporate elbow!') and also when DX made fun of The Nation. Loved that one Raw where Undertaker and Kane would randomly come in during matches and chokeslam everybody. Glorious times.

Then WCW made stupid management decisions and went under and WWF bought them. At first it was awesome as expected and resulted in a lot of dream matches, but eventually the lack of a fierce competitor allowed WWF to relax and not push the envelope as much as they used to. The current superstars aren't as good as Austin, Rock, Mankind, etc. in their heyday, and Raw became a lot less unpredictable (titles could change hands at any moment back in the MNW). Sometimes I flip to it for a few minutes to see what's going on, but it's not enough to hold my interest.