I've noticed over the last month that I've started finding the passion for wrestling again. I had never realized how not fun the WWF had made wrestling since the end of the Alliance angle in 2001. I used to live and breath wrestling and would even plan my social life around even WCW Saturday Night or Worldwide. But since maybe early 2002 watching seems to have been more of a chore than fun.

Thankfully the last month I've started to have fun again watching puro, RoH and TNA. I've even started watching CMLL again.

Good for you bro.......glad to hear it.

The indies have rekindled my love. I just got a new tape from CWF-MidAtlantic, and there is one unbelievable match on there.

It's just surprising how much the WWF had sucked the joy out of wrestling and really made me start hating and not caring about it.

I always try and balance my WWE watching with some indy/puro/old school. That way I can keep it balanced. Otherwise the WWE would suck all my wrestling love right out of me.....

Me too. I care very little about WWE nowadays, other than their DVD releases. I spend most of my wrestling watching time on tapes or DVD's rather than TV shows now.

Yeah, the year of just WWF is what got me. I was always a WCW fan first to be honest. Even during the dark days of 99 I could still find enjoyable things about the product. I've never liked the slow wrestling for dummies that is the WWF style.

In WWE the wrestling matches are always secondary to the stories, and that is just not why I watch. I always preferred WCW, and things haven't really been the same for me since they closed.

Yeah, I hate the fact that wrestling comes fourth and sometimes even fifth in importance to the WWF. It's unacceptable that you get maybe 30 minutes of wrestling on a 2 hour show anymore.

For all of TNA's problems they at least know that wrestling should come first on a wrestling show.

Personally this is always my favorite time of year in the WWE. But that'll falter again after summer for me. That's when I usually try and get out to as many indies as I can or just go apeshit on tapes.

I've been losing and refinding my passion for wrestling off and on for the past couple of years. Wrestlemania season always drives my interest, but every fall I seem to sour on WWE programming.

Goat inspired me to start making a compilation tape of matches taped off of Raws and Smackdowns and that has actually made me more enthusiastic for the product for some reason. I guess when I center my focus on individual matches and not the grand scheme of happenings going on in WWE, and just focus on match quality, it's better.

I added a couple of three minute Impact matches to the tape too, just because I think I'd like to remember certain stars around this time years later.

I always do that Ernie. I have DVR at my house and I usually just DVR everything, watch it, and then tape whatever is tape worthy. I got a pretty good 6 hr comp that goes from the Ironman (HHH/Benoit) last summer into this winter.....

That's awesome, I wish I had started sooner myself. Especially how I have bits of tapes from 1998-2000 that I wish I hadn't taped over and so forth.

I've also gotten into downloading matches off the DVDVR boards and on Limewire. I wish I had more money to buy indy stuff online, but someday I won't be a poor college student.

For me, it was RoH that got me interested again. I think the WWE is starting to improve, but not to what it could be.