I was a HUGE WWF fan as a kid. My first Pay-Per-View and the show that got me started was WrestleMania IV. I watched religiously until about 1994, and then it trickled to pretty much nothing by about '98. Yeah, I actually wasn't a regular viewer during wrestling's most popular years, go figure. I picked it up again in '01 (just in time for the Invasion debacle... yay...) and watched regularly until about '04. The whole Chris Benoit situation made everything feel kind of odd and made it hard to get back into it. The ever-rising prices of PPVs didn't help, either. With the launch of WWE Network, however, I've become a regular watcher again.
As for Undertaker, he really should have called it quits two years ago when The Streak was 20-0. Really, seeing him try to wrestle at all at this point is simply sad. I honestly hope the end of The Streak means he'll call it quits. Regardless, I think Lesnar was totally the wrong guy to break it. Lesnar's already an established star and has plenty of badass cred. More importantly, he's only a part-time wrestler. If I had to pick anybody on the roster to have beaten Undertaker, I would have gone with Bray Wyatt. His popularity has been going through the roof the past few months and a win like that would really put him over. Also, it would have been a nice "passing the torch" moment from one generation's "dark" wrestler to the current one.
Money in the Bank is this Sunday, and with Daniel Bryan hurt (
) the WWE World Title will be decided in one of the ladder matches. I'll sum up my feelings very quickly here:
Would love to see win: Bray Wyatt or Roman Reigns
Not pulling for them but would enjoy seeing them win: Sheamus or Cesaro
Don't want to see win: John Cena, Randy Orton, or Kane
Don't really give a crap one way or the other: Alberto Del Rio
They ONLY perk I can see with Orton winning is so Daniel Bryan can take the title back from the Authority when he returns.