I've been a wrestling fan as far back as I remember, but my first consistent memories are from the early 90s. I was a little too young to really get into Hulkamania so my favorites were from the so-called New Generation, particularly Bret Hart. Being Canadian I was WWF only until TSN began airing Nitro in late '97. Like many wrestling fans, I got really into WCW's cruiserweights and mid-card but preferred WWF's main events (although I was initially into the NWO storyline and Goldberg). I didn't have the Internet at home until much later but in my limited access I started following the backstage news and lurking on message boards like deathvalleydriver, which expanded my sense of what kind of wrestling was out there. I began getting tapes which let me try out all different kinds of wrestling. I was in many ways a typical workrate focused fan, but I enjoyed many different styles, from 90s AJPW to goofy stuff like Ken the Box and everything in between. I was really into it for a few years, but by the mid 2000s WWE was going in a direction I was less interested in, Japan was in a downturn, and the cost of buying DVDs was getting to be too much to keep up with while I was in college. I remained a MMA fan in the intervening years and would occasionally check in on Raw or SmackDown but not find anything that would hold my interest. In the past few years the hype for NJPW and NXT (among other things) caught my interest and got me looking into what was available. The ability to access matches online made picking things up again very easy so I started looking into recommendations and found PWO from there. I'm trying to make up for lost time and learn about all the areas of wrestling that I haven't gotten to yet and rewatch the stuff I loved the first time around to see what holds up.
