chrislatimer Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Stop watching the product ? I ask this because wwe actually did upset me so bad back in 2005-2006 . I found myself disgusted at how they continuously kept using eddie guerrero in storylines and i ended up not watching wwe again till mania 23 in 2007 (Yeah i missed the dx 2006 run) So i was wondering if any of you had a line that if your favorite company crossed it you wouldn't watch that companies product no more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 No, because I don't think it would be possible for any wrestling company - that wants to stay in business - to do something so offensive that it would make even a liberal viewer like myself switch off. That being said... There have been some things that have made me somewhat uncomfortable over the years: - Austin annihilating Lita with a steel chair - props to her for taking it, but it's kinda uncomfortable seeing a young girl (at the time) get full on hammered by a considerably larger man wielding a steel chair. - Triple H/Kane/Katie Vick. - The Father/Daughter I Quit match stuff with Vince and Stephanie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 I'll dip in and out if the storylines bother me. If the matches are well-received, I'll watch them irrespective of surrounding angles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 No, because I can't really be offended, certainly not by a television program. I would however stop watching if it got to the point where I thought it sucked so bad it wasn't worth the time investment. I stopped watching ROH for a few years & gave up completely on TNA in example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Wrestling is wrestling. Probably the most distasteful, base form of popular entertainment there is currently, both backstage and on television, even if it occasionally ascends to a higher level of art. If it was going to drive me [or most of us on here] away it would have done it before now. I actually get a buzz out of the more farcically offensive angles like Triple-H banging a Katie Vick doll or the hilariously ridiculous "I'm your Papi, Dominic!" angle with Rey and Eddie. Out of all the things WWE have done over the years, the toilet humor is the one that gets me to turn off straight away. A diva who has a medical problem meaning she farts all the time, John Cena reading those terrible scripted poop jokes all the time etc. Cringe worthy and horrendously embarrassing, you would curl up if anyone else was in the room. The reasons for me to stop watching have been sheer boredom with what is a repetitive form of entertainment with usual substandard writing. The EDDIE IS IN HELL stuff didn't bother me that much, mostly because I figured it wouldn't have bothered him too much, and the fact that they actually did the right thing by his family in having Vicki on the payroll for a decade after he died. Doubt he left a lot of money to look after them so it gave them a decent income. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thread Killer Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Back when I used to write for 411, I was some pissed off at the lead up to the Booker T/Triple H match at Wrestlemania. http://411mania.com/wrestling/the-skeptic-tank-03-16-03-by-any-other-name/ Holy crap, that was 11 years ago. Anyhow, I have never paid for any WWE programming of any kind since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Yes. Royal Rumble 1999. Killed my WWF fandom for ever. The few following months of Russoesque TV coupled with Owen's death drove me away for good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 Yes. Royal Rumble 1999. Killed my WWF fandom for ever. The few following months of Russoesque TV coupled with Owen's death drove me away for good. What part specifically? Vince winning the Rumble or the Foley chair shot debacle? Or just the overall presentation and booking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 I don't know if offend is the right word, but I'd stop watching any promotion if the product didn't interest me. The only time I've been loyal to a promotion was during the Monday Night Wars. It's not like sports where I'm loyal to a particular team. It's more like comic books where if a creative run ends I'll drop the book and find something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anarchistxx Posted December 3, 2014 Report Share Posted December 3, 2014 I don't know if offend is the right word, but I'd stop watching any promotion if the product didn't interest me. This. The most offensive thing a promotion can be is boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakeplastictrees Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 WWE is hands down the most racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, anti-sematic, misogynistic product I have seen in my life. Factor in the necrophilia, pedophelia, and at times just tasteless angles and you got a product that should have pushed all of us away. If I still watch WWE then I cannot think of a product that would make me tune out due to being 'offended'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 For a period when they were doing the shitty stuff, yes. I came back to the WWF in 2000, after Russo was gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 What part specifically? Vince winning the Rumble or the Foley chair shot debacle? Both basically, The Foley debacle was quite disgusting and the fact it ended it a gimmicky shit finish annoyed me a lot (what's the point of going through this massacre ?), and Vince winning the Rumble effectively killed 10 years of being a WWF fan. It was all complete bullshit to me, nothing was remotely believable to me anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I don't know if offend is the right word, but I'd stop watching any promotion if the product didn't interest me. This. The most offensive thing a promotion can be is boring. This is where I have been with WWE for the past four months or so. I'll probably sit out til Rumble and see if they can get me interested again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMJ Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 I'm one of those fans who left sometime after WrestleMania 16. It wasn't that it was offensive as much as that the entire industry had gone from something "outsider" and "niche" to the exact things I never wanted to be associated with - Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit entrance music, outright homophobia, sex-for-the-sake-of-sex (compared to, say, characters like Sensational Sherri and Elizabeth or even the little-bit-more-subtle Sunny in 96'). Not to mention that this is around when Austin got injured, WCW had been destroyed, and most of my favorites from childhood - Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, even Hogan - were retired or not on TV yet. Undertaker, another childhood favorite, was a Biker. At my school, wrestling had peaked in popularity around 99', so, it's not necessarily that I loathed that "the popular kids" were now getting in on "my thing." It was more that, by 2000, the popular kids had moved on because it was a fad to them. I moved on because wrestling had morphed into repetitive, ultraviolent nonsense with absolutely no underlying morality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Offensive is a term that can be used many ways. I was offended at the Ultimate Warrior-Papa Shango voodoo angle because it insulted my intelligence more than I thought Wrestling could possibly do, and that in itself had mostly to do with my inability to "suspend disbelief" (tired old term, I know) during it. I mean, I could play along in my head with a ton of stuff (you have to with wrestling, of course), but I couldn't with that and it offended me that they came up with something so lame I felt stupid for watching it. So I stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRMD Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Like Coffey, there is nothing that would normally be labeled "offensive" that could offend me No, because I can't really be offended, certainly not by a television program. I would however stop watching if it got to the point where I thought it sucked so bad it wasn't worth the time investment. I stopped watching ROH for a few years & gave up completely on TNA in example. Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNLister Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Closes I came is when I stopped watching WWF after Hogan came back and stole the belt at WrestleMania IX. That said, I did start watching again the following weekend after I heard Mr Fuji had filed a protest as I wanted to find out Jack Tunney's ruling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Not a chance of being offended. There have been many times I take a break when I'm not enjoying the product, but never due to offence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 If I'm ever offended at anything content-wise on a fucking wrestling show, shoot me. There's so much real life to get pissed about that getting offended at any form of entertainment is just stupid. "I'm offended!" is the fucking worst. This whole "I'm offended! Listen to MEEEEE!" Culture stinks. Yuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2BTD Posted December 8, 2014 Report Share Posted December 8, 2014 My favorite promotion fluctuates based on whatever I think is the best thing going on at the time. Over the course of my life that's been WWF, JCP, ECW, ROH, NOAH, NJPW, or Dragon Gate at various points. Right now, I like NJPW best. It'll eventually cool down or something else will heat up, and the majority of my attention will go elsewhere. No promotion has my undying loyalty as my "favorite" to the grave. Dragon Gate is probably the only promotion that has never gone through a terrible period where I lost almost all interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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