As a 41 year old and a child of the Attitude Era, I’ve found myself keeping a distance from wrestling over the last few decades. But over the last years I’ve regained quite the interest again, it’s actually become a safety blanket of sorts. As a kid I watched wrestling with my dad (Razor Ramon was our favorite), one of our few shared interests. He was a car guy and I was a nerd. I now live states away from my dad and neither of us had watched in a very long time. He still doesn’t, but for me, the one thing that brought me back was Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Kevin Owens at Wrestlemania 38.
I guess seeing Austin and McMahon in a ring together again, and as bad as that stunner was, something unlocked and once Peacock took on all of the WWE content, I started rewatching everything from 1995, including every PPV I had never seen. Slowly, I started watching PLEs and eventually I started watching weekly. Call it nostalgia, but after the whole McMahon saga ended I was fully back In. I have a son, he’s 6 and autistic and couldn’t care less about watching, he does shout “WWE” when the logo pops up and we have matching Austin 3:16 and NWO shirts.
Anyways, long story longer, when I started back into WWE I started listening to podcasts about weekly shows but mostly listening for the behind the scenes, non kayfabe side of wrestling. The thing I appreciate most about wrestling is the brother and sister-hood of the wrestlers and podcasts like Insight with CVV really digs into that side of wrestling. Chris has really great interviews and most importantly, he cares about the craft. And to be honest, his positivity is sort of effecting me. As much as we continue to move forward, it’s nice to go back once in a while.
