As a child of the 70s and 80s, I watched a lot of professional wrestling. Stopped watching it in the 90s but got drawn back in a little later in the decade with the "Monday Night Wars". Stopped watching completely probably in the early 2000s when it became "stale".

Last night my kids were watching Monday Night Raw. Watched for a few minutes and couldn't take it. Scripted promos, lame ring entrances, terrible in ring work, cookie-cutter camera shots and backgrounds. Much more character back in the day and a lot more realism. Miss the grittiness of the wrestling territories. WWF/WWE really killed the golden goose when they admitted it was all a work.

For those too young to remember, here's a clip of a match from Florida Championship Wrestling involving Kevin Sullivan and Blackjack Mulligan (Brey Wyatt's grandfather). Sullivan was working the "satanic' gimmick and was accompanied by Woman (the late Nancy Benoit). He also had a motley crew of characters known as the Army of Darkness. Due to the pc culture, no way you could do this ring entrance today. Today's business is for the kids, while back in the day it was for the grownups.