When was the last time it was cool to be a wrestling fan?

>>1896824
>worrying about being cool
literally 18+ forever

2000

not even 2001, ratings and buyrates (besides WM) were already falling

>>1896828
since has cool ever meant "popular"? everyone knows popular stuff is for basics

>>1896824

1999 ish

>>1896824
It's still cool to be a wrestling fan.

It hasn't been cool to be a WWE fan since ~2002

2000

>>1896835
>outlawbabbies really believe this
No form of wrestling is accepted by the general public, much less skinny twinks in a backyard or flabby gooks kicking each other one thousand times

>>1896839
You guys really do live under rocks. You meme out everything you hear here like if it was the complete truth. Well I know a lot of people at my workplace, family members, and simply random people I talk to because I work in customer service. People STILL love wrestling, only that less people. Now fuck off and go outside and perhaps make friends. God fucking damn it, can't believe I took time to type this shit.

>>1896839
again, i ask you: how exactly does mainstream popularity translate to coolness? being cool is about exclusivity first and foremost

in fact, because being off the radar is the ultimate measure of coolness i'd argue that wrestling is the coolest it's ever been

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>>1896824
Somewhere around 2010. I know this seems awfully late in history but hear me out.

A while back I mentioned Ring of Honor to a younger friend, who was about 18 at the time. He had never heard of it. In fact, he had never watched any pro wrestling. He's not sheltered, it it had simply never entered his life as a form of entertainment.

I'm 31. Most of my friends who watched wrestling in high school kept up with it until about 2004. They may have not watched weekly or even monthly but they were still down to watch SummerSlam or Wrestlemania if you were going to pay for it. You could call them right up. They were vaguely familiar with the existences of TNA and ROH.

These guys are now old enough that the things they like are no longer cool. At best, they can be considered "dad-core" as the things that guys in their 30s like. Fighting games are another one of these, btw.

So...it was around 2010 (maybe give or take a year or two) when the new generation came around that didn't know the first thing about professional wrestling. It was no longer one of the standard "guy things" that guys would be expected to be into. It became a niche hobby.

I remember looking at my brothers friends school bags and shirts (hes 15 now, im 23) they all had rey misterio shit somewhere around 2012 is when it became lame

>>1896851
*tips fedora
Get fucking laid one of these days

whenever Austin and the Rock left

>>1896824
2006

1998

It stopped being cool to be a wrestling fan on March 14th, 1999.

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>>1896824
>Summer of Punk

Oh, how things have ended up.