I've completely quit watching WWE now :(

[Locke]

Thanks to reddit/youtube, I have no need to watch RAW anymore. My favorite wrestlers are Seth Rollins, Daniel Bryan, and Dean Ambrose. With Ambrose seemingly going to Ziggler-land, Bryan possibly going into the sunset soon for neck/nerve related issues, and now Rollins using a really "deadfish" looking finisher in favor of the Curb Stomp (arguably the coolest move since the RKO or Stunner), I just don't have much of a reason to watch anymore.

The thing is, reading the results on reddit saves me so much time and I can usually hop straight to the good stuff via gif or youtube, anyway, so what am I really missing? I'm missing Vince filler, and that's about it.

Anyone else "quit"?

[Str8Shooter]

See ya!

[Hanley!]

Oh yeah, I haven't been watching the show properly in a loooong time now. Years probably, though I tried to watch every week for a few weeks after Wrestlemania 30. But it didn't last long.

I reckon a lot of people here who still keep up with the product do it the way you do: reading results and then watching the stuff that looks good on Youtube. Particularly those who cannot realistically watch the show live (those from Europe). Raw is consistently just too boring and too long to really bother watching it all from start to finish. Little of consequence happens in the average episode, and some of what does happen tends to be tedious to the extreme.

The pay per views are the only shows I ever watch in full these days. They usually deliver the best matches, and story development actually takes place there sometimes. Sometimes their pay per views really deliver even still (I liked Survivor Series a lot for example). But I imagine good episodes of Raw are few and far between. There's been good individual segments and matches obviously, but I doubt there's been many Raws in the last year that weren't laden down with filler, replays, talking about the Network, meaningless tag team matches and opening segments that stretched on four times too long.

Whenever I have tried to watch the show in full recently, I've found my patience sorely tested. Raw is almost actively discouraging to watch these days. They really should try to fix that somehow.

[Everlong]

Yeah I mean that's pretty much how I stay up with the product these days. The last time I watched a full episode of RAW was at least a couple years ago now, and while I still watch the Royal Rumble religiously, that's basically the only PPV that I make an effort to catch the whole thing any more.

There's just no point, really. Nothing ever happens on RAW, and they only really try at like three PPVs out of the year.

[PorkChop]

I haven't sat through a full episode since early 2013. I still inevitably end up hearing about everything that's going on because of this place though, and occasionally I'll comment on something. I don't think there's anything that would get me watching the full show again though, especially not while Vince is alive and the show is 3 hours long.

[Viazon]

I rarely watch it live any more and since my shifts are changing at work, I won't be able to stay up late enough to watch it live again. It's not too bad when you don't watch it live. Skipping through all of the commercial breaks and the recaps or what have you, you can normally get through it in about two hours.

[The Legend]

I rarely watch it live any more and since my shifts are changing at work, I won't be able to stay up late enough to watch it live again. It's not too bad when you don't watch it live. Skipping through all of the commercial breaks and the recaps or what have you, you can normally get through it in about two hours.

I completely agree with this. I haven't watched a RAW live in ages, but I watch each episode religiously and couldn't tell you the last time I missed an episode. Sometimes I start it later on Monday night and sometimes I watch it on Tuesday. When you watch it recorded you can skip through the minutia of recaps, advertising and commercials and get through the show in less than two hours.

[Racing Guy]

Watching Raw live can be an exercise in torture. DVR is the best thing for not just wrestling but any TV show. Skip the commercials and segments you don't care about.

[Everlong]

I rarely watch it live any more and since my shifts are changing at work, I won't be able to stay up late enough to watch it live again. It's not too bad when you don't watch it live. Skipping through all of the commercial breaks and the recaps or what have you, you can normally get through it in about two hours.

I completely agree with this. I haven't watched a RAW live in ages, but I watch each episode religiously and couldn't tell you the last time I missed an episode. Sometimes I start it later on Monday night and sometimes I watch it on Tuesday. When you watch it recorded you can skip through the minutia of recaps, advertising and commercials and get through the show in less than two hours.

I'd possibly give this a shot if I still had a DVR.

[Locke]

I had it on DVR for ages, but deleted the timer shortly before making this post.

[Stolenmeat]

[Locke]

I can't help but picture the people responding with "Bye" related posts to be like Vince.

"FINE, GET OUTTA HERE YA DAMN MILLENNIAL! I DON'T NEED YOUR RATINGS!"