your favorite wrestling promotion ever

[ytsee5c4p32112]

i would have made a poll, but there are sooooo many different promotions, and i really want your absolute favorite promotion. mine is ring of honor, all though i love alot of promotions, like ajpw, njpw, noah, dragon gate, iwa:ms, chikara, czw, pwg, fwa, awa, old nwa, wwf 2001ish and before, wcw, tna, etc.

[xxxredpantherxxx]

APW (California), FTW (Alabama), TNA

[mike]

I'd say mine is ROH too. It's the only promotion i'm able to see live and i have a ton of ROH DVD's too. Other promotions i like are CZW, IWS, IWC, NOAH, DG & TNA but i'm not able to follow them as closely as ROH.

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thanks for the posts guys. i appreciate it.

[divakind]

IWA East Coast, TNA, ECW

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divakind said:

IWA East Coast, TNA, ECW

deffinately some good stuff. thanks for responding to the post.

[John-E-Dangerously]

CZW and PWU. I go to them monthly, so I guess they're my favorite wrestling promotions ever. Old-ECW is far up my favorite promotion list, too.

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johne said:

CZW and PWU. I go to them monthly, so I guess they're my favorite wrestling promotions ever. Old-ECW is far up my favorite promotion list, too.

ya man, good stuff. thank you for replying. it is greatly appreciated!

[duel]

It may sound strange, but WWF/E. I grew up watching from 2000, and it opened my love of Wrestling up to old WCW episodes, TNA and the Indy's, along with even older eps of WWF.

[Ryan]

I am a fan of WWE, TNA, JAPW, CZW, ROH, PWG, IWA:MS, and Chikara

[ytsee5c4p32112]

i have no problem with people who like the wwe. don't you worry man. everyone has their own favorite promotion. that's what's so great about proffesional wrestling. all the fans of different promotions can talk to each other and debate over different topics. Thanks for your input guys. I really appreciate it.

[Ryan]

well, I'm more of a WWF fan, from about 1995-2001 was my favorite time. I like a few guys today, but it was better back then

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brodie said:

well, I'm more of a WWF fan, from about 1995-2001 was my favorite time. I like a few guys today, but it was better back then

i agree that the wwf was quite good back then. good stuff. thanks for the contribution to the topic.

[jmt225]

I'll go over all the promotions I've ever loved and give reasons why I feel the way I feel about all of them. They ARE in order of my favorites.

Extreme Championship Wrestling - It made me a bigger wrestling fan than I ever could imagine. I was devastated when it went out of business. So much so, that I stop watching wrestling for two years once the Invasion turned into a joke. Anyway, I became a fan of this product once I saw who their champion was in a magazine, Raven. I thought Raven was the most bad ass character I've ever seen, and I couldn't believe that there was a company out there who would give a guy who looked like him a World Title push. Then, as I started to look for more and more ECW stuff in different magazines, I came across an interview Taz did with the magazine about his feud with Sabu. I thought both Taz and Sabu had cool looking characters, and I was stunned at the language Taz was using during the interview. It seemed like he really hated Sabu's guts, and that this feud was real. So, once Barely Legal came along, I HAD to order it and the rest is history. As I got older and found RF Video, I started getting tapes (that are now ruined just because of time and shitty VCR's) of Raven's run during ECW. I got a bunch of shows and what not, and I feel to this day that ECW from 1995 to mid 1997, is the greatest professional wrestling that has ever taken place.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling: This is the promotion that is responsible for IWA-Japan, CZW, XPW, IWA Mid-South, NGX and even ECW in my opinion; FMW was built upon Atsushi Onita's vision of what wrestling should be all about... and the abandonment of this vision starting in 1996 is one of the many things (namely the lack of new stars being created, politics and gimmicks) that unfortunately led to the demise of this great promotion. This promotion produced arguably one of the biggest puroresu stars ever (Hayabusa), as well as produced one of the best ECW World Heavyweight Champions of all-time (Mike Awesome).

Ring of Honor - This company single handly made me a fan of wrestling again with their Raven and CM Punk feud. Once I found out Raven got released from the WWE (which was a while after due to the fact I never had an internet connection in my own house until a one year ago), I went to my mom's work and got on her computer and found whatever I could on him. And I found his shoot interviews and Ring of Honor shit. Also, I found that he had a cool little thing going on in TNA and that they were quite good. Anyway, once I bought Death Before Dishonor, I became a big fan and it really turned me back on into professional wrestling. Since that time, my love for Ring of Honor has skyrocketed.

World Championship Wrestling - This company made me a fan of wrestling in the first place just because of Sting, Vader, and Ric Flair (back then I wouldn't had said Flair or Vader, but I now realize that if Sting didn't have those guys to feud with, then I would have never became such a big fan of his and wrestling in general). Sting vs. Ric Flair is actually my first memory in wrestling, and after I became a fan of WCW, I had to become a fan of WWF. Also, say what you want about WCW's dying days, but they had great matches every single week. I was on cloud nine when Lance Storm had three belts.

World Wrestling Federation (from 1988 - 2001) - I didn't become a big fan of this until I saw Wrestlemania 4. I never liked Hulk Hogan and I could tell there was something wrong with his matches. The only people I ever liked were Randy Savage and Ricky Steamboat. Even when Randy turned into a "bad guy", he was still my favorite at the time in the WWF. Then once he lost the belt at Wrestlemania 5 to that piece of shit, I was really turned off from the WWF and didn't become a fan again until Flair went there. Flair's run in WWF was spectacular in my opinion. The only thing that bothered me about it was Taker's participation in it because I was never a fan of his either. But once Flair left, I had a great reason to keep watching because my favorite wrestler at the time in the WWF won the WWF Championship. And I'm of coarse talking about Bret Hart. And I stayed a big WWF mark until 2001 once the Invasion shit fell apart. I was even a big fan of Diesel during his world title run and feel to this day that his contributions to the business and his work ability is underrated. Anyway, I will always have love for the WWF from back in those days, but now I'm VERY bitter towards WWE and Vince McMahon for the product they present to us today and have been presenting since 2001.

Other Promotions I've really enjoyed:
Major League Wrestling
Mid-South Wrestling
USWA
IWA Mid-South
TNA (the entire year of 2003)

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jmt225 said:

I'll go over all the promotions I've ever loved and give reasons why I feel the way I feel about all of them. They ARE in order of my favorites.

Extreme Championship Wrestling - It made me a bigger wrestling fan than I ever could imagine. I was devastated when it went out of business. So much so, that I stop watching wrestling for two years once the Invasion turned into a joke. Anyway, I became a fan of this product once I saw who their champion was in a magazine, Raven. I thought Raven was the most bad ass character I've ever seen, and I couldn't believe that there was a company out there who would give a guy who looked like him a World Title push. Then, as I started to look for more and more ECW stuff in different magazines, I came across an interview Taz did with the magazine about his feud with Sabu. I thought both Taz and Sabu had cool looking characters, and I was stunned at the language Taz was using during the interview. It seemed like he really hated Sabu's guts, and that this feud was real. So, once Barely Legal came along, I HAD to order it and the rest is history. As I got older and found RF Video, I started getting tapes (that are now ruined just because of time and shitty VCR's) of Raven's run during ECW. I got a bunch of shows and what not, and I feel to this day that ECW from 1995 to mid 1997, is the greatest professional wrestling that has ever taken place.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling: This is the promotion that is responsible for IWA-Japan, CZW, XPW, IWA Mid-South, NGX and even ECW in my opinion; FMW was built upon Atsushi Onita's vision of what wrestling should be all about... and the abandonment of this vision starting in 1996 is one of the many things (namely the lack of new stars being created, politics and gimmicks) that unfortunately led to the demise of this great promotion. This promotion produced arguably one of the biggest puroresu stars ever (Hayabusa), as well as produced one of the best ECW World Heavyweight Champions of all-time (Mike Awesome).

Ring of Honor - This company single handly made me a fan of wrestling again with their Raven and CM Punk feud. Once I found out Raven got released from the WWE (which was a while after due to the fact I never had an internet connection in my own house until a one year ago), I went to my mom's work and got on her computer and found whatever I could on him. And I found his shoot interviews and Ring of Honor shit. Also, I found that he had a cool little thing going on in TNA and that they were quite good. Anyway, once I bought Death Before Dishonor, I became a big fan and it really turned me back on into professional wrestling. Since that time, my love for Ring of Honor has skyrocketed.

World Championship Wrestling - This company made me a fan of wrestling in the first place just because of Sting, Vader, and Ric Flair (back then I wouldn't had said Flair or Vader, but I now realize that if Sting didn't have those guys to feud with, then I would have never became such a big fan of his and wrestling in general). Sting vs. Ric Flair is actually my first memory in wrestling, and after I became a fan of WCW, I had to become a fan of WWF. Also, say what you want about WCW's dying days, but they had great matches every single week. I was on cloud nine when Lance Storm had three belts.

World Wrestling Federation (from 1988 - 2001) - I didn't become a big fan of this until I saw Wrestlemania 4. I never liked Hulk Hogan and I could tell there was something wrong with his matches. The only people I ever liked were Randy Savage and Ricky Steamboat. Even when Randy turned into a "bad guy", he was still my favorite at the time in the WWF. Then once he lost the belt at Wrestlemania 5 to that piece of shit, I was really turned off from the WWF and didn't become a fan again until Flair went there. Flair's run in WWF was spectacular in my opinion. The only thing that bothered me about it was Taker's participation in it because I was never a fan of his either. But once Flair left, I had a great reason to keep watching because my favorite wrestler at the time in the WWF won the WWF Championship. And I'm of coarse talking about Bret Hart. And I stayed a big WWF mark until 2001 once the Invasion shit fell apart. I was even a big fan of Diesel during his world title run and feel to this day that his contributions to the business and his work ability is underrated. Anyway, I will always have love for the WWF from back in those days, but now I'm VERY bitter towards WWE and Vince McMahon for the product they present to us today and have been presenting since 2001.

Other Promotions I've really enjoyed:
Major League Wrestling
Mid-South Wrestling
USWA
IWA Mid-South
TNA (the entire year of 2003)

thanks for responding, and im in a similar boat, in that after the invasion i gave up on wrestling, and ring of honor got me back into it. i appreciate your response. thank you