I started watching the WWWF on UHF TV back in 1975, at the age of 7. Began my life-long love affair with wrestling! To me, that will always be the greatest era! Not as flashy but it had a basic credibility to it. Storylines were tame by modern standards, but looking back to that era, less was clearly more.
I was a nyc kid so I was deepin the heart of WWWF/WWF territory. I liked the other wrestlers, though, in the Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, and MidSouth. I followed them through the magazines, which were really wild back in that era.
I wish wrestling was more like the old days!
I used to love Saturday mornings & afternoons. We had Mid-South, Memphis, WCCW, Mid Atlantic, etc. I grew up in Crockett country. When Ted Turner took over it wasn’t the same & went downhill for me. And Vince has done everything he can to destroy the very thing that’s made him a rich man. It’s not really wrestling anymore.
The Apter mags? LOL! Loved those. Never broke kayfabe.
There’s lots of sex in it now; and heck,
The “good old days” sometimes mean someone like Maddog Harley Race tearing someone’s forehead to be bleeding like all get out;
But those days really were better;
Guys like the Rock maybe get out of it.
And we had cable, each region if not virtually every state had their own wrestling.
I’d see it from Atlanta and LA and Vegas too on the old ESPN.
I think that even ephedrine can get people all wired up; heck even caffeine, I’ve felt more testosterone getting in shape in the gym than when I was sedate though have never (and one could tell by my physique) touched stuff like the juice, the roids, whatever you might call them.