10 Reasons Why Your Friends Don't Watch Wrestling Anymore
3. Lack Of Choice
WWE's popularity grew steadily toward the end of the 1990s, but fans who still weren't into the product weren't lost -- WCW was still a major force in the wrestling world, and for all that could be said about it, the product was quite different than that of WWE. Likewise, ECW remained the underground alternative to the big two -- what they lacked in name power, they made up for in pure excitement. All in all, there was something for every type of wrestling fan.
Once WCW and ECW went out of business, all of that changed. In the years since, the only company besides WWE that's even hit most fans' radar is TNA, and they've become infamous for bad booking, a roster rich with big-league castoffs, and a WWE-lite product. To most wrestling fans, WWE is the only game in town, and the choices are love it, leave it, or follow casually and spend no money on the product.
At one time, it was expected that WWE's purchase of WCW would see the latter's fans jump to the former. Instead, a few years after the buyout, millions of fans who once watched wrestling on Monday night had stopped altogether.