Alright, let me tell you about the time I really got sucked into the whole WWE thing, specifically around Lita and, well, that whole messy situation back then. It wasn’t exactly a planned ‘practice’, more like something I just fell into, you know?
I started watching wrestling pretty regularly around the early 2000s. Lita immediately stood out. She wasn’t like the other Divas. She was doing moonsaults, hurricanranas, hanging with the Hardy Boyz. She had this cool, alternative vibe. Definitely caught my eye.
So, I was following her career, getting the action figures, the whole deal. Then things got… complicated. The storyline with Edge kicked off, and Matt Hardy got involved in real life and on screen. Honestly, back then, it was hard to tell what was real and what was part of the show.
Trying to Make Sense of It All
Every week, I’d tune in religiously. It felt different. Raw had this edge, no pun intended. You had:
- The promos that felt way too personal.
- The crowd reactions, which were absolutely nuclear.
- The matches themselves had this extra layer of intensity.
I remember sitting there, trying to piece it together. Was this whole thing a work? Was it real? A bit of both? We’d argue about it constantly. I spent hours online, reading forums, trying to get the ‘inside scoop’, which was mostly just other fans guessing like me. It consumed a lot of my headspace back then.
I even tried explaining it to my buddy who didn’t watch wrestling. He just looked at me like I was nuts. “So, it’s a soap opera with chair shots?” he asked. I tried to explain the whole kayfabe thing, the real-life drama bleeding into the show, but honestly, trying to explain it just made me realize how tangled it all was. It wasn’t just simple good guy vs bad guy stuff anymore.
Looking back, that period was wild. Lita went from this massive fan favorite to one of the most hated heels almost overnight. The way she and Edge leaned into that heat was something else. They really knew how to push buttons. It was uncomfortable sometimes, but you couldn’t look away. It definitely changed how I saw wrestling characters and storylines. It wasn’t just about the cool moves anymore; the drama, the ‘reality’ of it, became a huge part of the draw for me during that time. It was a whole experience, not just watching a show.
