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Oli Needs You... for Enshittification testimonials (Patreon)

Published:
2026-08-17 08:55:26
Imported:
2026-11

Content

You read that right. The Enshittification of WWE video, 9 months in the making, is about to enter its post-production phase.

For that, I would love to use actual real (shoot) wrestling fans' stories about their experience of WWE over their lives. If you would like to potentially appear in my magnum opus, please send a video (shot on your phone is fine) to support@wrestletalk.com - hitting the below points.

  1. Say your name, and how long you've been a wrestling fan.

    e.g. "My name is Oli, and I've been a wrestling fan for 27 years."

  2. Briefly describe the wrestling moment that got you hooked, and what it made you feel.

    e.g. "When The Rock got a hot tag in a November 1999 episode of SmackDown, as an asthmatic kid, I felt like I could overcome that and be a wrestler."

  3. Briefly describe what that wrestling fandom (key: not WWE fandom) means to you now in 2026.

    e.g. "I've met and made lifelong friends through being a wrestling fan. I'm so lucky to work with my best one, where we watch wrestling as a living. Especially through the pandemic, it was watching wrestling with those friends that kept me sane."

  4. Briefly describe what WWE fandom has been like in 2026.

    e.g. "I've been taking my son to WWE house shows when they come to town for the last five years, but this year, we couldn't afford to go." / "I used to watch Raw every week, but since Pat McAfee showed up at WrestleMania, I stopped and haven't gone back."

Comments

Homerstar

Is there a deadline to send the video.

Zack Chapple

I am Zachary I been a fan 26 years

m1kend 75 (Mike n' Dee)

I'm Mike Davis (Mike D) & been a fan for 42 yrs. What got me hooked was going to the Civic Center in early 80's (83-84) seeing NWA or MidSouth live. Pre WCW. Fell out a few yrs later but got hooked again when NWO formed. Been a addict since. Honestly haven't watched much WWE since Hell in A Cell 2019. Fandom in 2026 is all AEW. WWE ticket pricing, creative & 3 or 4 apps just to watch is insane. It's like TKO is trying to kill WWE. Love what you guys do! Keep up the great work! Jam that Jam 🤘😎🤘

stephen costa

My name is steve and im a alc... wait wrong place. Ive been a wrestling fan since 97 grew up with a handful of friends that enjoyed wrestling, still keep in touch with them now and again. But its 2026 and friends I knew when I was 10 have either moved away and had family's or have just dropped out of life head first into careers. Now in 2026, im working as a team leader in kfc and sometimes I get the buzz of someone either colleague or customer who likes wrestling. Sometime you can tell by the shirt there wearing. And instantly can easily talk to them about wrestling. One of my staff out of the blue told me she went to last years "all in". Also, after my divorce I moved back in with my parents, in 2021 my father passed away from cancer. He wasnt a wrestling fan neither was mother. But since father's passed i introduced mother to NRB and then because there is a lot of crossovers with NRB and WRESTLETALK. Mother got into wrestling, we've gone to the live watch alongside before they got cut.. but too this day we stay up to watch PLE's and i have a great friendship with my mother. Always been a fan of you lads, been great meeting you all. You've got me through tough times and with that im a forever fan. Love you guys. Starbucks.. Stephen Costa

Graeme Scrivener

I've been a fan for 26 years and the hhh Vs cactus jack street fight got me hooked

L.O.G

I'm Logan and I've been a wrestling fan for 10 years. Randomly coming across the February 1st 2016 edition of raw was my entry point, the first match I saw being Sasha Banks and Becky lynch in a no contest. In addition to them, Kevin owens, Sami Zayn, Seth Rollins and Roman reigns were my favourites. I didn't watch for a couple years and I became a relapsed fan on the road to wrestlemania 40. Throughout 2025, I have been introduced to aew and Njpw, and I love both. At this point, I am not watching WWE weekly due to the horrendous production with a lack of focus on storylines and talent and an obsession with monetising everything they can. The reason wrestling is one of the things I love most on life isn't because of WWE's current product. So on the other hand, thank you tony khan, thank you Japan.

scotty

Ive been a fan for 23 years of wwe now i prefer aew, 6man hell in a cell A.A era when wwe cooks less ads etc

Joshua Bax

My name is Josh Bax and Ben a wrestling fan for 17 years. I would watch casually with my dad growing up if it happened to be on around the time of CM Punk vs Jeff Hardy “loser leaves WWE” match. What got me hooked was when I got curious after that match and wondered what happened to Jeff after he left and I went down a YouTube rabbit hole of discovering TNA, New Japan, Bullet Club, AEW and all the wrestling fans. It wasn’t till much later that I started attending wrestling events and actually meeting some of the fan base. I tend to be more reserved but wrestling shows are the exception they are the only events I feel comfortable enough to travel to alone because I know I can find some like minded people to hang out with and talk with about things I don’t really get to discuss with my non wrestling fan friends and family and now I try to attend all the shows in my area. I was looking to attend an upcoming Raw show and looking at the ticket price shocked me, I’ve been attending wrestling shows for only about 6 years and when I started ticket cost for the cheap seats were like $30 usd and now this Raw show the cheapest tickets are $75 usd.

Sticki Matt

Hello ! My name is Matthew I’m probably one of the younger fans you guys have as I am 20 years old. I mainly became a wrestling fan in 2016 bc of mainly AJ styles. I started watching on Ram of that year. I’ve been watching every since, there was even a point where I didn’t have cable and I was watching highlights and reviews and everything I could just to get a taste of wwe, I loved wrestling. Watching it as a kid felt magical and felt like nothing else mattered. Eventually I got into AEW as well and Turbo (you have to watch turbo if you don’t it’s so good). But in 2024 I even got to go to summerslam Cleveland, I paid for my uncle and my little cousins tickets (we’re all named Matt btw) and we had an absolute blast. Wrestling has brought me closer to them and brought us so many watch parties and great nights. Like wrestlemania 40 and so many more. We unfortunately haven’t watched that much WWE together anymore. What once used to be a night of fun wrestling has turned into us on our phones or talking more than any wrestling is on. And even when we get excited for matches they end up being 8 minutes and we kinda just look at eachother. We’re sad that wwe has become a shell of what it once was. I’ve learned so much abt wwe’s history but never has it been such short matches bc of ads or anything. I just want to enjoy wrestling again. Maybe im getting older, maybe im too cynical, i dont know anymore.

Richard Glasby

the mrs is gonna film me tonight, will try make it look as "unreal" as i can.

Amomantra94

My name is Ryan I’m 31 and I got into wrestling after my older brother video taped Royal Rumble 2000 on Channel 4 in the UK. I obviously didn’t need the Mae Young part… because I was not even 6 years old, but the violence was never a problem for me as I used to watch Schwarzenegger action movies from an even younger age. An excellent starting point without question, I didn’t know at the time that both The Rock’s feet hit the floor! My point of no return with WWE was during the Roman Reigns Universal Championship run. He won a match against ‘Demon’ Finn Balor via ‘act of god’ when the top rope snapped. How much of an insult that was for the company to just expect me to accept that as a finish. Began watching AEW on the night of ‘The First Dance’ episode of Rampage in Chicago with Punk debuting, which was shortly followed by what I still to this day consider the greatest wrestling show of all time, All Out 2021, with the amazing matches and then double debut to close the show. I’ve never looked back, but maybe due to tradition, every single year I always consider Rumble to Mania as a new start. However the ads and lack of in ring wrestling as of late has made me never want to watch WWE again. I attended the first All in London and will be going to it again this year (will 100% have already happened by the time the Enshittification video finally drops 😉)

Nathan

My name is Nathan, I have been a fan on and off for about 10 years. I got into wrestling because my friends made me download and play WWE SuperCard when I was 11 which introduced me to legends like Ryback and Cameron. What got me hooked wasn’t 2012 WWE but watching crappy 2 minute, 15 part Attitude Era YouTube videos, specifically the Eddie and Chyna pairing. Though I don’t have friends into wrestling, listening to you guys discuss wrestling and via twitter is where I get my wrestling knowledge and opinions. When it comes to the WWE fandom in 2026, I would be absent. Following WrestleMania 40, I got bored of WWE and tried out AEW instead and found myself connecting to that more, AEW is to me the underdog that focuses more on its fan and wrestlers instead of stockholders and is easier to digest and enjoy.

Brett A

Brett. Fan for 30 years -It was actually WCW that got me hooked. The luchadores. Cant remember who, but I watched Nitro until my friend told me about WWF. Diamond Cutter> RKO - I think its just fun to have a community that grew up loving the same dumb stuff I did. Especially since in the later 90s as popular as wrestling was, it still wasnt this must talk about thing at school. - I dont really feel connected to the current WWE fandom because I grew up a wrestling fan switching between WCW and WWF and I think with the monopoly of wrestling that WWE had, most people just grew up WWE fans and kind of just treat WWE like a little brother. Where I can make fun of my little brother, but if someone else(AEW) does its a huge problem. I dont watch AEW, but i want it to do well cause it gets the wrestlers paid and improves WWE if it has competition.

Jacob Dickens

Very interested in doing this! As someone else asked though, is there a deadline for this? Will try to have it done this week either way 😊

Crono Time

1. Zak Higgins(Crono Time ) Wrestlemania 10 2. The ladder match between HBK and Razor Ramon. 3. It means a way to spend time with my friends enjoying and criticizing the sport. 4. I dunno haven't watched it if at all during 2026 maybe the Rumble? It's just been stale and boring. Like 2023/24 on repeat but like worse.

Jakob

My name is Jakob and I’ve been a fan for 16 years. My dad produced all the graphics for WM26 so we watched the Smackdown before to see his work. Seeing Straight Edge CM Punk ask everyone to put their hand on the tv screen grabbed my 8 year old self and I’ve been hooked ever since. My parents ending up divorcing when I was 13, my mom left. My dad took me to WM31,32, countless Summerslams, etc. It’s our bond. As a young father I have now taken my kids to Wrestlepalooza and some Raws when they’re in town. Even as a fan who got hooked during the PG Era there has been a noticeable difference in the product. I miss when PLE’s had more than 5 matches and undercard acts actually had room to grow. We used to have all the main eventers wanting to wrestle on every show. I miss the random 6 man tags, multi man matches. I’m slowly coming to terms with the thing I was over obsessed about is not what I remember. Been watching more 80-90s wrestling than ever before.

Sorry it’s a deadlock reference

My name is Koby and I've been a wrestling fan since early 2009. As a kid I didn't read comics all that much instead I looked up to wrestlers as my superheros. I go back and see how bad that time was now, but me as a kid I wanted nothing more than to see John Cena beat cartoonishly evil Randy Orton. Wrestling has given me a home and a community to feel like I'll always belong, there is no better feeling to me meeting a wrestling fan and being able to talk about all the ways its affected us. But with WWE specifically in 2026 I just wish it could give me feelings other than feeling constantly exasperated, and being told that what we want doesn't really matter anymore i't's all to benefit some corporate giant.

Papa_Rican

My name is Mike, and I've been a wrestling fan for 45 years. My first memories of watching wrestling were the old Georgia Championship Wrestling that was on WTBS when cable television was new to everyone. What got me hooked into wrestling is simple. As a 7yr old kid, watching a literal larger than life Andre the Giant take on 2 or 3 opponents was just awesome to watch. I was hooked. I've been a fan ever since. From watching the creation of the Four Horseman, to watching Hulkamania, I was watching whatever wrestling I could find. Today, being a fan seems to be easier than it was back in the 80's and even 90's. Back then if you mentioned that you watched it, you would get laughed at, teased "You watch that fake shit?!", and get looked down upon. Today, you ask someone if they watch it, you're more likely to make new friends and talk about the 20 different weekly shows that come on. In 2026, it does dishearten me that the focus has turned more to profit making than the fans. I want to go to Survivor Series this year. When they announced it was going to be in Houston, I was hyped. I went to WrestleMania X-7, WrestleMania 25, and NXT WarGames here in Houston. When I found out that tickets on the floor, not front row, just floor seats, were almost $1000 each, I knew I'd be watching it from home. My love for Professional Wrestling will never go away. However, the feeling of going live to a big event will most likely never come around again.

Raymond parisza

My name is Raymond and ive been a wrestling fan since the WWE cartoon in 1985 when I was 11. WWE has been a constant in my entertainment ever since. From watching the Sunday show on USA after church to the first RAW my freshman year of college. Fell out during the New Generation Era and became a WCW fan so missed the birth of the Attitude Era And its because of that I put up with the dog food, the burial of everyone interesting, the Authority, and the decade of garbage that WWE put out in the 2010s. For stretches i didnt actually watch, and would only keep up through podcasts But I always stayed around There was always that thougt, that fear of missing out on the next big guy Not seeing the rise of the next Austin or Rock. And there were guys that I waited for. KO, Nakamura, Zayn, Black. All guys who killed it in NXT. KO was turned into the "other" guy Got the title once so he could be a former champion, but was never treated on the same level as the Office picks. Zayn was relegated to comdey sidekick, Nakamura doesnt exist, and Black spent months telling people to knock on his door while ten years in and a pandemic later the Romen project finally caught steam. If not for the creation of AEW I might have just stopped with wrestlilng altogether And so now I find myself in the same position. Waiting. There are lots of guys who have potential. Bron and Oba are being primed, but Carmelo is being ignored. Same with Ethan Page, Trick, and Joe Hendry. Hell, Hendry is getting buried for getting over. And in the mean time the world titiles are being held by people that have had them for a collective 4000 years and the midcard/tag tiles are being forgotten. The same shit that happened ten years ago and made me reconsider this thing I've loved for forty years. All I can say is thank god for AEW

Skillgull22

My name is Ren. Ive been a wrestling fan for 6 years with the large majority of if being AEW and NJPW and wrestling has stopped me from killing myself. For me it was a 2019 episode of smack down where I watched Kevin Owen’s throw himself of a ladder onto Shane McMahon originally wfich got me hooked, however as times waned on i got bored of it and began to stop watching due me losing the channel to watch in along with when I got it back the product not grabbing me like it did once before, this was until in late 2021 I found out about NJPW and will Ospreay vs kazuchika Okada got me hooked back in 2022. Quickly I moved onto to watching AEW afterwards with thunder rosa vs Britt baker in a steel cage. I had seen clips of other wrestling outside of wwe and there fued was something I had seen. I’ve always enjoyed wwe but never really got attached to hard outside of Kevin Owen’s Sami Zayn and the new day, however AEW as a bullied and heavily depressed queer theatre kid teen stuck out to me, in particularly it was stars like Hangman Adam page and Bryan Danielson. I related heavily to these wrestlers and there struggles, crying at there highs and lows. I’m still a wrestling fan to this day and love it more then ever, I’m excited for the future and use it heavily as inspiration for acting and theatre as I’ve gone on to study theatre in college and have began to make my own plays with wrestling being my biggest influence. I still casually follow WWE keeping up with the big matches and stories and watching the matches that I care about, however I have no desire to watch weekly or even go to a wrestlemania, with the cost of everything combined with there own greed and closeness with the current president of the United States making me feel sad for the state of wrestling. As I grow up to be into my full self I find myself relating to wrestlers more and more in AEW and NJPW, in particular learning a lot from Jon Moxley’s promos, willow nightingale, shota umino and Eddie Kingston.

Jason Altea

My name is Jason, I've been a wrestling fan for 15 years. What got me hooked on wrestling was playing the games as a kid, then finding it on tv, the drama, storylines, and characters really made it feel like the kind of sport that I could get into despite not really being big into other sports. To me, wrestling fandom should be about celebrating the triumphs and looking at the potential while still acknowledging what could be better. AEW is on fire right now, and I couldn't be happier about it. A lot of my favorite wrestlers are getting more spotlight and it's great. As for WWE fandom, I'll be the first to admit we're a long ways away from the peaks we were experiencing in 2023 and 2024, but I don't think it's as bad as many make it out to be. Yes, advertising is out of control, yes, TKO profits are being given too much priority over the product, yes, creative could certainly be much better... but we've also been through worse times. 2014 was a special exception, but for most of 2010s, I'd argue the product was just as bad as it is now at best. Lord knows 2017-2019 was WAY worse, that's when I just straight up had to call it quits and become a full true lapsed fan. Anyone remember Bobby Lashley's sisters? How about the 2019 Hell in a Cell match that ended in a no contest for "too much violence"? What about the entire god damn feud between Baron Corbin and Roman Reigns about dogs and dog food? I would personally gladly take the dropped balls of 2025 and 2026 over the absolute bottom of the barrel schlock made to pop Vince McMahon and entertain no one else from the late 2010s.