I’m JT and something of a forum junkie, though less now. I started out on music forums, moved onto wrestling and then other places like TV and film dedicated boars. These days I pretty much just post here and one other wrestling forum that I’ve been a member of now for a decade and used to be on staff at.
I got into wrestling when I was around 8ish and the first match I watched was some quick squash thing between Jake Roberts and Local Jobber #4; it fascinated me, partially because I’ve always had a thing for snakes (our class pet when I was 5/6 was a little snake and I loved him) and partially because I’ve always been (as a pacifist) into watching martial arts and combat sports. The next big show was SummerSlam '91 and my stepdad taped it for me to watch - I fell in love with it but could never really keep up with it and it existed on the periphery of my existence for years until I met a lifelong fan at college who helped me stay up to date and gave me a better education in it all.
I currently follow PROGRESS, NXT, New Japan, PWG closely (although only NXT has been getting watched since before mid-2017) while keeping up to date with the bigger shows from the likes of WWE and ROH. Over the next few months I aim to watch more Japanese stuff and I’ll probably check in with EVOLVE and get into a few of the other companies available on DemandPROGRESS like SMASH, AAW and Demand Lucha. I also watched the last half of the last Lucha Underground season and plan on picking that up again when it returns… unless Sexy Star still has a job, in which case fuck 'em.
My favourite wrestler of all time is Eddie Guerrero and I doubt that will ever change; his death effected me deeply at the time and I actually quit watching wrestling for a few months because I couldn’t find any joy in it - imagine my disgust to return to watching it only to find that a major story line was that Randy Orton would routinely piss on the memory of Eddie in order to screw with Rey Mysterio.
Other wrestler’s I have loved throughout my wrestling love affair include Ricky Steamboat, Bret Hart, Randy Savage, RVD, Sabu, Kurt Angle, Shawn Michaels, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Hiroshi Tanahashi, KUSHIDA, Tetsuya Naito and countless others.
There’s not much point in me listing matches that I rate highly because it’s almost guarantee’d that I’ll just be repeating stuff that’s already been said.
Fun fact: I have been to live shows by WWE (including WrestleMania 28), ROH, NOAH, TNA and PROGRESS and I am officially done with TNA’s bullshit and have been for over a year now; they are a terrible company that do nothing but waste the talents time that work for them - I will never watch another TNA show.