I remember watching Royal Rumble 92 with my buds who had one of those cheater cable boxes; I wasn't even watching the tv shows by that point, but we'd always get together to watch the pay per views for free!...along with early versions of UFC which soon followed.
By the time our cheater box stopped working, we were playing the Raw game on the Genesis and using the Razor's Edge and Tombstone on everybody, lol...and then came Stone Cold, who I really didn't like at the time but it brought with it a lot of great storylines and characters.
I remember watching a live event for the first time in 96, and for the first time realized how 'trailer park' wrasslin was...we had close seats, and after the first match of Rotundo and Jake the Snake (I think), I was stunned by how fake the moves were, how much the mat bounced, how much the arena stank of shit from the rodeo the previous night, and how creepy most of the fans were at this show!...so, we solved it by moving up to about mid-level in the arena, next to the wheelchair section: now, it looked just like it did on TV, and after a few slow matches, they blew the roof of the place with match after match: Goldust was especially hilarious, SWEARING on the mic (pretty shocking, IIRC), lol...culminating with Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker...overall, by the end of that night, I really thought it was awesome, and it was. I didn't watch it live again until the 2000s, by then things had changed way too much. But I did get to see Hogan as Mr America, lol...and Lesnar the first time around.