Dismissing the “current WWE product” as “rehashed ideas and hackneyed cliches,” self-described old-school wrestling fan Terry Drysdale, 23, is nostalgic for the “good old days” of professional wrestling, epitomized by the shocking invasion of The Nexus.

Drysdale, whose Twitter profile simply reads “wrestling historian,” often laments how fans these days “will never experience wrestling the way it was meant to be,” like when King Sheamus battled John Morrison, and The Miz defeated John Cena at WrestleMania.

In the furnace room of his parents’ basement, Drysdale keeps a meticulous “library of wrestling,” with DVDs dating all the way back to the early days of the sport, when Charlotte’s dad was still wrestling and .

“Some of this early footage is really rare,” said Drysdale, thumbing through his titles like “Jeff Hardy: My Life, My Rules,” “Batista: I Walk Alone,” and “Undertaker 15-0.”

Drysdale said he once heard an old man insist that WWE was once called WWF, but he dismissed the idea as nonsense since that acronym is owned by the World Wildlife Fund.

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