Glad you had a good time. What did your son think? 16 is about the age where most start to bail out due to peer pressure and/or girls, but the ones that keep watching are lifers like us...
I blame my Dad...he took me to an AWA show when I was 6 or 7 years old...Andre, Heenan, Bockwinkle, Ventura, Mad Dog Vachon, Baron von Raske, Jerry "The Crusher" Blackwell, and the dude that scared the piss out of me Bruiser Brody...
Orange connects with the younger fans...my son (19) went from "Who's that?" to "I want an Orange Cassidy T-shirt"...which would be a total of 3 that he still wears (Wrestlemania XXIV that we went to in Orlando and CM Punk) ...
Oh, he loved it. We were definitely all in. I allowed myself to get silly into it, chanting and everything, it was a good time.
Yeah, I don't know how long he'll be into it. Back when we were kids, we kind of aged out of the old WWF by about 13. It's a much different product though of course back then in the 1980s...I'm not sure how much we aged out of it vs once you went through 2-3 year cycles, you kind of "got it"...they just repeated the same set up/blow off program over and over. And the WWF, while wildly popular, didn't have particularly engaging in-ring workers among its stars in the 80s. Or even if they did, they weren't allow to actually, you know, wrestle.
I would certainly expect his interest to wane, and I'm not sure I would keep watching it or not, I might at least keep up with it. It's something we do together for now, not sure either of us would be as into it if it wasn't something we watch together.
He's also one of those kids that likes having different interests/knowledge bases than everyone else. I'm sure he knows who all the youtube stars are or whatever, but he likes having a deep knowledge of things nobody else does. He's not a hipster in style at all, but he has that thing that he doesn't mind being the only kid in his high school that has definitive opinions about the relative merits of each Talking Heads album and is a big fan of Buster Keaton. To him, I think wrestling is kind of part of that, walking around knowing who Angelico is or whatever. So I don't think peer pressure will be a factor, more just a factor of getting bored when/if it ceases to go in new directions.
If he ever prioritizes wrestling over girls, I'll ban wrestling int he house immediately.
The athleticism and skill level is remarkable enough now, and when the story telling is good, it's like any other drama on TV. So I've never been too dismissive of adults watching it or consigning it to "kids stuff" like when I was growing up. I love me some King Kong Bundy, but I can't imagine as an adult watching him squash jobbers for six months.