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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 18:04:08 GMT
I used to watch WWF and WCW (sometimes ECW) faithfully from 1989 - 2002. I was born in 1986 and I remember being 3 years old, some of my first memories, watching Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage with my dad.
I remember the Monday Night wars, then WCW was the best for a while (Sting, Flair, Hogan, Savage, etc) then WWF took it back with Stone Cold and The Rock and then around the time WCW started dying and WWF bought out WCW, I lost interest. I remember the last year I watched Wrestling was right before Hogan/The Rock WrestleMania X8.
I haven't watched RAW or SmackDown! since probably 2005 (I would watch Hogan or something special) here and there.
So recently I started listening to Stone Cold's podcasts on YouTube. There is a third party page where they play clips from his Podcasts. I love his stories, his behind the scenes info, it's gold. I wish he would do a show on TV and interview old Wrestlers and Promoters.
So the other day I'm watching old clips of WCW Goldberg wrestling, or old Hulk Hogan matches, old Stone Cold matches on YouTube. My son says, "Wow, that looks pretty cool." So I told him about my dad and how we watched wrestling up until I was about 16 or 17 years old. It was Monday night, so I turned it to RAW.
Wtf? It is even worse of a product that it was back in 2005 when I thought it was getting bad then. They have these commercials DURING the matches, where 3/4 of the screen is an ad. The storylines are boring, the action is dead. You need CHARISMA to sell a show. Hogan wasn't the best in the world because he was a good wrestler, he was a TRASH technical wrestler, but damn if he didn't put on a great show.
Wrestling is FAKE, that's the point. It's an ATTRACTION. I don't go to the circus anymore, I go to Circ de Soleil because it's far more entertaining. There's noting fun to watch, there's no tension.
My 7 year old lost interest in about 15 minutes (but he was pumped as hell to watch wrestling 10 minutes prior when I showed him the 1990s matches on youtube). He didn't even understand the story lines and plots, but he was hooked on the action in the ring. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 5:03:33 GMT
I'd advise maybe trying to get your son into NXT. If you have the WWE Network, which it sounds like you don't but it's a weekly 1 hour show with great wrestling and a lot of good characters that once they get called up to the main roster don't get used the same way/properly because it's completely different booking teams and Vince McMahon has really lost sight of what the fans today really want instead he's stubborn and trying to create Hulk Hogan and John Cena again. I personally can't wait til HHH takes over which is really shocking to me but if NXT is anything to go by it should be good.
Wrestling in terms of the talent and wrestling matches themselves are as deep as ever currently. However the writing, storylines, and just how damn long the Monday Night RAW show is hampers it a lot. Unless it's Football season I have nothing else to watch on Monday's so I tend to have it on in the background and only pay attention when certain people I like show up.
The truth of the matter is that nothing WWE does today will top the nostalgia you hold for it. I'm still partial to 90's WWF because that's what I grew up on and have fond memories of it. The Attitude Era took advantage of the times and the talent. WWE is a public company now and having TV MA or NC 17 or whatever RAW was at the time isn't coming back.
It sucks that your son lost interest in it so quickly and I really can't blame him. Wrestling just isn't must see TV anymore and I honestly don't know when it will be again. Things come in trends so I'm sure it'll be the cool thing to watch again at some point but idk when that'll be.
In terms of Stone Cold's podcast, he can have some good ones. I only listen to wrestling podcasts Ala: JR, Jericho, Stone Cold, Bruce Prichard if they have a guest on there that I'm interested in listening to wrestling stories about or the topic of conversation is about somebody I really want to hear stories about. I just can't listen to Vince Russo on any podcast what so ever. I listened to him on Austin's once and just got annoyed by his ego, his constant "Bro's!", and how he would just suck on the tip of Austin's dick the whole time while taking credit for damn near anything good that happening in that era. But interviews/conversations with guys like HBK, Angle, Jericho, Nash, Hall hell I'd LOVE an Undertaker sit down because the stories he could tell.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 10:27:46 GMT
I'd advise maybe trying to get your son into NXT. If you have the WWE Network, which it sounds like you don't but it's a weekly 1 hour show with great wrestling and a lot of good characters that once they get called up to the main roster don't get used the same way/properly because it's completely different booking teams and Vince McMahon has really lost sight of what the fans today really want instead he's stubborn and trying to create Hulk Hogan and John Cena again. I personally can't wait til HHH takes over which is really shocking to me but if NXT is anything to go by it should be good. Wrestling in terms of the talent and wrestling matches themselves are as deep as ever currently. However the writing, storylines, and just how damn long the Monday Night RAW show is hampers it a lot. Unless it's Football season I have nothing else to watch on Monday's so I tend to have it on in the background and only pay attention when certain people I like show up. The truth of the matter is that nothing WWE does today will top the nostalgia you hold for it. I'm still partial to 90's WWF because that's what I grew up on and have fond memories of it. The Attitude Era took advantage of the times and the talent. WWE is a public company now and having TV MA or NC 17 or whatever RAW was at the time isn't coming back. It sucks that your son lost interest in it so quickly and I really can't blame him. Wrestling just isn't must see TV anymore and I honestly don't know when it will be again. Things come in trends so I'm sure it'll be the cool thing to watch again at some point but idk when that'll be. In terms of Stone Cold's podcast, he can have some good ones. I only listen to wrestling podcasts Ala: JR, Jericho, Stone Cold, Bruce Prichard if they have a guest on there that I'm interested in listening to wrestling stories about or the topic of conversation is about somebody I really want to hear stories about. I just can't listen to Vince Russo on any podcast what so ever. I listened to him on Austin's once and just got annoyed by his ego, his constant "Bro's!", and how he would just suck on the tip of Austin's dick the whole time while taking credit for damn near anything good that happening in that era. But interviews/conversations with guys like HBK, Angle, Jericho, Nash, Hall hell I'd LOVE an Undertaker sit down because the stories he could tell. The public sharing of WWE, that's the problem it sounds like. |
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