The Jim Cornette Dairy Queen incident

huge Cornette fan.

nice to see him back at the HOF.

do they have any plans for him going further (or have i missed out since i rarely tune in nowadays).

or was the HOF just a one time thing?

Cornette is a legend in the business. And a hilarious pip.

Russo has a great shoot where he's on Stone Cold's podcast and pretty much bashes modern day wrestling too.

Ashame Cornette and Russo hate each other - they're actually both what today's product needs.

Russo did a similar shoot with King Kong Bundy.

Basic premise is - everybody today just looks like regular guys.  Nobody really cares except hardcore fans if a sports entertainer can 'work' in the ring.  These guys aren't pulling in your 'casual viewer'.  It's a reason I tuned out as well.  Goes back to Nash's comments about 'Vanilla Midgets'.

I miss the King Kong Bundys, Hogans, Studds, Kamalas, Goldbergs, Lugers, Warriors, Savages, etc etc etc.

These guys appeared larger than life.

Now?

These guys look like your neighbor and a guy you'd go have a beer with at Happy Hour.

There's nothing making me tune in today that makes me say - 'Wow!  I've got to see this guy!'.   Think the last time may have been Goldberg when he was going on his undefeated run and in my eyes it was 'must see tv'.  Other than that - when WWE brought back the nWo - tuned in for nostalgia purposes.

Only thing I can possibly think of to bring me back on a weekly basis at this point is an epic Cena Heel turn ala Hogan at the Bash '96

i actually think Stone Cold had 'the look' - much better than his 'Stunning Steve' days with the blonde hair.

i guess it comes down to personal taste.  i know many despise Russo.   i'm not one of them.  as much as late WCW gets bashed - it'd take that product over todays (and the last 10 years or so plus) WWE.   there's late Thunders and Nitros on Youtube - I find them entertaining in a trainwreck sort of way - but 'entertaining' none the less and that's Russo.  One can argue there were too many swerves - you never knew who was on who's side on a weekly basis if you happened to miss a week - but just for my own personal taste - i found them 'entertaining'.  unlike today's product.

would you rather watch today's product?  or Russo's WWF/WCW?

to each their own - and i'm not one of those guys that just shamelessly defends 'the attitude era' to no end - i actually think Hall and Nash kicked it off and Russo and WWF followed suit - but if you give dueling GMs of Cornette and Russo on Smackdown and RAW (and I love Angle - I just don't tune in now) - maybe i'd stick around longer as opposed to picking up the remote

i'll give you some examples.

sami zayn.  i just don't get it.

the whole cruiserweight division.  and you'll have to excuse my ignorance i rarely tune in.

i think it's great they turned Neville heel - i don't know much about Austin Aires even from his TNA days - just that he can 'go'.

but you throw these dull bland duds in there - a match leading up to the main event on RAW - it's a ratings killer.

just bland dull personalities built like jockeys and pizza delivery drivers - your average everyday 'joe' in some situations.

i watch these guys come down the ramp to '0' reaction and i cringe and change the channel - which i'm guessing a ton of other people do to.

i do agree about the booking.   here's an example - the one Wyatt guy who looks like Bruiser Brody.   why wasn't he ever built up like Brody?  just this maniac that was unstoppable.  now there's somebody with the proper writing and booking i can get behind and tune in for on a weekly basis.   i get it's a new 'era' - but i look at that guy and i see 'Brody'.   missed opportunity in my eyes not to give this guy the strap with his look and just give him this 'maniac' charles manson/brody persona

I'm the opposite.  I don't get why anyone would want to watch super muscular oiled up behemoths meander slooooooooowly around the ring and perform at best the most basic and most boring "moves" i.e. choke slams, (fill in lame trademark name) punch, leg/elbow drops etc...  Talk about guys from your neighborhood.  Thats how lame fat dudes fight in real life.  Shove each other around until one fat slob is too exhausted to do anything.  

Now guys like Goldberg or Lesnar who destroy people are a totally different story but it sounds like you are more into staring at tall muscular guys no matter how boring and limited they are.  That's the type guy Vince loves so you should be happy with the current state of WWE.  Vince is determined to make his latest crush Roman  Reigns the face of the WWE so just be patient.  Even with piped in cheers, Reigns is not liked by crowds and he's too damn boring to be even a half assed heel. Is that what you mean by guys who get 0 reaction or are you a Reigns fan?