segaz
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Post by segaz on Sept 2, 2009 20:24:05 GMT -5
It's interesting...when i was a kid i used to think "what is WWE going to do when they run out of things to do?". I guess i didn't understand the whole bringing in new guys things, and never thought people would leave at that age. But it's odd...i stopped watching wrestling for like 5/6 yrs about 2003-to right before the most recent royal rumble. I was just so bored of EVERYTHING. I could basically predict every match, Baitsta and JBL annoyed me as champs (before JBL got good, appearantly). I recently got re-hooked right before royal rumble (like the week before) and then started watching TNa and it's ALREADY getting boring again. I loved it at first because i had no idea who would any matches in either promotion, it makes the sport so much better. I got to learn new guys like Kofi, Swagger, MVP, Punk. But i already feel like im losing touch, and better off starting to follow ROH where i could see good matches and don't know who's going to win. Yeah, the same thing happened around 1995. Strange....I don't remember how wrestling pulled itself out of that one.....
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Post by hbk4ever09 on Sept 2, 2009 20:33:44 GMT -5
For example i have so much more fun watching an old bret hart vs dynamite kid match from stampede wrestling because i have no idea what's going to happen, and the matches are incredible. WWE really needs something new for us who have been watching forever (Doesn't have to be attitude, it can be something else, but something away from this PG predictable stuff....)
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Post by hbk4ever09 on Sept 2, 2009 20:38:30 GMT -5
I guess that is the main thing wrong with WWE today, predictability. I think Bischoff said it best on the monday night war dvd "The thing people enjoy is the feeling like they don't know what's going to happen next." People think that HAS to be attitude era, but if they were creative enough i don't think it would have to be. I don't mean 1000000 swerves either, we've seen there's ways to make it exciting/unpredictable without that.
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Post by I Like Your Poetry on Sept 2, 2009 20:42:52 GMT -5
My roommate for two years in college told me with a straight face that the Mankind HITC match was the greatest wrestling match ever.
We never really discussed wrestling again after that.
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Post by hbk4ever09 on Sept 2, 2009 20:48:29 GMT -5
My roommate for two years in college told me with a straight face that the Mankind HITC match was the greatest wrestling match ever. We never really discussed wrestling again after that. I saw a yahoo answers question that posed this, and like 85 % of a good number of people picked this match. I didn't get it...
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Sept 2, 2009 20:51:37 GMT -5
My roommate for two years in college told me with a straight face that the Mankind HITC match was the greatest wrestling match ever. We never really discussed wrestling again after that. I appreciate everything Mick has ever done for this business, 'Taker too. But I really REALLY hate that f***ing match.
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Post by Jared Jammer on Sept 2, 2009 20:55:03 GMT -5
Try the message board at WrestlingClassics.com. It's a bunch of bitter old men who hate anything post-1974.
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Post by cuneo77 on Sept 3, 2009 9:53:09 GMT -5
i wanted to start a thread similar to this. do any of you guys ever feel like your th e old war general (long time wrestling fan)and your troops around you are dying (friends not caring about wrestling anymore)....
slowly ppll stop caring, i love the 86-97 era,today i keep up with it but hardly ever watch an entire show. can wrestling ever bounce back?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2009 12:07:31 GMT -5
One thing I will say in wrestling's favor:
It is far and away the best background show to have on while doing something else. This goes for all wrestling. I don't even recall the last time I sat alone, and...while not doing anything else, just watched a wrestling program from beginning to end. If I'm on the computer/in aim chat/doing stuff for work/cleaning though...with wrestling on, it's great.
I have the WWE on demand thing on constantly, even though I'm hardly watching.
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