Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Sept 10, 2010 17:09:15 GMT -5
OK, so this may sound weird and smark-ish, but...
It's generally acknowledged that during the 90's, the WWF took ideas from ECW, then shined them up for a wider audience. In that case: increased raunch and sex (the Divas), lots of hardcore wrestling (Foley and the Hardcore Title), and gimmicks tailor-made to the wrestlers performing them. The fact that the WWF had found two of its brightest stars, Foley and Austin, from ECW no doubt made the product look ripe for ripping off.
Now, it seems WWE is taking a few cues from ROH - the evil foreigner giving way to heels who happen to be foreign (Sheamus, D-Mac, del Rio), a greater emphasis on workrate (seriously, the current roster may have the most consistently solid workrate of any time in WWE since I started watching in '00), more pushes for high-flying wrestlers (something WWE has been reluctant to do in the past)...and does anyone else think that Nexus is conceptually similar to Generation Next?
Basically, I'm wondering if others agree that ROH has hit the point that ECW hit in the mid-nineties: a promotion that WWE will look to for ideas that will be remade into something more suitable for the E.
It's generally acknowledged that during the 90's, the WWF took ideas from ECW, then shined them up for a wider audience. In that case: increased raunch and sex (the Divas), lots of hardcore wrestling (Foley and the Hardcore Title), and gimmicks tailor-made to the wrestlers performing them. The fact that the WWF had found two of its brightest stars, Foley and Austin, from ECW no doubt made the product look ripe for ripping off.
Now, it seems WWE is taking a few cues from ROH - the evil foreigner giving way to heels who happen to be foreign (Sheamus, D-Mac, del Rio), a greater emphasis on workrate (seriously, the current roster may have the most consistently solid workrate of any time in WWE since I started watching in '00), more pushes for high-flying wrestlers (something WWE has been reluctant to do in the past)...and does anyone else think that Nexus is conceptually similar to Generation Next?
Basically, I'm wondering if others agree that ROH has hit the point that ECW hit in the mid-nineties: a promotion that WWE will look to for ideas that will be remade into something more suitable for the E.
