Street Clothes/ Starting matches

[mcstoklasa]

I'm not a youtube commenter yearning for the attiude era "OMGZ WRESTLING SUCKS NOW HOW CAN YOU KIDS WATCH THIS YOUVE RUINED WRESTLING CENA SUCKS"

But there's two things I miss.

Just watched an Austin/HHH segment from 1999. Of course Austin was in a black Stone Cold T-shirt, blue jean shorts, knee braces and boots. HHH was wearing a leather jacket and jeans and boots. I also remember around that time, Rock might wear sports gear or a flashy shirt when he wasn't wrestling. Even if a wrestler was wearing their own merchandise (like Austin) they would often wear it with jeans or something other than their wrestling attire.

I miss that. I feel like every wrestler seems to walk around in their gaudy wrestling merchandise shirts with the rest of their ring gear on (trunks etc). It looks kind of funny wearing a t shirt and underwear..

Also, one other Austin related thing I miss: When two superstars HATED each other, if they were in a blood feud, notably in Austin matches, they would not walk to the ring, then both stand in their corners and wait for the announcer to announce them. No, in many Austin matches against HHH and Rock, the superstars hated each other so much that they would start fighting before the bell. Damn that was awesome.

Backlash 1999 (Austin's entrance!), Survivor Series 2000, No Way Out 2001, Wrestlemania X7. Man I loved it when they just started trading punches from the off. They could not control their hatred. You really felt the hatred in feuds then.

Nowadays two guys might really hate each other. Ie HHH and Orton at WM 25. I thought their characters HATED each other. But they still stood in their corners and waited till the ref told them they could fight. It would just be cool if occasionally guys would fight before the bell. It could have really added to the intensity of the match if they just ran at each other from the off.

Didn't Punk knock HHH off the apron a few years back? That was brilliant.

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I definitely dislike how almost everyone with a tshirt has to wear their t shirt.

With some guys, it actually is their look. Cena wearing his shirt is fine. That's like his actual costume. jean shorts and a cena shirt and hat.

But you don't do that with a guy like Sandow.

[mcstoklasa]

Nov 27, 2013 15:49:20 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

I definitely dislike how almost everyone with a tshirt has to wear their t shirt.

With some guys, it actually is their look. Cena wearing his shirt is fine. That's like his actual costume. jean shorts and a cena shirt and hat.

But you don't do that with a guy like Sandow.

Exactly. Cena looks fine. He's the face of the company. He looks a little goofy, but he's the new Hulk Hogan and so he has his colours and mechandise for the kids.

I agree on Sandow. It made me think about Randy Savage. Imagine if rather than having the crazy get-ups he used to wear he just wore a t shirt? That would not have been as iconic.

Sheamus, Orton etc all look kind of lame in just t shirts and their rasslin gear.

I know I keep mentioning Austin, but then he is my favorite wrestler, but take 2001 for instance. He'd have his ring gear (black trunks, braces etc) and his backstage/segment/skit gear which was jean shorts, Austin shirt, knee braces, watch.

[Bad Moon]

The thing with the ring gear/street clothes is something that annoys me too.
I remember a couple of weeks ago on Smackdown they had del Rio do commentary for a Cena match and he was wearing his trunks, boots and towel, despite not wrestling until later that night. It's a tiny little thing, but it just made him look cartoony, like if that was the only set of clothes he had for public appearances.
It's even worse when they have a guy like Orton or Sheamus or even CM Punk casually hanging out in a backstage segment in a t-shirt... and wrestling trunks and boots instead of normal clothes. Are we supposed to think that's what they normally wear everywhere they go?

[Hit Girl]

I hate the t-shirt/trunks look.

[Injustice45]

The one thing I like about the older wrestling games was that there are alternate attires, especially street clothes. Shut Your Mouth, for example, has two attires for Ric Flair: his ring gear, and his suit. I, too, hate the t-shirt/ring gear look.

[Long A, Short A]

I call it the slumber party look and I don't like it either.

[MichaelMartini]

But if they wore clothes/entrance attire, it might contribute to them having some sort of personality, and we can't have that.

[A Platypus Rave]

Nov 27, 2013 15:56:58 GMT -5 mcstoklasa said:

Nov 27, 2013 15:49:20 GMT -5 @bootytime said:

I definitely dislike how almost everyone with a tshirt has to wear their t shirt.

With some guys, it actually is their look. Cena wearing his shirt is fine. That's like his actual costume. jean shorts and a cena shirt and hat.

But you don't do that with a guy like Sandow.

Exactly. Cena looks fine. He's the face of the company. He looks a little goofy, but he's the new Hulk Hogan and so he has his colours and mechandise for the kids.

I agree on Sandow. It made me think about Randy Savage. Imagine if rather than having the crazy get-ups he used to wear he just wore a t shirt? That would not have been as iconic.

I imagine it would look like this

[rnrk supports BLM]

The t-shirt over trunks look and lack of unique entrance gear for most guys these days is seriously one of my biggest gripes with WWE's current product.

[rapidfire187]

I actually think this is a byproduct of the WWE dress code. I noticed after it was implemented that street clothes were replaced with a suit and tie and later, the dreaded t-shirt + wrestling attire combo. It's really silly, especially when a wrestler isn't even on the card.

Back in the day it seemed like the WWF was the place to see the star wrestlers. Now it seems like WWE is supposed to be the attraction, the place where you can see the people they put out there for entertainment.

It's just all very inorganic. Street clothes wouldn't fix that problem, but it would be a nice start. These guys should be presented as fighters, not performers.

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

I don't get why Orton just wears trunks and a t-shirt. Kane is wearing a god damn suit, where's your Randy?