What is your LEAST favorite style of pro wrestling?

[bmfjules]

Including as many different options as I can think of. Can vote for up to 2 different styles.

Also, for those wandering, I consider death match wrestling different from garbage wrestling in that death match wrestling involves insane stunts, glass tubes, wheed whackers etc, while garbage wrestling mainly restricts itself to cookie sheets and trash can lids. I know there's a lot of crossover on some of these, but different people have different pet peeves.

[Deleted]

I don't even consider backyard wrestling to be a legitimate style as it it just a bunch of wankers doing stupid shit-often on a trampoline. So of the legitimate styles I'll go with the Deathmatch which is almost always just a couple of fat dudes braining each other and then someone jumping off of something and pure lucha. I just can't get into it without it being a European/American/Japanese hybrid.

[Hit Girl]

Hardcore


I hate all that shit. I don't consider it wrestling.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

The WWE Style. I like WWE and I like some of the WWE homegrown talent, but I find "the WWE Style" to be restricting and it keeps wrestlers from being as good as they could be. They turn their guys into generic piles of suck and then punish them for not being as good as the guys they bring in from the indies.

[chazraps]

Ultra-hardcore.

Garbage wrestling at least has a tongue-and-cheek spectacle to a degree, but knowing what we know now about how much can go wrong blood-wise, as well as how with a handful of exceptions (the psychology of Sami Callihan, Jon Moxley) so much of it strikes me as cringe moment - downtime - cringe moment, with the allure being "this guy is really doing this thing."

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Deathmatch/Ultraviolent/whatever. White trash hitting each other with stuff is NOT wrestling.

The only stuff of this ind I enjoy is any match involving Abdullah Kobayashi. That's only because (I am so going to Hell for this.) that fat bastard makes really funny faces when he is in pain.

[Nickybojelais]

As I've got older I've developed an utter distain for hardcore "wrestling". When 95% of the match revolves around hitting people with objects, it can no longer be considered wrestling.

In terms of proper wrestling, despite all the nostalgic love it gets, I really cannot stand the World of Sport British Wrestling scene from the 70s and 80s. I find it to be the most mind numbingly dull wrestling I've ever seen.

[StuntGranny®]

Mar 31, 2015 21:08:35 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Hardcore


I hate all that shit. I don't consider it wrestling.

[willyjakes]

Backyard/Collegiate I won't even put in the conversation, especially collegiate stuff because that's real (and boring) and what we're mostly watching is a staged physical soap opera.

To me it's Lucha. It's just trash. Bunch of little cirque du soleil midgets in masks doing very carefully choreographed spots and reversals and spots and waiting around for this guy to land on these guys and rolling around over here and backflipping there. Just stupid gymnastics. It doesn't have the grit and feel of true wrestling.

[Malcolm]

Backyard Wrestling followed by "Hardcore" Wrestling followed by Indy no-selling Spot-fests(unless it's in a video game).

[ShaolinHandLock]

I'll defend deathmatch wrestling as a legitimate form of pro-wrestling any day, and if I wasn't feeling sick at the moment, I'd probably go on a rant about how it's just as legitimate as any other form of pro-wrestling, and how a lot of the posts in this thread are blatantly false and wrong about it...but I'm not going to.

I chose backyard wrestling, as it doesn't even count as a form of pro-wrestling, and I also chose the 'None - I love it all' option, because I love all forms of professional wrestling...except backyard wrestling which doesn't count as pro-wrestling.

[Dang!]

-Ultraviolent Lighttube shit with weedwhackers and gallons of blood - It's like watching emo girls cut themselves.
-Ultrasoftcore simulated softcore porn matches without actual nudity - What's the motherf***ing point? The whole bra&panties, evening gown shit is just useless and unneccessary. I can't fap to that and it makes no sense for underwear models who run around in underwear to have a problem to be in underwear. Hell, even the winners (if faces) often strip down to their underwear. Show at least nipples or never do that shit again!
-Comedy wrestling - Usually not funny and pointless. I like to have wrestling in comedy (Trailer Park Boys, It's Always Sunny), but retarded Santino matches just aren't funny to me. f*** Hornswoogle!

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Lucha.

Say what you want about backyard/hardcore/garbage wrestling, at least what they do is possible. Smashing a f***er with a light bulb is 1000 times more believable than anything the likes of Rey Misterio jr. ever did.

[Deleted]

WWE style

A 4 minute squash match is a waste of time, we know its a work so whats the point?

It doesn't make the winner look strong, it just wastes time.

I remember on NXT a few years ago when Ascention were being over hyped. (The original pair) They would cut looooooong promos (Which said nothing really) and beat the team they were against within a few seconds. It didnt showcase them, I didn't get any idea of who they were and wether they were any good. ie if I should become a fan of theirs.

[Digital Witness]

I can really do without the deathmatch or garbage style of pro wrestling.

I don't need to see people shredded up with glass and nearly dying in the ring.

[Bad Moon]

I've never ever seen an intentional comedy match that was actually funny.

I think garbage wrestling has its place as long as you don't overdo it. (ie every single card is nothing but death matches ala CZW) Sometimes it's just the necessary edge to put an already hot feud over the top.

[Deleted]

I don't consider deathmatch and backyard to be wrestling, but I went with those anyway.

Another strong contender is the '80s TV style of WWF. Ten minute Steve Lombardi vs. SD Jones matches were not exciting then and certainly do not hold up.

[Milkman Norm]

In order of crap

1. Death Match
2. Backyard
3. Garbage
4. Spotfests
5. Comedy

[Heeltown, USA]

Backyard isnt wrestling. Its just untrained idiots.

It pains me to say this, as a friend of mine is a solid up and comer with CZW, but I hate deathmatch wrestling. Light tubes, barb wire, thumbtacks, voltage, etc. its literal garbage. I mean back in the mid 90s, ya I was tape trading to see what FMW was doing. Back then it was new, something that pushed the envelope. Now its just a tired trope. I actually cringe watching these guys bleed out everywhere on a dingy canvass.

Those are my two votes.

And anyone who voted Comedy needs to go watch Chikara with a child. They are like the muppets. Cartoonish enough for kids to love, but the jokes are written for the adults.

[froggyfrog]

backyard
fake mma