Post by Andrew is Good on Jan 28, 2007 19:59:09 GMT -5
Today I went out to buy some wrestling DVDs. Because of my work, I haven't had much of a chance to go out and actually do things. So I went to the mall and to CD plus and bought a bunch of WWE DVDs, and I also got an FIP DVD, a CZW DVD and a documentary. Pretty good load today. Anyway, there was this little kid by me who got the ECW December to Dismember pay per view. He said to me, wow, you're a bigger wrestling fan to me. Lol, I thought that was pretty funny. Anyway, he talked about how he was a big fan of ECW. And knowing how unpopular that is now, you have a new young fan. He talked about if I saw ECW this week, and he said Sabu was wrestling this week, making me believe that his favourite was Sabu.
I always felt that ECW could only be shown towards an adult audience, because of what it was like before, and also how they have a bunch of random strippers on the show and such. But then I thought about myself when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I had posters all over my room about wrestling. I took pinups out from PWI magazines and put everything on my wall. Including bikini glad pictures of Sunny, Sable and Marlena. And my mom didn't like the fact I had them on my wall, but I didn't know why. I honestly didn't see them at the time as hot women. I just saw them as people who were on WWE.
I also thought about this post I saw someone make elsewhere. Basically the person posted a picture of two young fans who were white, and Cryme Tyme marks. They had a sign that was pro Cryme Tyme and basically he posted this is what WWE's way to help race relations or something. Basically he was mocking the kids (I know, a smark mocking kids who are wrestling fans, that's NEVER happened before, usually smarks aren't arrogant assholes). And I commented to him, like, they're babyfaces, of course they're gonna have signs for them. I compare those fans to the way I was when I was younger with racism.
At the beginning of the summer of 1997, there was a feud between the then-WWF Champion The Undertaker and the leader of the Nation, Faarooq. Now, before Faarooq was around saying DAMN! all the time, he was the leader of the Nation and was complaining that there was never a black WWE Champion. I remember one interview in particular that Vince McMahon felt Faarooq was using the race card. And as a young fan watching it, I thought to myself, race card? What's a race card? Is it like, a card that people use to race around.
To me at that time, Faarooq was just a wrestler. Yeah, I knew his skin was darker then others, but he was just a wrestler. And that's what I think when I think of kids who watch wrestling, and there maybe some risque things going on. Do people actually think kids get completely what they're seeing? They're just watching the product to enjoy it.
That's why I hate it, I just hate it when I heard stories of smarks mocking kids who like certain people because the person they like isn't a big fan of workrate, but are fans of the wrestler themselves. Do you think a kid cares about someone's workrate. Yeah, they'll notice someone is a better wrestler then others because the commentators tell them. They know that Chris Benoit is a great technical wrestler, but their favourites are gonna be the ones they can relate to, and people who are generally good people, like a John Cena.
But yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that the kid was a fan anyway, and a fan of ECW. Even though people think ECW is dying, there are still some young fans who really dig it, and dig the ECW originals. I just wish WWE would push those ECW originals.
I always felt that ECW could only be shown towards an adult audience, because of what it was like before, and also how they have a bunch of random strippers on the show and such. But then I thought about myself when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I had posters all over my room about wrestling. I took pinups out from PWI magazines and put everything on my wall. Including bikini glad pictures of Sunny, Sable and Marlena. And my mom didn't like the fact I had them on my wall, but I didn't know why. I honestly didn't see them at the time as hot women. I just saw them as people who were on WWE.
I also thought about this post I saw someone make elsewhere. Basically the person posted a picture of two young fans who were white, and Cryme Tyme marks. They had a sign that was pro Cryme Tyme and basically he posted this is what WWE's way to help race relations or something. Basically he was mocking the kids (I know, a smark mocking kids who are wrestling fans, that's NEVER happened before, usually smarks aren't arrogant assholes). And I commented to him, like, they're babyfaces, of course they're gonna have signs for them. I compare those fans to the way I was when I was younger with racism.
At the beginning of the summer of 1997, there was a feud between the then-WWF Champion The Undertaker and the leader of the Nation, Faarooq. Now, before Faarooq was around saying DAMN! all the time, he was the leader of the Nation and was complaining that there was never a black WWE Champion. I remember one interview in particular that Vince McMahon felt Faarooq was using the race card. And as a young fan watching it, I thought to myself, race card? What's a race card? Is it like, a card that people use to race around.
To me at that time, Faarooq was just a wrestler. Yeah, I knew his skin was darker then others, but he was just a wrestler. And that's what I think when I think of kids who watch wrestling, and there maybe some risque things going on. Do people actually think kids get completely what they're seeing? They're just watching the product to enjoy it.
That's why I hate it, I just hate it when I heard stories of smarks mocking kids who like certain people because the person they like isn't a big fan of workrate, but are fans of the wrestler themselves. Do you think a kid cares about someone's workrate. Yeah, they'll notice someone is a better wrestler then others because the commentators tell them. They know that Chris Benoit is a great technical wrestler, but their favourites are gonna be the ones they can relate to, and people who are generally good people, like a John Cena.
But yeah, I thought it was pretty cool that the kid was a fan anyway, and a fan of ECW. Even though people think ECW is dying, there are still some young fans who really dig it, and dig the ECW originals. I just wish WWE would push those ECW originals.
