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BrehWyatt said:
TL;DR -- The point of my ensuing rambling/rant is that today's product is lazy, harmed by how great their developmental brand is and it lacks cohesion.

Rant - Wrestlemania is the only PPV that gets a special set/pyro. It always kicks ass. That said, every other PPV is basically a Raw/SD with different logos set-wise and a theme song. The entrance set doesn't change. And as someone who made it a point to watch Heat JUST TO SEE PPV ENTRANCE SETS ... I'm like :francis:

SD/Raw barely even do the damn show opening theme that gets people hyped.

I get cutting costs, but having that pyro, the video packages and all that ... it made you feel like you were at something important. It got you hyped. Instead, you're at a slightly longer version of the TV show you've been watching for the last 2-3 weeks, if not longer.

And then you get to the matches, realizing that a lot of times are just rematches from the Raw or SD you saw a couple weeks ago. Or it has that person from NXT you saw rise through the ranks and look like they had the Juice, only to get made to look dumber than Eugene against an inferior opponent.

PPVs used to carry a sense of finality and urgency to them. The matches either closed a chapter or a feud or at the very least, added fuel to the fire, etc. Nowadays they are inconsequential. Take Roman vs. Lashley from Extreme Rules. Watching that match, a part of me was like ... "Are they really gonna give Lashley a try? :lupe:"

Then they retconned it two weeks later on Raw in a rematch that carried much more significant stakes. :why:

Today's product doesn't seem to be written to make sense. You just get an objective and are told to do whatever it takes to reach the objective. That coupled with fans thinking that if they bytch hard enough and revolt hard enough they can actually change shyt ... you get what we have today: a product squandering its embarrassment of riches but somehow stumbling into just enough greatness to keep people hooked, because when it's good, it's GOOD.
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this the longest post i think i've ever seen in a watch party :wow::salute:
 
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JerseyBoy23 said:
I think another thing we're forgetting about the crowd reaction is how close it was to the Attitude Era. Ratings weren't close to peak 1999 ratings but they were still respectable and people still believed the product could make a comeback.

Now we're almost 20 years from wrestling's biggest boom and the crowd has either grown up with mild crowds or they've given up on wrestling being mainstream again.
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That's true

Those NXT crowds are fun though, they just don't sound like this cuz there's less of them
 
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