Are Brand Exclusive PPVs better Now or in the Past?

[Spyro]

We pretty much agree, I just meant from a technical standpoint. You can pair up a ton of dudes today and have a lot of at minimum 3 star matches, but at the same time, you wouldn't have that same investment in those characters as you had back then. Hell, I'm sure I'll end up re-watching Kane vs Rock just cause you mentioned it

Compare this 10 minutes, to the Rollins/Reigns main event on Monday. Better crowd, better commentary, better ring announcer, set looks better, Kane/Rock are better in every way than Rollins/Reigns; match wasn't too long, match actually had meaning (number one contender's match), nice little ending with the heel winning after the heel champion interfered compared to Rollins losing clean just so Reigns could get his win back... it's still real to Roman dammit!!! Match was also better, better selling/pacing and timing of big moves, Rock was getting huge reactions from solitary punches; nice assortment of big moves but not too many to overkill, Rock didn't even do one finisher to Kane and one chokeslam ended it. Compare that to Reigns doing about 50 superman punches or something

Basically, everything was better back then

 

[CapitalOne]

In the past

Raw 4 ppv
SD 4 ppv
Split the big 4

One ppv a month not this every two weeks bullshyt

 

[richaveli83]

The original brand. I had stopped watching wrestling regularly during the early to mid 2000's but the talent in the Ruthless Aggression era was far superior than now. I've been reading Wikipedia results and watching a few old ppv's on the network and the company was still on fire at the time. That is not to discredit the current roster because there are some talented people in the present.

Maybe because I wasn't watching consistently during the mid 2000's but I don't know why the Ruthless Aggression era gets shytted on by some people.

 

[bruistoff]

@Spyro

I remember this match. I watched it live. It was actually the first match that started off 2001. Memories

 

[Playaz Eyez]

The original brand. I had stopped watching wrestling regularly during the early to mid 2000's but the talent in the Ruthless Aggression era was far superior than now. I've been reading Wikipedia results and watching a few old ppv's on the network and the company was still on fire at the time. That is not to discredit the current roster because there are some talented people in the present.

Maybe because I wasn't watching consistently during the mid 2000's but I don't know why the Ruthless Aggression era gets shytted on by some people.

I think it's cause depending on how long you feel Ruthless Aggression is (I always consider it from the 1st brand extension up until the PG shift after Benoit's murder-suicide), the bad parts of Ruthless Aggression are rrrrrrrrrreally bad. HHH murdering the entire roster basically covers 4+ years of that era. Then there's pushes for Heidenreich, Orlando Jordan, a super green Chris Master, Scott Steiner embarrassing himself so bad that he was sent to the midcard to feud with Test and Chris Nowinski, Vince pissing on ECW and turning it to Superstars, Jesse & Festus, Khali, Deuce N Domino, The Highlanders, Kenzo Suzuki, Big Vito in a dress, uuuugggggh I can go on

 

[ManBearPig]

Talent wise this era is better

AJ is the only super talented wrestler that headlines shyt.

 

[Spyro]

@Spyro

I remember this match. I watched it live. It was actually the first match that started off 2001. Memories

KaGOAT was such an underrated wrestler back then, KaGOAT in his prime is better than most of these flippy midgets nowadays

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Now. Brand split PPVs back in the day were absolute shyt. At least now if it's a bad show, you paid only $10 for an entire month of programming. Imagine paying $40 per show for all of that garbage they used to produce.

 

[RammerJammer]

It depends on what years though, like 2003 then I'll take then. 2004-2007 then I'll take now.

Hard to turn down a PPV featuring Angle, Benoit, Guerreros, Taker, and Lesnar but that's 2003.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

depends on the brand and which years
them later ones from the first brand exclusives were just garbage

 

[Spyro]

In the past

Raw 4 ppv
SD 4 ppv
Split the big 4

One ppv a month not this every two weeks bullshyt

Yeah doing like 20+ is such fukking overkill

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Now. Brand split PPVs back in the day were absolute shyt. At least now if it's a bad show, you paid only $10 for an entire month of programming. Imagine paying $40 per show for all of that garbage they used to produce.

Yea its really pick your own poison

40 dollars for the dying Attitude Era/ Smackdown 6 years

Or

10 dollars for the ultra athletic vanilla midgets with no mainstream appeal

 

[Playaz Eyez]

depends on the brand and which years
them later ones from the first brand exclusives were just garbage

This as well. SD from 02-parts of 04 were great, but take a look at Judgement Day 04

This was 1 good match (Eddie vs JBL) and nothing else.

Look at Great American Bash 04

Another card full of forgettable to downright bad matches, this time, with two good matches (Rey/Chavo, Eddie/JBL). Taker vs Dudleyz main eventing was

Won't even mention stuff like December To Dismember, and DX embarrassing themselves from 06-07