Are we about to enter a boom period? - Triple H: "We are setting records all over. It's a Special Time."

[Ripp]

Seth Rollins agrees with OP.

Saying you're in a boom means you aren't in a boom... imagine stone cold saying "were in the boom" in 98

 

[White City Black]

A wrestling “boom” in today’s world is gonna look different than the booms of yesterday. Just how it is

I understand everyone feeling that the peak of a “boom” is when you have all these people that never fukk with pro wrestling At All all of a sudden adding popular catchphrases and mannerisms to their vernacular and using them in general public

But, from Vanessa Hudgens paying tribute to Bray Wyatt on Twitter, to the other actress outing herself as watching a WWE PLE (and all the goofs flooding her comments with that “BythewayyoushoukdalsocheckoutAEWDynamiteWednesdaynightsonTBSlulz”), today’s wrestling is reaching more folks lowkey than some of us might realize

 

[KFBF]

It's an internal boom. I don't think it has the mainstream appeal that it has had in the past.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

A wrestling “boom” in today’s world is gonna look different than the booms of yesterday. Just how it is

I understand everyone feeling that the peak of a “boom” is when you have all these people that never fukk with pro wrestling At All all of a sudden adding popular catchphrases and mannerisms to their vernacular and using them in general public

But, from Vanessa Hudgens paying tribute to Bray Wyatt on Twitter, to the other actress outing herself as watching a WWE PLE (and all the goofs flooding her comments with that “BythewayyoushoukdalsocheckoutAEWDynamiteWednesdaynightsonTBSlulz”), today’s wrestling is reaching more folks lowkey than some of us might realize

Agreed there’s too much stuff to do now to ever match the mainstream 80s or 90s boom. Only stuff on Netflix gets that big nowadays and even then it’s a fraction of what Friends did and that was the most watched show on TV from 98 to 2001.

Nothing outside of football, playoffs or a breaking news story is ever getting more than 8 million live viewers again.

 

[THE 101]

AEW can't fill arenas.

Ask the random person on the street who Roman Reigns is and they'll hit you with

Ain't no fukkin boom period. If you lived through the real boom period you would know this ain't that

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Seth Rollins agrees with OP.

Gotdamn I hated that belt the first time I seen it but seeing it for the second time I have to say They did a hell of a job making a try WWE version of the “Big Gold Belt”

 

[Cladyclad]

Dude Roman so over I only watched his segments and matches the last 3 years

I turned into a M&M

“I don’t like wrestling but I fukks with the bloodline”

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

There was no point in the history of wrestling where two different companies could fill a football stadium. By the time WWE took over WCW in popularity, WCW was already in a downward spiral.

The reason why there aren't people wearing "Bloodline" shirts everywhere you go is because everything in the world is too spread out. It's the same reason why millions of people will listen to Lil Durk or Lil B but they can't sell enough tickets to sell out most arenas. Everything in the world in 'niche'

 

[KingBeez]

This is the first time in a long time that I’ve seen people openly talk about wrestling in public spaces that aren’t wrestling related. In Canada for a wedding, and two of the guys were mentioning WWE and saying “YEAH”

Also, the Indy shows I attend have been packed consistently in the bay. I got a couple of homies who don’t watch wrestling at all now but did growing up going to Indy shyt like Hoodslam in the bay (highly recommend btw, it’s like a bay area version of Chikara)

 

[Rell84shots]

Seth Rollins agrees with OP.

It's not. Did you see the crowd and ratings for this past Dynamite? Impact is still a shell of itself, and no one still gives a fukk about NWA. WWE is the only company in a boom period, but RAW is about to get killed every week with MNF starting again. I actually can't wait for the last one, because maybe then HHH will stop shyt booking and put some effort into RAW.

 

[StatUS]

Wrestling is probably more popular now then is has been since 2002. 2 companies are doing good business is proof. If AEW was TNA status I'd have to disagree.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Wrestling is probably more popular now then is has been since 2002. 2 companies are doing good business is proof. If AEW was TNA status I'd have to disagree.

TNA's record attendance was like 6000 fans. When people say "but they used to average 2 million viewers" or whatever the number was it was a lot easier to do that when everyone had cable. Unfortunately it never translated to live attendance or even PPV buys. They'd usually do about 20-30,000 buys or something aside from shyt like Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle.

At one point I really fukked with TNA too. When Kurt, Joe, Sting and Christian all came in

I'm currently listening to the Lapsed Fan podcast about Hogan and Bischoff's time there. They really fukked it up.

 

[StatUS]

TNA's record attendance was like 6000 fans. When people say "but they used to average 2 million viewers" or whatever the number was it was a lot easier to do that when everyone had cable. Unfortunately it never translated to live attendance or even PPV buys. They'd usually do about 20-30,000 buys or something aside from shyt like Samoa Joe vs. Kurt Angle.

At one point I really fukked with TNA too. When Kurt, Joe, Sting and Christian all came in

I'm currently listening to the Lapsed Fan podcast about Hogan and Bischoff's time there. They really fukked it up.

Ironically, right before Hogan came in Vince Russo figured out how to book a decent wrestling show that made sense.

 

[MenacingMonk]

It’s not a mainstream boom, but a boom within the industry. I’lol say it’s the internet that has made it more available to find and talk about.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]