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

[XannyWarbucks]

Don’t no one give a shyt about aew. Roman reigns is in a boom so wwe gets paid. That’s really it. Casuals are fukking with Roman hard, y’all don’t even know. Absolutely no one gives a shyt about aew, they don’t even do 4k ticket sales per show lol.

What? He's not even on Cena's level and that's with a longer sustained push.
With Cena, I could fukking see why he was pushed because it was fukking visible. Sure, smarks hated him, but casuals ate all his shyt up. Roman doesn't have a base anywhere near that level.

This is a phrase that was popularized in 1998. Nobody is fukking referencing anyone from today like that. shyt, Embiid was humping the floor like coked-up Shawn Michaels, so WWE went all in with the "suck it" taunts last night because they had some semblance of relevance in the media. Nobody from today has that power. shyt is too corporate.

 

[Finn Baller]

The type of shyt that is "current" now in terms of pop culture would be too controversial because EVERYTHING gets politicized now

Andrew Tate is more relevant with teenagers than anybody in WWE but that doesn't mean they can be out here giving a wrestler the 1999 Jeff Jarrett gimmick again

 

[Instant Classic]

I don't think wrestling will ever be popular as it was in the 90s, and that's okay. I think even if they were able to create new stars it still wouldn't attract people like it used to. If you look at something like the UFC which was a major thing 15 years ago and now most people don't care unless Conor is on the card. I think we just have to accept people aren't going to come back to watch wrestling weekly, but you might have casual fans that will check royal rumble and mania for nostalgia.

Anyways, the important thing is the industry is in a healthy state with 2 major companies on network cable. As a fan we have options, but I just don't think wrestling will have the same pull as used to. Also, unsure if the younger demographic sticks with wrestling for that long or drop it quickly.

 

[DANJ!]

A boom period is always a "maybe"... that requires lots of casuals, and honestly, casuals that may eventually stop watching again after it cools off and isn't the "hot shyt" of the moment (because that's happened in both the previous booms) It would be cool to see it happen, but right now I'm just taking it as it is- a time when the product is mostly good and feeling fresh with newer guys being built up to be around the top of the card.

 

[DANJ!]

Wrestling doesn't have to reach the heights of the attitude era to be considered a 'boom' period.

Hogan's run was a boom period as well.

Right! I understand some people may not have been around to see that, but WWF shyt was everywhere, in some ways even more than the Attitude Era was. Hogan-Andre on Main Event in '88 drew bigger TV ratings than anything before or since (including any ep of Raw or Smackdown) and is probably gonna remain the most-watched wrestling show of all time (15.2, 33 million viewers). Mania V had the most wrestling PPV buys until Mania XV. Between '85-'89 and '98-'01, those two eras are probably THE two where you can ask anyone who grew up in those times about wrestling and even if they didn't watch, they can name 2 or 3 stars from it. I don't know right now if you can ask a non-wrestling fan about it and they can name anyone who's currently poppin', unless they have kids who watch it. It would be dope if there was a new boom, though.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

I think we’re already booming. Wrestling is popular as shyt in mainstream America no matter how much people love to downplay it. It’s still one of the most consistently watched things on tv every week, and engagement across social media is always high. There’s never not a night wrestling isn’t trending whenever it’s on (WWE/AEW)


comparing its numbers to those from the late 90’s or even the mid 2010’s is a bad way to gauge. The way people consume has changed so much, we’ll never see numbers like that again the same way the NBA will never see MJ finals ratings again. No matter how popular pro wrestling gets, it’s never gonna do Monday Night Football type of numbers. Y’all gotta let that go.


Pretending Wrestling is some dying pop culturally irrelevant shyt is crazy tho. We got NFL players doing wrestling taunts as celebrations, popular rappers referencing wrestling shyt in their raps, etc.


Stop selling this shyt short. It’s still popping heavily

The biggest taunts NFL and NBA players have done recently were just this week.

Embiid did the suck it pose...from the Attitude Era.
Kelce did The Rock after winning the AFC Championship Game...from the Attitude Era.

You're kind of making the point for people. These references in mainstream continue to be majority Attitude Era stuff.

Now the definition of "boom" could arguably be subjective, but I ain't seeing no football players saying "Acknowledge Me" yet or rappers making a Seth Rollins reference lol.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

And an underrated thing is when Embiid does the DX chop mainstream media and casuals KNOW it's DX. When Kelce cut a promo on the Cincinnatti mayor everyone knows he was doing The Rock. Even if Jalen Hurts gets on the Super Bowl stage in two weeks and says "Arizona...acknowledge me!", only wrestling fans will get the reference lol

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

The biggest taunts NFL and NBA players have done recently were just this week.

Embiid did the suck it pose...from the Attitude Era.
Kelce did The Rock after winning the AFC Championship Game...from the Attitude Era.

You're kind of making the point for people. These references in mainstream continue to be majority Attitude Era stuff.

Now the definition of "boom" could arguably be subjective, but I ain't seeing no football players saying "Acknowledge Me" yet or rappers making a Seth Rollins reference lol.

To be fair...we were so close with the Yes Movement, but Vince killed that shyt before it even got out of the water. That's all WWE for treating its brand like 50 did G Unit (avoiding outside collaborations and embracing pop culture outside the Shady/Aftermath bubble).

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

To be fair...we were so close with the Yes Movement, but Vince killed that shyt before it even got out of the water. That's all WWE for treating its brand like 50 did G Unit (avoiding outside collaborations and embracing pop culture outside the Shady/Aftermath bubble).

There's still stuff from recent eras that get love. I swear it took a while but Cena's You Can't See Me finally took off in mainstream long after he abandoned the rap gimmick lol

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I wouldn't say that wrestling is in a "boom" per se, but it always occupies these weird spaces between mainstream & niche.

It can trend on Twitter, but not get 1/10th of the rating of an NFL game.

It can sell out arenas, but it's stars not be recognizable to 95% of the population.

Wrestling, probably more than any other type of entertainment is probably indicative of how fragmented our culture is.

It's not like the days you only had 3 channels and 100 million people watched MASH or something.

We live in a world where nobody watches sitcoms or dramas like that anymore or anything that isn't NFL football & presidential elections.

Wrestling's entrance into the mainstream is through it's current stars.

Young, hip people like Street Profits, Bianca Belair, Sasha Banks, Ricky Starks, MJF, etc. . .going starring in movies, doing SNL, being seen with rappers/pop stars, etc. . .bringing eyes to the business along with people like The Paul Brothers & Bad Bunny.

So, it could be bigger, but it's not a complete niche either.

 

[Saint1]

I think it's in it's "boom" period now. WWE making more money than ever. One of the best storylines of all time. The other company is doing well.

 

[prophecypro]

Not a boom period but people got options

 

[Rell84shots]

 

[Ill-Yaz]

Nothing beats the Attitude Era. Nothing!

 

[White City Black]

No but this is the healthiest the wrestling business has been in a long time.

Yea the wrestling biz as a whole is doing well, from the indies all the way up to the ‘E, so we’re at least thankful for that

There isn’t that “Must See TV” aspect there tho, and it’s definitely not like the Austin/Rock period where folks you know full well wouldn’t watch no damn wrestling, were actually watching wrestling

If there was a more mainstream appeal and demand for rasslin like that, Impact and MLW would’ve gotten better tv deals than they have