Are We Headed Into A Boom In Pro Wrestling By 2021?

[Peter Popoff]

These petite guys can wrestle.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

It’s very unlikely that someone like Austin would come along that perfectly embodies the whole... aura of the times that he finds himself living in. We take it for granted because it actually happened but without that man being there right place right time then that era just doesnt reach that white hot level.

I think we should enjoy this moment for what it is, cause this might be the peak.

Unless someone like Austin catches lightning in a bottle and becomes the personification of his era.

i know its not that serious but thats my opinioh

 

[Francis White]

Why is a piece trash making threads in TSC?

 

[RhymesWell]

All it takes is the right guy and gimmick at the right time

 

[SirReginald]

What indies are hot????

MLW, NWA, and etc.

 

[8WON6]

There will never be another late 90's boom. Even with AEW on the scene, people have the technology to watch both shows when they want. The thing about the late 90's was for a lot of people if you missed it live, you missed it forever. So you HAD to watch. What needs to happen is people just enjoy shyt and stop bean counting. This is the best we can hope for, a lot of different feds all have somewhat viewable platforms.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

It’s very unlikely that someone like Austin would come along that perfectly embodies the whole... aura of the times that he finds himself living in. We take it for granted because it actually happened but without that man being there right place right time then that era just doesnt reach that white hot level.

steve Austin didn't spark the last boom period.

thje NWO/WCW is responsible for starting the last boom period.
the WWF kept it going with austin & the rock.

im noticing that I have to say this a lot on here.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

steve Austin didn't spark the last boom period.

thje NWO/WCW is responsible for starting the last boom period.
the WWF kept it going with austin & the rock.

im noticing that I have to say this a lot on here.

i didnt say he started it

I said without him it doesnt reach the same level, and anyone can stand by that since he was the top selling act of all time

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Cody, young bucks and Seth Rollins not gonna make wrestling cool again
Wrestling fans are losers just like they’ve always been apart from that brief 97-99 period

Wrestlings fans are so self loathing do better breh

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

i didnt say he started it
I said without him it doesnt reach the same level, and anyone can stand by that since he was the top selling act of all time

I disagree with that as well.

hes the top-selling act within strictly the WWF. and even then, Hogan outdid him when you factor in that Austin came later and had the benefit of more avenues and much higher prices.

also, Austin's name takes credit for a lot of stuff after the rock already began to surpass him in popularity.

 

[Larry]

Judging by those ratings, nope



AEW and NXT will continue to have their niche audience within the broader pool of wrestling fans, and ratings will continue stay in the 0’s


Raw and smackdown will continue to be trash, Vince will continue to roll in the dough and we’ll continue to complain every week

 

[El Cocodrilo]

I disagree with that as well.

hes the top-selling act within strictly the WWF. and even then, Hogan outdid him when you factor in that Austin came later and had the benefit of more avenues and much higher prices.

also, Austin's name takes credit for a lot of stuff after the rock already began to surpass him in popularity.

I feel like you're grasping at straws man. It is well understood that Stone Cold at his prime was the most over pro wrestler ever with smarks and casuals alike.

 

[Renzo]

I feel like you're grasping at straws man. It is well understood that Stone Cold at his prime was the most over pro wrestler ever with smarks and casuals alike.

Hogan was bigger than Austin at his peak. Didnt the Saturday night main event Hogan vs Andre have something like 20mil people tune in? And he kicked off two boom periods as a face and a hee? You had to have lived thru peak Hogan to understand just how big he was.. still a racist piece of shyt though.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Judging by those ratings, nope

AEW and NXT will continue to have their niche audience within the broader pool of wrestling fans, and ratings will continue stay in the 0’s

Raw and smackdown will continue to be trash, Vince will continue to roll in the dough and we’ll continue to complain every week

wrestling right now is reminding me of around this time of year in 1995.
just without the same level of star-power BUT the game is deeper now with more quality & variety.

we're certainly on pace for something epic.

im excited.
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I feel like you're grasping at straws man. It is well understood that Stone Cold at his prime was the most over pro wrestler ever with smarks and casuals alike.

im not grasping for anything.

you were maybe too young for Hogan. hes literally a household name, even for people who are oblivious to wrestling. Austin never reached that level.
which would also mean that youre too young to remember when there was no weekly LIVE primetime tv, and when PPVs were months apart and they only charged a dub at the most, etc etc. things that skew the numbers in Austin's favor if youre just looking at figures with no perspective.

we don't even have to dig in the crates. we can just look at Austin in real-time. Goldberg was neck-n-neck with him in '98. arguably bigger.
by the summer of '99, we can keep it strictly WWF and note that the rock was an equal to him on his own show, and by the end of the year, the rock was more over and out-popping him.
and even when rock was the man, but Austin was main eventing, Austin gets unrightfully credited in the books for those numbers as well.

only time Hogan somewhat fell into a 1A/1B situation was for that time period that lasted less than two years when the warrior hit the main event scene, before he went AWOL & left.

 

[El Cocodrilo]

im not grasping for anything.

you were maybe too young for Hogan. hes literally a household name, even for people who are oblivious to wrestling. Austin never reached that level.
which would also mean that youre too young to remember when there was no weekly LIVE primetime tv, and when PPVs were months apart and they only charged a dub at the most, etc etc. things that skew the numbers in Austin's favor if youre just looking at figures with no perspective.

we don't even have to dig in the crates. we can just look at Austin in real-time. Goldberg was neck-n-neck with him in '98. arguably bigger.
by the summer of '99, we can keep it strictly WWF and note that the rock was an equal to him on his own show, and by the end of the year, the rock was more over and out-popping him.
and even when rock was the man, but Austin was main eventing, Austin gets unrightfully credited in the books for those numbers as well.

only time Hogan somewhat fell into a 1A/1B situation was for that time period that lasted less than two years when the warrior hit the main event scene, before he went AWOL & left.

This is what I mean by grasping at straws

When youre trying to discredit Austin, its not his numbers even though he’s main eventing

When youre trying to up Hogan, then nah he was never anything less than the top guy his whole career

Even tho WWF beat WCW we are gonna really sit here and pretend Goldberg was bigger than Austin just cause some people said so at the time

I know Hogan well, im 30 now but i watched since i was 2 and saw tapes of the 80s stuff in the 90s plus youtube/p2p throughout the last 20 years
I know what Hogan did, even in the ruthless aggression era

But none of that has anything to do with my original point, which is just that Austin embodied the feel of his era more than anyone before or after and took the wwf to a level it wouldn’t have reached

I understand the reasons why you dont think im right but I disagree