Are we in the dark ages of wrestling?

[Reality Check]

Now we get "omg, like omg I wanted to be a wrestler since I saw Hulk Hogan lolz and tee hee hee, I want to be the best"

Wrestling has been all over TV and internet for 20+ years so no fukking shyt this is the case. It's no different than a kid watching a Lakers game and wanting to be like LeBron when they get older.

 

[Jmare007]

The level of superiority a lot of y'all been posting in this thread is fukking hilarious and kind of pathetic to be honest

Acting like wrestlers being "marks", bad booking and corny shyt hasn't been part of the business for like half a century

 

[John Reena]

Yup! Both the top companies have the worst booking of all time. WWE having Edge get kicked out a group he started 2 weeks into being around……AEW wasting Brian Danielson in a pointless dumb stable n getting injured. It’s all bad. It’s sad that Impact booking makes more sense.

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Kyle ocac getting pushed is crazy to me, and raw main event last night was gay porn

 

[DaHNIC82]

Remember when Sasha Banks was talking about watching the WWE Network to see Mick Foley's Hell in the Cell match to get into that mode? Like no sort of identity nowadays.

Like wrestlers back in the days had background tropes that work with the character. Vader coming out of nowhere just to murder wrestlers because he was from the Rocky Mountains. Sabu letting the scars from his matches tell the story of how psychotic he really is.

Now we get "omg, like omg I wanted to be a wrestler since I saw Hulk Hogan lolz and tee hee hee, I want to be the best"

I give it to the new NXT. Even though I won't watch that shyt if you had a Jigsaw shotgun trap to my dome, at least they realize this mark shyt is getting corny and redundant by giving wrestlers actual backgrounds and fukkery storylines.

Case and point

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Yup! Both the top companies have the worst booking of all time. WWE having Edge get kicked out a group he started 2 weeks into being around……AEW wasting Brian Danielson in a pointless dumb stable n getting injured. It’s all bad. It’s sad that Impact booking makes more sense.

Impact sadly is in a sad place of limbo because the company means well from pushing younger talent to having engaging storylines, but the fact remains that the promotion will be forever tainted by Dixie's nonsense.

 

[NOSaintsFan02]

I feel like perspective gets lost as we get older



We’re in someone’s golden era right now. There’s kids out there that are having the time of their lives with todays product and 15 years from now will be having nostalgic conversations about how they miss this era and the current (future) product will never compare.


It’s a cycle. We’ve been around long enough and have watched it happen enough times to understand this by now.

This is true because dudes in their mid 20s be calling the Evolution era (HHH reign of terror) on Twitter as the "glory days" and I remember that era as an Attitude Era fan being like the 'back to work (HHH dominating the title scene era) after an amazing vacation (Attitude Era)" phase of my wrestling fandom lol

 

[WhatsGoodTy]

Case and point

 

[Larry]

This is true because dudes in their mid 20s be calling the Evolution era (HHH reign of terror) on Twitter as the "glory days" and I remember that era as an Attitude Era fan being like the 'back to work (HHH dominating the title scene era) after an amazing vacation (Attitude Era)" phase of my wrestling fandom lol

I got a homie I work with that’s 23 and he swears the Undertaker vs Khali feud was insanity and the peak of wrestling. shyt was a big deal to him. I don’t have the heart to tell him that shyt was fukkin terrible and not remembered fondly by the wrestling world at all

Perspective bro.. once you understand that you’ll never appreciate todays product while holding on to yesterdays perspective, you’ll feel less offended by todays scene. The stuff of today will never have the same hold on as it did in your pubescent growing stage, and it shouldn’t be expected to. That goes for everything. Music, pro wrestling, etc.


todays bullshyt is literally the greatest thing ever to someone out there experiencing it all for the very first time and growing with it. We’ve been around for 20 years, we had our moment. Let the kids of today have there’s lol

 

[br82186]

From a tribalism standpoint...yes, from an in-ring standpoint... no, that belongs to 1995

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

no

it's John Cena month

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

no

it's John Cena month

"Nice reminder"

 

[Lurk Angle]

The biggest marks in the business are the wrestlers themselves. It's always been the case and always will be the case.

Those guys back in the day wasn't looking for dirtsheet approval tho unlike today

Back in the day you could be a mark for yourself if you drew the biggest money which most wrestlers did

 

[MenacingMonk]

The level of superiority a lot of y'all been posting in this thread is fukking hilarious and kind of pathetic to be honest

Acting like wrestlers being "marks", bad booking and corny shyt hasn't been part of the business for like half a century

Straight up dumb shyt to say from them.

FTR been fans and are one of the GOAT tag teams today; might even have another MOTY to go under their name.

Sasha Banks been a fan for a long time and one of the most over female wrasslers. She has the personality and ring work down, yet because she’s a fan that’s a bad thing?

 

[Ricky Dunigan]

I’ve never seen so many black (and other POC) faces in so many companies that even if the booking lets the fans down, I have to appreciate exposure . I would’ve loved that as a kid.

So nah, it’s not the dark ages to me at all.