Are you Enjoying Wrestling?

[Jmare007]

Yup.

 

[Finn Baller]

Short answer is I've never NOT enjoyed wrestling since I started watching 30+ years ago
I never sweated the stuff that people considered awful because even "bad" wrestling is still more interesting to me than 95% of what is on TV didn't mean I actively thought it was good, it just doesn't make me angry the way it seemingly does others online. Even when TNA or late WCW was like BAD bad, I got enjoyment from the fukkery


Plus even if the product is boring or bad (like current AEW can be), I still enjoy talking about the business and the booking. Sometimes in sports your team sucks ass so its more fun to look at mock drafts or play GM with the trade machine etc.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Short answer is I've never NOT enjoyed wrestling since I started watching 30+ years ago
I never sweated the stuff that people considered awful because even "bad" wrestling is still more interesting to me than 95% of what is on TV didn't mean I actively thought it was good, it just doesn't make me angry the way it seemingly does others online. Even when TNA or late WCW was like BAD bad, I got enjoyment from the fukkery


Plus even if the product is boring or bad (like current AEW can be), I still enjoy talking about the business and the booking. Sometimes in sports your team sucks ass so its more fun to look at mock drafts or play GM with the trade machine etc.

Yeah I find myself doing mostly that, and just cutting off my brain for the actual product lol. Like when it was just WWE and TNA before I got exposed to NJPW, I found myself talking about behind the scenes side, more so than the actual shows because both were kinda pep before Phil dropped the pipebomb.

At the end of the day, if I don't care for watching the shyt... Gifs and TSC cliff notes will do. But when I'm tapped in on my casual steez:

 

[Hey_zeus]

Yep.

It's too much wrestling to not find something enjoyable if you truly love it. When I get bored I just switch genres or eras. Current stuff is just OK to me outside of work rate. Dump doc got me watching AJW 80s/90s comps. Finally getting around to the Mr McMahon doc and that got me wanting to check Golden Era WWF to see the transition of his father to him. It's always something to deep dive if you care to.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Yep.

It's too much wrestling to not find something enjoyable if you truly love it. When I get bored I just switch genres or eras. Current stuff is just OK to me outside of work rate. Dump doc got me watching AJW 80s/90s comps. Finally getting around to the Mr McMahon doc and that got me wanting to check Golden Era WWF to see the transition of his father to him. It's always something to deep dive if you care to.

Breh there's this channel on Twitch that's playing CZW, ROH, and ECW shows . Had the marsupial criss cross apple sauce to Cage of Death V

 

[Hey_zeus]

Breh there's this channel on Twitch that's playing CZW, ROH, and ECW shows . Had the marsupial criss cross apple sauce to Cage of Death V

Link me doggy

 

[Finn Baller]

Yep.

It's too much wrestling to not find something enjoyable if you truly love it. When I get bored I just switch genres or eras. Current stuff is just OK to me outside of work rate. Dump doc got me watching AJW 80s/90s comps. Finally getting around to the Mr McMahon doc and that got me wanting to check Golden Era WWF to see the transition of his father to him. It's always something to deep dive if you care to.

the work-rate of today starts to remind me of the NBA Dunk Contest where stuff that was mind-blowing back in the day is now pedestrian and forces the issue of people having to do absolutely insane shyt to wow you.

For better or worse, for ME, the novelty of a move or sequence wears off pretty fast once I've seen it a couple times so if that's your only real calling card then I'm gonna get bored with you no matter how spectacular it might be. I think that's one thing I dislike a lot about current wrestling is when the point of the match becomes getting 4.5+ stars from Meltzer and having a "great match" instead of telling a story where the audience is fully behind wanting someone to win. Every era that ever drew big was about people paying money to see their favorites WIN more than seeing them have "great matches"

 

[Hey_zeus]

the work-rate of today starts to remind me of the NBA Dunk Contest where stuff that was mind-blowing back in the day is now pedestrian and forces the issue of people having to do absolutely insane shyt to wow you.

For better or worse, for ME, the novelty of a move or sequence wears off pretty fast once I've seen it a couple times so if that's your only real calling card then I'm gonna get bored with you no matter how spectacular it might be. I think that's one thing I dislike a lot about current wrestling is when the point of the match becomes getting 4.5+ stars from Meltzer and having a "great match" instead of telling a story where the audience is fully behind wanting someone to win. Every era that ever drew big was about people paying money to see their favorites WIN more than seeing them have "great matches"

The work today is very homogeneous globally which kills the depth of relevance in some forms of wrestling. There needs to be differentiation regionally for wrestling to interest me. I like to theoretically channel surf wrestling sometimes and I'm seeing too much of the same content on every channel. I'm yelling at clouds rnbut for this obvious reason it used to be better. Just on depth of work alone.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Link me doggy

 

[Finn Baller]

The work today is very homogeneous globally which kills the depth of relevance in some forms of wrestling. There needs to be differentiation regionally for wrestling to interest me. I like to theoretically channel surf wrestling sometimes and I'm seeing too much of the same content on every channel. I'm yelling at clouds rnbut for this obvious reason it used to be better. Just on depth of work alone.

the idea of what constitutes a "great match" has just become so formulaic in both companies because of the over-reliance on false finishes, you end up having to spam finishers in order to get the audience to buy into a finish. The irony is that the amount of absolutely spectacular moves should accomplish the exact opposite. If a mother fukker can do a triple springboard moonsault, that should end a match or two instead of having everything still revolve around the same 1 or 2 finishers for a wrestler

 

[Hey_zeus]

the idea of what constitutes a "great match" has just become so formulaic in both companies because of the over-reliance on false finishes, you end up having to spam finishers in order to get the audience to buy into a finish. The irony is that the amount of absolutely spectacular moves should accomplish the exact opposite. If a mother fukker can do a triple springboard moonsault, that should end a match or two instead of having everything still revolve around the same 1 or 2 finishers for a wrestler

Sports entertainment has a new meaning. This is the most athletic wrestling has ever been and I'm not sure it's for the best. Sometimes less is more.

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Yes and no. Some shows are a hit, miss, or complete miss aka


I enjoy shooting the shyt with y’all tho especially the ones I really fukk with

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Just Punk, Drew, and Gunther
The Bloodline story is about to be more interesting
Cody is boring aF

I'll catch a few Osperay, Swerve, and Danielson matches for my AEW fix

 

[DANJ!]

I do enjoy it. For one, there's not anything on TV that I watch regularly and complain about all the time, I'm highly likely to tune out first if I'm not enjoying it. I don't necessarily find everything on these shows to be excellent, but the stuff I like far outweighs the shyt I don't care for. Also, seeing how seriously some people take it and incessantly have meltdowns over everything that isn't done the way they want it, it reminds me not to be THOSE guys

 

[MenacingMonk]

to be excellent, but the stuff I like far outweighs the shyt I don't care for.

And here’s why dudes always complain. None of this shyt is perfect; it’s never been perfect. If you can’t enjoy the positives and focus on the “negative,” why waste time watching it? It’s just dumb.