Can We Make Being A Wrestling Fan Cool?

Rell84shots

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Not as long as both companies cater to the neckbeard crowds. When you turn on wrestling and see vanilla midgets in the ring and smelly ass 300lbs guys with replica belts in the front row, it really makes it hard to sell that to the casual viewers which makes it hard to host a watch party regularly.
 

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I have my wrestling groups. One of my friends is for AEW. I link up with him and his crew. Another friend is WWE and once in a while an AEW show. We had about 8 heads over his pad for last Mania. None of these dudes look like the typical neckbeard seen at shows.

I’ve come across people who watched wrestling, whether weekly or on occasion, in various jobs I worked.

The IWC is its own little gathering of weirdos and some cool cats here and there.
 

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Everytime I wear a wrestling shirt in stores it's always guys who look like they crawled from under a bridge wanting to talk about wrestling

Awhile back in Walmart some guy followed me around talking about how great Nick Gage is,he said that he was there the day he almost died in some field

I wish I had on more than one face mask that day

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I was wearing an AEW hoodie at work one day had some patient at work who barely had any teeth telling me I should go to some comic book and collectibles store in town because they always show AEW PPVs in there. Nah, I’m good, I don’t hang out with people who have less teeth than Mark Briscoe.
 

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I am noticing a trend of my childhood friends watching wrestling again, but I'm not sure it can be mainstream status again.
 

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all my friends stopped watching in the 2000s. I posted a gif of the fiend Bray Wyatt in a group chat and one of them thought it was Kane :francis:


found it.

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:francis:
 

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Not as long as both companies cater to the neckbeard crowds. When you turn on wrestling and see vanilla midgets in the ring and smelly ass 300lbs guys with replica belts in the front row, it really makes it hard to sell that to the casual viewers which makes it hard to host a watch party regularly.
TK got enough money that he should be doing what WCW was doing back in the day and planting attractive people in the tv visible seats. Like I don’t want to see a trailer park trash convention by ringside.
 
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