There's like only 1 or 2 nostalgia acts/stories from the last 10 years

[momma]

Look at how many nostalgia acts they trod out from the 80s, 90s and early-mid 2000s. They're still putting out Monday Night Wars documentaries 20 years later

Now look at how many acts from the last decade that are memorable enough to be used today. The Shield, CM Punk, that's about it. WWE hasn't created memories in ages and that's why they shyt is trash

 

[Hey_zeus]

Big facts momma.

 

[DANJ!]

Cena's damn near one. The less he shows up for these lil' three/four week runs, the more of a nostalgia/legacy guy he'll become.

Everyone else from the last 5 or so years that was poppin' is pretty much still there tho', right? Nobody else has really gone anywhere to get brought back.

 

[momma]

Cena's damn near one. The less he shows up for these lil' three/four week runs, the more of a nostalgia/legacy guy he'll become.

Everyone else from the last 5 or so years that was poppin' is pretty much still there tho', right? Nobody else has really gone anywhere to get brought back.

I'm not talking about John Cena or Batista. I'm talking people who debuted and/or became poppin in the "PG Era".

 

[DANJ!]

I'm not talking about John Cena or Batista. I'm talking people who debuted and/or became poppin in the "PG Era".

That was like 10 years ago... most of em are still there.

The only ones I can think of that came out then, were notable names, and arent still there now are Del Rio, Cody, John Morrison, Wade Barrett, and Ryback...

Everyone else is on the current roster.

Would Lashley count? He's more mid-00s.

 

[NYChase718]

Shield return number 4

Batista return number 2

 

[﹏﹏⛴﹏﹏﹏﹏﹏]

I tend to agree with a talking point brought up on a podcast I listen to which is the product is hasn't progressed. If you compared differences between ten year spans of their history, 2009-2019 wouldn't compare to 1989-1999 or 1999-2009.

But you have consider the fact that with the network, you don't need to sell PPVs. So it's not the matchups or wrestlers that are important, it's the network. The WWE brand matters, not the individuals, unless you're a McMahon of course.

 

[Carl Tethers]

What? You mean the second Shield reunion after a four-month break wasn't enough for you?

 

[NYChase718]

What? You mean the second Shield reunion after a four-month break wasn't enough for you?

They literally rebooted the same reunion from 4 months ago
With ambrose being standoff-ish

 

[Stop_It_5]

I tend to agree with a talking point brought up on a podcast I listen to which is the product is hasn't progressed. If you compared differences between ten year spans of their history, 2009-2019 wouldn't compare to 1989-1999 or 1999-2009.

But you have consider the fact that with the network, you don't need to sell PPVs. So it's not the matchups or wrestlers that are important, it's the network. The WWE brand matters, not the individuals, unless you're a McMahon of course.

That's exactly how Vince wants it. Wrestlemania's become like the Super Bowl, an event that's taken on a life of it's own and become bigger than the participants.

 

[dbp]

I think kids will be nostalgic for anything that's theirs, so they'll probably see alot of this trash as nostalgia acts.

1995 is largely considered to be the worst year in WWE history and I still have nostalgia for it cause I was 11

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

That's exactly how Vince wants it. Wrestlemania's become like the Super Bowl, an event that's taken on a life of it's own and become bigger than the participants.

The funny thing is wrestlemania usually sucks these days and is actually in the running for worst show of the year. Been that way for a decade now that it’s frequently awful. Look at this:

25 was bad except for 2-3 matches maybe and ended badly, 27 was awful except for maybe 2 matches and had a horrible ending. 29 was a bunch of rematches nobody wanted with a shyt ending. 31 wasn’t anything memorable besides the ending and I can’t recall any matches that really wowed the crowd or sent them home happy. 32 won the wrestlecrap gooker and had thousands of fans leaving the show before and during the main event. It’s highlight was the new day coming out of a cereal box dressed like the ginyu force. The only highlight of 33 was the Hardy’s returning. The WWE title match was apparently exceptionally bad, they had 50 year old Goldberg in a 5-6 minute heavyweight title match while AJ, KO, and Jericho all went on in the first hour, and the show closed with a terrible Roman vs Undertaker match ultimately for no reason. I didn’t watch last year either, but from what I read on here, it was pretty terrible and the crowd reaction during the main event was comical.

That’s a lot of duds for your biggest show of the year. If it continues to be a shytty product at such a big event where instead of being the culmination of a years worth of booking and cementing new stars, they instead just throw shyt together in hopes of grabbing casuals and the increasingly old 90’s nostalgia acts, they aren’t gonna have anything to draw the crowd in. Everyone they try to use as a draw except Roman is way beyond 40 at this point. In fact many of them aren’t even on tv during the year anyway. They can’t keep that formula up for much longer.

 

[Yade]

WWE now is literally the same shyt from 2009
Just has CrossFitters cosplaying as wrestlers now

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

everything is nostalgic to somebody.

there was recently a thread where someone was getting nostalgic on twitter over some bullchit from 2011 or 2012, saying that's when the WWE was LIT or some nonsense.

and a lot of people on here reminisce over people like cena, batista, orton, edge, etc. but most of that chit was trash.
the attitude era was mostly garbage wrestling until the last year of it(where it felt like a different product from majority of the era) but if we did a poll, this board would prolly crown it as the goat era for any promotion ever.

 

[Love Sosa]

I tend to agree with a talking point brought up on a podcast I listen to which is the product is hasn't progressed. If you compared differences between ten year spans of their history, 2009-2019 wouldn't compare to 1989-1999 or 1999-2009.

But you have consider the fact that with the network, you don't need to sell PPVs. So it's not the matchups or wrestlers that are important, it's the network. The WWE brand matters, not the individuals, unless you're a McMahon of course.

I’ve been making this exact point for the past few years on this forum. Hell you could even shorten it to 5 years. 1995 was completely different than 2000, etc. to me WWE has been in the same era since 2009