Today’s style of wrestling is fukking awful

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Can yall read that I included other matches as well

Entire post becomes skippable

*cartwheels outta thread*

 

[patscorpio]

The wrestlers today are better athletes, which we've seen across various of other sports, better athletes = quicker the pace is. But while the wrestlers have gotten healthier and more athletic, its meant that the little nuances of match pacing, timing, storytelling/psychology have been lost. And getting your shyt in, bouncing around like a pin ball and doing shyt for the sake of it with no reasoning to get a pop has over taken the old adage that less is more.

this..the spot monkey shyt absolutely kills me..its been very hard to get invested in some of the matches

 

[laughslikebig]

ill be the first to say I’m not hip on new WWE too much. But I did watch mania. I’ve seen so many people on here say that the wrestling now is better than ever. Bull fukking shyt.

The Seth Rollins triple threat match is a perfect example of how today’s wrestling lacks psychology and storytelling. It was like putting a smack down video game on cpu vs cpu. Every move was just set up to be a counter for another move. No storytelling, no taunting, nothing. Way too fast paced. Just one spot into another. Just pure trash. I was hype for this match too. The Styles/Shinsuke match was this way too. As was the Orton match. Is it just me

I agree, but nikkas gonna make excuses.

Being a worker, went from being able to “work” the crowd. To being able to do athletic moves with no rhyme or reason.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Everybody tryna hit backflips & top rope moves so that's why it's only one style nowadays even tho history has shown the wwe has never truly prospered with this as the dominant style.

Been watching some of the attitude era ppvs & wrestlers was actually showing suspense.

The rock, Austin, hhh, Foley, etc were providing an extended story during matches & didn't have to spam dropkicks & knee kicks.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

That's the name of the game now. A lot of guys have been trying to emulate that classic Undertaker and Shawn Michaels match from 9 years ago.

That match really did change everything. The "big" WM matches are mostly methodical finisher spam-fests ever since that match. Both of those matches were boring then, and their clones are boring now.

 

[Norrin Radd]

And then guys like Corbin and Zack Sabre Jr get shyt on for being boring

 

[Love Sosa]

Everybody tryna hit backflips & top rope moves so that's why it's only one style nowadays even tho history has shown the wwe has never truly prospered with this as the dominant style.

Been watching some of the attitude era ppvs & wrestlers was actually showing suspense.

The rock, Austin, hhh, Foley, etc were providing an extended story during matches & didn't have to spam dropkicks & knee kicks.

That’s what I’m saying. That’s what I grew up on. Even when wwe entertainment value was awful in the mid 00s, at least the matches were decent.

My thing is people are so quick to trash the attitude eras wresting but what are they seeing in this shyt?

 

[StarClout]

The future is now, old man.

 

[RammerJammer]

NXT has the best of both worlds imo

But man I think Brock/Roman may have been the worst offender of all, I was at least expecting a match like at 31 but damn, 5 or 6 F5s?

 

[threattonature]

this..the spot monkey shyt absolutely kills me..its been very hard to get invested in some of the matches

Less is definitely more. Build to the big spots and make them feel earned. Part of what made Michaels matches great was that it looked like he was getting his ass beat and was pulling off the moves out of desperation and against much bigger wrestlers. From what I remember is matches against Bret Hart were more ground based which sense considering they were closer in size. Even though they weren't as athletic I still much prefer the older style were they were still trying to sell it as being real. The AJ match last night is more of what I want to see where they are at least selling consequences of big moves and slowing things down to make it feel more real.

 

[Barnett114]

ill be the first to say I’m not hip on new WWE too much. But I did watch mania. I’ve seen so many people on here say that the wrestling now is better than ever. Bull fukking shyt.

The Seth Rollins triple threat match is a perfect example of how today’s wrestling lacks psychology and storytelling. It was like putting a smack down video game on cpu vs cpu. Every move was just set up to be a counter for another move. No storytelling, no taunting, nothing. Way too fast paced. Just one spot into another. Just pure trash. I was hype for this match too. The Styles/Shinsuke match was this way too. As was the Orton match. Is it just me

Fax, this new shyt is pure trash and boring as fukk.

 

[Da King]

The play fighting I grew up watching in the 90’s is an almost unrecognizable product compared to the overly choreographed trash of today

I’ll have to tell my kids about the good old days of play fighting

 

[Superkick Party]

Then don't watch it

 

[TBdaGhost]

The state of WWE is awful.

The state of wrestling is great

 

[Waterproof]

I just want to see great Strong Style, Scientific Technical Matches