Why aren't current wrestling stars known by the general public?

[prophecypro]

Let's be honest.. most people don't have a clue who Giannis or Joker is unless you actually watch the games. And those are the last 4 (soon to be 5) League MVPs. LeBron yes obviously.. Curry crossed over (also with help from his wife don't sleep..) but a lot of the NBA stars have not gained that type of notoriety yet. Too fragmented.

Giannis people know because again theres a lot of sports. Mostly male

If we're talking across the board then yeah its probably just Bron, Curry, Durant, Kyrie

 

[Finn Baller]

non-fans know Giannis because of his nickname

they don't know Jokic at all

 

[FS4LFE]

what larger than life wrestlers do you have these days from the modern era?

 

[mannyrs13]

They used to say the same about John Cena and now he's everywhere. But how many people are 'household names' now in any field?

u got a rapper.. say Lil uzi who had a whole gen.. very popular within that gen and that space.. but does the average person care about Lil Uzi the same way people can recognize Pac or Big? Hell no... not even close..

i prolly couldn't identify 90% of these current rappers myself.

 

[mannyrs13]

non-fans know Giannis because of his nickname

they don't know Jokic at all

i don't even really watch basketball or sportscenter like that but I only know some players cuz of social media and what people be talking about. but yeah if a player isn't in a major market or discussed often, general public won't know who he is. All I know about Jokic is that he's on the nuggets.

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Didn’t Vince do this on purpose? After losing the Rock to Hollywood he refused to let it happen again, it’s why he tried to do the whole WWE Studios shyt correct? He wanted his characters to evolve in his Universe.

 

[Lobo]

It's just like with boxing, wrestling is simply not as big as it once was. Because we consume the product we live in a bubble that can lead us to view things incorrectly.

Bro you explained it perfectly. The wrestling fan's logic can be disturbingly retarded most of the time.

 

[FunkyFresh]

More people than you’d probably expect, depending on the age of the people being polled


You ask 10 random kids and I wouldn’t be shocked if all 10 knew who he was



On the flipside of that, if you asked 10 random 40+ year old white people who Kodak Black was, I’m sure they’d have no idea. Does that mean nobody knows who Kodak Black is?


There’s this thing called demographics. I personally couldn’t point Dua Lipa out of a lineup. I know the name, have absolutely no idea who she is or what she looks like though.. and that means nothing. I’m a 30 year old black dude. I’m not her target audience

Exactly

Dumb as fukk analogy

 

[TM101]

Let's be honest.. most people don't have a clue who Giannis or Joker is unless you actually watch the games. And those are the last 4 (soon to be 5) League MVPs. LeBron yes obviously.. Curry crossed over (also with help from his wife don't sleep..) but a lot of the NBA stars have not gained that type of notoriety yet. Too fragmented.

Internet has made becoming a global star so difficult. I think the only GenZ athlete with true global popularity is Naomi Osaka.

 

[Finn Baller]

Internet has made becoming a global star so difficult. I think the only GenZ athlete with true global popularity is Naomi Osaka.

what about kickboxer Andrew Tate

edit: nvm didn't see the "GenZ" part

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Internet has made becoming a global star so difficult. I think the only GenZ athlete with true global popularity is Naomi Osaka.

Who?

 

[thenatural]

They used to say the same about John Cena and now he's everywhere. But how many people are 'household names' now in any field?

u got a rapper.. say Lil uzi who had a whole gen.. very popular within that gen and that space.. but does the average person care about Lil Uzi the same way people can recognize Pac or Big? Hell no... not even close..

I'm not quoting all your replies but I agree 100%. Wrestling fans need to realize that there are more options available from a television standpoint today versus 20-30 years ago. Hell, I was shocked when I saw Roman on "The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Falllon" a few weeks ago, but I immediately realized they have a partnership with NBC.

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

Yep. its really demographics for the most part..



you show a million of Gen Z tik tok teens a picture of Canelo Alvarez and a picture of iShowSpeed or Adin Ross... I bet my LIFE more of them will know Speed and Adin than they do Canelo...


now you take a million 30+ year old Mexicans cats and do the same.. 96% will know Canelo and most would have absolutely no fukkin idea who Speed or Adin was..


Now we know Canelo is a star and Speed/Adin are nobodies in comparison, but to their demographic they're Jesus. all this shyt is super fragmented. There's so many different pockets of entertainment these days, and so many different ways it's consumed. Someone can be the most important person in the world in one pocket and completely irrelevant in another. That's just how shyt is today lol

100%

Reminds me of when Bad Bunny came out at first on WWE and beards were saying "who?"

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

I think there is. It's just wrestling is absolutely not a part of it. Everyone knew about the Tiger King.

I think a lot of that happened because of the pandemic. It created a sort of fleeting moment where we were all going through the same thing at the same time again. The same thing happened with "The Last Dance". The early days of the pandemic was weird, man.

Hogan was not on that level but he was real up there....

Dude, Hogan was ABSOLUTELY on that level.

Y'all just don't know, man.

Hogan was about as iconic as Joe Montana, Magic, Bird, etc. . .in the late '80s.

His level of fame is incomprehensible to anybody born in the last 35 years.

Internet has made becoming a global star so difficult. I think the only GenZ athlete with true global popularity is Naomi Osaka.

I'd go with maybe Simone Biles too, maybe?

You think?

 

[krackdagawd]

They mentioned Roman at the last Jake Paul fight and all of the announcers went “WHO?”

Wrasslin aint poppin like that anymore dudes be in here beefing over ratings of some shyt nobody besides us washed nikkas watch.