I get that it’s a hard job these days in the WWE. Making a big deal out of a 540 triple backflip somersault DDT that barely touches the other guy has to be hard to sell. It’s an easier job when a guy is getting conchairto’ed and the devastation is believable.
CW POD: Is pro wrestling fun again?
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I get that it’s a hard job these days in the WWE. Making a big deal out of a 540 triple backflip somersault DDT that barely touches the other guy has to be hard to sell. It’s an easier job when a guy is getting conchairto’ed and the devastation is believable.
Pro wrestling was cool when I was in 5th grade. Then I grew up.
This is the Sting I remember. This was at the Sioux City Auditorium around 1990.I checked out long long ago but pro wrestling stopped being fun when less of this kind of ridiculousness was happening.
NO - pay more attention to REAL wrestlers on campus.
Fiction can be believable and realistic or fiction can be pure fantasy that is carried by a great story, characters, acting and visuals.
People don't think pro wrestling is stupid because it's fictional, but because it is missing all of the elements that make fiction compelling and entertaining. Even the cheese factor is only entertaining for a short time since it's the same thing over and over again.
High Def does it no favors either.
lol. Pro wrestling is the bad soap opera of the sports world.
Last Saturday night I went and saw Impact Pro Wrestling in Des Moines. If you are not familiar it is an Indy promotion based in Iowa. It was a lot of fun and really cheap. My son and I had a great time.
Regarding WWE. Someone mentioned the camera angles and quick cuts. Yes, that is horrible. Was watching NXT with my son last night and one match was difficult to watch because of how quickly the angles jumped. I wished I could watch AEW but I can't get that based on my t.v. provider. Nor Impact. Maybe ROH when that comes around again.
Regarding WWE. Someone mentioned the camera angles and quick cuts. Yes, that is horrible. Was watching NXT with my son last night and one match was difficult to watch because of how quickly the angles jumped. I wished I could watch AEW but I can't get that based on my t.v. provider. Nor Impact. Maybe ROH when that comes around again.
This is what sets AEW apart from WWE. WWE went all in on the MMA “it’s almost real!” Angle and that’s not professional wrestling.
AEW has just that much more ridiculousness that makes it fun and cool. Plus AEW has all the best mic guys. WWE basically abandoned guys and girls that can kill it on the mic but have more than 1% body fat and aren’t 6’3” and above.
One night, a year or two ago I caught some sort of Amateur WWE type of thing on Cable TV. It literally was filmed by a single guy at a hotel ballroom in Minnesota.
I don't know the hierarchy of Professional Wrestling, but this appeared to be the Slow Pitch Equivalent to the MLB.
It was cheesy, awful, poorly done, but I found myself watching for a good 10 or 15 minutes.
I don't know the hierarchy of Professional Wrestling, but this appeared to be the Slow Pitch Equivalent to the MLB.
It was cheesy, awful, poorly done, but I found myself watching for a good 10 or 15 minutes.
Stone Cold barely wrestled the first time around. He wasn’t anywhere close to as bad as Goldberg but he was very limited in terms of technical ability. Basically just punched and kicked people until it was time to hit a stunner.
Which is what sells anyway. The high flyer guys never sell. It’s the mic guys and the right character. I don’t give to much of a crap about the actual match.
