Something I've noticed about the new/young fans...

[Guest MrRant]

Test is a worker. He's just a big worker.

who happend to put on subpar matches.

 

Remember, do not confust "effort" with "workrate"

But shouldn't someone at least get credit for effort?

[Guest takapac]

Yeah, I agree with your research. My son is younger than those kids interviewed, and he always object to me watching "Velocity" and "Heat." According to him, nobody "good" is ever on them.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

I guess I really am different after all...

 

I remember REALLY getting into wrestling about 13, 14...and I liked anybody that was good in the ring. Hated The Giant, Bagwell, and others that couldn't do shit...loved Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko (A LOT), and anybody else that could work.

 

And I'm proud to say that I'm getting my 7-year-old nephew, my 8-year-old niece, and my 10-year-old cousin Jamie to all like the guys with workrate over the pieces of shit.

[Guest One Bad Apple]

anyway...I was telling him about Flair vs. Steamboat in 89 and how after Steamboat made Flair give up to the double chicken wing he worked Flairs arm in the subsequent match to set him up for it...

 

...and how Flair would work the leg so he could utilize his figure-4...

 

and how the whole thing ended with Flair cradling Steamboat after his leg gives from being worked over.

 

He thought that was just brilliant storytelling and something that he could easily get into.

 

The point is...some jerkoff kid in an Albert t-shirt...this all means nothing to him.

Why does it have to?

 

And Albert is gnarly.

 

And oh yes, T&A had a T-shirt.  It was a limited edition t-shirt so it wasn't available to many people.  It was that special.

That was hilarious.

 

This has been the norm since about 1999.  It'll take a while before Vince realizes that bigger and more violent men aren't the solution for great wrestling.........

"More violent"?

 

that's how almost ALL my friends are. Save about one, any of my friends who are wrestling fans just Looooooooooooove 'Taker or the Hardy Boyz or someone like that, but Benoit or Eddy or Kai En Tai or anyone like that? Noooooooo, they 'suck because they don't win any matches' or are boring or some stupid reason like that. These are the same people who's favorite movie changes every time the next Dr. Dolittle or Will Smith movie comes out, and think Taxi Driver is 'that stupid show on Nick at Night'

I feel old just talking to people sometimes...

Are your friends around 11 or something?

 

And for everyone who complains about how much their friends suck ... why are they your friends?

[Guest Vitamin X]

I loved Austin when I restarted watching the WWF, but what really got me back into wrestling was Shawn Michaels-Bret Hart, and the WCW Cruiser division (where I became an obsessed Jerichoholic, and knew the guy would be a fantastic face as well as heel with the character he used). But I started watching the WWF again when the "Greater Power" crap started, amidst me watching ECW about once or twice a month (whenever I could catch it on that obscure cable network) and watching Nitro's cruiser division for JERICHO~! and KIDMAN~!! I knew absolutely NOTHING about Austin-McMahon since I hadn't been watchign wrestlign at all, I actually was one of the late guys who watched it every now and then, but after the Stephanie got kidnapped angle, and Taker was all evil and satanic and shit and was gonna marry her I was all like "WHOA!" and I totally marked out when Austin came out and killed everybody, saving Stephanie. I thought it was cool as hell, and it seriously got me watching RAW forever and ever after that.

 

After that, I started going on the internet (specifically wrestleline.com and rantsylvania) where I learned more about what I've missed (a LOT) and started renting and watching old WWF tapes as well as UFC tapes (hey I liked Tank Abbott back then he was the only UFC guy with any personality), then slowly but surely I started to appreciate workrate like all hell, and started looking at the product on the screen WAY differently.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is that workrate appreciation comes with staying hooked on wrestling for a long time, and it's pretty funyn because you can tell a mark's lying if they say they've been watching it forever but still like the brawlers and big men. And it also proves that in order to be a main eventer you need to have charisma AND workrate. If you only have one of those, the highest you'll ever get is midcard. Unless you have political power, then the sky's the limit. Sigh....