Wrestling's Downturn...

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Now that the 1990's, arguably the best decade for wrestling ever, has long since passed, will we ever again see the greatness that was seen so frequently durring that era? Will we ever see as many high-end matches in such a small time-frame from promotions at their highest point in quality? Will we ever see such an abundance of fantastic workers hitting their peaks around the same time? It's hard to say, but so far, nothing has measured up to the overall quality of that period, and it's entirely possible that nothing will again.

 

As someone who has loved wrestling for quite some time now, I'm finding it harder to stay interested in the current scene. Not just the WWE, but all over the world, it's become increasingly-less interesting to me. Sure, now and then I'll see something that reminds me why I watch wrestling, but I find now, more and more often, that I'd rather watch all the great matches that took place through out the '90's, instead. Does anyone else feel the same way?

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I am longing for the good ol days. I can't say much about the rest of the world since the only foreign wrestling I watch is Lucha Libre and it's still pretty cool.

 

Who is the girl in your sig? She's cute.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Akako Hamada. You're the second person to ask me that tonight.

[Guest mesepher]

I highly doubt wrestling will ever become great once again. I haven't watched a complete or even partial WWF show for a few years now~!! Seeing workers who deserve better being held down with a shitty gimmick or another shitty "Sports Entertainer" is just sad. Wrestling has a different fanbase these days. Vince wanted to appeal to a larger audience and when he did, he gave up quality. These days, less people care about good, solid wrestling, and interesting AND ORIGINAL storylines as opposed to those who watch WWE for the T and A, and the other sexual or comedic storylines. Since the demise of both ECW and WCW, the WWF is left with no actual wrestling competition.. so now they must compete with the nightly dramas and offer the same garbage that is one every other channel.

 

Watching the Hogan DVD is/was so much fun. All the extra matches remind me how much I used to enjoy wrestling. Hopefully, someday.. a lot more older material will be released on DVD. Thank heavens I started collecting ECW tapes a few years back because without the aide of ECW and other old tapes, wrestling would be an old, forgotten hobby for me.

 

fuck sports entertainment.

[Guest converge241]

It will take until about 6-7 years if you believe in the cycle.

 

I think they could do it in two years if they stressed the sports elements of it, and sell the competition factor.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Keep in mind, I'm talking about the entire world, here, not just WWE. Everywhere, wrestling has gone down hill, and if you look at the "future prospects" that are supposed to be filling in for the old guard, hardly any of them are up to snuff. It's just really disheartening to me.

[Guest Strike Force!]

As someone who has loved wrestling for quite some time now, I'm finding it harder to stay interested in the current scene. Not just the WWE, but all over the world, it's become increasingly-less interesting to me.

Eh, you're just growing up, that's all.

[Guest Strike Force!]

Now that the 1990's, arguably the best decade for wrestling ever.....

The 80's were the best decade for wrestling, IMO, but that's neither here nor there.

[Guest Strike Force!]

Who is the girl in your sig? She's cute.

Yeah, she is.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

Wrestling is cyclical as Vinnie Mac likes to say, you have a group of talented guys that become successful, they go to the top, achieve political power, keep the up-and-comers down until business gets so bad that out of desperation new stars must be created.

 

The WWE has a great crop of young guys, Edge,Venis,Angle, and others are younger guys with experience and ME potential, Cena,Brock,Benjamin and Orton are still green but have potential, when they all hit their primes business will go up again.

 

It happens here and it's happening in Japan. The top guys don't want to give up their spots and it brings the product down until there is no other alternative but to reinvent the product.

 

Wrestling will never achieve the magic and height it did when the WWF/WCE war was at it's peak. I do think in 2-3 years from now ratings will go up from 3's to 4-5's. Hopefully there will be another mainstream wrestling promotion by then.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

Who is the girl in your sig? She's cute.

 

Yeah, she is.

 

 

 

Too bad all that talk about her possibly heading to the WWE a few months back didn't amount to anything.

[Guest razazteca]

Wrestling is cyclical as Vinnie Mac likes to say

I think its now in peaks and valleys as it seems that WWE is having a short attention span on what works and what does not.

 

I am getting tired of wrestling also, WWE is blah, CMLL & AAA is hit and miss also, NWA TNA is refreshing but at $9.95 a week? Not sure about Japan but I guess its the same over there. Now if the local indy starts doing shows on a monthly basis I will be happy but tv is ingeneral does not have my full attention anymore

[Guest franchise632]

Wrestling always hits a peak and then there is a general decline. Wether its in the States or Mexico or Japan. Its all a cycle, old fans leave, a new product or angle or lager then life character shows up and pops the buisness for a few years. Hopefully it wont be like the last big down turn that was from 90 to 97.

 

And to say that the 90's was the great decade for wrestling would be quite a reach. Buisness was in the toilet until late 96 early 97. Which is a product of the down turn from the Hulkamania era of the 80's.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

I feel as though I need a huge mallet that says "I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE WWF!!" to hit peope with. Yes, I've heard it enough times to know that WWF business wasn't the best in '96-97, but there were other promotions in the world, some of which were doing quite well, believe it or not. This accounted for both the matches they were procuding and the profit they were making.

 

The whole "peaks and valleys" thing may relate to a business standpoint, but I'm of the opinion that it's a bunch of horse-shit fed to hungry hungry people who want to believe it more than anything. How many promotions have gone out of business waiting for the "business to naturally right itself" like so many claim it will? Those who don't change with the times go out of business. That's simple economics.

 

I'm not talking about just staying in business or becoming popular again. I'm talking about achieving the levle of greatness set by the previous generation. It's about next would-be Flairs, Blue Panthers, and Kawadas being up to snuff, and I haven't seen that so far.

[Guest MrRant]

For me when WCW died my interest started to go. It was like a good friend disappeared. Hopefully something will arise to bring back that feeling so that way people can get interested again.

[Guest hiza jujigatame]

Too bad all that talk about her possibly heading to the WWE a few months back didn't amount to anything.

Yeah what happened with all of that? I thought that she'd get a tryout match during their Japan tour.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

Watching Raw now makes me more than happy with her current role of stomping the everloving fuck out of OZ and KAURU in GAEA along with Meiko Satomura.