2018 Pro Wrestling thread

We'd boo the fuck out of him and his weak-ass leg drop finisher.

 

I think at first, he would be cheered because he came back after being away for 3 years, and he came back as a face instead of a heel. Plus, he went against a heel champ who had a lot of heat.

But fans would have tired of him pretty quickly, and, if he continued the Hulkamania role, he would have been booed against Piper and Savage. And fans would be all over him for his workrate.

 

He’d get X-Pac/Vickie Guerrero heat.

 

It’d play like Cena in the Umaga years, before the respect that came after the Punk feud and the US open challenge.

Audience has changed. In the 80s my dad didn’t give two craps about Hogan, he kind of smiled and nodded along. Today, we go the shows by ourselves to make noise and/or try to stop ourselves from “well actually Roman sucks” at our kids.

 

I think it would depend greatly on whether he had been replaced in the timeline - if there was a Bulk Bogan - followed by a line of imitators / similarly booked folks, or if he was one of the first to be booked that way still.

 

Pro Wrestling Is Great, And You Should Try Watching Less

Light Sunday reading. Found this thing really thought provoking. Its impossible not to criticize the product sometimes but there is so much of it....and we watch it....the mindset that not every finish hangs in the balance of the entire world does help you enjoy it more I think

 

Interesting read, thanks for posting.

As a kid, I used to watch and read anything wrestling-related, but now, there's so much out there, it's impossible to keep up. Sometimes I think that I'm missing something great, and it's almost like there's pressure to try to keep up with everything.

Now, I mostly limit myself to WWE PPVs, watch some of their old matches and a few of their behind the scenes shows. I watch Raw, but I flip away frequently to baseball or MNF. I try to find time to watch Smackdown, and find it to be a better paced show. I read some of the stuff on indies like I used to with the Apter mags, but not as much.

There's also a trade off. On the one hand, a lot of the matches and storylines are predictable. Yet, if you saw these matches, even the midcard ones 30 years ago, it'd blow everyone's mind.

There's also, as you noted, the idea that every finish matters. We're so inured into thinking Vince is trying to bury every indy fave that we get pissed off if one of them loses. The problem is that if we've all got our way, guys would be unbeaten for five years. Someone has to lose.

 

Its weird for me because so much of my personal fandom is routine based. I probably listen to 6 plus hours a week of wresting podcasts. Which if you add to 6, sometimes 10, hours of tv less whatever i dvr FF thru, is a shit ton of time. On the face of it, thats insane.

But the podcasts are during exercise time, and music has become mundane, so I’d just be listening to sports radio, which is just as mundane and repeatitive as wrestling talk. And the news is freaking depressing too, I dont want CNN on the treadmill.

 

“There’s so much filler built into every show that I wonder how I ever had the patience for it. Was it always this way? I’m never going to try to find out.”

I feel like my mind is being read.

 

I think we just watched a comedy spot in the next RR.