When Wrestling was Fun

[Valcazar]

I get that. I’m just saying the wrestling wasn’t great. The buildup to the match, the handoff of the belt to warrior and the overall entertainment was awesome.

I loved watching both of them as a kid , but now you look back and you realize they each had only two or three moves.

Oh, they're both very sub-par in doing anything outside their basic elements.
That's why I've always found WM VI so impressive - they shouldn't have been able to pull of anything even REMOTELY watchable, and somehow it is actually pretty dramatic and good.

 

[Jubee]

I get that. I’m just saying the wrestling wasn’t great. The buildup to the match, the handoff of the belt to warrior and the overall entertainment was awesome.

I loved watching both of them as a kid , but now you look back and you realize they each had only two or three moves.

At the time, the story lines were the "main event", it was a transition phase, before them wrestlers had one or no moves. lol

 

[roddermac]

At the time, the story lines were the "main event", it was a transition phase, before them wrestlers had one or no moves. lol

Now it's Cirque De Soleil with a bunch of midgets.

 

[roddermac]

Harlem Heat vs The Steiner Brothers...can you dig it sucka!

Steiners in my opinion are the best tag team of all time. Not the Road Warriors.

 

[roddermac]

In the 80s Hogan was huge draw. My favorite match back then was Hogan vs Warrior. Now I look at the match and it’s garbage.

Wrestling was geared towards kids back then. Now it's fans are nerds in their 30s.

 

[EddieBrock1500]

Oh, they're both very sub-par in doing anything outside their basic elements.
That's why I've always found WM VI so impressive - they shouldn't have been able to pull of anything even REMOTELY watchable, and somehow it is actually pretty dramatic and good.

The gayest move hulk has is the back scratch. Again, didn’t pay attention back then but as an adult watching it now, I’m like what the hell is this. He literally just goes and scratches the guys back in one big scratch.

 

[Jubee]

The gayest move hulk has is the back scratch. Again, didn’t pay attention back then but as an adult watching it now, I’m like what the hell is this. He literally just goes and scratches the guys back in one big scratch.

"Brother, it looks like you got an itch, let me scratch it for you!"

 

[Jubee]

Wrestling was geared towards kids back then. Now it's fans are nerds in their 30s.

Notice it's when tech got better kids lost interest? All about the spyPhone.

 

[EddieBrock1500]

Notice it's when tech got better kids lost interest? All about the spyPhone.

I tend to come back to wrestling every 5 years or so to see what the current storyline is. I tried to get tickets for wrestlemamia in Philadelphia and tickets are insane. No way a parent is going to spend that much to take their kids to wrestling unless they’re a fan themselves.

 

[Valcazar]

At the time, the story lines were the "main event", it was a transition phase, before them wrestlers had one or no moves. lol

Great matches still have storylines.

 

[roddermac]

Great matches still have storylines.

Not to today's fans. They want gymnastics.

 

[Valcazar]

Not to today's fans. They want gymnastics.

Kinda feel the long term success of the Bloodline story arc (and even the Cody Rhodes stuff) says otherwise.

 

[roddermac]

Kinda feel the long term success of the Bloodline story arc (and even the Cody Rhodes stuff) says otherwise.

I don't watch it anymore. All I know that it's become more and more of flips and giggles that actual wrestling. It's way overdone now.

 

[Insidious Von]

Before hip replacement surgery, Shaq took wrestling seriously. He wasn't afraid to take bumps.

Both had hip replacement surgery.

 

[Insidious Von]

As bad as he is Hogan isn't the WOAT, that title belongs to Goldberg.

How tough is William Regal...he's from Wolverhampton.

 

[roddermac]

As bad as he is Hogan isn't the WOAT, that title belongs to Goldberg.

How tough is William Regal...he's from Wolverhampton.

Hogan wasn't bad in the ring.

 

[Insidious Von]

Hogan wasn't bad in the ring.

Bullshit Hogan is a log I leave in the toilet in the morning. Like I said before, had Bollea been successful in getting The Undertaker fired, the WWE would have ceased to exist 2001 - instead of WCW. Hogan is like Tony Soprano, he's King Midas in reverse - everything he touches turns to shit.

 

[Valcazar]

As bad as he is Hogan isn't the WOAT, that title belongs to Goldberg.

How tough is William Regal...he's from Wolverhampton.

That Regal's personal issues cost him from the runs he should have had is a tragedy.
He still had a strong career.

 

[roddermac]

Bullshit Hogan is a log I leave in the toilet in the morning. Like I said before, had Bollea been successful in getting The Undertaker fired, the WWE would have ceased to exist 2001 - instead of WCW. Hogan is like Tony Soprano, he's King Midas in reverse - everything he touches turns to shit.

He was good in the ring in his early days. Better than most men his size. Stop being a woke mark because you heard all the negatives about him outside of his wrestling persona. He never tried to get Undertaker fired and even if he did the WWE would still be around because of stars like Steve Austin and the Rock.

 

[Insidious Von]

Mingia I'm a woke mark, love it. Actually I've been saying Hogan is garbage ever since the Wrestlemania IX farce.