Wrestling Past vs. Present Is It Just Me????

[superworker]

No it's not YOU...Todays wrestling really does SUCK compared to the old school. Complete demographic change for one thing and well...Vinnie Mac...what more can you say except I MISS the old school!

[precious1]

You know I went to my fair share of wrestling matches in the 80's. I saw Dusty, Flair, Nikita, Magnum TA and so many other great talent of that era. When I went I really felt like I got my moneys worth. A few years back my husband took me to see a WWE match. He paid 108 dollars for two tickets. I couldn't believe a live match with commercials. I could've gotten the same from watching it on TV. I hate what Vince has done to wrestling. Its not wrestling anymore its a glorified soap opera. Bring back the days when wrestlers did more than give lip service. Oh how I miss Black Jack and Kevin Sullivan.

[nwafan1984]

What ever happened to professional wrestling? When did it become "sports entertainment"? What happened to wrestlers? When did they become "entertainers"? Where's the scaffold matches, the barbed wire matches, the War Games matches, the tag team competition, and World Champions that we could look back on, like we did with Flair, and say, "That man was the hardest working World Champion ever!" I'm sick of men cheerleaders, mocking religions, and the "kiss my ass" club.

[mtd]

garvinstomp said:

one of the main problems I have with WWE is the titles mean next to nothing anymore. In the old days, that was the biggest part of the fun. Seeing the challengers line up to take on the champion. Ric Flair played the champion role better than anyone else. Schiavone and Crockett used to say that the world belt meant everything to Flair and he was nothing without it. You dont see that kind of meaning behind the title anymore.

That is certainly true from the late 1990s to 2002, especially during the WWE-WCW wars, where you see one title change hands as many as 20 times in one year! But I believe that has improved a bit... Since 2003, a WWE title (single and tag team) changes hands an average three to four times a year.

I don't think this is also mentioned in this thread, but I noticed that most wrestlers who started their career from 2000 onwards seem to possess poor mic work. Whenever I see WWE Raw and Smackdown, what they say feels very contrived. I certainly don't see or sense that back in the 1980s, where the dialogue was much more real.

[RowdyRoddy]

The only good mic workers in WWE are: Ric Flair, Jerry Lawler, Mick Foley, Triple H, Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, and a few others...

[bobbyryates]

mic work has nothing to do with looks. and looks is all that matters to the WWE management.

[precious1]

Looks and who is the biggest ass kisser for Vince. I have no love lost on Vince I think he has single handedly taken wrestling to new lows. It was once something you could have respect for.