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Post by King Shocker the Monumentous on Dec 5, 2010 0:30:20 GMT -5
If anything ruined wrestling, it wasn't the Monday Night Wars, it was the lack thereof.
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Dec 5, 2010 0:50:33 GMT -5
What ruined wrestling was the lack of competetion. Once Vince owned WCW there was no reason to put a great great product out b/c if people wanted wrestling they only had one way to see it on TV which was WWE.
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Post by skribbel24 on Dec 5, 2010 7:31:03 GMT -5
The Monday night wars made wrestling pretty FN exciting.
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Post by Bullet Club. on Dec 5, 2010 12:21:12 GMT -5
Im sorry, but how can you think it ruined wrestling, in fact it made it about 40 times more popular! It switched the Wwe from a lower budget Televison show every Monday to a global promotion!
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Post by Mastermind on Dec 5, 2010 13:45:11 GMT -5
Over saturation ruined pro wrestling. There's too much each week. Too many PPVs. Too much lazy booking. Too many spoilers. Exactly
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Post by tnafan17: The Total Package on Dec 5, 2010 13:51:45 GMT -5
Definitely didn't ruin it. It made the product better, but like already mentioned WWE became a little slack a couple years after buying WCW.
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Post by gordon on Dec 5, 2010 14:49:49 GMT -5
If anything ruined wrestling, it wasn't the Monday Night Wars, it was the lack thereof. This.
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Post by Tyler Black on Dec 5, 2010 15:50:33 GMT -5
Hell no. Quite the opposite; it evolved into a better thing. my thoughts exactly
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Post by hulkhogancollector on Dec 5, 2010 23:16:06 GMT -5
Did the NWO ruin Evolution? No. Bad guys/good guys still exist, yes there are people who cheer for the bad guys and boo the good guys, but that has happened throughout the history of wrestling. I was just watching the WWE Raw Season 1/2 DVD and a bunch of fans are cheering the Quebecers and that was before the MSG incident. I've seen people boo Hogan in the WWF, that was before the MSG incident. Hulk Hogan was getting noticable boos in WWF as early as 1990, and by the time he left in 1992 and for good in 1993, people couldn't stand him. Watch Royal Rumble 1992, whwn Sid throws him out of the Rumble and Hogan throws a tantrum, you'd swear Hogan was the biggest heel on the roster based on the crowd reaction. When Hogan came to WCW he had maybe a good year as a babyface, but by the time he started with the Dungeon of Doom crap, the crowd turned on him again, leading to his heel turn. When people want to blame the internet for making fans smart and cynical toward wrestling, just point to these examples which occurred before the Internet gained mass popularity. Flash forward to 2001 and the very same thing happened to Austin and The Rock fans didn't like the Austin heel turn and ratings started to sink which led to Hogan being able to be fresh again in 2002 WWE. One drawback I would say from the Monday Night Wars was stars became overexposed way faster than years before
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2010 23:29:00 GMT -5
The wars gave wrestling so much. It was the best time in wrestling history because there was real competition. Now we got wwe which is doing good and tna which seems to be losing it.
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Post by bountyhunterblood5 on Dec 5, 2010 23:49:40 GMT -5
The thing is when you get to a certain age you still like wrestling but as a kid you loved it. Like the other day i was saying i cant get as hyped for john cena vs. bastista as i did for triple h vs. stone cold or the rock. At first i started watching tna because it had Kevin Nash Jeff Jarrett and Kurt Angle people i liked growing up. Like i dont wanna see bastista and cena wrestle but little kids would love to watch that cause thats what they are growing up on
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Dec 6, 2010 0:09:20 GMT -5
"ruin" isn't a good way of putting it. It set the bar so high, that now anything short of what they did back then seems like it's not as good.
But that is like saying that you just ate the best pizza ever and it's "ruined" all other pizza for you.
Things are always better than other things, and right now, wrestling just isn't as good as it once was....but it can all change, it's up to WWE on if they want to start pushing it again.
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Post by k5 on Dec 6, 2010 1:00:29 GMT -5
no. sterility in creativity killed pro wrestling.
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Post by thespecialone on Dec 6, 2010 4:20:17 GMT -5
No.
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Post by PhoeniX™: Valoween on Dec 6, 2010 8:00:29 GMT -5
If anything ruined wrestling, it wasn't the Monday Night Wars, it was the lack thereof. This. Pretty much what I said.
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Post by carly1988 on Dec 6, 2010 8:30:27 GMT -5
Growing up and ending kayfabe ruined wrestling. Im sorry but when there is a guy getting punched in the face and legit knocked out in Boxing and MMA then its really hard to be entertained by a guy who can take a chair off the face, fall through a cage and cave in a wrestling ring.......and then get back up. It took wrestling from being a fantasy land to being a joke. I can sit and watch it now because I always have watched it but its about as corny to watch as a cheesy comedy central show.
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Post by Eustache on Dec 6, 2010 9:18:12 GMT -5
Over saturation ruined pro wrestling. There's too much each week. Too many PPVs. Too much lazy booking. Too many spoilers. That is exactly right. Aside from the sub-par booking, the massive amount of PPVs as made it almost impossible to build up compelling storylines every 4 weeks. The result has been the many thrown together at the last minute filler matches that end up on ppvs when 12-15 years ago those would have been TV main events at best. I know it will never happen but if WWE were ever to go back to let's say 8 PPVs a year that would give them the time to make those fillers seem relevant in a PPV setting. Also this would eliminate the need for lame concept-ppvs (Fatal 4-Way anyone?)
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