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Post by cjskittles4 on Mar 20, 2011 20:10:31 GMT -5
PWInsider That's pretty  ing stupid if you ask me...  |
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Post by No Brokeback on Mar 20, 2011 20:12:45 GMT -5
If it's still real to me, yes it damn well is!
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Post by Sam on Mar 20, 2011 20:15:53 GMT -5
But, it is a wrestling company. Sure, WWE deliver more story than wrestling itself, but it is still a wrestling company.
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Post by DMO™ on Mar 20, 2011 20:17:11 GMT -5
I don't see what the big deal is, nothing is going to change. It's going to be the same damn show we watch.
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Post by cjskittles4 on Mar 20, 2011 20:20:27 GMT -5
But, it is a wrestling company. Sure, WWE deliver more story than wrestling itself, but it is still a wrestling company. As long as it's World Wrestling Entertainment... it's always gonna be a wrestling company. You think anybody goes to the show and thinks "Wow, what a great sports entertainment match between those magnificent sports entertainers" but then again, they don't have bookers either... they have TV writers [/Cornette] |
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Post by DMO™ on Mar 20, 2011 20:24:27 GMT -5
But, it is a wrestling company. Sure, WWE deliver more story than wrestling itself, but it is still a wrestling company. As long as it's World Wrestling Entertainment... it's always gonna be a wrestling company. You think anybody goes to the show and thinks "Wow, what a great sports entertainment match between those magnificent sports entertainers" but then again, they don't have bookers either... they have TV writers [/Cornette] I don't blame WWE for trying to attract other types of fans, I don't care what they label their wrestlers as, aslong as I NOW that I'm enjoying a wrestling show then I'm fine with it. |
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Post by The Highwayman on Mar 20, 2011 20:24:49 GMT -5
Thank God there is already a WE(Women's Entertainment, I think). Otherwise they'd probably just call themselves World Entertainment soon...
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 20, 2011 20:28:23 GMT -5
I don't think anybody needed a press release from the WWE publicist to realize that WWE is not a wrestling company anymore....it's more than apparent from watching any of their shows that WWE puts the LEAST amount of attention on the actual wrestling matches.
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Post by DMO™ on Mar 20, 2011 20:35:14 GMT -5
I don't think anybody needed a press release from the WWE publicist to realize that WWE is not a wrestling company anymore....it's more than apparent from watching any of their shows that WWE puts the LEAST amount of attention on the actual wrestling matches. To be fair Smackdown has quite a bit of wrestling as well as Superstars, They save everything for PPV's which I don't mind but RAW with like 2 minute matches gets ridiculous. |
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Post by noir on Mar 20, 2011 20:35:30 GMT -5
I'd agree with that. When I sit down to watch WWE, I'm not doing it to see a good WRESTLING match, I'm doing it to storyline progression, character development and entertainment. If I wanted the former, I'd watch pretty much ANY other company.
WWE doesn't even compare to other wrestling promotions because it's trying to provide a totally different form of television.
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Post by Y3RP: LA MARAVILLA!!! on Mar 20, 2011 20:40:49 GMT -5
sounds like the devil is talking!!! |
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 20, 2011 20:41:58 GMT -5
I might be the only one...but I HATE story lines. It's getting to be more ridiculous than a soap opera.
Remember back in the day where the only motivation two guys needed to fight was because one guy was champion and the other guy wanted to try and win the belt from him? That was good enough for me.
Now it's like "You and I were childhood friends and you stole my high school girlfriend and made my family hate me and let my dog out of the house and he ran away and all of these events have made my life a living hell and I'm going to beat you up to get my revenge...oh and I guess while we're at it we might as well make it a title match LOL"
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Post by Sonnen on Mar 20, 2011 20:46:04 GMT -5
I might be the only one...but I HATE story lines. It's getting to be more ridiculous than a soap opera. Remember back in the day where the only motivation two guys needed to fight was because one guy was champion and the other guy wanted to try and win the belt from him? That was good enough for me. Now it's like "You and I were childhood friends and you stole my high school girlfriend and made my family hate me and let my dog out of the house and he ran away and all of these events have made my life a living hell and I'm going to beat you up to get my revenge...oh and I guess while we're at it we might as well make it a title match LOL" Just reminded me of the WWE South Park episode. "He took yur jawb!" |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 20:57:03 GMT -5
I like how hard WWE try to distance themselves from the word "wrestling"... seriously how long is it before they change their name to "World Wide Entertainment"? It's getting pretty sad.
They can't even refer to their fans as "fans" anymore. And this is one thing I hate about WWE these days, you have wrestling matches, you have angles... you're a wrestling company, damnit. When people think WWE, they think "wrestling", not "sports entertainment", when they see John Cena, they think "the wrestler", not a "superstar."
Simply put, they're embarrassed to be a wrestling company...
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 20, 2011 21:05:36 GMT -5
Also....the minute WWE started to play dramatic music in the arena while guys were talking on the mic.....they completely showed me that this thing is going in a direction it's never going to come back from.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 21:06:16 GMT -5
Why are they called World Wrestling Entertainment? Maybe hows bout World Wide Entertainment?  |
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Post by Lorenzo Alcazar on Mar 20, 2011 21:13:13 GMT -5
Why are they called World Wrestling Entertainment? Maybe hows bout World Wide Entertainment? I think they should change it to World Wide Entertainment....because WWE clearly embarrassed to have any aspects of wrestling on their programming, and to have the word wrestling in their company name is honestly an insult to wrestling and all of the great wrestlers from the past as well as the great wrestlers out there today who WWE won't take a look at because they aren't 7 feet tall and on steroids. Then again, the word "Entertainment" in their name can also be debatable a lot of the times too, lol. |
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Post by slappy on Mar 20, 2011 21:17:30 GMT -5
I might be the only one...but I HATE story lines. It's getting to be more ridiculous than a soap opera. Remember back in the day where the only motivation two guys needed to fight was because one guy was champion and the other guy wanted to try and win the belt from him? That was good enough for me. Now it's like "You and I were childhood friends and you stole my high school girlfriend and made my family hate me and let my dog out of the house and he ran away and all of these events have made my life a living hell and I'm going to beat you up to get my revenge...oh and I guess while we're at it we might as well make it a title match LOL" Because elaborate stories have only been apart of wrestling for the past few years. |
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Post by Wes. on Mar 20, 2011 21:18:09 GMT -5
They're trying to attract all the attention they can get, and they know that most people think wrestling is just that fake crap with jacked up superstars. SO, in order to draw the attention of future fans, they have to stop calling it a wrestling company. They want everyone to see how much more they provide than wrestling, and they want TV and movie stars to help promote it aswell. Everybody knows who Snookie is, so if they see her on WWE, they'll think it's a pretty hot item if SNOOKIE is on it. I know I know, it's stupid that they're trying to eliminate the word wrestling, but what can you do. At least the storylines are getting better and we still see a few jaw dropping spots every now and then. Just enjoy it now, later in life when WWE stops its run you'll be wishing you didn't critisize it so much.
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Post by Matt Culture on Mar 20, 2011 21:18:11 GMT -5
This is nothing new. this has been going on since the early 90s'
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