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Post by K5 on Jan 15, 2019 11:54:04 GMT -5
i didn’t live through enough of the real era to really say, but I can’t say I agree with the concept of real era/work era. I’d consider anything after the WWWF had shed the first W to be the work era, and anything previous to that is the real era, which stuck in south up until the mid90s. That's fine, but the extra W was gone in 1979, so it was still quite old school. The Rock n'Wrestling connection (~1983-85) brought the WWF into mainstream/pop culture. It just took time before the masses figured it all out. WWF wrestlers still maintained kayfabe, still made you believe it was real. The Iron Sheik was punished because he was carpooling with Jim Duggan. sure, maybe kids bought it, but the invasion of cartoon style characters along with the ‘sports entertainment’ goofy spotted matches that became prevalent with Vince Jr’s reign along with his obsession with steroid enhanced individuals to create that comic book look is what took wrestling from a semi believable contest between two men in cigar smoke filled arenas to a Saturday morning cartoon. watch the crowds. people believed in Bruno, he was real. Hogan was just a real life equivalent to He-Man, complete fantasy. |
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Post by PJ on Jan 15, 2019 12:11:11 GMT -5
I still miss the third “W”. (And the “F”) Well technically the second “W”. Although I guess “World Wrestling” sounds greater than “World Wide Wrestling”.
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Post by warriorlynx on Jan 15, 2019 12:18:27 GMT -5
That's fine, but the extra W was gone in 1979, so it was still quite old school. The Rock n'Wrestling connection (~1983-85) brought the WWF into mainstream/pop culture. It just took time before the masses figured it all out. WWF wrestlers still maintained kayfabe, still made you believe it was real. The Iron Sheik was punished because he was carpooling with Jim Duggan. sure, maybe kids bought it, but the invasion of cartoon style characters along with the ‘sports entertainment’ goofy spotted matches that became prevalent with Vince Jr’s reign along with his obsession with steroid enhanced individuals to create that comic book look is what took wrestling from a semi believable contest between two men in cigar smoke filled arenas to a Saturday morning cartoon. watch the crowds. people believed in Bruno, he was real. Hogan was just a real life equivalent to He-Man, complete fantasy. Bruno definitely looked like a wrestler, but it's not like everyone had the internet. Hogan was noticed when he was compared to Lou Ferrigno and became the "Incredible Hulk", he was already what a comic book character looked like because he was a big guy, even Superstar looked good at his time, but Hogan had the height advantage. If you noticed Hulk in the Rock nWrestling era and Hulk say in 1991, there is definitely a difference. Hogan's promos were different, his "Rocky-esque" story was different (from the streets brother!, actually he'd say less brother and more "daddy" and other catchphrases). Every match he had made it look like he could lose, because the foes he faced felt like a real threat. It did take time even if it was more semi-believable with the saturday morning cartoon style WWF was shaped into. Lighting and atmosphere eventually changed, it became more high quality (production), and 1991-92 was way more of a cartoon than say in 1986, with more wackier characters. |
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Post by K5 on Jan 15, 2019 23:16:59 GMT -5
sure, maybe kids bought it, but the invasion of cartoon style characters along with the ‘sports entertainment’ goofy spotted matches that became prevalent with Vince Jr’s reign along with his obsession with steroid enhanced individuals to create that comic book look is what took wrestling from a semi believable contest between two men in cigar smoke filled arenas to a Saturday morning cartoon. watch the crowds. people believed in Bruno, he was real. Hogan was just a real life equivalent to He-Man, complete fantasy. Bruno definitely looked like a wrestler, but it's not like everyone had the internet. Hogan was noticed when he was compared to Lou Ferrigno and became the "Incredible Hulk", he was already what a comic book character looked like because he was a big guy, even Superstar looked good at his time, but Hogan had the height advantage. If you noticed Hulk in the Rock nWrestling era and Hulk say in 1991, there is definitely a difference. Hogan's promos were different, his "Rocky-esque" story was different (from the streets brother!, actually he'd say less brother and more "daddy" and other catchphrases). Every match he had made it look like he could lose, because the foes he faced felt like a real threat. It did take time even if it was more semi-believable with the saturday morning cartoon style WWF was shaped into. Lighting and atmosphere eventually changed, it became more high quality (production), and 1991-92 was way more of a cartoon than say in 1986, with more wackier characters. have to agree to disagree. I feel like anyone beyond a child could plainly see how comical hogan’s antics were, his hulking up routine...no one was thinking that was real. couldn’t even make an argument of it. |
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jan 16, 2019 20:43:21 GMT -5
Work
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Post by TKO Propagandist on Jan 17, 2019 4:15:14 GMT -5
The faker the better
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