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Post by The American Daydream on Mar 31, 2022 9:47:14 GMT -5
Peacemaker wasn't just it for Cena. It was the memes before that and the theme song in prank calls. His album did well when it dropped for not being a major name. Cena is far more successful as an entrepreneur than Hogan ever was or could hope to be and at the end of the day Cena has the accolades to prove he had a better career IN wrestling.
Comparing their popularity though is like comparing the golden era to the RA era. Sure wrestling was more polarizing back in the 80s but grown adults also thought it was real combat sports too so there's that. Same way wrestling has so many more eyes on it today with social media and all the streaming services so therefore it's more popular now, but is the quality still as good or better? It's always gonna be debatable.
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Post by k5 on Mar 31, 2022 10:40:10 GMT -5
Peacemaker wasn't just it for Cena. It was the memes before that and the theme song in prank calls. His album did well when it dropped for not being a major name. Cena is far more successful as an entrepreneur than Hogan ever was or could hope to be and at the end of the day Cena has the accolades to prove he had a better career IN wrestling. Comparing their popularity though is like comparing the golden era to the RA era. Sure wrestling was more polarizing back in the 80s but grown adults also thought it was real combat sports too so there's that. Same way wrestling has so many more eyes on it today with social media and all the streaming services so therefore it's more popular now, but is the quality still as good or better? It's always gonna be debatable. no adult thought that the 1980s wwf was real. at all.
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Post by Yambag Jones on Mar 31, 2022 11:40:21 GMT -5
It's apples and oranges. Hogan was mega popular in a time where there were SIGNIFICANTLY fewer things to watch. Cena being this popular now is a feat in its own right.
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Post by The American Daydream on Mar 31, 2022 15:35:49 GMT -5
Peacemaker wasn't just it for Cena. It was the memes before that and the theme song in prank calls. His album did well when it dropped for not being a major name. Cena is far more successful as an entrepreneur than Hogan ever was or could hope to be and at the end of the day Cena has the accolades to prove he had a better career IN wrestling. Comparing their popularity though is like comparing the golden era to the RA era. Sure wrestling was more polarizing back in the 80s but grown adults also thought it was real combat sports too so there's that. Same way wrestling has so many more eyes on it today with social media and all the streaming services so therefore it's more popular now, but is the quality still as good or better? It's always gonna be debatable. no adult thought that the 1980s wwf was real. at all. Believe what you want but I've met plenty of them at shows and signings both. Easy to say that no one believed in the 80s now that it's 2022 and everyone knows better but there were plenty of morons out there who thought it was all 100% real. So real in fact that it wasn't until 1989 at a State Senate meeting in NJ that a promoter came out and publicly admitted it was all scripted and that promoter was Vince himself. So did majority of people in the world know that wrestling was scripted from the 1930s into the 1980s? Sure thing, but to say nobody believed it was real is the real joke here.
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Post by k5 on Mar 31, 2022 16:05:27 GMT -5
no adult thought that the 1980s wwf was real. at all. Believe what you want but I've met plenty of them at shows and signings both. Easy to say that no one believed in the 80s now that it's 2022 and everyone knows better but there were plenty of morons out there who thought it was all 100% real. So real in fact that it wasn't until 1989 at a State Senate meeting in NJ that a promoter came out and publicly admitted it was all scripted and that promoter was Vince himself. So did majority of people in the world know that wrestling was scripted from the 1930s into the 1980s? Sure thing, but to say nobody believed it was real is the real joke here. some southern wrestling that was conveyed in a more realistic manner under the nwa, or early wwwf, was certainly questioned by fans as legit or not. 80s hulk hogan era wwf? no chance. i mean there's idiots who think all types of things are real, so if you're talking about some underwhelmingly tiny minority, it's irrelevant. and vince came forward so that he didn't have to pay sport's commission expenses. it wasn't to tell fans who believed in it that it wasn't real.
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