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Originally Posted by Dastardly Dale Newstead
(Post 4933298)
He's pretty critical for someone with such terrible fantasy booking ideas.
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You're still butt-hurt about Kevin Owens not really looking like a rugby player, aren't you?
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Originally Posted by #BROKEN Hasney
(Post 4933299)
Like, I'd get it if he enjoyed NJPW and was just critical of WWE or something, but he straight up doesn't enjoy wrestling.
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I do enjoy NJPW. This is you projecting false ideals onto me. The fact that you would "get it" if I liked New Japan but was critical of WWE basically erases your entire point here. But, for your information, I did question my fandom for a while, because I actually listened to some of the people here who said "Wrestling is as good as its ever been, but you've just grown out of it." So I went and watched some older wrestling and liked it just fine. I'm sorry I don't love The Usos high-school playing their way through a god damn awful promo where they keep stepping on each other's lines in order to make it seem organic.
The truth is, quality standards have dropped. Really bad shit is now bad shit, bad shit is now average, average is now good and good is now ZOMG! SIX STAR MATCH! THIS IS BETTER THAN AUSTIN/BRET!!! If it were, more then 10,000 Americans would have watched it. And I am pulling for New Japan. I really,
really want them to succeed.
But hey, that's a successful business model, right? Wear down your audience so they have low expectations and still eat the shit you shovel them anyway. Why bust your ass trying to put forward
good television? That would burn you out way too quickly.
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Originally Posted by Big Vic
(Post 4933314)
I miss the days when he thought Doug Bashem should be WWE champ.... Or when he went full on "Evil Noid"
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I'm still Evil Noid, you guys are just so worn down by WWE's conditioning methods that you've gotten used to it, and now don't believe in face/heel lines.
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Originally Posted by #BrotherVito DELETED
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Thing is, I understand not liking the product and being frustrated by it. We've all been there. And as wrestling fans, even if we stop watching for a while, I think most diehard wrestling fans are still going to check the results just to see if anything cool happened and if there's anything worth seeking out. Most of us would love an excuse to jump back in.
It's like a sports team. You want it to do well but they are SO godawful it's tough to force yourself to sit through. Imagine being a Cleveland Browns fan except instead of 16 games a year you have to watch 52+. It's impossible not to get burned out.
I just don't get the epically long posts about everything the company is doing wrong when it's already been ages since the person last liked the product. That's an awful lot of effort to put towards something that feels like a chore more than an enjoyable hobby.
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Bro, you book the Royal Rumble every year and then message me about how much you don't like the current product. You don't need to *get* what I'm about. That's how we're separate people. I love wrestling, but that doesn't mean I need to enjoy the specifics. It has been a long time since something has really gotten me excited for the weekly television product of WWE, but there are plenty of little bright spots that get me through. There is the hope that at the end of the tunnel, business will pick up. If you think Kevin Owens as mid-card champ is great, I can't wait until you guys see him as a main eventer, for example.
I've tempered my viewing considerably, thank you very much, not that it is any of your business. I don't watch RAW or SmackDown. I listen to recaps from my trusted sources as to what is going on. I will watch the occasional PPV to see if the "big show" feel can drag me back in, but then Alexa Bliss kills herself taking a fucking moonsault and all you guys can do is drool about how great she is.
If there was something else that was truly good on week-to-week, I'd be watching that. I'd leave WWE behind in the dirt so fucking fast. Then they'd probably start trying and reel me back in. But they've got their fingers on the business and no one else cares enough to try and make them creative, because wrestling is more niche than it's ever been. Again, brilliant strategy from a business standpoint. Enjoy your mediocre WWE until the end of time.
My most naive thought is that the WWE will eventually change itself and a star will shoot through. Why on earth would that ever happen? Especially when you guys lap it up and don't ask any questions.