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Originally Posted by loopydate
Ditto for the SmackDown Six era. No matter how bad the other stuff was, Edge, Rey, Angle, Benoit, and the Guerreros were consistently putting on tremendous matches. Plus, you had Lesnar looking like the second coming (albeit one ten times more talented) of Goldberg. That was an exciting time.
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see, here's my problem when I hear things like this. I agree with you 100% that the matches were oustanding back then and some of the best ever. But today, the matches are just as entertaining in my opinion.
But the difference maker between today and even back around that time was the stories and character performances booked around the matches. Character wise, those guys you listed up there were/are in a different league then the guys today as a whole. you can have the match of the nights for a year straight, but it won't mean jack shit if the storylines suck or your character/interviews suck.
I'm not really arguing with you here, loopy, I'm just stating the difference maker is not in the matches, it's in the entertainment side of things.