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**PureHatred** · 05-08-2004, 03:26 PM

I hate when people blame the Internet for the fall of wrestling. All the internet has done is give fans a forum to express their feelings, to interact with those with similar interests (because, as we all know, the general populace can be cruel to wrestling fans *sigh*), and to lean more about something we all have a passion for. There are a lot of fans that would know nothing about the WWE pre-1999 w/o thr "net. There are those who would have no way to access any company except the WWE without the Internet, without dl'ing ROH matches from Kazaa, without accessing indy sites and message boards. Hell, I didn't even know Pro Wrestling Guerilla was holding shows in my area until I looked it up. The Internet, if anythng, has actually made wrestling fans more knowledgeable and more demanding.

Honestly, how many of us would know who guys like Bryan Danielson, Doug Williams, Chris Daniels or Johnny Storm were without the IWC? How many of us would have seen any Puroresu matches if we hadn't been exposed to them through other fans or clips that we say on the Net?

The INternet has made us better fans of wrestling. Has it made us less blindly appreciative of the WWE specifically? Yes. But dont blame us. If consumers have become more inteligent and more demanding, you don't blame them when they are unsatisfied by the produt. You blame the product for not being able to keep up with demands.

I mean, really, do you tell someone who has a crappy phone service to make less calls. "Hey, you never needed call waiting and free long distance when you were a teenager." No..you tell him to find a new service. And whatever crap service he was using either has to improve or they lose their customers.

Basically, what I'm saying, is that the world has changed. In all entertainment aspects, from sports to movies to video games, the voice and demands of internet fans is affecing the market. It's the WWE's job to adjust, not ours. In a free market society, if a company cannot evolve, then it dies. And no amount of blaming the fans can stop it.

05-08-2004, 03:26 PM	#9
PureHatred Instant Credibility Posts: 2,979	I hate when people blame the Internet for the fall of wrestling. All the internet has done is give fans a forum to express their feelings, to interact with those with similar interests (because, as we all know, the general populace can be cruel to wrestling fans sigh), and to lean more about something we all have a passion for. There are a lot of fans that would know nothing about the WWE pre-1999 w/o thr "net. There are those who would have no way to access any company except the WWE without the Internet, without dl'ing ROH matches from Kazaa, without accessing indy sites and message boards. Hell, I didn't even know Pro Wrestling Guerilla was holding shows in my area until I looked it up. The Internet, if anythng, has actually made wrestling fans more knowledgeable and more demanding. Honestly, how many of us would know who guys like Bryan Danielson, Doug Williams, Chris Daniels or Johnny Storm were without the IWC? How many of us would have seen any Puroresu matches if we hadn't been exposed to them through other fans or clips that we say on the Net? The INternet has made us better fans of wrestling. Has it made us less blindly appreciative of the WWE specifically? Yes. But dont blame us. If consumers have become more inteligent and more demanding, you don't blame them when they are unsatisfied by the produt. You blame the product for not being able to keep up with demands. I mean, really, do you tell someone who has a crappy phone service to make less calls. "Hey, you never needed call waiting and free long distance when you were a teenager." No..you tell him to find a new service. And whatever crap service he was using either has to improve or they lose their customers. Basically, what I'm saying, is that the world has changed. In all entertainment aspects, from sports to movies to video games, the voice and demands of internet fans is affecing the market. It's the WWE's job to adjust, not ours. In a free market society, if a company cannot evolve, then it dies. And no amount of blaming the fans can stop it.