Thread: "HOW THE INTERNET HAS RUINED PRO WRESTLING"
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Old 05-08-2004, 07:50 PM   #22
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I agree with a lot of what the writer said, but the way they said it was a bit to "I'm so great!"ish, IMO.

First of, yes there is a lot of negative comments going around the internet about the WWE product. I don't think I've ever knocked on their company, after all, Vicne is a way better wrestling promoter than I am. But when people do complain, 90% of the time it is one of two things:

1. Markism.
Not quite being a mrk, but people want to "mark out" out the WWE product. When the WWE doesn't do that, it is not the people who didn't "mark out"'s fault, but the deliverers of the product. Sure it is aimed at mark, but when the WWE really delivers I find myself squealing like a little school girl. WWE is capable of putting stuff like that on, so when people don't see the writers doing that, they get offended so to speak. I can't say Im one of them, but I know how they're feeling. I want to see the product that sells tickets, not just the wrestlers that sell the tickets.

2. Frustration
Probably could be connected to #1 in a way, but when people watch they see the perfect oppourtunity, but just like soccer it might be harder to see it mid-game. We see the marks going "Go Austin!", we see the internet community going "Go Benoit!", I'm sure management has the hardest thing to do, not knowing who, what, when, where and how right from the start. We think we know everything, but we don't. Nobody does. That is why the information we know is cut and sliced and passed around in different forms. Marks got the guys the WWE pushes, we got the guys we like, and management has to give it out in healthy doses. I don't think any side could really understand the other completely, so we're stuck like this. Why complain? It is just the internet community sees something good and calls out to WWE "Why isn't that happening?", nothing wrong with that of course, as we do pretty much what the WWE puts on TV, but we all think we could do a great job at running a promotion. The marks are those wild cards that we need to keep in mind. It is hard for the WWE to push people both teams like.

I feel the WWE pushed the entertainment during the 1998 period. Then when we demand sports, they need to keep the level of entertainment in the same proportion it used to be in order to still aim at the same target audiences. I can't imagine how hard it really is to right storylines that put good workers, and power hungry squash machines at one time, I guess we just have to keep faith and hope the WWE keeps on bringing that sports entertainment.
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