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Originally Posted by Next Big Thing
I love ya, but I have to disagree with you Naitch. I think it's the exact opposite. Brock is anti- wrestling and if anything his success helps get MMA over as being superior to wrestling. It's like all of these pro wrestlers are jock riding MMA. Undertaker incorporating the gogoplata. Angle talking a few years back about how he wanted to make the switch. Batista and Lashley actually choosing to start from the bottom of a second tier MMA promotion than enjoy the main event scene of pro wrestling. Even The Rock said that if he could do it all over again he'd be an MMA fighter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yK0tCki_0c
It's kind of pathetic. UFC has been around since 1993 so it's not like if any of these guys wanted to fight MMA so bad they couldn't have. Shamrock came from that background and you didn't hear about Rock wanting to go try it then. All of these pro wrestlers at MMA events come off as fanboys and wannbes to me. Meanwhile the actual product that is pro wrestling today is a fucking embarrassment with shitty guest hosts, lame skits, and writing which pushes shitty talent while burying actual talent.
Plus with Brock it's not like he's someone who spent his entire career in pro wrestling then tried to make the switch. He had the elite collegiate wrestling background that some would say is a great foundation to any successful MMA fighter. Same with Lashley to a lesser extent, although he did get his ass kicked. |
You see, this is what I'm afraid of as well. I know some guys think that wrestling needs to find a way to incorporate MMA into the shows, but I feel like all that will do is further the damage it has already done. Wrestling is a business based almost entirely on popularity, not wins and losses. For this reason, you can't expect to incorporate aspects of MMA and expect for it to make any more difference to the wrestling fans. Bischoff had a poor choice of words when he called it not even apples and oranges, but he was essentially correct in his thinking. And I'm sorry, but as much of a fan as I have been of Duane Johnson's work in the business....after his comments in that interview they caught him in, he can just stay the heck away like he plans to for all I care. That is not what the wrestling business needs right now, and I would think he would have had something better to say at the time.