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Originally Posted by NormanSmiley
agree 1000% #1. the pg part is fine, the lack of non attitude is fine. to me what still draws me in is a good build of a fued and thats where E is so lacking right now other than the main event of each ppv there are just throw in matches that have no storylines
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Yeah, this pretty much sums up my stance on the current product.
I think part of what made the era of wrestling that Zeeboe (and others) long for is that the entire roster carried weight.
There was always something going on with the main event of course, but there was build up and storylines for the IC scene, EU scene, Hardcore title, Women's title, etc...
As it is now, the select few wrestlers in the main event scene are the ones that get storylines and get attention focused on their matches (even if it is hastily strewn together nonsense).
Doubly compounding the lack of depth is that the title matches always revolve around those same few individuals, which can get stale pretty quickly, especially considering how regimented the product is these days.
That's not a slight against the PG format, but rather how the performers used to be in charge of their matches up to the finish. As it is now, there isn't any match variation when you have producers dictating your every move in the ring for every match.
The lumberjack match this past Monday was a great example of how little attention is being paid to the mid/undercard. I didn't recognize nearly half of the wrestlers, and some of them I thought were fired a long time ago.