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Originally Posted by Bad News Gertner
The people who chant "boring" aren't the core fanbase. A big man with mic skills will always be better than a skinny dweeb with the same and you can take a monster and make them into something regardless of mic or ring skills.
No wonder why ratings are shit. Vanilla midgets populating the roster, there's no mystique to it anymore. Nash was right. Send these guys back to the mid card.
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"The people who chant boring aren't the core fan base" Bullshit. You constantly say that every time the crowd proves you wrong. And the ratings aren't down because of "vanilla midgets" they're down because wrestling itself isn't popular anymore. Face it, pro-wrestling is even less mainstream than comics nowadays. Being a wrestling fan is damn near on par with being a Brony in today's atmosphere.
As for your other argument about wrestlers being real life super heroes I'm going to assume you don't read comics. Most of the most popular comic book characters today are not giant musclebound he-men. People like characters with depth and relatability. The days of Superman are over just like the days of the 80's stereotype wrestler are over.
Size has nothing to do with a wrestler getting over today. By the 80's and 90's standard John Cena is pretty small. Fans today want characters that they can get behind, not mythical heroes. Even kids today know wrestling is fake, it's just not the same product you grew up with whether you like it or not.
Wrestling will never reach the popularity it had in the Attitude era ever again. The fact that it's still getting ratings at all is amazing in and of itself. You also make it sound like WWE is getting TNA level ratings. Even with the "shit ratings" you say they have they're still outdoing almost every TV show on cable.