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Originally Posted by KayfabeMan
Maybe it is just me, because it seems that I've been watching wrestling a lot longer than most here and have seen more matches, etc... - that I feel a bit spoiled from watching wrestlers that were better than most of today's guys.
The general wrestling fans are so used to seeing garbage matches, one after another, that when they see a normal match, or one slightly above, it's made out to be a masterpiece.
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See, I totally disagree with you there. I've been watching since mid 80's, so don't hold me to anything before that, although I have seen quite a few stuff before that. IMO, I think today's workers are much better then say WWF's workers from the 80's-96. Now I would say the top workers during that time were HBK, Bret, Owen, Dibiase, Steamboat, Roberts, Perfect, Von Erich, Dynamite, Hall, Savage, Flair, Santana. There is probably more, but that's off the top of my head. Now these batch of guys were putting on classic matches.
Now if you look at all the other talent back then (and these might have been nice guys, but I'm basing this strickly on wrestling ability) Typhoon, "The Goon," Battlecat, Babyface Doink, Brooklyn Brawler, Beefcake, JYD, Koko B. Ware, Warlord, Barbarian, Hogan, Warrior, Yokozuna, Lex Lugar, Nash, Taker, Boss Man, Hercules, Roma, etc........The list just goes on and on. AND REMEMBER: STRICKLY WRESTLING ABILITY. Not Overness, character, promo skills or ticket sales I'm basing this on. There were a lot of crap matches back then. And especially on those superstars and early Raw shows when they brought in no names to face established guys. You don't get that today...ever.
Today you have your Benoits, Angle, Eddie, Jericho, HBK, Xtian, Edge, RVD, Mysterio, HHH, Orton, Chavo, Haas, Benjamin, Booker and Edge who I consider your best workers. Probably missing people
But I just think all the others like Cena, Hurricane, Hardy, Big Show, Nunzio, Londo, Kidman, etc...are just so much better then say "The Goon," Kamala, Giant Gonzolez, Repo Man, etc...in terms of wrestling ability.
So what I basically saying is the middle or sucky guys in the WWF today are much better workers then the middle or sucky guys then back. So today's show is a much better product based on Wrestling ability then back then.
And that's my two cents.