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Originally Posted by thehook
I quit watching a few years ago before it was WWE I think. I would like to know some stuff. I have turned it on a few times and sat through it. What happened to all the cool weapons, street fights, falls count anywhere and hardcore matches? Have they done away with this all important attribute to wrestling all together?
Where is Sabu and why the hell isn't he in WWE changing the buisness and pushing everyone else. New Jack? Sandman? Stone Cold? What about old Tank Abbot and Dan the Beast Severn?
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OK, I'll bite.
WWE - like wrestling - is cyclical. Hardcore wrestling is one of those cycles in wrestling that pops up every now and then. Big history, but modernly - since that is where we're at - late 80's, and then it died off, and came back in the 90's. It'll come back again when the time is right, and more fans will believe it is the first time that the stuff they're seeing has ever happened. Like most of the fans who saw hardcore wrestling in the 90's did.
Sabu is working indies, and doesn't even belong doing that. The guy is a real arrogant asshole, and possesses no talent whatsoever. The only person he's ever pushed is himself - because in order to make up for his lack of ability in the wrestling AND talking departments, he had to kill himself in the ring. Jack is another guy right along those same lines, and would give it up, but he can not pay his numerous bills, nor stay out of jail. Sandman is just...forget it.
Steve Austin is a great, and often underrated, talent. Super wrestler, great character, and one of the best talkers ever in the biz. Him I won't knock. Dan Severn is long past his prime, but when he was on he was good. Never great in the promo department, but was a fine fighter and athlete, and I respect him for that. Tank Abbott was never anywhere near being a good wrestler, and really is overrated as a fighter.