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Originally Posted by TW Mangrove
whatever happened to it? I mean now days we have crap like JBL, John Cena, HHH, Batista in the main event. ANd the new guys who are brought in are crap, look at those retards, no technical ability at all. Remember the good old days when Bret Hart wrestled HBK in an iron man match? or when Savage and steamboat had their classic at WM III? i miss those days. But I blame the fans, wrestling got shit with the likes of foley and stone cold and that whole WWF attitude days. Ric Flair was right about foley and he is 1000 times better than foley. I miss the old days but you idiot newbie fans having ruined the product. You can take your John Cena wigger crap and shove it.
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I think you forget that the WWE is all about catering for all types of fans and all types of wrestling.
Did you see Smackdown last week? The WWE gave the public Guerrero and Angle, and they gave a great technical display.
What I think you forget is that while Savage and Steamboat were out having their classic, the people came to watch Hogan vs Andre, you get the best of both worlds. In all honesty, if you headlined a show with Guerrero vs Angle with an undercard stuff full of equally good technical matches, there wouldn't be nearly as much build for the match, as you'd have seen everything already.
As for saying Austin and Foley are to blame for wrestling getting shit, your a complete moron. Austin put on technical classics with plenty of people while he was in the WWE, he wasn't a one dimensional brawler the whole time, and quite frankly he wouldn't have sold as many tickets if people didn't believe he was gonna have a good match. As for Foley, hey, each to his own, but I would honestly take watching the Streetfight he had with Triple H in MSG at the Royal Rumble over pretty much any match, because it had everything. Techincal wrestling isn't just about the wrestling, its about the psychology put into the match to get the crowd involved, and lets face it, very few got people into a match more than Austin, Rock or Foley and guess what...they aren't "Technical" wrestlers.
I don't quite understand why its the "newbie" fans fault. I would wager that the WWE has put on more sterling technical classics since 1998 than between Wrestlemania III and XII.
Don't forget, the fans pay to watch PPV's for the matches, not for who is on them, so at the end of the day its down to the WWE to put these matches on the table, not the fans.
If you want to watch 4 hours of technical wrestling, go and watch Ring Of Honor.