An old-school fan's view on today's WWE

[Zeeboe]

I admit I am a very grumpy old man when it comes to today's wrestling. All I ever ramble about for the most part are the old days and how wrestling today stinks. However, I am watching this on YouTube -



(Granted, the clip is a year old but to me one year ago is like yesterday so no nit-picking please.)

This is a damn good promo. Reason being is because Triple H is a vet of course and comes from the old-school so he knows how to cut a promo and C.M. Punk is impressing me as well. I need to believe that the wrestlers believe what they are saying when they speak, and most of the young wrestlers are just bad B-rated actors in my view. But the above promo is fucking wonderful. Very intense and very real sounding. The only thing about the promo I dislike however is that FOUR times Triple H says to C.M. Punk that Triple H's opinion on Punk doesn't matter - It's the people's. Yes, I get it Hunter! Stop repeating yourself. It was good the first time you said it, but you're just making it weak by saying it over and over again.

I don't like C.M. Punk.....and that's a good thing. It means he is doing his job well. In my final days as a wrestling fan, most of the heels use to annoy me so much that I had no desire to see them on TV and they were one of the reasons why I stopped watching. I turn on today's wrestling sometimes and I still can't stand the heels or the faces because most are so phony. However C.M. Punk and Randy Orton are the only two heels I dislike in a good way. I want to see them get their asses kicked. Those are honestly the only two young wrestlers I care for. There was another wrestler I saw once on Raw back in late 2010 when I just randomly stumbled upon Raw that impressed me too - Can't recall his name, but he was like some shoot-style dude....looked really young and was like a young Bob Backlund kinda. He had a good look and his wrestling skills were good. I never heard him do a promo, but even if he couldn't do an interview if he had a manager speak for him I thought he could go far, but he may not even in the WWE anymore. I'm not a big Cena fan by the way. I hate wiggers. He's one of those wrestlers who causes me not to watch. As for the rest of the boys - With the exception of the few vets that are still around, I know nothing about today's superstars.

Speaking of good current promos, I liked that promo Undertaker did with Triple H and HBK a week before Wrestlemania this year. The Rock's promos against John Cena were good as well. But again - Those guys are old-school, so not sure if that counts. It's the young guys who need to start doing promos like that. If we could have more promos like Undertaker's, Rock's, and the one in the above clip I posted, I'd start watching wrestling again.

Actual wrestling is fine, but I need to have a reason to cheer or boo a guy. i.e. I need an emotional connection to the wrestlers - If I don't have that connection, all the wrestling matches are, are just men pretending to hurt each other and that's not good enough for me. It may be good for others, but not me. I'd rather watch MMA because at least that's real. But I miss wrestling. I use to look forward to Monday night's. I haven't had a emotional connection to wrestling in almost ten years. All I have is nostalgia and my memories and I do enjoy that, but it would be nice to watch a wrestling match and not know the result of it for once as well as create new memories with today's wrestlers.