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Are would-be young wrestlers more interested in MMA now?
Are the same people who aspired to be professional wrestlers ten or so years ago now training to be MMA fighters instead? I suppose the same question goes for boxers as well.
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Got fired by the Clique
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There kids they don't know what they want in life.
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emerge
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Yes. This is very much happening.
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Got fired by the Clique
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There will always be wrestling fans trust me. Like I said they are just kids its the current fad. Just like when we were all children we all wanted to be wrestlers.
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One Of A Kind
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Its not surprising if true, vince's way of treating wrestlers(hiring/firing every week) doesn't help things.
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Got fired by the Clique
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His name is Jeff Harvey
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Taller than Adam Cole
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I can think of one former pro-wrestler who, after learning how to roll, went into MMA.
And, I'm not talking about Brock Lesnar or Bobby Lashley. |
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As over as Crystal Pepsi
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I think one factor is MMA is more masculine than wrestling. While in MMA you have pure adrenaline pumping action, in WWE you have a midget wrestling a guy in a cow costume.
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Resident drug enabler
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No. I remember when I was a kid wanting to be a wrestler at least, MMA would not have appealed to me. It was the "Larger than life hero/villian" type aspect of being a wrestler that appealed to me. It's not present in MMA.
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Over Like Rover
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A friend of mine quit 'the business' and is currently training with Paul Taylor for MMA so maybe
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Former TPWW Royalty
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Its possible but it doesn't mean all those wrestlers who switched to MMA would be successful fighters. Anything that is currently popular or hot as a career choice is going to get more attention than other choices.
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There is lots of scene MMA places in major cities which replaced all the regional/local wrestling companies from the early 90's and before. Therefore its much easier to get paid doing MMA and where the money is at is where the people will go.
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Bringing Intact Back
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Ya, All-Star Championship Wrestling used to be really big around here and even had a TV deal. Now there are a few different MMA type promotions and they have events at least once a month. When I work out at the gym that's usually the topic of conversation among younger guys and most of them are wearing some sort of MMA t-shirt. ACW is still around but lost the TV deal a bunch of years ago and only has one show every month or so and at the same crappy bar.
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The Satanic Mechanic
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The problem with wrestling is Vince McMahon and Vince Russo. They are the 2 biggest things keeping wrestling from being the best it possibly could be, while MMA writes itself, what with being a real sport and all.
There shouldn't be any reason people can't watch both, but the thing I hear most often with that 18- 34 male demographic (most of the people I hang out with on a regular basis and their extended group of friends and so on and so on) is "wrestling is gay. It was cool in like 2000 with Stone Cold and The Rock, but it's boring now". |
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Probably to some extent, but I doubt it's really much different from any fad or phenomena before it. Even when wrestling's in a slump, you can find a shitload of guys to fill up the local high school gym and prance around in tights.
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a lot of these guy comr from comptative bckrounds.pluswhat would make your crazy hock dad happier? tights or beating people up...
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Doin' It Right
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LUV CABBAGE/H8 JEWS
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Beating people up while wearing thights and having your chest and armpits waxed. Yeah.
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Member
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Hving a Keybord tht doesn't work right has nothing to do with crck...
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boop/bop/beep
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You've clearly never seen Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar
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Doin' It Right
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lol
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I am the cheese
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This is false. It's growing increasingly difficult. You see more guys doing double duty these days than ever in an attempt to fill a card. |
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I'm Mr. White Christmas
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I want to know more about Destor's wrestling personality so I can go see him perform somewhere
tell me |
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I am the cheese
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I wrestle as a daredevil varmit down on his luck, I go by Gopher Broke.
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Polyam cult member #420
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Destor, I've always theorized you were actually Tracy Smothers IRL. Confirm or deny?
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I'm Mr. White Christmas
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I'm Mr. White Christmas
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Destor is really Chuck Taylor by the way
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Polyam cult member #420
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If that's the case, Destor why do you hate children and ants so much?
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Resident drug enabler
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Big difference between his "character" and, say, Andre The Giant circa 1987. |
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I'ma gonna win
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Doin' It Right
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