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6 years 11 months ago
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I must admit, I watch wrestling religiously and always have. It's an addiction. Wrestling goes through phases, any long term wrestling fan knows this. It'll go through a down period, struggle with developing new stars, miss on storylines, etc, but then it'll peak as the newer stars truly develop into someone or something the fans can firmly get behind, and they'll find a money storyline.
Look at WWE for example. They had the big days of Hogan and Savage that virtually put wrestling on the map (mainstream anyway). Then a steroid scandal broke out and the product became a bit lame. They kept trying what worked in the late 80's into the early 90's, but it was a different time and day.
Then something happened. The "bad guys" started to get cheered, and the likes of Austin and The Rock became top level mainstream mainstays with a cast of strong characters around them such as Foley, etc.
Now, just like 10 to 15 years ago, the names of Austin, Rock, for the most part Foley, etc are gone. The WWE is budding a new name of stars, but once again marketing them in the same way they did in the big boom of the 90's, and wrestling is struggling. But if you watch closely, you see something happening. You are starting to see the fans turn on the tweener good guy (the "gray" are good ala The Rock and Austin) like John Cena and they are starting to cheer the blatant asshole who will win at all costs (Triple H, Kurt Angle) who are very much so in your face.
Wrestling evolves, it just takes a while. Now the new route of wrestling can be seen, it's just a matter of finding competition for WWE (TNA maybe??) to force them to once again evolve from a proven formula to something that will bring fans in yet again.
That said..here's my couple of favorites from the three difference WWE shows.
RAW: Carlito, Edge
Smackdown: Ken Kennedy, Matt Hardy
ECW: Kurt Angle, Sabu
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and i used to watch tna also but ever since jeff hardy wasnt showing up i stopped watching it
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