[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Jordan X I just wanted to put in writing that at this time I am not definitely purchasing All Out 2020. I will have to be sold. I blindly bought all of AEW's PPV's and let one fact be known, I've never regretted it. But, AEW isn't getting any less (leg) slap happy and I'm not down with Tony's presence on social media and trying to obviously "win" people over with his wrestling markdom. I really need to get of Twitter probably. AEW/WWE war is toxic and constant and also what is with the female wrestling STANS (I hate how this term is so widely used) and their devout passion that goes back to the whorey days of Lita and Trish to a complete obsession with Sasha or Bailey or Io ... god let's not even get into the Joshi fans. I really miss looking into the audience and seeing excited children reacting like they are having the time of their life or laughing because the show is ridiculous and they know they can flip off this big bad rassler and nothing will happen to them. Or that old couple that is dressed the same as they would if they went out to dinner at a decent local restaurant. I want to see a woman there with a group of her friends that think the wrestler is hot but also love the action.... I hate markdom. So tired of tools all wearing black shirts with EXPLOSIVE logo's, shaggy hair, and beards. I am tired of hearing wrestling fans chant their stupid chants too. The only thing that needs to be chanted is THE NAME OF THE WRESTLER, ASSHOLE, AND USA. Anything else can fuck off.

Excellent post. It’s the environment that wrestling has cultivated though. WWE ran off a lot of fans, now all that are left are the hardcore fans. And AEW wants to coddle them than even try to get back people who had the sense/ability to leave.

You’re not going to get that back unless promotions start to put on actually good content. Pro-wrestling shit, and not sports entertainment. That euphemism has actually become a legitimate genre because the WWE introduced their tropes and they’re so internalized that even those who say “Pfft, WWE — we’re better than that” copy.

Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito Totally get if somebody doesn't like anything in modern wrestling and doesn't feel the desire to watch it anymore. It's unfortunate, but I get it. What I don't get is people who'd rather the business fold entirely than accept that people enjoy watching something they don't like anymore.

It’s the TNA argument to me. “How can people actually want a wrestling company to die?” Because while it keeps a certain amount of talent employed (debatable if they get paid), it keeps talent worth a shit in a dungeon, and pollutes the wrestling scene with bad content. If you think of wrestling as a “franchise,” it’s harder to relaunch a franchise if it’s putting out turgid content every year, year after year. Sometimes you need to scorch a forest to grow new trees.

I’m at the stage where I’m apathetic to AEW. Fuck them, I don’t care if they go away. The cunts were happy insulting my intelligence and taking the best opportunity in pro-wrestling in over two decades and wiping their jizz dicks all over it. The schadenfreude of their failure would be real. But I still love wrestling and want something good to come along. That’s why I get a stiffy at the idea of The Rock starting a company, or AEW’s disrespect of Punk making him say “hold my Pepsi.”

Wrestling is bad. People just want it to be good. The tension comes because the people who claim it is good are standing in the way of that goal. But AEW are successfully running them off, so ha. Then we’ll just be left with Vince again. Yay!