How serious do you take your rasslin? 2022 edition

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Gerard Its just pure wank these days, Promos are scripted literally to the letter and it's rare you get any sense of believability from the people delivering them, they all talk the same they all use the same phrases (each...and every....one of you etc). It's like the promos are written without anyone specific in mind and they're just dumped in a big pile for random people to take and use. The shows are formatted to the point of mediocrity, whens the last time Raw started with a match? Week in week out its a gum flapping session to open the show. The moves are getting more and more moronic, for example how often in a multi man match are we going to get that fucking spot where they're all gathered together outside the ring and one guy either climbs the turnbuckle to flop down on them all or jumps over the ropes to drop down on them all? Or that spot where about 6 people are at the turnbuckle all on top of one another and it turns into a multi layer powerbomb or suplex? The moves are so obviously assisted these days that any sense of believability is gone in an instant. On the whole though i think boredom comes from the fact that most of us are older and have seen it, done it, got the t shirt, we lived through the monday night wars, attitude era and it's all been downhill since that. Wrestling will never get remotely near that peak again, part of the success of the wars and the nwo was the notion that this was an actual wwf invasion and wrestling still had a semblence of being real. That notions long since gone, now we know what they have for breakfast, whos fucking who etc. IMO it'll just shamble along being a mediocre tv attraction at best and thats about all it can hope for now.

Great post.

I often think about the inevitability of it all. Was wrestling always destined to be contained to relevancy in the 20th Century? I’m not sure it had to go down this path. The promoters and performers could take better care of it.