Wrestling is losing fans? Is this an issue ?

[Mr. Nerfect]

Originally Posted by Jordan X I agree. I was watching a Raw from late 97 a few months back and was honestly kind of blown away by a DOA vs Los Borriquas match. It's just 5 minutes of hard realistic action. A match that I probably rolled my eyes at at the time but after years of flip flop and fly I definitely miss the days of big dudes with territory experience. Ron and Don also had some awesome Brodyesque brawls in early ECW that I watched recently. The big difference I see between now and then attitude era is size. A guy like Val Venis would be a monster if he was in that physique today. But then he was not quite a heavyweight in my eyes. Throwback match recommendation Val Venis vs Rikishi cage match Fully Loaded 2000.

Can’t attest to the DOA/Bariquas stuff specifically, but that’s the sort of thing I find. I’ll go back and watch Bob Holly vs. Al Snow or some shit, and I’ll enjoy it way more than the 20 minute white noise matches you see today.

I grew to love Val Venis during his Heat years. If the guy didn’t turn out to be a total cunt, it would have been nice to see the guy reach the heights they were trying to push him to as a heel in late ‘99/‘00. But the dude was let down by the gimmick and being green when it came to having instincts. He developed into a better worker way after the pushes stopped coming. That Cage Match was basically the splash from the top, in retrospect.