Current Events > Do people still watch WWE?

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I haven't watched since over 3 years or so ago... What's happened since? Is it the same s*** acts dominating the main show every week like Roman Reigns and Cena?

I wouldn't call them people
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Yes, its never been as successful as it is today,

I saw on the news a month or so ago they just signed one of the biggest tv deals in history (worth something like $500 million a year) so I'm guessing yes, cable companies still see it as something they really want on their networks.

Watch NXT and 205 followed by Smackdown and never watch Raw.
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I think the audience now consists of half fanboys who would watch anything WWE and half deluded fans who begrudgingly stick with it in the hopes that it will get better again.
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Southernfatman posted...

I think the audience now consists of half fanboys who would watch anything WWE and half deluded fans who begrudgingly stick with it in the hopes that it will get better again.

Sounds accurate to me.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Southernfatman posted...

I think the audience now consists of half fanboys who would watch anything WWE and half deluded fans who begrudgingly stick with it in the hopes that it will get better again.

Sounds accurate to me.

It's been this way for 25 years
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weekoldhotdog posted...

It's been this way for 25 years

15

6MoD

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FridayDownpour posted...

Yes, its never been as successful as it is today,

Probably because it has no direct competition and hasn't for almost two decades now

The product is pretty much braindead right now. They just had Braun, the most over dude on the roster turn heel to try and get some face pops for Roman.
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I haven't watched since Mania. Rhonda seems to be the top draw now and Cena has been MIA for a while.
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Pretty much quit after WCW went down.

The feel isn't there anymore.

The feel even died around the mid 90s.
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the only reasons to watch are braun elias ronda & the bar

wwe killed asukas career with shit booking
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I enjoy New Japan, even though the style is a little slower, it always builds up to an awesome final 5 or 6 minutes
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I've thrown it in the trash. I only watch New Japan now
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immaWHOOPdatASS posted...

The product is pretty much braindead right now. They just had Braun, the most over dude on the roster turn heel to try and get some face pops for Roman.

Did the same thing with Becky Lynch

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

The feel even died around the mid 90s.

How do you loose the feeling during the best time in pro wrestling history?
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WWE isn't as big as it was before IMO but it's doing a lot better than other entertainment companies are comparatively so it's raking in money.

I would also say professional wrestling in general is bigger than it has ever been

Irony posted...

I wouldn't call them people

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I've given up on wwe. Even nxt isn't that good now. I watch njpw, stardom, ddt, bjw, ajpw and occasionally cmll.
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I liked it until Wrestlemania XX. They did a brand split right after that and it wasn't the same. 2004 saw a lot of people leaving or fired as well. I think 2006 was the last time I enjoyed any of it.
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AstralMeats posted...

I've given up on wwe. Even nxt isn't that good now. I watch njpw, stardom, ddt, bjw, ajpw and occasionally cmll.

Have you seen the Naomichi Marufuji/KENTA match yet?
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Irony posted...

I wouldn't call them people

The Montreal Screwjob ruined wrestling
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Bad_Mojo posted...

AstralMeats posted...

I've given up on wwe. Even nxt isn't that good now. I watch njpw, stardom, ddt, bjw, ajpw and occasionally cmll.

Have you seen the Naomichi Marufuji/KENTA match yet?

Not yet. I feel like I need some context before I watch it, so I think I'll look for some of their previous matches.
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frozenshock posted...

The Montreal Screwjob ruined wrestling

What a joke post

That launched the entire fucking Attitude Era which literately saved the WWF
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Bad_Mojo posted...

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

The feel even died around the mid 90s.

How do you loose the feeling during the best time in pro wrestling history?

He said mid-90s, not late-90s.

Bad_Mojo posted...

frozenshock posted...

The Montreal Screwjob ruined wrestling

What a joke post

That launched the entire fucking Attitude Era which literately saved the WWF

Yep.

The attitude era.

And the fucking undertaker in a fucking motorcycle.

Gone were the good guys. The superheroes were replaced by urban thugs.
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Lol the only thing that saved WWF was WCW's incompetence.
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frozenshock posted...

Yep.

The attitude era.

And the fucking undertaker in a fucking motorcycle.

Gone were the good guys. The superheroes were replaced by urban thugs.

WCW had it's best roster. All Japan, New Japan, and AAA were all having their best years. All Japan Women was dying off a bit, but still had a fantastic mid-90s run, just not so much in 1997.

It's crazy to think someone stopped watching during the hottest period in wrestling
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Bad_Mojo posted...

It's crazy to think someone stopped watching during the hottest period in wrestling

I was a hulkamaniac.

Hulkamania was dead.

The heroes were gone.

I loved the cartoonish feel. I loved watching Hulk Hogan beat up the Iron Sheik. I loved flag-waving Lex Luger bodyslamming Yokozuna. I loved the dead man walking Undertaker.

The attitude era just seemed to kill everything. It felt way too different.
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Stopped around 10 years ago, and it so happened that my TV package lost the channels that broadcast it around then.

The TV picks it up again since a couple months ago so I just switch to it if there's nothing else and I've got time to kill. At least there's no Cena now, thank god for that. Couldn't recognize almost anybody in the roster now, though, except old and beat-up Hardys, Randy Orton(never liked him tbh), Lesnar(heard he was back), Lashley(woah wtf he's back too?!), was-some-unimportant-noob-last-time-I-saw-him Miz, Kofi and Ziggler(holy lol he was one of the guys in that awful Spirit Squad?! Never woulda guessed lmao). Had to reacquaint myself with the new roster a bit.

At least there's this Shield thing going on. Only heard of them second-hand through my brother saying something about them being the new big-shots like 5 years ago, so at least that looks fresh. Also heard about grumblings regarding Reigns that he's the new Cena or something, but at the moment he's fresh to me so I guess he's fine, though if that's true I might quickly tire of him. Also, it's great to see AJ Styles and Samoa Joe on WWE, two of the only three things I liked about TNA when I watched some of it way back.
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Watched religiously in 04-06 (Edge is my all time favourite), lost interest but still followed it, got right back into it with CM Punk's pipebomb in 2011, then haven't watched anything since about 2013.

I still check results/the WWE board every now and then, but I've always been drawn to heels like Edge and Punk, and from what I read there's nobody like that.
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Yes.
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Yes, but only to compare the quality against the other promotions I watch.

From Stardom to NJPW, Japan basically saved my ass from weaning interest in the industry.
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I watch specific matches of wrestlers that I care about.

AJ Styles & Samoa Joe.

Alex Bliss is always fun to watch and easy on the eyes.
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Skye Reynolds posted...

Bad_Mojo posted...

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

The feel even died around the mid 90s.

How do you loose the feeling during the best time in pro wrestling history?

He said mid-90s, not late-90s.

Yea it wasn't until about 97 or the nWo stuff is when started paying attention to it again.
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Do people still watch WWE?

It's still on the air; people are watching it.
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I won't watch it again until I hear that Roman "orgasms after punching" Reigns is gone.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I won't watch it again until I hear that Roman "orgasms after punching" Reigns is gone.

He got a MASSIVE beat down yesterday on RAW!

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I follow the results just to see what's going on. But after Benoit its hard for me to care.

I enjoyed it in the 80s and loved the Monday
Night war's in the 90s.

But after Benoit it lost its innocence.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

He said mid-90s, not late-90s.

frozenshock posted...

The attitude era just seemed to kill everything. It felt way too different.

He's clearly talking about the Attitude Era
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WWE fans are kinda like Star Wars fans. You're not a true fan if you don't hate it.
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I miss when there was a variety of gimmicks and wrestler names and great catchphrases and trademark moves and attires. Almost everyone used to feel unique back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

How are things now? Looks like a lot of people just use a real sounding name and bland tights.
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Also a crap load of promotions and organizations were gone by the mid 90s.

No AWA, CCW, and SMW went under.

Had none of the reginal stuff I use to watch either on TV.

Use to watch one based around Chicago... (hell I just read that it lasted up until 2011 and had a acronym dispute with WCW).

Seemed like Rasslin was on TV everyday back then.
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Heel Braun >>>>> Face Braun
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Also a crap load of promotions and organizations were gone by the mid 90s.

No AWA, CCW, and SMW went under.

Had none of the reginal stuff I use to watch either on TV.

Use to watch one based around Chicago... (hell I just read that it lasted up until 2011 and had a acronym dispute with WCW).

Seemed like Rasslin was on TV everyday back then.

And how many 100s of 5 Star matches happened between New Japan, All Japan and All Japan Women in the 90s? And were doing amazing numbers Manami Toyota, a female, has 17 of them between 91 and 95, one of them being given a 5 1/2 Stars after Big Daddy Dave broke his own scale last year. Two of them were in the same night

Misawa had 14 during that time

I know this topic is about the WWE, but Pro Wrestling was amazing in the mid-90s. You just had to look for it. And a lot of those absolutely amazing New Japan talent ended up working for WCW and were on every Monday Night having fantastic matches

And let's now forget this being the best time for ECW when there was great story arcs and not just violence
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*Hana Kimura throat slash taunt*
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