Does anyone even watch wrestling anymore?

[DianaBanana]

I watched on and off for years until it started sucking so badly I couldnt take it anymore. So does anyone still watch that crap?

I only ask cause as I was flipping channels I came upon WWF..errr WWE last night and apparently they were having one of their sucky pay-per-views.

[Czeska]

My dad watches it sometimes, but not pay per view. I haven't watched it since Hulk and Macho Man. Even then, it was cause dad had it on.

[Artha]

I haven't watched since late 90s, early 2000. If I wanted to watch a soap opera, I'd flip to Days of our Lives. If I wanted fighting, I'd go rent a Jean-Claude van Damme movie.

[Edited on 7-12-2004 by Artha]

[DeV]

It hasn't been the same since Andre the Giant, the 'good' Hulk Hogan, Mr. Perfect, Rowdy Piper.... just to name a few. I miss watching wrestling from the 80's-90's.

[StrayRogue]

Its sucked from the day WCW got assimilated into the WWE franchise. Too many wrestlers these days.

[Tsa`ah]

I watched for a short stint after the WWE sucked up the WCW and ECW (I think).

WWE has been the suck since the big guns jumped ship for the WCW and they only mildly attracted my attention with the whole DX thing.

No, the poor man's soap opera hasn't been good since WCE and the NWO fell off the wayside.

[Mistomeer]

I quit watching after the WCW went to shit. I used to like watching Kidman and those people go flying around.

[Weedmage Princess]

What everyone else said. The 80's and early 90's were great. WWF nosedived in the late 90's...but WCW was pretty cool then with the nWo and all that..when they first started that up.
I'd only watch that. I don't think I've watched since 98 or 99. It's absolutely horrible.

[DianaBanana]

Originally posted by DarkelfVold
It hasn't been the same since Andre the Giant, the 'good' Hulk Hogan, Mr. Perfect, Rowdy Piper.... just to name a few. I miss watching wrestling from the 80's-90's.

OMG Mr Perfect (Curt Hennig) use to be my favorite. I had the biggest crush on him as a kid. I look back now and wonder what I was thinking. LOL

[GSLeloo]

I had a friend who used to watch it religiously and only stopped recently because he said they just made it so horrible in the direction they took it that he just couldn't watch it anymore.

[Parkbandit]

I still watch it when I can. Come on.. it's still fun to watch.

And the Divas kick ass.

[Weedmage Princess]

Didn't he die last year or the year before?

Mr. Perfect that is.

I had the biggest crush on Ricky Steamboat. :loveu:

[StrayRogue]

I hated WCW personally. I loved the early 90's WWF when it went RAW. Was very violent, very bloody and very uncensored. Today is a package version of how it used to be, AFTER the censors have gotten their hands all over it.

[DeV]

Originally posted by Parkbandit

And the Divas kick ass. Yeah, I'll admit the eye candy is nice except for the manly looking broads that wrestle.

I remember they had the kid with one leg on there wrestling for a while. :cringe: That was pretty sad to watch.

[DianaBanana]

Are their any Divas left who havent copped out and gotten fake boobs? Hell, even Vince McMahons own daughter went under the knife. Her fakes looked like crap though.

BTW I dont think Mr Perfect died. I'll have to look into that.

[StrayRogue]

Curt Henning, aka Mr. Perfect, is indeed dead.

[Tsa`ah]

Kurt Hennig died in February of 2003, 3 years and 10 months after his long time friend Rick Rude died.

I believe Hennig along with some other WCW mainstays tried to start their own wrestling circuit. I remember watching one PPV where some of the bigger names (Sting, Luger, Goldberg, and Steiner) were in attendance but could not perform due to WCW contracts being held by the WWF.

[DianaBanana]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
Curt Henning, aka Mr. Perfect, is indeed dead.

I cant find any articles on what he died from. Anyone know?

[Wezas]

Last time I remember it looked like a heart attack but the autopsy was still being waited for.


::edit::
Evidently the autopsy shows differently:


Hennig's Perfect death revealed

The autopsy report for Curt "Mr. Perfect" Hennig came back, and cause of death has been attributed to "acute cocaine intoxication." Apparently he had enough coke in his system to cause death but not enough to OD. That doesn't make sense but I'm no coke-expert. If any blow-heads out there could explain it to me, please leave it in the comments.

I don't want to make light of Hennig's death, but the bastard did it himself, just like all the rest.


[Edited on 7-12-2004 by Wezas]

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by DarkelfVold
I remember they had the kid with one leg on there wrestling for a while. :cringe: That was pretty sad to watch. Zach Gowen. His problem wasn't having one leg, it was weighing around 110 pounds. When Shannon Moore is tossing you around like a bag of leaves, there's a problem.

The cruiserweights are still awesome. The 6 man tag with Rey Mysterio/Spike Dudley/uh... Kidman maybe vs. Chavo/Jaime Noble/Akio last Smackdown was incredible. I hear they're bringing back La Parka and Psychosis too.

As long as Benoit is wrestling, I'll watch. It used to be Benoit and Sting, but the Stinger likes Jeff Jarrett's franchise better, apparently.

Brock Lesnar really, really sucks for trying to be a football player. He would've been a legend. Oh well. :(

[SpunGirl]

Jake went with his friend Scott to the Ultimate Fighting Championship thing the other week at Mandalay Bay. It's owned and sponsored by the same guys who own the company I work for, but Scott got tickets from some Boxing Comission guy he knows.

Is that the same as wrestling, or is wrestling strictly storylines + speedo-suits?

-K

[Edited on 7-12-2004 by SpunGirl]

[DeV]

UFC is very different from wrestling.

[longshot]

The Untimate Fighting Championship is real fighting.

When I look for ways to describe wrestling, I really have nothing nice to say.

Things like, "Lowest common denominator" and "redneck peon" are all that I come up with.

And yes, I did like wrestling... when I was 8 years old.

[Hulkein]

I stopped watching wrestling around the time ECW died. I guess I was around 14. We used to go to the ECW events at Viking Hall in South Philly, they were amazing. Such a small building with Rob Van Dam doing flips into the crowd and Sabu going off ladders through tables.

[Satira]

Listen, I was a hardcore fan for a couple years, and I basically grew up watching a lot of it because my older cousin loved it. After they did the WCW and WWF combining and started pushing stupid minor wrestlers it really made me lose interest.

I wish they'd get their crap together so I could start enjoying it again.

[AnticorRifling]

Ray Mysterio Jr.

[Parkbandit]

LOVE watching Mysterio wrestle... he reminds me of a guy by the name of "Tigermask" or something like that back in the day. The shit he does in the ring is amazing.

And come on.. there have been some great wrestlers to come out in the "modern era".

The Rock (One of my all time favorites.. he has such a great sense of humor)
Triple H
John Cena
Kurt Angle
That really huge guy that is now trying out for the Vikings..

[DianaBanana]

I remember a couple years back they tried to have this all women's wrestling show. Of course it sucked real bad and didnt come on until like 2am. I feel bad for female wrestlers, they really get the shaft (no pun intended hehe).

[Latrinsorm]

I never liked Kurt Angle. Anyone who steals lines from an Adam Sandler movie for use in their promos, blech.

HHH got about 91920193919 times better after he was done with DX. He should still drop some of the muscle, though, he's gonna break himself again.

Rock lost his timing after Hollywood. :(

The only thing that hurts Cena is having to hear Michael Cole talk after he does. I used to think I was the squarest, whitest person ever.

[Bobmuhthol]

No, but I played WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Super Wrestlemania earlier. The Undertaker is very clearly the best WWF wrestler ever, with the possible exception of Shawn Michaels.

[DianaBanana]

I use to love the Heartbreak Kid. Then he came to do a signing at the mall near my house...god he got old. :P

[Parkbandit]

The Rock was by far the best smack talker ever. And I forgot to mention Steve Austin. His redneck act was classic.

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by Bobmuhthol
The Undertaker is very clearly the best WWF wrestler ever, with the possible exception of Shawn Michaels. You should watch again (even though you're wrong) bcuz Undertaker is back in his good (urn) gimmick. He's only on Smackdown. Makes me feel like a kid again. :D

[StrayRogue]

I hate how they keep bringing back old folk. HBK left gloriously on top of the game. Now he's medicore and pretty much forgotten. They did the same with Mick Foley as well. Theres an honor with retiring and staying retired. These days when someone retires is simply a gimmick. Again this is why wrestling today sucks ass.

[Weedmage Princess]

Blah that's pretty sad to hear, Stray Rogue, that they're still doing that.

I remember my heart breaking over what they did to Brutus "the Barber" Beefcake...he retired after a parasailing accident that shattered his face...got reconstructive surgery...came back with some lame lil skit with a show...they threw him through a plate glass window--it was actually Shawn Michaels who did it..when he was turning heel and left the Rockers--then he went to WCW where he became the Boody Daddy or some crap...then was the Diciple over there...it was really sad to watch :no:

[Latrinsorm]

Originally posted by StrayRogue
HBK left gloriously on top of the game.Funny, I remember him leaving as a relic of an older era that could barely walk.
They did the same with Mick Foley as well.Now there was a quality retirement match. I can't believe he would even want to come back. I mean, look at all the punishment he's taken, and he can still walk and string words together to form coherent sentences. Tempt fate much?

edit: botched the quotes

[Edited on 7-13-2004 by Latrinsorm]

[Ravenstorm]

Originally posted by DarkelfVold
It hasn't been the same since Andre the Giant, the 'good' Hulk Hogan, Mr. Perfect, Rowdy Piper.... just to name a few. I miss watching wrestling from the 80's-90's.

Remember George "The Animal" Steele?

Raven

[Marl]

wrestling was dead when Sting grew out his blonde flattop........

[Kefka]

Stopped watching it for over a year now. They just ran out of good material. Watched it while growing up in the days of Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Junkyard Dog, Coco B Ware etc. Took a break from it and started watching it again as they were building up the main event between The Rock and Stone Cold.

Started off great when WCW combined with WWF. The Rock/Booker T. rivalry was classic. Then it started going downhill. They brought NWO back which seemed promising. But turned out to be a failed attempt to bring old wrestlers back. Hogan should stay retired. ::shudders::

Tho I'll admit, the most amazing scene was watching Brock Lesnar suplex Big Show from the top rope.

[Soulpieced]

I have watched wrestling for as long as I can remember. However, I stopped watching approximately 2 years ago. It's a shame how shitty McMahon has made the product, and though I have seen the past 2 Wrestlemania's, I don't plan on watching regularly again any time soon. Once ECW went away, professional wrestling lost the wrestling part, and turned into full blown sports entertainment. No thanks.

[Wezas]

I watched it when I was a kid. Hogan, Andre, Macho Man, etc. I think I stopped watching before The Rockers broke up.

If it was on while I was growing up I'd watch for a minute or two to look at the new people.

A few years ago I started watching again mainly for The Rock, The Hardy Boys, Mick Foley, and Stink-face himself - Rakishi.

Haven't watched it much at all since they did the big merge. I saw it was on tonight, and the only person I recognized out of 5-6 people was Triple-H.

[Stunseed]

I was really into ECW before it got sucked in. Now if I can watch, I usually do for lack of anything better on tv while I play GS. Plus Rob Van Dam is still awesome as ever, though I wish they had pulled Kid Kash into WWE. Having him around would make the cruiserweight < IMHO opinion the best part > division quite interesting with Mysterio, Ultimo Dragon, and company for competition.

[Blazing247]

I watched it religiously when I was younger, and I still watch it from time to time, but it's not the same. The fact that Raw and Smackdown have separate Pay Per Views is [b]Blazing247[b].

[Edited on 8-20-2004 by Tsa`ah]