Paid Members garynysmon Posted May 16, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) Match quality and the actual in-ring action is a massively overstated part of the overall presentation. Edited May 16, 2020 by garynysmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted May 16, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 16, 2020 1 hour ago, garynysmon said: Match quality and the actual in-ring action is a massively overstated part of the overall presentation. I can't think of anywhere that that's less of an unpopular opinion than here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronSheik Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) I agree with Al Snow on his "best match" theory. Edited May 16, 2020 by IronSheik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 16, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 16, 2020 1 minute ago, IronSheik said: I agree with Al Snow on his "best match" theory. Even though Neville Southall proved it to be complete bullshit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphries Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I've only ever seen Nakamura in WWE but never once got the hype, even after his supposed 'classic' with Sami Zayn at Takeover which was just a move fest. I find him overrated and the IC title/mid-card heel is his level Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted May 16, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 16, 2020 Arm Anderson had a better DDT than Jake Roberts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_3165 Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Much of WWE TV in the 2010s was better than the attitude era. I've recently started watching Raw circa 1997-1999 and fuck there's a alot of shit on those shows. DOA, NoD, Headbangers, Oddities, Head Cheese, Marvellous Marc Mero, Val Venis, the complete mishandling of the cruiserweights, Kennel from Hell... Ah we have rose tinted glasses from that era but it sucked.. Only the main event scene was any good but the match quality was the shits. 2 minute matches and a billion DQ or count out finishes on every show. It is astounding to watch back and most is pretty unwatchable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeronimoJacksBeard Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Even though Neville Southall proved it to be complete bullshit? Neville Southall only proved it to be complete bullshit if you're of the belief that Al Snow has ever had a good match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted May 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 8 hours ago, Michael_3165 said: Much of WWE TV in the 2010s was better than the attitude era. I've recently started watching Raw circa 1997-1999 and fuck there's a alot of shit on those shows. DOA, NoD, Headbangers, Oddities, Head Cheese, Marvellous Marc Mero, Val Venis, the complete mishandling of the cruiserweights, Kennel from Hell... Ah we have rose tinted glasses from that era but it sucked.. DOA, Headbangers and the Oddities were barely on Raw. The Nation were good and the launchpad of The Rock. Head Cheese lasted about a month and were great. Val Venis had some fun angles. Mero was a side show to Sable and played his role perfectly. Kennel From Hell was one match. And who gives a flying fuck about the cruiserweights? If it's between watching a New Age Outlaws segment or Aguila vs Brian Christopher only a nonce would pick the latter. And even if you hated all the lower and mid card gimmick acts, most the shows were focused on some of the best stories and angles in wrestling history. That's why it's remembered so fondly. Most of the 2010s has already been forgotten. In that entire decade WWE pretty much failed to create any major new stars and the creative rot of that decade is why the shows are so boring and lacking in any star power these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 That kind of revisionist thinking has been going on for years now with the Attitude Era. You'll have people passing it off as if it was this lurid time span that got over thanks to all the teenage boys at the time popping for stuff like Marlene's miscarriage and that the whole thing was just this of its time embarrassment, really. I'm not denying a lot of those low brow elements did contribute to the overall package they were presenting at the time, but that stuff was curtain jerk to the best characters they've ever done in the best storylines they've ever done. There was no decent wrestling but somehow that doesn't stop me from returning to that era's PPVs more than any other on the network. By the time you get to 2000 they also become really funny and downright charming. They somehow created this interlinked, fond ecosystem to their shows where you enjoyed the Crash Holly bits as much as Rock's ones. It's not everyone's bag, but there's a huge reason it's one of the handful of best eras ever. It's got a lot to do with the fact that they suddenly pulled their head out of their arses and decided to try and get as much of America watching as possible, regardless of how much they liked the wrestling bits. Curiously it resulted in some of the best times ever for wrestling fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronSheik Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 12 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said: Even though Neville Southall proved it to be complete bullshit? I'd be keen to see this proof, where is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted May 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, IronSheik said: I'd be keen to see this proof, where is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted May 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Gay as FOOK said: It's not everyone's bag, but there's a huge reason it's one of the handful of best eras ever. It's got a lot to do with the fact that they suddenly pulled their head out of their arses and decided to try and get as much of America watching as possible, regardless of how much they liked the wrestling bits. Curiously it resulted in some of the best times ever for wrestling fans. Addressing an earlier point on match quality being shit, one of the reasons why most Raw episodes of the time are so easy to watch is because many of the TV matches were two mins long. The Pay Per View and select big matches stick out because they were different to what was being presented on TV every week. Yes they had stopped using jobbers due to the ratings war, but most matches were a vehicle to move a storyline on. There wasn't a mindset that every match has to be a technical 20 min wrestling clinic for no real reason at all. I won't deny that certain stuff has aged terribly. But at a time when people's attention spans are shorter than they even were back then, I firmly believe that wrestling has no interest at all in becoming popular to the masses ever again if it thinks that longer matches and appealing to a certain hardcore demographic (who admittedly will spend more of their income than casuals) is the way forward. We're living in a time where media is being consumed in condensed formats and short video clips like never before. They could easily have every wrestler involved in some kind of angle or storyline if they wanted, instead of a string of meaningless but technically sound matches. While the more bawdy elements wouldn't work in 2020, the basic formula would. Edited May 17, 2020 by garynysmon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 3 hours ago, garynysmon said: We're living in a time where media is being consumed in condensed formats and short video clips like never before. This gets repeated a lot, and there's an element of truth to it, but we also live in a time when people are prepared to binge-watch an entire TV series in one sitting rather than watching one half hour episode a week, where more and more "prestige" TV is an hour+ long rather than a half hour episode, and where the average runtime of a blockbuster movie is 20-30 minutes longer than it was 20 years ago. I'm not sure you can sum up the media landscape with "everyone is watching short clips" while that same everyone is watching multiple Marvel movies that are almost two and a half hours long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Chris B Posted May 17, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 17, 2020 13 minutes ago, BomberPat said: This gets repeated a lot, and there's an element of truth to it, but we also live in a time when people are prepared to binge-watch an entire TV series in one sitting rather than watching one half hour episode a week, where more and more "prestige" TV is an hour+ long rather than a half hour episode, and where the average runtime of a blockbuster movie is 20-30 minutes longer than it was 20 years ago. I'm not sure you can sum up the media landscape with "everyone is watching short clips" while that same everyone is watching multiple Marvel movies that are almost two and a half hours long. Also, look at podcasts and youtube. How many popular channels are posting longer and longer videos? People will sit and watch livestreams or long-form analysis for 30, 60 minutes at least, as well as the 10-20 minute stuff. And podcasts - there are more and more 30-90 minute podcasts out there. What people share and what people watch can be very different. People are more likely to share a small clip on social media, because it suits that medium. Short updates for news, etc, make sense too - but then there's always been the headlines and the short summaries. Wrestling, however, is particularly susceptible to it, and WWE even more so. Catch-phrases, finishes, short segments... for something that's often so long and features so little, it encourages sharing highlights not least because it doesn't often reward more sustained viewing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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