The General Wrestling Thread

[Warner2BruceTD]

If you get STO (Sports Time Ohio), which you do if you have the sports pack on DirecTV, they are replaying the Johnny Gargano vs Rhyno title match from last month tonight at 2am eastern. It wasn't that great, but if you've never seen Gargano or just feel like watching some decent wrestling at 2am, just a heads up. PRIME Wrestling is shot in full HD and has good production values if that matters to you.

[Warner2BruceTD]

LOL

https://twitter.com/BullyRay5150/status/270382429838127105

[dave]

I'm not a John Cena fan, but why would anyone care about one of the over the hill Dudley Boyz thinks about John Cena?
You can hate Cena all you want, but he sells t-shirts and makes little kids happy. Bubba Ray hasn't been relevant for 10 years.

[JimLeavy59]

I'm not a John Cena fan, but why would anyone care about one of the over the hill Dudley Boyz thinks about John Cena?
You can hate Cena all you want, but he sells t-shirts and makes little kids happy. Bubba Ray hasn't been relevant for 10 years.

Who said anyone should?

But your always right.

[dave]

But your always right.

I'm gonna assume you're being sarcastic.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Bubba is the #2 face in TNA...not saying its worth much, but he's not a has been running high school gym shows.

[Bigpapa42]

I'm not a John Cena fan, but why would anyone care about one of the over the hill Dudley Boyz thinks about John Cena?
You can hate Cena all you want, but he sells t-shirts and makes little kids happy. Bubba Ray hasn't been relevant for 10 years.

You completely missed the point, Dave. Bully Ray is simply staying in character and being a bully to John Cena.

[FedEx227]

This may be a chicken/egg argument but the shitty crowd last night got me thinking.

Is the bad product a reason for the bad crowd or is the crowd being bad dragging down the product?

[Kuzzy Powers]

This may be a chicken/egg argument but the shitty crowd last night got me thinking.

Is the bad product a reason for the bad crowd or is the crowd being bad dragging down the product?

Both. It started with a bad product killing the crowd and now the bad crowd can kill even the rare good product.

[JimLeavy59]

The thing that hurts it even more is when they pipe in chants.

[EmpireWF]

Did Rollins finally get rid of his fruity blonde dye job?

nope

[FedEx227]

Both. It started with a bad product killing the crowd and now the bad crowd can kill even the rare good product.

Legit it's gotten to the point that when they aren't in New York, Chicago or Toronto the whole product looks and feels like it's on life support. Yet, when they are in those crowds all of a sudden we have show of the year contenders and typically hot matches.

I think this also has to do with the age makeup of the crowds. Not knowing Toronto exactly, I can speak towards New York and Chicago being VERY 18-34 male.

[FedEx227]

The thing that hurts it even more is when they pipe in chants.

But not really.

[EmpireWF]

I went to a PPV in Long Island years ago (the one with Cena/JBL in that atrocious parking lot match, Edge in the main event and the Jericho/HBK match that ended in a ref stoppage) and was amazed by just how many kids were there. Even as far back as 2004, can't remember seeing a crowd like that for a TV or PPV card.

Families with young kids who go to WWE shows don't care much else besides the 1 guy, they pay to see them some John Cena, buy all his shitty merch and blah blah blah.

[FedEx227]

Right. Kids pop for their select few, don't pop during matches, don't really boo heels. It's kind sad. Crowd reactions just suck so much now. I really think it inspires guys and leads to a better feel for a match. I mean shit Goldberg/Hogan was a horrible match but an absolutely unglued crowd made that a great all-time moment in wrestling.