Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:21:59 PM No.18037271
Is the concept of professional wrestling deep enough to sustain 8+ hours of television programming a week?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:43:04 PM No.18037310
>>18037271 (OP)
Maybe in days when actual creative minds booked and wrote the storylines. We don’t have any more Dustys, Heymans, Bischoff/Sullivans, Corney/Russo/Vinces. Ask yourself what all time memorable storylines have taken place in wrestling in the past 15 years or so cause I can’t think of anything
Maybe in days when actual creative minds booked and wrote the storylines. We don’t have any more Dustys, Heymans, Bischoff/Sullivans, Corney/Russo/Vinces. Ask yourself what all time memorable storylines have taken place in wrestling in the past 15 years or so cause I can’t think of anything
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:52:33 PM No.18037324
>>18037271 (OP)
this era was so much easier to follow. 1 hour raw and superstars as an optional extra hour if you were hungry for more. that's probably about enough for most people.
this era was so much easier to follow. 1 hour raw and superstars as an optional extra hour if you were hungry for more. that's probably about enough for most people.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 12:55:40 PM No.18037329
>>18037271 (OP)
no, there's way too much wrestling. there isn't a need for it, even outside of WWE's 8 hours of programming per week why the FUCK is there so much wrestling and so many wrestlers?
no, there's way too much wrestling. there isn't a need for it, even outside of WWE's 8 hours of programming per week why the FUCK is there so much wrestling and so many wrestlers?
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:01:03 PM No.18037347
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:01:30 PM No.18037349
>literally 10x more pro-wrestling programming on today
>no dimes
>no dimes
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:08:08 PM No.18037368
>>18037271 (OP)
I cant do more than 2 hrs a week and now a days that's even pushing it
I cant do more than 2 hrs a week and now a days that's even pushing it
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:08:55 PM No.18037374
>>18037329
Low cost entertainment that is not tied to specific regional fandoms like sports. You can cut to an ad at any time if need be.
Low cost entertainment that is not tied to specific regional fandoms like sports. You can cut to an ad at any time if need be.
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:09:06 PM No.18037375
>>18037368
i'm a neet and even i can't keep up
i'm a neet and even i can't keep up
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 1:19:16 PM No.18037408
>>18037271 (OP)
No. Having two "world champions" per gender is also a concept that clearly hasn't worked.
No. Having two "world champions" per gender is also a concept that clearly hasn't worked.
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Anonymous
6/19/2025, 2:23:56 PM No.18037571
>>18037271 (OP)
No. Raw at 2 is good. SD should be 1 hour, NXT 1 hour. Watch the programs get way better>>18037408
No. Raw at 2 is good. SD should be 1 hour, NXT 1 hour. Watch the programs get way better>>18037408
Anonymous
6/19/2025, 3:09:40 PM No.18037752
>>18037271 (OP)
It doesn't need to be deep.
You need people who can talk and let them say what they think about each other in a worked way with exaggerations.
Behind the curtain they can be mates, in the ring they're bitter enemies and the crowd's none the wiser because they talk trash about each other like they banged each other's sisters raw.
Wrestling went wrong when they brought in Hollywood writers to take that 80s sports entertainment concept and turn it into male nighttime soap operas.
Go watch bits of the Ruthless Aggression era to see how fucking sloppy and dimeless that approach is. Veteran talkers who command the mic with the gift of gab, suddenly struggling with lines and delivering them cold because the words came from some gay Jew's script and not from their own hearts.
People forget that all a booker gave the talent was the finish and who went over. The promo was all you. If you couldn't talk: "Here's a manager who can talk, he'll put you over. Now go make me money."
The WWE / TKO workers both in the office and in the road are completely fucking delusional about their roles and what wrestling ought to be.
If they did it the old-fashioned way, there'd be 30 million people in America watching live on Netflix.
Instead they scrape up 2,6 million viewers worldwide in a week of streaming.
I'm not in the business and I'm not a wrestler, and I know better than the WWE how to do their jobs.
I know what I like, and I like what I know.
It doesn't need to be deep.
You need people who can talk and let them say what they think about each other in a worked way with exaggerations.
Behind the curtain they can be mates, in the ring they're bitter enemies and the crowd's none the wiser because they talk trash about each other like they banged each other's sisters raw.
Wrestling went wrong when they brought in Hollywood writers to take that 80s sports entertainment concept and turn it into male nighttime soap operas.
Go watch bits of the Ruthless Aggression era to see how fucking sloppy and dimeless that approach is. Veteran talkers who command the mic with the gift of gab, suddenly struggling with lines and delivering them cold because the words came from some gay Jew's script and not from their own hearts.
People forget that all a booker gave the talent was the finish and who went over. The promo was all you. If you couldn't talk: "Here's a manager who can talk, he'll put you over. Now go make me money."
The WWE / TKO workers both in the office and in the road are completely fucking delusional about their roles and what wrestling ought to be.
If they did it the old-fashioned way, there'd be 30 million people in America watching live on Netflix.
Instead they scrape up 2,6 million viewers worldwide in a week of streaming.
I'm not in the business and I'm not a wrestler, and I know better than the WWE how to do their jobs.
I know what I like, and I like what I know.