Thread 18037749

Should wrestlers hang up their boots when their best days are behind them? Or do we want more UNC graps?

Nothing wrong tagging with young talent and putting them over or cracking off the show in 6 man tags.

No one retires in professional wrestling. Dory and Terry Funk proved that.

>>18037749 (OP)
Yes, they should. They get boring anyway if they stay too long and crowd out the top of the card, preventing new wrestlers from getting that spot.

There's nothing wrong with putting over young talent but this shit isn't a young man's game anymore, all the main events are at least 35. Paying your dues and gaining the EXP are essential in this business, it's as important as anything.

So in a sense of not shitting up the place, they should. Like Undertaker should have been done after the WM29 Punk match. Don't think he had another great match after that. But crowds don't care about how good a wrestler's matches are, they'll pay just to see him do his spots. So it doesn't make business-sense if the guy can still move even if he's slow as shit and can at best have a decent match on a good night. Where the real problem lies is that these guys past their prime are still bigger names/stars than the current guys so you can't just have them hanging around in the opener doing tag matches.

Randy Orton should've stopped around when Cena did

Problem is people are getting more dysgenic every generation. Someone like undertaker just straight up doesn't exist anymore so there's nobody to replace him

>>18037964
Yeah. Goldberg's latest promo was better than the entirety of the current roster's.

There is definitely a sweet spot between, "You still got it!" nostalgia where you see a guy hit all his signature spots and while slower he can still go at it, and Undertaker in 2019

>>18037749 (OP)
Depends. If they are crippled and cant move they should just retire.
If you're like Sting you might aswell wrestle longer

Depends on how banged up they are and how much it affects their wrestling style. Lawler was still better than 90% of the locker room in his 60s

>>18037964
Companies simply don't value great looks anymore. There are chads like Parker Boudreaux still in wrestling but they get dismissed because they can't do flips on day 1. And the trainers suck.

>>18038129
Boudreaux just sucked and has a bad attitude

>>18037886
psychology is everything in pro wrestling, if you can move really well thats just a bonus. countless wrestlers have proven this