Thread 18118506 - /pw/ [Archived: 694 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:43:41 PM No.18118506
Wrestling is done for
Wrestling is done for
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I think we've come to a point in wrestling where there's no saving this stuff.
We're really in the final days of pro wrestling.
and we've come to a point where wrestling has gotten so cheesy, nerdy, commercialized, that there's no saving it, there's no going back, there's no making wrestling cool again.
It really feels like wrestling as a whole is basically in a vegetable state.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:45:07 PM No.18118509
Record profits
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:45:10 PM No.18118510
just watch joshi like a straight male
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:46:18 PM No.18118511
it basically feels like i've done everything I can do, even while I say all of this, in my mind I know there's a way to save it and there's only one way to do it.
But the problem is: I don't think people are willing to do it.
The only way to save wrestling is, you gotta stop booking for the goofy ass IWC marks and you really just have to stop listening to these people.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:46:51 PM No.18118512
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>>18118510
I try to tell them this but they don't listen.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:48:07 PM No.18118519
Because it's gotten to the point where those dorky ass, geeky ass nerds have infiltrated wrestling and they have gotten to a point where they're actually calling all the shots.
The ideas they come up with are some of the stupidest ideas known to man, and what happens is, when these ideas play out on television, it runs other people off and makes other people not want to watch wrestling.
But these wrestling companies are so scared to do anything different that they allow these internet geeks to ruin their product, that's what happens, they allow these geeks to ruin their product.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 2:55:37 PM No.18118548
because i've been fighting this fight for some years now and I seem to not get anywhere even though I got beautiful ideas
all of my ideas make sense and they keep the door open for other ideas, but my ideas seem to not get heard.
so i've come to the conclusion: and the conclusion i've come to is, wrestling is dead and i think we just need to leave wrestling in the fucking past, because they're never going to get the message, they're never going to understand
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:03:20 PM No.18118573
i wanna say they're never gonna understand until their ratings get insanely low, but hell, the ratings are already insanely low and they still keep doing stupid things right?
I think all these wrestling promotions do is they just wanna please these losers, and to be honest with you, I'm really starting to feel like I'm way too cool for pro wrestling.
Fuck trying to get these dorks to understand what cool is.
Why don't I just let these losers play how they're gonna play and then watch wrestling burn to the ground, and I just go do something else because it gets so frustrating to sit back and just watch shit that you already know is going to fail from the start.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 3:55:21 PM No.18118742
and then when you go online and you go into these communities and all that stuff. you hear people talking about:
>"oh this is gunna be so great. Cody Rhodes win KOTR and then he fight John Cena at SummerSlam (2025)"
i'm looking at it like, that's so fucking stupid when you could've had Seth Rollins cash in and we could've gotten a Triple Threat match at SummerSlam.
I'm tired of seeing people like Aleister Black get pushes
i'm tired of seeing people root for Karrion Kross
I'm tired of seeing internet dorks hate on Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch
I'm just tired of seeing internet dorks hate on what can actually draw and promote all of the trash that it's the reason why we're in the situation we're in.
Because if you haven't noticed, these people listen to these fucking idiots on the internet and they give them everything they want, but guess what? The numbers DON'T improve.
so what does that tell a logical thinking person? It should tell you that the nonsense the IWC dorks like, don't draw! All it does is run people off!
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 4:23:07 PM No.18118837
>>18118512
>L
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>RABU PURORESU!
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 4:49:25 PM No.18118967
and i'm getting to a point where i'm like:
> "you know what? I can't keep doing something that's gonna make me miserable and watching wrestling, talking about wrestling, is supposed to bring some kind of excitement, joy and peace, right? And if it don't bring me any excitement, joy and peace, then maybe I just need to leave wrestling topics alone."
it's a tough decision to make, because I'm a wrestling fan, right? But this new age of wrestling that we're in, this is the lamest era of wrestling there has ever been.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:09:50 PM No.18119063
If WWE can survive 2007-2010, it can survive whatever's happening right now
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:12:51 PM No.18119081
>>18118742
>Defending Charles and Becky Hogan
Good bait, take a bump
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:15:56 PM No.18119098
It's so lame to the point that these wrestlers don't even feel like wrestlers.
They just feel like these people who go out there and you see on your TV, it just feels like they're using wrestling in order to promote themselves to go do something else.
And the people in the back who actually make all the decisions and everything, they DON'T care about giving you an entertaining product, they don't care about giving you a product that makes sense, they don't care about actually sitting down in the creative room and actually being creative.
They don't care about none of this shit, all they wanna do is promote shit. The more money they can get from sponsors, the better.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:29:17 PM No.18119176
>>18118506 (OP)
Nah. Wrestling is fucked right now but as soon as it starts getting booked for normal people like it used to be it'll instantly become cool and popular again. Smarks need to be forcibly purged from the fanbase.

>>18118510
>>18118512
Joshis are for creepy, unwashed, obese basement dwelling would-be rapists with microdicks who know white women are way out of their league so they simp for retarded, ugly, bottom of the barrel japanese girls and fantasize that Usagi Nintendo will be impressed by their neetbux and marry them one day.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 5:39:52 PM No.18119231
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>>18118967
we've had this thread a lot this year. I think that speaks to just how fucked the state of prowres is overall.
I'll recommend what I do every time someone else realizes they are unsatisfied with current wrestling: go watch old shit. doesn't really matter what year or company, just have it be something you haven't seen before, don't be influenced by nostalgia. obviously it's not old=good, there's a lot of bad shit to avoid, but there's a lot of good and great stuff to remind you that there is merit to pro wrestling and we're just in a down period right now.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:20:55 PM No.18119458
>>18118742
>Becky
That bitch can’t cut a promo to save her life. One of the more embarrassing main players at this point. Cool/good TV can’t happen with actors as bad as her
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:23:05 PM No.18119474
This is why we got a fucking Slim Jim table!
and they go out of their way to fucking write an angle where people are going to go through that Slim Jim Table.
everybody's talking about this John Cena pipebomb and all this stuff, but you wanna know what I see? I see a Slim Jim logo, I see CM Punk promoting Slim Jim!
The lights going out on wrestling…
so yeah, all I see is a Slim Jim commercial when I look at that John Cena pipebomb promo. And I understand business, I get business. But there are strategic ways to do it, and to me, it seems like they're not even trying to hide it no more, they're just like:
> "this is what we're promoting. We don't care about the wrestling, we're just here to promote Slim Jim"
and then when you get to the wrestling, where are we going with any of this?
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:26:29 PM No.18119495
>>18119231
If you're going to be a limpdick, crybaby bitch, then can you please stop using the word WE. Leave the rest of us out of this, you're the one shitting and pissing yourself because you're too emotionally damaged to enjoy fake fighting on TV.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:30:22 PM No.18119531
We're in an era where nobody really gets over.
You got people that you may like and cheer for, but in all actuality, nobody is doing anything to help the business move forward.
John Cena is the last wrestling megastar, and after Cena's gone, there are no more stars. There's no more stars!
These people (outside of John Cena) go out in public and nobody knows who the fuck they are!
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:34:53 PM No.18119567
So I think we've just gotten to a point where I'm just kinda fed up with fighting the good fight because wrestling promoters aren't willing to make a change, and nobody really has a passion for wrestling anymore!
To me it just feels like it's a bunch of actors (shoutout to Bret Hart btw for the "today's wrestlers are actors" line) LYING to people to get money. Nobody really cares about the art of wrestling anymore!
And when I say "nobody", I'm talking about the wrestlers, promoters and a lot of these IWC podcasters. It's just a bunch of people playing the game.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:36:53 PM No.18119582
>>18118512
>>18119176
See?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:53:35 PM No.18119679
>>18119458
Eric?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:55:59 PM No.18119697
>>18119582
See what? Joshi is awful. It embodies everything that sucks about modern pro wrestling: it's nothing but pre-rehearsed sequences of gymnastics that lacks any semblance of believability, a.k.a. it looks fake as shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:57:10 PM No.18119704
>>18119679
He's right. But Becky is hardly the only problem. I've seen more convincing acting at high school plays than I do at a typical episode of Raw or Smackdown.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:58:03 PM No.18119709
>>18118509
Buisness to Buisness btw
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 6:59:48 PM No.18119714
>>18118519
>But these wrestling companies are so scared to do anything different
but they are doing things different. why do you want to watch the same thing over again with just a different coat of paint?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:04:12 PM No.18119738
>>18118506 (OP)
Yeah, the Jock N Coke era isn't coming back. Charisma is buried. Good gimmicks are buried. Hosses are humiliated, and the few roid eggs left look like 2015 MMA rejects, covered in tattoos with the worst haircuts imaginable, and zero charisma.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:07:21 PM No.18119766
>>18119714
He meant different but good. Not raw, unfiltered shit.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 7:09:54 PM No.18119791
All wrestling (and all of entertainment) really needs is a minimum quota of the niggerword being said per hour.