Timeline of things that killed wrestling

I'm not really familiar with Harley Race, is he on this list because he no-sold offense like The Road Warriors?

-Tony Khan
-TKO

>Savage/Steamboat
Nah fuck that Flair/Steamboat had more of a bad effect on wrestling than just a very good WM match.

>>18153834
he oversold. later he did the 'pro wrestling exposed' documentary

-Effy

>>18153824 (OP)
>Shawn Michaels
why?

-Redditors

-Dave Meltzer

>>18153824 (OP)
KEK that’s accurate , you could throw in mick foley and jumping off his house which led to backyard wrestling and eventually GCW

-Jon Moxley

>>18153824 (OP)
>russo
>bte
corny fag detected. tell us how well smw did

>>18153824 (OP)
AEW killed wrestling because they not only exposed the business as extremely gay by hiring full blown out and about fags and trannies but it even fully endorsed woke propaganda to the max. It exposed all the wrestlers with their lame ass twitter/x opinions, work ethic, carny maxxing, etc.

>>18153824 (OP)
the star ratings.

>>18153824 (OP)
Very spot on, but he's not being harsh enough to ROH even if that's late 90s AJPW adjacent.

>>18153920
That and wrestlers very blatantly doing matches to appeal to one star man. Which did happen, and saying otherwise is revisionist history.

>>18153920
cornette booked for roh so it gets a free pass, this list was clearly written by one of his cultists

>Samoa

>>18153824 (OP)
Russo booking was the only time wrestling was ever entertaining. Aside from that its always been Vince's outdated cringe slop.

>>18153938
vince russo booking in a nutshell.

>>18153938
I guess if you're still a 12 year old in 1999 sure

>>18153938
>Russo booking was the only time wrestling was ever entertaining.
best ratings ever, too

>>18153964
and then what happened? Car crash TV may work for a while, but it
And why was he such a failure in TNA?

>>18153824 (OP)
Where's the birth of Dave Meltzer?

>>18153976
Russo's TNA ratings were close to what triple bypass gets for Raw now.

>>18153824 (OP)
Dave Meltzer and his stupid stars of david did more damage to modern pro-wrestling than everything in that image combined

>>18154181
How was the live attendance and ppv buys?

>>18154181
Thanks for letting me know to not taking you seriously. Not that I really did if you're still gargling Russo's balls in 1999(+26)

>>18154189
What exactly do you guys think Meltzer was praising if not the stuff in that image

>>18153938
>you know the period when everyone watched, remembers it and it's still the main course being sold to networks to make money?
>the writer was actually bad
go watch Adam Cole no selling a steel pipe to the temple

>>18154279
>it's still the main course being sold to networks to make money?
lmao. Not true, and made up headcanon.

>>18153824 (OP)
The Monday Night Wars were the best time period for wrestling because it kept people watching, period. These days people want to see wrestling as a complete package similar to a television drama but that's not how pro wrestling works, you have to give things time to breath and not every segment is going to be a winner. If you book everything so rigidly and to please a specific section of your audience you get a product like AEW which really fails to engage with a large audience and can only get a very niche portion of their audience to support them. Vince Russo understood how to bring in a casual audience which led to massive success but the body of work tends to suffer over time because wrestling is a unique product.