Did wrestling peak in the late 90s/early 2000s?

>>213418579 (OP)
Yes.

wrestling is dead
mma killed it

>>213418579 (OP)
Some of the gayest shit I've ever seen.

Remember when Austin walked out the night after WrestleMania 18 because he didn't like his place on the card?

Remember when Austin skipped the brand split draft in 2002 because he wasn't going to be the first pick?

Remember when he no showed a bunch of Raws in Fall 01 because he had to put kurt angle over for 9/11 reasons and he didn't want to?

Remember when he walked out again because he was seething over lesnar and vince was trying to move on from Austins old ass?

Remember when he didn't want to put The Rock over at WrestleMania 2000 so he got his neck surgery faster than he was supposed to?

Remember when Austin came back in 2003 and got embarrassed by Triple H for being a pretend sheriff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuNAYdcgRcc&t=41s

>>213418823
fuck off carter

>>213418579 (OP)
it peaked around june 2007

>>213418733
then why is UFC desperately trying to copy the WWE drama/promo/buildup/PPV formula? fuck sakes, the WWE OWNS UFC you fuckin retard

>>213418796
You're in front of a mirror Anon...

>>213418857
wwe is doing dana white style press conferences after their "PLEs"
i say PLE because wwe became so unpopular they stopped doing pay per views and were forced to include their staple events in online streaming packages
wwe did not invent the pay per view concept, it was popularized by boxing promoters in the 60s

>>213418579 (OP)
Think for just a minute how badly they fucked up the 2001 Invasion angle. In the next couple of years the WCW/ECW side could have had Rey Mysterio, NWO with Hogan, Scott Steiner and Goldberg. But they half-passed it with Booker T and a past it DDP instead. It's mind-boggling. Even the management roles were Heyman and the McMahon kids where a bit later they brought in Bischoff.

>>213418579 (OP)
crazy how much star power attitude era had

>>213418857
>WWE OWNS UFC you fuckin retard
I thought it was the UFC company that bought WWE.

Wrestling officially ended at WM21 when Benoit and Guerrero hugged.

>>213418982
.

>>213418579 (OP)
Somebody left the latch off the baby gate again!
Let me usher you all back into your American muscle-lusting babyman containment board! Right this way, boys.
>>>/pw/
>>>/pw/
>>>/pw/

>>213419152
Wrestling is /tv/

Oh, please. Wrestling peaked with Wrestlemania 2, in 1985. I stopped watching it after that, because I knew it'd all be downhill.

>>213419266
Professional wrestling belongs on the board named Professional Wrestling

>>213418733
MMA fighters have no charisma.

>>213419423
mcgregor is more popular than any wrestler past the ruthless aggression era, and it's due to his charisma

i dont care about wrestling but raw in the late 90s was kino

>>213418982
Yeah it's pretty much universally agreed on it was the biggest missed oportunity in wrestling and vince buried everyone who wasn't wwf out of ego like a retard

>>213419066
Michael's is a cunt by most accounts but this will never not be funny and hogan was a bigger cunt

>>213419653
based shitter killing himself

-ACK

>>213419329
Wrestling threads have always been part of /tv/

Thoughts on Nash?

>>213419817
KWARB

>>213418823
Trick ass mark

>>213419817
Watched the longest yard this weekend and was dying laughing whenever nash was on the screen, especially once his character started acting girly from the tranny pills they slipped him.

>>213418823
No but i watched his yt podcast clips and he had a story about getting something stuck in his ass in the shower and firemen having to rescue him and he was clearly doing gay stuff

>>213419817
He was raped

>>213418857
There needs to be an MMA with writers. All the fights are shoots still, but everything outside the ring is worked. Hire managers to do the heavy lifting with acting and pageantry. Tag matches would be cool, but obviously too dangerous for real combat without rule changes and tremendous discipline from the athletes.

100% yes. It went through numerous pinfalls
>WWF becoming WWE
>WWE going public
>WWE buying WCW
>failed WCW Invasion angle
>Austin turning heel
The Rock/Austin WM XIX match was the true end. Only Shawn Michaels and Undertaker were a reason to watch for a few more years.
Today it's like watching a plastic corporate nightmare.

>>213420397
Elaborate on this
Which year, season and the racial profile of those men please...

>>213420504
>Today it's like watching a plastic corporate nightmare.
I caught the bill goldberg retirement match last month and it was retarded. Why even write him in if you're going to make it a title match you can't afford to let him win?

>>213420530
1992
In an unusually hot, sweltering summer
Committed by a pack of dark-type bulbasaurs

>>213419551
I thought part of it was, a lot of the WCW wrestlers had huge contracts, that bankrupted WCW, and Turner was required to still pay the rest of the contract despite selling the company. The big name guys were making so much they didn't want to take the buyout and instead just wait out their Turner contract. That's why the WWE only got mid wrestlers to sign like Booker. And I think they didn't want to pay what Goldberg demanded, etc.

>>213420903
I think the big failure was they bought the company but not the wrestlers and the wrestlers wouldn't take a buyout that was lower than their active contract with Turner.

>>213418579 (OP)
Yes, and it's never coming back.