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>I’m a nerd. And an asshole. I don’t give a fuck if a bunch >of people are or aren’t watching what I watch. And really, a >bunch of people being into something does not mean it is >good..somewhat clearly.
why did you assume that i care whether or not people wach wrestling? I dont. But a publication like Billboard or something of that stature recently polled people about *why* they dont watch wrestling and the runaway answer was that its too silly. Conversely, head over to r/squaredcircle and look at all the people who use silly like a compliment. Everyone is saying the same thing while the audience crashes. Nobody abandons a good product of any sort at that rate.
>I know a gang of folks who watched wrestling mainly during the >attitude era. They were not and are not long-term wrestling >fans. They weren’t really on it before that time and once >the bumps calmed down and/or the main stars quit, they were >out. I’m not sure them watching wrestling made it better >then or if would be a sign that it is better if they were to >spent time on it now.
if they were to spend time on it now, at the very least it woud indicate that the show is good.
>I regularly argue that the era right after the attitude era >had mountains of good ass wrestling but folks just missed it >cuz wrestling cooled off in popularity and the most over dudes >were around a lot less.
I mean, Impact has good wrestling right now. But the TV show is terrible. Like...TERRIBLE.
>And WCW died and the invasion didn’t >go as well as we dreamed it would cuz they didn’t have >everyone they needed until well after the fact. Brock, Angle, >HBK 2.0, Eddie, and Benoit were all pretty damn excellent. It >ain’t their fault that Austin’s neck was shit and Rock hit >big on movies.
Youre still talking about 3-4x the audience that RAW has today (2005 #s), and like 7x the audience that Dynamite does. Those are numbers that a good wrestling show could still do today
>I have friends who have never seen and won’t watch peak Ric >Flair so they leave him off of their lazily created Rushmores. >Is flair worse cuz folks didn’t see him? Fuck naw he >isn’t.
Thats not really an applicable point, because Ric Flair had a massive contemporary audience. MASH was good ahow from all accounts but i aint going back to watch it. However that doesnt change the fact that the people who were there to watch it DID watch it
>And if I catch myself fully trusting folks who >didn’t and won’t see stuff, I’d be fucking up too. I >feel the same about trusting folks who clearly have a known >bias towards and against certain eras or companies. The all >indy/gotta be Japan/movez and bumpz forever crowd is brutal in >their own way too so I’m not anti Corny. Im old. I went to >midsouth shows and remember them shits fondly. I’m anti >limitation. And I like a lot of rasslin. 80s Midsouth. Heel >heavy 80s nwa. Cartoon wwf. Attitude. Ruthless aggression. 90s >all Japan. 2000s indy.
My first shows were Crockett shows so I get where youre coming from, but equivocating Cornette (who wants wrestling to be good so wrestlers make more money) with the Fight Forever crowd (which is clearly a zero growth demographic to serve as evidenced by Dynamite numbers) is hella false. Cornette has personal feelings, as would anyone who poured as much literal blood and sweat into something, but the smart marks who think they should be driving the direction of the business seem to be costing people money by insisting the shows are catered to their tastes. The show has been on the air for like a year and a half, and the numbers havent moved for well over a year. Its not coincidence that they cant add viewers. The product is clearly a turn off for the mainstream audience.
>Cornette can be fun but, in general, if anyone has a show >where most of the talk is negative, I will lose interest cuz I >view it as a gimmick even if that’s how he actually feels. >Ie: I generally hate new popular hiphop but here’s 150 >episodes of me going on and on about new popular hiphop. If >you hate it too, please listen to me so we can be mad about >how and why it’s so bad. And every now and then, let me talk >about a few things I actually like. And oh, I’m mostly gonna >like new stuff if it reminds me of old stuff. >
Thats not really what his show is tho. He spends vastly more time telling stories, and I dont think he's ever cared who likes him and who doesnt. In biology we call that convergent evolution. People come to agree with Cornette on their own. He just talks about the shit he cares about. Im 100% certain that he would rather watch Dynamite, see 2 hours of coherent booking and believable wrestlers, and say good things about it. That would mean WWE has legit competition, wrestlers are getting paid, and the product has growth potential.
And it needs to be said here that the stuff he complains about (illogical storylines, bad acting, characters that arent believable, shoddy work) are the same things that kill any bad TV show regardless of genre. The difference is that when there are 3 shitty action shows on TV, there are also 10 good ones. To use your analogy, you could do a podcast on hip hop, and despite the proliferation of garbage, you could still talk about Royce or Gibbs or Griselda or Killer Mike or etc. When there are 3 shitty wrestling shows on TV...well now what?
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
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