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No doubt the product is much worse than years ago as Smackdown is unwatchable. I contribute the worser direction to a couple of reasons.
1. With no more WCW, the WWE had nobody to compete with doing better shows than the other.
2. With Triple H married to daddy's worse half, he and his wife has more control over his character which is why he has had the belt for most of the last couple of years and has been the top feature in the WWE and not to more deserving and better wrestlers like Jericho. Pretty much everyone Ive talked to is sick of Triple H but he will probably get the belt back again if not Vengience then Summerslam.
3. A lot of the wrestlers that drew the WWE to its peak are now gone or are past their prime.
4. This is a little part but bringing in some the cancer's that killed WCW like Nash and Hogan probably weren't great influences and really almost nothing from WCW made any impact for the WWE and the invasion angle was handled terribly.
at all times during wrestling....it always seems like they have lost it. That's what attracts most of it's audience. It's not that it is so well written, it's that you can't wait to see what dumbass stunt they will try next.
During the Stone Cold/The Rock days in the late 90s, it still wasn't as good as the years with Diesel and Luger, and those years weren't as good as Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior.
It seems like its steadily decreasing, but infact it still holds it's fan base.
sd sux period the only reason sd will be good is cause of taker and mysterio.
raw is holding up good thought.
imv i think vince was stupid for buying wcw and ecw.
but now tna has a tv slot and is kicking wwe's ass.
as for the superstars that dont apeaer its just not the same.
austins gone do to neck issues rock's doing films hhh is a power hungry b*tch and he is doing blade 3.
the only reason people still watch wwe or raw for that matter is because they still have benoit hbk and so on.
i watch raw cause raw isd better than sd do to the story lines and superstars.
i watch sd if either taker appears or if mysterio is wrestling.
sd sux period the only reason sd will be good is cause of taker and mysterio.
raw is holding up good thought.
imv i think vince was stupid for buying wcw and ecw.
but now tna has a tv slot and is kicking wwe's ass.
as for the superstars that dont apeaer its just not the same.
austins gone do to neck issues rock's doing films hhh is a power hungry b*tch and he is doing blade 3.
the only reason people still watch wwe or raw for that matter is because they still have benoit hbk and so on.
i watch raw cause raw isbetter than sd do to the story lines and superstars.
i watch sd if either taker appears or if mysterio is wrestling.
They do hurt themselves.
Nobody complains about movies being rigged, how odd.
Anyway, WWE is terrible. They have been scraping the barrel, and simply refuse to give anybody deserving the spotlight, Chris Jericho springs to mind.
They have promising characters like Matt Hardy yet they completely lay waste to them.
Recently, The Undertaker "murdered" his manager, and "father" Paul Bearer, on Live TV. The Undertaker still wrestles, and nobody seems to care that this man was killed by having concrete poured on him. It shows that nobody in the arena thought it was real, because if it were, someone would have jumped the barrier. It was a perfect example about how unbelieveably fake the show has become.
I'm all for drama don't get me wrong. The best days of the company were during the Attitude era. DX, The Rock, Stone Cold and Mankind were awesome to watch, and all brilliant at their game. They were fresh faces because WCW bought all the old crap like Nash and Hogan. WWE created its new stars from the ground up. They don't do this anymore. Attitude died when WCW died. WWE is WCW now. It's a pile of garbage.
Back in 1998/99/00 WWF was at its prime. It was "cool" to wear wrestling shirts in public. Now it's as dorky as it ever was when Hogan was Hulking Up like a geriatric orange zeppelin.
WWF took everything it had going for it, and threw it into the gutter.
Stone Cold Steve Austin used to hold the WWE Title. Now we have Bradshaw (and Chris Benoit with HHH's fake title, that means more than the real one). It's a mess.
UFC's lame now too.
What the hell's with all the rules? Weight classes suck...though with the popularity of the sport, they are almost necessary.
I still think the best fight i've seen was a Bloodsport-esque match were this small black guy fought a sumo wrestler that dwarfed him.
The small black guy somehow broke the sumo dude's nose so bad that it was like under his eye. Soo much blood the little guy was declared the winner.
I watched K1 recently....that's pretty bad ass because it's more kick boxing-ish
I never really liked the WWE that much but it was way better when D generation x, the new age outlaws, and all the old wrestlers that were actually pretty good. They got rid of the best match there was which is the hardcore match. I know its fake but it is pretty entertaining. Now that about all they have is 1 on 1 matches and it gets frickin boring seeing 1 on 1 matches all the time. The old days were definitaly better.