WWF Wrestlemania

Hey, are there any other fans on here, as this is Wrestlemania weekend of course.
I've been to see them a number of times live, at what used to be called the Sheffield Arena. You can't beat 'live' can you, with annoying kids screaming and kicking the back of your chair etc lol.
And then the lights go out, and boing... boing...

 

Watched most of last nights action. Will get caught up tomorrow night as I’ll need my beauty sleep for work in the morning.

Don’t follow it as much as I used to but it is good fun. Thought Santos Escobar and Dom Mysterio vs. Rey Mysterio and Andrade was fantastic.

 

Hey S74, we're meant to hate dirty Dom Mysterio aren't we lol, he really plays the role well. I just love it when he tries to talk, and gets boo'ed out of the building.

 

Used to love Wrestling on a satdi afternoon with mi Nan she used to relive every minute in the chair, great memories,

 

You wrestled your nan?

 

Nice one, you know i did but never won.

 

I love it, watched it for the last 30 +years. Wife hates me watching it.
I've recorded it can only get to watch it in bits when she goes to bed.

 

Each to there own used to watch Big Daddy v Giant Haystacks even live once in Brid ( with Dave Watson) but this American garbage is laughable.

 

For me it was Razaor Ramone, El Hefe

 

Watched when I was younger, would have been late 80s when we first got Sky tv. Legion Of Doom. The Hart Foundation. Power And Glory. Macho Man Randy Savage. British Bulldog. Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Jake The Snake Roberts. Big Boss Man. The Undertaker. Haven't watched in about 15 years (maybe more) stopped watching when it was more talking than action. I wouldn't know any of the wrestlers now.

 

I was a fan around the time of the attitude era, some proper characters and storylines back then, loved it as a kid.

 

Watched it in 90’s on TV regular, wish I’d gone to see them live just to have experienced the Undertaker entrance.

 

Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks ehh, and Kendo Nagasaki lol.
On Satdy afternoons in the early mid 80s, on Itv's World of sport with Dickie Davies.
In between the half time and full time footy scores.

 

I get that people either like something or they don't. But I've never understood people who look down on modern wrestling, and then say it was better when the likes of Big Daddy and Giant Haystack were around.

They weren't wrestlers, they were really big men who'd spend 15 minutes playing up to the crowd and then do 30 seconds of "wrestling". They're the reason that there was no wrestling scene in this country in the late 90s when it was at its peak in America.

 

My kids love it, what gets me is the adults in the crowd going mental, surely they're not daft enough to believe its real and not choreographed

 

Aye, that was my era too. I had the network for a while, but didn't watch anything on there newer than 2001.

 

Of course they don't, they're just enjoying what they're seeing. Is it really any different to adults in a football crowd going mental when their team scores?

 

It’s not really is it. Hate the snobbery around it. Do the same people not enjoy films, theatre, etc?

I actually really like how wrestling has modernised and blurred the lines a bit. No-one really pretends it’s “real” any more, and the product is often better for it. I dip in and out these days but some of the storylines in both WWE and AEW are excellent.

What is real is the brutal training they put themselves through and the risks they take in order to entertain folk. For that alone they command respect.

 

The schedule they have in WWE is tougher than any Sport. 300 days a year on the road. Pretty much it's wake up, go to gym, go to arena, go to bed, wake up, travel to next place. A life full of airports and hotel rooms. No off season to manage all the bumps you take a few nights a week. Raw on Monday, Smackdown Friday and a couple of house shows in between. Pretty much the only full day they will spend at home will be a Thursday and that will not be chill time as they will want to catch up with family and have washing to do and more suitcases to pack for the next day. It's relentless.

 

Yes 100% it is, because is one staged/ fixed/ Pantomime to bring in the £££££ the other one isn't