Any wrestling fans on here?

I don't kick sand in your face, I kick your stinking face into the sand maaa

 

Lol those sketches. Reminded me of the great Norman Hale in ‘The Management “
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Watched it in it's prime from late 80s to mid 90s, used to love Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart. Some mates were into it at uni 99ish and loved Hardy Boyz, Rock etc but not interested now.

 

Don’t forget Nagasaki nose throw

 

Everyone is forgetting probably one of the most exciting and greatest man to ever don the leotard

Step forward @JLWBigLil

 

Thank you, mate.
Can I just point out to anyone who believes there's no pain, YOU'RE WRONG! This is especially true in training, but I also received a really hard punch to the testicles once during an actual bout and I was still suffering hours later. My family thought it was hilarious, as they assumed it was part of the show. It wasn't.

 

Loved it as a kid had all the video games, action figures and a couple of replica belts. But in secondary school I stopped watching it as it wasn’t ‘cool’ anymore.

Over the years I’d always look up what was happening but I’d never properly get interested until a few years ago someone gave me a spare ticket for a live show. I went to the show and after that it was like a nostalgic rush had struck me and I was hooked again.

I therefore would watch Raw and Smackdown every week without fail and would watch the big PPVs, I couldn’t watch all as I didn’t have the WWE Network so would watch PPVs such as Wrestlemania at a mates house. As much as I did enjoy it, it was painfully obvious it just wasn’t as good as I remembered it as a kid. There were no Stone Colds or The Rocks and the people I loved as a kid Triple H, Undertaker, Kane and Chris Jericho were all getting old and would barely be involved. I did like the new generation of superstars but I just didn’t see any real star power from any of them that the aforementioned had.

So a few years on after I’d got back into it I then began to despise watching it, Raw was 3 hours long and the matches were usually boring tag matches and consisted of a lot of garbage heavily scripted promos. Smackdown was 2 hours long and wasn’t any better as it had a weaker roster. A big announcement was made that WWE programming for the UK would be moving from Sky Sports (which I had) to BT Sports (which I didn’t have and had no interest to get) so I therefore decided I wasn’t gonna watch it anymore. My decision was made even easier when the week WWE was finishing on Sky, Raw had the worst segment I’d ever seen with the Lana and Bobby Lashley wedding. Was no going back after that garbage, as much as Vince McMahon is a genius it seems like he’s lost it now and relies heavily on TV writers that are more suited for writing trashy reality shows than they are wrestling.

AEW a new wrestling promotion started and was on ITV 3 so I decided to give that a go. I said the new generation of WWE superstars didn’t have any star power but the AEW superstars seemed like a bunch of kids play wrestling compared to them. Just totally horrible apart from MJF who is probably the best heel promo in the business right now and some of the WWE rejects AEW signed such as FTR who are probably the best tag team in the business but have been misused by both WWE and now AEW.

I was never big into the Independent scene of wrestling (which is ironic given my username on here) so I was unfamiliar with Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks but I just wasn’t impressed by either of them Omega is so over the top and the Bucks are a couple of gymnasts. The worst for me is possibly Orange Cassidy I think his gimmick would’ve been better suited in the cartoonish era of the 90’s just before the attitude era and it is an insult that his entrance music is the brilliant where is my mind by the Pixies. It doesn’t help that AEW are financially backed by Tony Khan who can’t even get things right at Fulham, as well as being the owner he is also the head booker (I believe) and an on screen personality in the vain of a 90’s Vince McMahon, but Vince had charisma and Tony Khan is just a money mark with no experience. So my time watching AEW was very short lived.

Wrestling just isn’t the same anymore, I don’t know if it’s because I’m getting older or because the product is just so poor now, tbh my money is on the latter.

Side note: I didn’t discuss NXT because I’ve simply never watched it unfortunately as I said earlier I’ve never had the Network and if I did I’d probably just watch that because it looks like the best of a really bad bunch.

 

you had to go there didn't you.... please don't show the leotard again @JLWBigLil

 

Sadly, I don't know where they are, old mate.

 

I'd like to believe you old mate.....

 

Some of the comments on here are pretty terrible, if you don't like it why comment? I can't understand why people like cricket but you don't see me on the cricket posts on here. For those saying it doesn't hurt I mean you just couldn't be more wrong.

 

Can I just recommend, for anyone who has felt disillusioned with RAW and Smackdown in recent years, or just drifted away from wrestling, I urge you to give NXT and NXT UK a go.

Some of the stuff they have put out in the last 6-7 years has been nothing short of phenomenal and easily the best wrestling in North America.

 

I'm disillusioned with Raw and Smackdown but flat out disgusted with NXT lol.

 

Can I ask why? Genuinely interested mate.