Older series returns with a bang

Who are these degenerates that still create gifs in the current year. Use video formats like civilized humans

>Japan is its own thing
>Pro Wrestling is dying except when it's not
Fucking drone

wcw buyout was a mistake.

WWE killed wrestling in the 90s. But at least they still managed to draw big crowds back then. Now even they can't sell out, and all the other promotions draw a couple hundred people. Wrestling is a niche thing for geeks now, like what happened to comic books

>and none of the fans want to admit it.
There isn't a single fan who is unaware of how far the industry has sunk since the early 2000s

>that black lingerie
>that ass slap at the end

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That's really lame. Wrestling needs to embrace its trashiness.

Did they fuck afterwards?

>ywn be Stunned® by The Texas Rattlesnake

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Fucking so glad Drew won ANW. Well earned. Hope my boy Gil hits that stage 4 buzzer next year though.

kek

Imagine stuffing a human and lugging them around. That woman isn't right

at the same time, it's hard to make new stars when you keep bringing back old guys for nostalgia's sake and have them make the new guys look like fucking geeks. Back in the day, old talent would put over younger talent, and nowadays you have some fucking 50 year old man beating some 29 year old, and it makes no goddamn sense.

God damn. Stone Cold really made the stunner his. He adds some much character to the move.

>I think its sad that the WWE has to rely on its aging Attitude Era superstars
It's not, Attitude was great. Their fusion with shit like ECW and becoming the WWE is what killed it, the reason why is shit and has no real future attractive.

A man of culture.

who is your diva Yea Forums?

Tell it to Mexico.

They don't want to make stars. If they get too big, they become a liability if they leave like The Rock. Instead they just have a bunch of ok guys and the actual brand is supposed to be the draw

How is the Rock a liability?

Can't go wrong with Gigastacy Prime

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Reminder Benoit killed WWE. It was Benoit that caused all hardcore shit, chairshots etc to be removed and for the product to be sanitized. Thanks you murderous bully leaf.

He abandoned them back then and Vince didn't like it. So now nobody is meant to be bigger than the actual show

They leave a brand larger than wrestling.

>Instead they just have a bunch of ok guys and the actual brand is supposed to be the draw

Wut. I would not want to watch a bunch of nobodies like Shelton Benjamins dicking around for a non-title like the Intercontinental Championship.

Vince doesn't want friends in high places? Rock isn't on bad terms with the WWE and his pull in hollywood has been utilized by the WWE.

>at the same time, it's hard to make new stars when you keep bringing back old guys for nostalgia's sake
It's not hard, not even a huge fan of wrestling but it is obvious why it was great. Why is hard to bringing new guys and being memorable?; there are no characters anymore. Only generic wrestling guy No. 9000.

John Cena is only remembered because he's a great guy. And that's what WWE lacks, characters.

What are some games that let me beat my significant other?

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WOOOOOOOOOOO

It's funny how no one cares or remembers this anymore.

Also did he beat her or just hit her? Very different things, as well as frequency mattering. Beating implies he sent her to the hospital.

New wrestlers are all marks so they don't mind getting laid out by oldtimers. I still remember Titty Master smirking after getting laid out by Jake Roberts.

None of the top card guys are notable either, compared to what they were in the 90s or 00s

>the most electrifying man in sports entertainment will not only never come back, he will never be topped

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Wasn't Vince who also pushed the Rock? I remember he being the one shilling him into movies like the Mummy 2 and producing the Scorpion King.

youtube.com/watch?v=PPcMOUe4OU8

>Only generic wrestling guy No. 9000
I hate that there's so many "first name/last name" dudes now.

He went all out brother.

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Stacy was prime breeding material but all those pictures of Bischoff on the wall were hilarious.

And no one has any goals or motivation except wanting to be the best.

BEAT DEBRA

They just haven't found any megastars since The Rock left, Cena carried it through the last 15 years or so but he's not on that level of appeal.

It was a shoot, debretty tried putting herself over and based austin wasn't having it so he buried that bitch in the midcard.

They don't have an environment that lets people become stars. Even if someone somehow starts gaining popularity, they might just get pushed to the sidelines because they're not part of the plan. Everything is very micromanaged now

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This is very problematic. I'm glad we have women like Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in the business now instead of this embarrassing spectacle.

I miss those generic dudes that actually stand out like Jericho. Or generic dudes with only one name like Edge.

This but unironically.

I'd rather have actual wrestling over shitty softcore porn.

>we'll never get another SvR
It fucking hurts lads.

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You're probably too young to remember Chyna she was the true strong woman of wrestling that wrestled with the men in equality
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Dogs arent people user. They're property.

What's wrong with the 2K ones?
Does anyone remember her WWE porn parody ? That was some shit, let me tell ya.

>what's wrong with the 2k ones
They're watered down as fuck compared to the older games and is basically the same shit every year.

whats that, youre a bitch

Still weird carrying a stuffed corpse around with you. And if somebody felt the need to actually do that to their dead dog, one would assume they cared about the dog very much. So in that sense it's analogous to a person, and equally weird

I thought Edge, Jericho and Christian were the same person as a kid

The motherfuker killed raw last year fuck no.

We've already got Jun Kasai.

Vince pushed the Rock to the moon because he had the look and charisma and wit etc. The problem is, when Rock left to go be a Hollywood star, he wasn't around to draw money to the WWE. So Vince never pushed anyone that big as a solo star ever again. Even John Cena or Roman Reigns when they're making appearances and stuff are mostly "WWE guys" rather than "Hollywood stars"

in what way? If you want batshit crazy hardcore people, Joey Janela is probably your best bet on that. Character guys, probably Bray Wyatt especially with his current gimmick.

Joey Janela is such a mark that he gets worked by Jim Cornette

Not to mention they took out all the cool manager modes and stuff. The thing about wrestling games is people really got into the simulation stuff. The create-a-character stuff and the management stuff. But WWE wants it to be more like your NBA and Madden games where it's just "you play with the selected roster and we minimize customization" shit.

Fire Pro is a better game from a simulator standpoint.

Oh! Brother! I'm very impressed with your outstanding performance lately. Listen to me. I've seen the light. Oh yes, I have, I have seen the light. And the great prophet showed me the light. Please don't be discouraged, my brother. We go city to city, state to state, looking at these sinners out there. It's dwelling city of demons. And my brother, you're following in that path. My benefactor, the prophet Vince McMahon, along with myself of course, we can help you. We can show you that light. We can lead you to it. You see, these people are poisoning you. And I will strike down upon thee, with great vengeance. Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brother. I'll make sure that these people won't destroy you. But with that, comes a "price". And when I mean a "price", it's a good thing. In order for me and the prophet to save you. We need a slight donation. OH! BROTHER!. Oh yes my brother ! I can make you see the light. God bless you.

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I think the Cornette vs Janela beef is pretty much both guys working themselves into a shoot. And regardless of your opinion on Janela, he's a pretty cool guy. I mean not many other wrestlers will do afterparties and breakfast meets with fans after getting absolutely fucking washed on White Claw

>Not wanting comedy relief

Dude, Edge and Christina were brothers(?) when they were a tag team.

Elaborate

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He was general manager and all he did was pushing a cringe feud between charlotte an sasha banks while bubbling like an hobo, and not in the entertaining way.

Someone finally climbed Mount Midoriyama again? Nice. When did it happen?

>He was general manager
okay. thats not him as a wrestler.

Well, that thing making Raw and Smackdown separate was retarded all along imo.

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Dude the guy can't even walk right.

Give me the microphone.
Listen up.
I'm sick and tired of all you anonymutts runnin' your mouths.
Every single day you come out here, you make the same damn threads. "Smash" this, "Speedrun" that.
Well guess what I'm gonna do.
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HOLY FUCKING DIMES

>Hulk Hogan will die in your lifetime
>The will never be another Hulkster ever
>Hulkamania is essentially over

It hurts

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post >yfw

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I miss him already.

This looks fucking terrible if you want to jack off then just porn with actually attractive girls

Yeah, that's what you can expect from someone who delivers a shown like the cage fight against triple H.

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>RAW in 1999
>camera cuts to crowd full of frat bros with funny signs
>RAW in 2019
>camera cuts to crowd full of fat white neckbeards in bullet club shirts and new day brony gear
Literally did nothing, Gawker's parent company purchased them after the lawsuit

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This goes to what I mentioned earlier about wrestling being for geeks now. Wrestling isn't cool anymore, normal well adjusted people don't watch it

>could have been AAA material
>never utilized correctly because Vince hated ECW

The whole fucking show.

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Most of Yea Forums was absolutely not alive during his prime anyway. You'd need to be in your 40's to even have memories of it.

RVD is fucking based, according to some guys in the locker room he's hung like a horse.

>almost kill your boss's son in law with a botched splash
>get buried immediately
Wew

cesaro push when?

and that is what will kill wwe. vince's eternal greed and thinking he always knows best.

Me too brother

Nobody cares about workrate darlings

Oh yeah, let me just hop on kazaa and download a minute video that takes 45 minutes to download.
Or maybe everyone had that mysterious bag/box full of porn in their attic closet, Jim.

The arc with these two in Smackdown was TV kino. Viva La Raza Eddie, RIP.

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THIS RIGHT FUCKING HERE

Not that guy, but Japanese wrestling is a completely different industry.

Ratings were already a fraction of what they had been in the 80s and 90s by then.

>that bicep size
No wonder Eddie's heart stopped

That and Vince is autistic about control and has abandonment issues. The man would call people at 4 in the morning and get mad at his own sneeze cause he can't control sneezing

[_] Don't beat
[_] BEAT

Actually what IS big here is his tricep

Kevin Nash was raped at gunpoint during the unusually mild summer of 1992.

Good
Maybe we need to revert back to the territory days in order to reboot the culture

KWAB

What is the Oliver John of videogames?

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Any create-a-character before you start editing it

CM Punk is the one that really broke Vince's brain, I think. Ever since he left, Vince has really, REALLY made sure nobody can get over above a certain level.

>he thinks Stacy Keibler is not attractive
must suck to be such a massive faggot

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The only wrestler in this thread who's actually Yea Forums related.

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why would you watch this when you can watch cute Japanese girls beat the shit out of each other in rings instead?

Lita all day, followed close by Trish Stratus

where in the fuck is her ass

Some of WWF's biggest stars came from ECW.
RVD was viewed as unreliable because he didn't give a shit, just wanted to smoke weed all day 420 blaze it.

Yeah, this, unfortunately. Wrestling went from being mainstream entertainment to being the single nerdiest thing in existence. Look at Yea Forums. They make /mlp/ look normal by comparison.

CM Punk was never over.

WWE has got to stop hiring these indie guys that only appeal to smarks. You push indie talent, you get indie ratings. Which is exactly what's happened.

>Push Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin
>Ratings fall to RECORD LOWS
damn

Are you implying Roman Reigns isn't identical to the kind of trash ROH promotes? He's just as vanilla and forgettable.

The bra and panties matches were always good fun.

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You've got a major league case of the gays, son.

MMA showing people what fighting is actually like (69ing for 50 percent of the time) really killed the appeal of WWE.

Whatever you wanna call him, he's a homegrown WWE guy. Every homegrown WWE guy they've pushed the last few years has crashed and burned except maybe Charlotte and I guess Bray is doing okay for now before they bury him again.

Look at the "controversy" over Bruce Lee not 100% dominating a fight in a movie. 90% of the public doesn't watch MMA and still thinks kung fu is a real fighting style.

u guys no wrestling is fake right??

Yea Forums is GOAT
We should team up

>He hasn't seen Cactus Jack VS Triple H in no way out
It's exposes WWE as the joke they are.

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That's just boomers who grew up believing all those carnie tales that were designed to generate publicity and make le mystical kung fu man a star.

If people still thought that crap was real every McDojo wouldn't have converted to teaching MMA like they are now.

Yea Forums is the best board on the site ya ding-dong diddly simp

>Q3 2020-1
>still watching underwear man-drama

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God roman reigns was straight up terrible, as in you literally could get a better wrestler if you picked at random and their push for him was fucking terrible
Why show a below mediocre dude as as good as or better than most of your stars just as he started being shown as important instead of building him up?
His vest was also the stupidest thing ever and he had the most boring finisher in the last decade

>His vest was also the stupidest thing ever
It actually got even worse, if you can believe that.

>His vest was also the stupidest thing ever
He has a fucked up looking chest they had to cover up. It must run in the family as The Rock had to wrestle in a T shirt while getting breast reduction surgery.

OOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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No roman you aren't TSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-tier nobody will love you
Who's gonna be the next ''''''star''''''?

Which is fine. Part of wrestling is you accentuate the strengths and cover the weaknesses. And when he wore the flak jacket, it was cool.

But this fucking thing? Jesus Christ.

Adam Cole or Velveteen Dream probably.

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>Nobody will love you
WRONG

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Wow I can't believe WWE outsources their birthday cards nowadays

The only people still watching wrestling in large numbers are Indians and Mexicans.