I've been a wrestling aficionado since I was a small boy rooting for Antonio Inoki and Giant Baba o the obscure channels that aired Japanese puroresu. Sinc then, we've come a looooooooong way from it. First WWF, then ECW and WCW, which both died, then the change of name from WWF to WWE, and now TNA.
Sadly, wrestling has become less a matter of skill and more a matter of 'who can cheat in the lamest, most soap-opera-ish fashion'. It's a state of things that an oldskooler like yours truly isn't really happy with.
Wrestling USED to be about skill, even for the females (just look at a match with Lioness Asuka, Jumbo Hori or the Crush Girls), but now, it's all people with lots of steroid-induced muscles, while the skilled guys, like Rey Mysterio, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, are relegated to midcarder status at best because they're "too small".
The hell? Too small doesn't equal auto-suck. People like Edge are the ones who suck, because they have ZERO SKILL and even less mic talent. They just have the good luck of looking imposing. Well, it isn't enough.
Anybody can look threatening by standing around and grunting a lot but if all you can do is swing a hammer around, punch some fatass for 30 minutes and then hit a finisher (cough HHHcough), then why the hell should you get a tile shot?
And yet... I suppose screwing the boss's daughter helps. Otherwise, a guy like HHH wouldn't be winning titles left and right. -_-
Nowadays, wrestling is just a glorified softcore gay por soap opera, no more, no less... disappointing, in a way. How the mighty have fallen...
Well... say your piece now. I'll add more later...
Sadly, wrestling has become less a matter of skill and more a matter of 'who can cheat in the lamest, most soap-opera-ish fashion'. It's a state of things that an oldskooler like yours truly isn't really happy with.
Wrestling USED to be about skill, even for the females (just look at a match with Lioness Asuka, Jumbo Hori or the Crush Girls), but now, it's all people with lots of steroid-induced muscles, while the skilled guys, like Rey Mysterio, Paul London and Brian Kendrick, are relegated to midcarder status at best because they're "too small".
The hell? Too small doesn't equal auto-suck. People like Edge are the ones who suck, because they have ZERO SKILL and even less mic talent. They just have the good luck of looking imposing. Well, it isn't enough.
Anybody can look threatening by standing around and grunting a lot but if all you can do is swing a hammer around, punch some fatass for 30 minutes and then hit a finisher (cough HHHcough), then why the hell should you get a tile shot?
And yet... I suppose screwing the boss's daughter helps. Otherwise, a guy like HHH wouldn't be winning titles left and right. -_-
Nowadays, wrestling is just a glorified softcore gay por soap opera, no more, no less... disappointing, in a way. How the mighty have fallen...
Well... say your piece now. I'll add more later...