The great thing about today’s technology is YouTube, you can quite literally search for any significant or not-so significant moment in wrestling and some crafty bugger has infringed several international copyright laws to bring you the moment in wrestling for your viewing pleasure.
Its a guilty pleasure of mine to spend several hours of a boring day off re-watching old WWF clips from the 1990s onwards, researching the angle on Google and then watching it in awe. However, whenever on YouTube, you always get two groups of people there just to spoil your entertaining minutes of joy when you look back and watch Stone Cold deliver the Stunner to everyone on Sunday Night Heat when you scroll down to that comments section, these two kinds of people are the utter arseholes who just search up wrestling clips to try and get an ignorant reaction from some 12 year old by writing “That shit’s fake” (a bit like that person’s social life by the looks of it) but I’ve dealt with that person on video:
So what about the other sort? Well, these are the people who say that WWE is terrible just because of the age rating. To me, this is a flawed argument, just because it says “TV-PG” at the start of the program, it automatically is bad? Lets not get carried away, most WWE stuff from this era is poor when you compare it to the good of 10 years ago, but that’s down to poor writing not its age rating. I mean, be honest, WWE had poor years as a TV-14 product in past and recent history too. The Invasion angle of 2001, 2006 (with the exception being Unforgiven which was awesome) as a whole, 2007 as a whole again, they had a terrible last couple of years as a TV-14 product. I mean the Attitude Era is no way flawless, it had terrible angles, shows, years. Are you telling me that Mae Young giving birth to a hand is better than some of the Hornswoggle skits? Totally killing a huge story with the Higher Power revealing it as the man Undertaker and Shane set out to get at, is that better than some of the stories they do nowadays?
Maybe I can’t talk, I stopped watching wrestling for two years, although that was due to poor writing and because I got bored of wrestling. Also, it may sound shallow but wrestling isn’t a popular past-time anymore, lets be honest, how many girls can you attract saying you’re a wrestling fan? I think its almost a social put-off, unfortunately. I think being a naive teenager I tried to distance my obsession with wrestling, because unfortunately, its not 1999, its not cool to be a fan of WWE or wrestling. However, that stereotype is for another blog.
So in closing, just because Cena is the Champion or its not as ‘cool’ as 1999, doesn’t mean its no good, you can write a great PG show, just like you can write a shit TV-14 show.
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