I find it more sad that people waste time out of their lives to carry on about what others like, I would think that's far more a waste of time than watching something you happen to enjoy. Watching and passionately supporting sports team would seem pretty stupid to someone who wasn't interested in them, luckily those people tend to have other hobbies than just whinging about it, like living in trees and the such.
I PROMISE you no one thinks it's "real" anymore. Not even the hard-core fans. People like it because it's basically over-the-top satire with an athletic twist. The more over-the-top it is, the more people like it. It's not my thing (anymore) but I can certainly see why people would like it. It's just silly fun.
Agreed. I basically quit enjoying wrestling when I was a junior in high school and have only briefly popped back into it when I've heard that some star I liked as a kid is appearing or something. Each time though I've found myself unable to enjoy it or sit through a match. But, I get why people still like it. I just personally don't. You know what though? I have a friend that thinks I'm immature for watching basketball and baseball. She thinks it's childish for a grown man to enjoy watching other grown men play a kid's game and that it is a waste of time and productivity. So there Nick. You are a child! :grin:
Are you an idiot? When did I say it was a list of young wrestlers? It's a damn site that has dead wrestlers.
The older and wiser I get, I'm starting to feel the same way. Competition is silly and watching grown men compete against each other while I get emotionally invested in it is a bit silly and immature. Another thing that is silly is paying money for the team colors, hats, jersey's etc... it's all just marketing we are falling for when being a die hard fan. Teams come out with new logos uniforms, etc.. all the time and we fall for it and buy it up. If you really think about it there are so many more productive and intelligent ways to spend your time other than watching a silly, meaningless sporting event.
Ultimate warrior is kind of a dumbass for not doing action movies in his prime. I got a bunch of good ideas for an action flick starring UW in my head.
Warrior's aesthetic was about three to five years too late, it was more a culmination of the previous era, and it seems like the coming sexualization and diversity might have rubbed him the wrong way. Also, wrestlers had no mainstream cred: action producers had successfully replaced Chuck Norris (Van Damme, Seagal and Snipes) and Viacom wasn't cramming wrestling down other networks' throats yet (MTV). Had he not held Vince up for a hundred grand right before a match they would have realized that and shuttered him anyways.
Nah...they would have repackaged him the same way they repackaged others. Austin, Hogan, Boss Man, etc,etc...they were all repackaged in the 1990s.
There are, but your attention span is the first thing to go after high school; so listening to Feynman lectures, reading Chaucer or putting in that new basement will give you an anxiety attack after three seconds.
I wouldn't say Hogan was repackaged... Repacking a wrestler is more like giving them an entirely different identity to one they had previously... like Hollywood Blond Steve to the Texas rattlesnake... Dr. Isaac Yankem to Kane... Oz to Diesel... etc... Hogan in the 90's was a basic heel turn... not a repackaging as he was reasoning his turn on the ingratitude of the public for all he did for the business... which was based on truth, as WCW fans were starting to boo him as a babyface a little too regularly prior to his turn... Repackaged wrestlers don't reference their past in the ring to the public...
