/wooo/ - Pro Wrestling

wasn't jews

You did it and now you're making a "who did this" thread to call attention to it.

>>65183

The mod of this board I imagine.

>>65183

Whoever it is, I seen him post the same Kenny Omega video that appears on that twitter page. Should give you a big clue.

It's something Jim did for most of the top boards, we have one for /tv/ too. It automatically posts every thread made on the site.

>>65194

>>65192 already answered that but thanks for the info.

>>65294

Yo make me volunteer bro

>>65294

>Wrong.

>## Board Owner

My case has been proven.

>>65343

Might have to do with the hilariously terrible PPV name

>>65354

To me it's also a clusterfuck of shit. They're referring to the old 50's song, but it's so old that only 80 year olds would probably remember when it was cool. Then the PPV artwork has orange and blue, which combined with the balls might also be a subtle advertisement for Rocket League. The question I have is who came up with this shit, and if it is Rocket League then how does one random ass indie title get this much power to influence a vastly bigger company?

>>65343

we had one for mania but the site got shit on and we had to go to some shitty bunker site.

Jim's an E drone seeing as hes in the phillipines and doesnt have time to put up announcements for Dominion or WK

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>>65343

I think there's been a renewed interest in wrestling over the past year? Like not just on the internet but culturally. I see it discussed way more often and openly than I did before. New day probably helped with that. Jim may be trying to capitalize on that and make /wooo/ a bigger board to bring people here to discuss shit, and thus drive up site wide traffic.

>>65364

WWE's rating keep getting lower and lower.

>>65365

TV ratings are down but general interest seems to be up. NBA and NHL finals also hurt them way more than in previous years. I dunno man, I'm not saying they're doing well but more people talk about wrestling now than before.

>>65367

>but more people talk about wrestling now than before.

You're delusional if you think that's the case. If people were interested or talking about wrestling, the ratings would be up and more people would wear a wrestling t-shirt.

>>65368

Ratings aren't the end all be all measurement of interest. People are interested in acts and gimmicks, but not many people watch because of various reasons, and even less buy merch because people aren't gonna buy shit with only passing interest. This may just be my area too, but I see a lot of people talking about WWE and NJPW. Could just be all coincidence though, sorry if that's the case.

>>65370

A lot of people in my area aren't talking about wrestling, they're definitely not wearing wrestling t-shirts and they probably see the wrestling product of today as an embarrassment. People with real interest will buy the merch, the ratings would be at least a 3.0 instead of a 1.2 or whatever. The Attitude Era alone had 5.0 viewers because they kept the product relevant & interesting.

>>65364

Nah, it's just that the easiest people to bring over to 8chan are the posters from 420chan's wooo who are sick of the onerous liberal moderation.

At weedchan, "Trump" is wordfiltered to " ", and variants of "cuckold" are "stallion".

For 8 years the mods would have daily praise-Obama threads. This was before halfchan got /asp/, so there was no alternative.

The only problem is this is something that was needed back in like 2011 when wrestling was about twice as popular as it is now.

>>65383

You're not gonna ever get attitude era numbers again, and like I said, not the end all be all and not even what I am discussing. But yeah might just be my area, tons of people talk about it, I went to a rave a few months back and they had an EDM version of the new day theme and everyone their knew what it was. Not sure what else to say but I'm probably just wrong on this one sorry. My local experience doesn't translate to everywhere.

>>65601

>You're not gonna ever get attitude era numbers again

That's because the WWE is still PG. Which means no divas posing nude for Playboy, no cuss words, no sexual themes, no random diva flashing her breasts on pay-per-view, no random fan flashing her breasts on live TV, no inappropriate gimmicks like Val Venis's pornstar gimmick or the Godfather's pimp gimmick. Hence why wrestlers today have shit gimmicks to work with.

>>65704

Not necessarily, you don't need non-PG stuff to draw (Hulk Hogan brother). And all the stuff you listed wasn't what made the attitude era work (besides the cuss words). Great characters did, and that can only be achieved by a careful balance of non-scripted and scripted promos, as well as good booking. But creatively restricting the writers with the PG rating does makes it way harder to achieve that. TV-14 is probably the best compromise honestly and they should've changed to it years ago. Kids will still watch it and as long as you don't go too overboard parents won't throw up too much of a hissy fit.

>>65709

>you don't need non-PG stuff to draw (Hulk Hogan brother)

This isn't the 1980's.

>All the stuff you listed wasn't what made the attitude era work

WRONG. The raunchy, edgy & sexual stuff is exactly what made it work. Plus many of those wrestlers had great theme music, unlike today where it sounds like shit that sounds like it came straight of a commercial(Sami Zayn, Becky Lynch) or a really bad Japanese movie(Shinske Nakamura). These theme songs in the New Era just doesn't compare to music of the Attitude Era such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, D-Generation X, Ministry Of Darkness, Triple H("My Time" version) & Chris Jericho. Great characters? The new era are lacking characters because the majority of the wrestlers are playing as themselves. The new era has bad booking, bad writing, bad promos & too many restrictions on what they can & cannot do on TV. None of the wrestlers have creative power like The Kliq did in the 90's. There's a reason Vince didn't fire Shawn Michaels & let him get away with the crap he did in DX. Shawn Michaels basically stood up to Vince. None of the wrestlers today have the balls to stand up to Vince to change things in the WWE.

>>65710

>this isn't the 1980's

And it's also not the 90's, what worked then won't work now, but the point was that there are ways to be successful while keeping it TV-PG.

>The raunchy, edgy & sexual stuff is exactly what made it work.

WRONG the solid writing, mostly good characters, and AMAZING performers did. Raunchy comedy would NOT work nowadays, it's played out and completely stale. You clearly know nothing about how to book good wrestling and are just parroting shit you hear on r/squaredcirclejerk or wherever this crap comes from. The new era, has mediocre booking, below average promos, and below average writing, which combined with the good in ring quality, makes for a decidedly mediocre product. There are clear steps that can be taken to improve this, but what you're suggesting is NOT it. Giving wrestlers creative control isn't gonna happen nowadays unfortunately, so the only thing you can do is hire DECENT WRITERS who know how to write BELIEVABLE DIALOGUE.

STARS make shows you marks. if the AE didnt have Rock and Austin it wouldnt be remembered half as fondly.

>>65710

I'll say it again, wrestling is a mirror of society. The 80s were a crazy, over the top time and for that, you had Hulkamania and the cartoon like aura in the WWE. The mid to late 90s were the opposite, 80s kids grew into rebellious teens, the Attitude era was the perfect representation of what people wanted back then. Even Ruthless Aggression had its place in the mid 2000s, even if wasn't as big as it was in the 80s/90s. WWE used to dictate where the ball was rolling, they were cool to watch, now they just follow the ball and by doing so, they don't create that interesting atmosphere which makes it must see, or even decently watchable.

>>65727

Also true, PG era was lame but it was spearheaded by a mega star in John Cena, while also having popular guys like Randy Orton, Batista, CM Punk and the final peak days/regular appearances of legends like HBK, Edge, Rey Mysterio, Undertaker, Triple H. It wasn't an exciting time to watch wrestling, but people still watched it, it had an identity. Now, WWE makes the biggest star the company itself rather than one of numerous wrestlers. Roman at this point will never even get half as big as Cena was, the rest of the roster doesn't really have a lot of star power on them either. No one to lead this era with no purpose, WWE right now has no real identity, which is why it feels so bland.

>>65364

I don't know about that. On the internet, it might jut be because of memes, wrestling is always a good source of that. Broken Matt definitely helped a ton in that respect. Elsewhere, I still see it being totally irrelevant, haven't seen people discuss it.

>>65711

>disagREEEEEEEEEEEing with me makes you reddit

Pathetic!