/wooo/ - Pro Wrestling

>>84301

Have you actually fucking browsed this board nigger? Nobody enjoys wrestling anymore, you're not special. Eat shit.

>muh good old days

Hogan was great but you're acting like EVERYONE back then was great.

>>84301

I agree. Everything about wrestling today is stale. Even the Bullet Club comes off as stale. nWo was a way better stable than the Bullet Club. The nWo consisted of mostly recognized stars from the WWF. While Bullet Club consisted of a bunch of unknown American wrestlers who aren't really big here in the U.S.

>>84311

Omega and the bucks are very big here if we go by merch numbers. And from a japanese perspective it's even more effective as you also got the tongans on top of that who are very good. LIJ is a much better stable though, feels way more like a group of like minded individuals uniting behind a charismatic leader, while the bullet club just feels like a banner for seperate egos to rally behind. Both work well though for what they are but LIJ is doing much better right now.

>>84328

AE is incredibly overrated. sure there were some great angles, but also some really bad ones, and the wrestling was almost universally bad

>>84342

>the wrestling was almost universally bad

Pure sports entertainment, shit was fun anyway.

>The most popular era of the WWE was when the wrestling was shit

Really makes you think.

>>84344

>The most popular era of the WWE was when they had the strongest competition

I feel like there may be a connection here

>>84314

I agree that LIJ are a better stable than the Bullet Club. As for Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks merch sales go, you're right. But again The Bullet Club has yet to reach the level of popularity that the nWo had.

The only way I see that happening though is if John Cena left the WWE and joined the Bullet Club in ROH/NJPW, since he is today's version of Hulk Hogan. Not that everybody will like him all of a sudden, they hate Cena as much as they did Hulk Hogan during his nWo run.

>>84342

The Attitude Era isn't overrated. It made wrestling fun to watch. The drama, the action, the gimmicks, the theme music, the hardcore matches, everything about it was great. If it weren't for the Attitude Era, we wouldn't have had Austin, The Rock, DX, Ministry Of Darkness, divas & female wrestling fans exposing their breasts, divas on playboy magazine, great wrestling games and so much more. The Attitude Era had everything. The PG era sucks. I don't care if they call it the "new era", it's still PG slapped with a new label.

>>84342

The Attitude Era was the most fun era to watch as someone whose life doesn't revolve around wrestling. Nothing before it nor after it even comes close.

>>84347

Thing is Hulk Hogan actually knew how to SELL shit compared to Cena.

>>84360

Doesn't matter who sells what. They both suck because they both bury young talent.

>>84362

>They both suck

Hold up there brother. Hogan is one of the best ever.

>>84347

Jhon isn't as big as hogan was in japan though, remember Bullet club is primarily a Japanese stable. Also AJ leading it and leaving for WWE gave it ALOT of popularity, almost like a reverse hogan effect. Still you're right, omega has really stepped up to fill the gap AJ left, but star power wise BC isn't anywhere close to NwO. But that's okay with me honestly, I think if they were too big they could overpower the entire indie scene and NJPW like NwO did with WCW, by the time they were done with it sting and goldberg were the only non NWO guys that were popular at all there and the company collapsed once NwO had run its course. That's one thing NJPW has been better with than WWE or WCW, is ensuring a really deep roster and also extending out their feuds and angles so nothing ever really gets too stale. BC has lasted just about as long as NwO did by now (96 to early 01, wwe shit after doesn't really count) and they're still doing very well while NwO was basically done by 2000.

>>84372

both

>>84372

It's a combination of both, but there's also the 3rd option:

Because I grew up watching wrestling

>>84367

I'll admit I liked Hogan in the 80's and I acknowledge that without him turning heel, the nWo wouldn't have mattered. Beyond that, I don't respect him because of the fact that he did bury talent & that he used his creative control clause to do it.

>>84369

I agree. The nWo definitely didn't matter as much by 1999 & they were definitely dead in the water in 2000. Their stint in the WWE was very underwhelming & didn't make much of an impact either.

>>84372

Actually it's a combination of both. Story is just as important as the wrestling part is. Without the story, it's just a boring wrestling program.

>>84655

I think BC has the edge on NwO in terms of booking and writing, but will never matter as much because they don't have the star power the NwO did.

>>84660

There is no use comparing the BC or any other wrestling stable ever to nWo in terms of the impact they had. The nWo revitalized America's mainstream interest in wrestling, causing the 2nd wrestling boom. Unless another stable can cause the 3rd boom, there will never be another stable as big as nWo was.

>>84342

>The wrestling was bad

No, because it's fake and supposed to be entertaining. The 80's and late 90's entertained people and that's why it was good. Wrestling is not some violent ice-skating routine.

>>84362

>Buried young talent

Get over yourself dickwad. Hogan didn't need to put anyone over when he was at the top, because he was the top draw and he was ever going to be the top draw. Why in the hell would they let him be devalued by putting over some young snot-nosed kid who couldn't capitalize on it.

It's like Undertaker handing over his streak to someone younger for the sake it.

>>84660

>Bullet Club has better booking than NWO, the biggest wrestling angle of all time ever made

Yeah, i don't think so you yellow fever virgin.

>>84660

Yeah, the booking with nWo was bad because it was always leading to the nWo winning. Not leaving room for WCW wrestlers to win every other week. Would have made things much more interesting if WCW wrestlers won here & there.

>>84677

It's obvious you're too ignorant to realize that younger talent are the future, especially if they're gaining popularity. So why should the top star win against a young star who's gaining momentum? Doesn't make sense.

Old balding wrestlers can't wrestle forever. That's like letting Ric Flair come out of retirement to win the WWE championship against Brock Lesnar in 2017. It's simply a stupid idea.

Wrestlers shouldn't be wrestling past the age of 50. By the way the Undertaker's streak ended to a younger wrestler for a good reason. There's nothing wrong with Undertaker losing to Brock Lesnar.

At least Vince McMahon knows that the younger stars are more important than aging wrestlers. Point being that the future of the company doesn't depend on old aging stars who are past their prime, the future is with the younger stars.

>>84677

NwO was the biggest angle of all time but shitty booking killed the momentum it brought to wcw. That's why njpw is still around and the bullet club has lasted longer than the nwo, because the bookers over there aren't literal retards like the wcw guys were.