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I was watching the John Cena/Rock main event from Mania 29 the other day, and I was kind of surprised to see how blown up The Rock was throughout the match. Considering what a fitness machine the guy is, you'd think he'd be able to keep up during the bout. Was it simply a matter of differing exercise routines? My only guess is that he didn't reacclimate to what I assume is a cardio-heavy regiment that wrestlers are used to.
That is absolutely what it is. There is a big difference between doing cardio in the gym and wrestling in the ring. There’s being in shape, and then being in “ready to go” shape.
With all the speculation that Jinder Mahal won the title because WWE is expanding its reach to India, isn't that somewhat unfair to Mahal? I know he's the champ now, but that's like saying he'd never get the chance to be champion if this deal never took place. It just seems kind of disingenuous to me, especially if/when the brass makes him drop the belt back to Randy Orton in a month or two.
It’s a business where the brass decides who the “guy” is going to be and then puts him in that position. If you are someone like Jinder, you look at it as an opportunity. You say to yourself, “I am going to be so good that not only will they not take me out of this spot, they will wonder why they didn’t put me in it sooner!”
Was there such a thing as "developmental" prior to the mid-1990s? Did the WWF have any actual farm leagues or systems, or were talents just signed and brought straight to television?
Back then they had working relationships with bigger indies like the USWA and Smoky Mountain Wrestling, as well as ECW. Full on developmental hadn’t happened yet.
Call me crazy but I am going to try and support FloSports and their price hike. I know pretty much everybody reading this will not agree but I’ll take a shot. I just looked at their schedule for June and they have 8 live events scheduled. To me, there is nothing better than live wrestling. As far as I know, WWE Network has 1 maybe 2 live events scheduled. Even if you count NXT as live, that is only 4 shows. No other streaming service offers live events, correct with if I’m wrong. Highspots has no live events, CZW doesn’t, as of now, I know they are working on it. Now, since I have covered the amount of shows, which FloSports has. Obviously, other services have more of a library but I am talking about new shows and live shows. As for the price— there is no doubt that other services are cheaper. A lot cheaper. But shouldn’t we as wrestling fans always try and support indy wrestling? In order to do that, is to spend money to supports them. It only helps our interest if we can financially help the indies. Isn’t 30 bucks a good price for 8 live shows? How much would it cost to buy tickets to all those shows? I’m pretty confident it is more than 30 bucks. So, us as wrestling fans, should be more than willing to help out any indy we can as it only helps wrestling as a whole. Just think—if the indies disappear, where does that leave us and WWE for that matter? So, all I am saying is we have to support indy wrestling and one of the ways to do that is to financially contribute and FloSports is just one of those ways—and you get 8 Live shows just in 1 one month. I don’t know if I convinced anybody but those are just my 2 cents.
You didn’t convince me, but I appreciate your passion. I won’t call you crazy either. You like what you like. There’s not a damn thing wrong with that.
What would you think of having the world champions wrestle pay-per-view only matches? They could appear and do promos on television, but make their matches something fans would have to pay to see either on pay-per-view, or the network. Back in the day, that was the norm and it enticed people to go to the arenas. That way perhaps it could encourage people to buy network subscriptions. Not saying that is in concrete as they could always do a special championship match to pop ratings here and there.
When the number one revenue source is TV ratings, you have to be careful about doing that. I get your point completely, but the flip side is that since the Universal Champion, Brock Lesnar, appeared on Raw the day after WrestleMania, the show has dropped over 1.1 Million viewers. USA knows that too. If WWE wants to keep earning big money from them, they have to deliver an audience. That makes it hard to keep the champ from wrestling on TV.
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