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Nicholas Ferrante's avatar

Pro wrestling has been taken over by the funko pop/pro nouns in profile crowd. It’s no longer masculine outlaw shit but rather feminized theatre geek stuff. Not for me anymore, that’s why I find myself leaning more towards hardcore rap and mma for my masculine outlaw shit. It’s one of the few places left in culture where it exists. I used to get mad about this but I’ve just accepted it and moved on.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

The nature of pro wrestling (and the performers who create it) has certainly changed a lot on my lifetime.

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Dumpster Diver's avatar

Latecomer to wrestling in many ways. Interest piqued in terms of the non-WWE promotions and how that variety has been lost. And curious where WWE goes next now that it’s not the Vince Review and Cabaret.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

It will be very interesting to see what the company does now. It's in many ways been the product of a single auteur. Will it even be possible for others to see something other than his vision? For most people under 40, it's the only vision of wrestling they've ever known.

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Dumpster Diver's avatar

Is AEW offering enough of a different product to be interesting? Seems that way, and if that continues, maybe helps drive a different product? Related: any other newsletters/blogs/whatever out there covering the non-WWE/AEW stuff? I see some regional smatterings around here, but it's been a pain trying to find decent coverage (other than this one, which, thanks for making this).

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

Coverage of modern wrestling? Or the older stuff?

Dave Meltzer covers the sport pretty broadly in the Wrestling Observer newsletter.

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Dumpster Diver's avatar

Thanks for that. And probably the older stuff, since I'd like to better understand a pre-WWF/WWE era.

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Jonathan Snowden's avatar

That's actually so true, I refuse to consider it a "take." That's just fact.

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