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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
The nature of pro wrestling (and the performers who create it) has certainly changed a lot on my lifetime.
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.
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.
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).
Coverage of modern wrestling? Or the older stuff?
Dave Meltzer covers the sport pretty broadly in the Wrestling Observer newsletter.
Thanks for that. And probably the older stuff, since I'd like to better understand a pre-WWF/WWE era.
That's actually so true, I refuse to consider it a "take." That's just fact.