I loved professional-wrestling as a kid. I loved watching WWF/E RAW every Monday night. I would go to the shows, play the video games, and watch the product on television religiously whenever it came on. I even went to Wrestlemania 24 and 25! I eventually grew out of my fanatical following of wrestling and that happened when I got in high school. Since I have started this school year I have a roomate who is really into wrestling, still at the age of 20. He watches it more religously now, than I did way back then. And I have been in the room when he was watching it before and it strikes me how different of a product it is.
The same superstars I grew up admiring and cheering for don't wrestle anymore- with the exception of a few. Professional wrestling had SUPERSTARS years ago, real stars. Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, etc. Now all they have is John Cena and Randy Orton... There are no huge stars anymore. In the 90s with WWF and WCW wrestling had Superstars, then stars, then average guys- the current product is just a couple of stars and an array of average guys. Last night my roomate watched Wrestlemania and I caught some of it and a few of the wrestlers I recognized made appearances and they received huge reactions... the company's current stars wouldn't ever get this same reaction. The WWE developed characters that pushed the envelope in the 90s, and they have struggled to do so since.
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I LOVED the WWF days when I was a kid, and so did everyone else. It was so theatrical! A boy in my 4th grade class used to sing Shawn Michaels' "Sexy Boy" intro on a daily basis.
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