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would come out and possibly do something. Raw Live Threads used to be FILLED with different SA smilies for each wrestler. The Era of 
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Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. It's pig piss. Drink it up
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Dango Bango posted:What do my knuckles say? Slom Lore for the Slum Lord
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. Didn't Roman vs Cody on Sunday night just change their LED boards around the ring to just cycle through adverts? Like a goddamn soccer game only without Emirates flashing every other time.
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. seriously i know americans are incredibly stupid but WWE being popular makes no sense to me at all lol. have they just successfully transplanted their cult workplace culture onto their core audience or something which explains all the fervor? i don't get it
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. is this your first mania because they've all been like this
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. And then they use all that money to pay off Vince! Pope Corky the IX posted:gently caress you for reminding me this song exists. You got your Mama's smile but you're yesterdays child
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NienNunb posted:When I was a kid I thought Jaded by Aerosmith was one of the big, historically important songs. hmm. wanted it to be?
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Joey McChrist posted:anytime i got to see greg valentine sell was a good time Greg Valentine looks like Ric Flair's angry lesbian sister.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Name a good match from the first ten years of Wrestlemania that didn't include Bret or Savage. Mr Perfect v Blue Blazer at WM5
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Critical posted:Mr Perfect v Blue Blazer at WM5 Really? It's been a while but I remember that being underwhelming considering the participants.
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Orange Carlisle posted:is this your first mania because they've all been like this Wrong! When I stopped watching around WM 31 it was one night. There were no ads on the ring, curtains, or even on wrestlers. There certainly wasn't one that had 40 minutes between matches. This is a natural progression of WWE
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Name a good match from the first ten years of Wrestlemania that didn't include Bret or Savage. Shawn v Razor? Good question though. I’m struggling to think of anything else. Did the rockers have any good matches at mania?
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Alan_Shore posted:There were no ads on the ring, curtains, or even on wrestlers. How quickly we forget Brock's Jimmy Johns shorts...
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britishbornandbread posted:Shawn v Razor? Good question though. I’m struggling to think of anything else. Did the rockers have any good matches at mania? I forgot that one was Wrestlemania X, so yeah, I would amend it to Savage, Bret, and Shawn.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Really? It's been a while but I remember that being underwhelming considering the participants. it was shortish but no one was flipping out of hiptosses and doing crucifix pins back then so it stuck in my child mind as amazing. probably less so now considering the modern style.
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Alan_Shore posted:Wrestlemania makes perfect sense when you realise the goal isn't to put on the best show and make fans happy. WWE knows they have their shills that will eat up any slop (look at this thread). No, Wrestlemania is simply there to make as much money as possible. Adverts everywhere, product placements galore, celebs every 15 minutes. Alan_Shore posted:Wrong! When I stopped watching around WM 31 it was one night. There were no ads on the ring, curtains, or even on wrestlers. There certainly wasn't one that had 40 minutes between matches. This is a natural progression of WWE most of the time the celebrities were the advertisements - they were only there to promote whatever they had going on at the time clear back to some of the first wrestlemanias and they didn't give a poo poo about wrestling just like they don't now when they show up on raw or smackdown there were definitely product placements involved when they could get them in the 90's and early 2000's and absolutely as many celebrity appearances as they could possibly stuff into the shows from the start because vince has always wanted nothing more to make money and have mainstream acceptance but most of the time the celebs were shilling something or had a big movie/show/album out at the time or were celebs nobody but vince has cared about for decades acting like mania was this sacred ground previously is something - you should probably go back and watch a few before committing to that hill though Orange Carlisle fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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JUNGLE BOY posted:by wrestlemania standards it seemed pretty good 39 was excellent. Some of the best match quality overall I've seen in a WrestleMania. As Meltzer said at the time it's the closest they've been to running a Tokyo Dome style Mania. As for my opinion on WrestleMania 40 I thought Night One was a real stinker and thought Night 2 was great so that evens out to a good WrestleMania to me.
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Orange Carlisle posted:most of the time the celebrities were the advertisements - they were only there to promote whatever they had going on at the time clear back to some of the first wrestlemanias and they didn't give a poo poo about wrestling just like they don't now when they show up on raw or smackdown Yeah the actual ads aren’t even the problem with me. I never minded the ad placement on wcw rings or whatever. It’s that every inch of space during mania is taken up by ads. And after the match well here’s 20 minutes of commercials and then more ads. La knight is coming to the ring? Here’s a big ad for slim Jim. Here’s a guy in a prime bottle. Here’s the prime cart at ringside. It’s like gently caress man let’s just chill it.
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The_Rob posted:Yeah the actual ads aren’t even the problem with me. I never minded the ad placement on wcw rings or whatever. It’s that every inch of space during mania is taken up by ads. And after the match well here’s 20 minutes of commercials and then more ads. La knight is coming to the ring? Here’s a big ad for slim Jim. Here’s a guy in a prime bottle. Here’s the prime cart at ringside. It’s like gently caress man let’s just chill it. might as well be an arena full of shareholders - it'll get worse before it gets better those profits have to go up each quarter forever watching clips with ads flashing across the ring for dude wipes was so funny that I couldn't even be mad at it and the whole visual is going to age so terribly the dynamic fastener guy needs to start dumping money into wwe and the mma aesthetic will be complete
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The ads were actually toned down this year. At WrestleMania 39 all the guard rail ads were animated. This year they were just static images.
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Hedgehog Pie posted:I'm probably a bit of an outlier on this forum as I love wrestling for the panto bollocks in addition to the athleticism and physicality, but a show is even better if good workers (of which WWE has many!) are allowed to be creative with the actual matches and show off their skills. Not that much of an outlier in the one TJPW > Stardom forum. It's just that WWE (and indeed many other promotions!) does the panto very very badly.
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The_Rob posted:Wrestlemania used to be a tight 3 to 4 hour show and is now about 12 hours spread over two nights and covered from head to toe in ads, and all the matches still seem to way too short. I’m always baffled how anyone can say this is a top mania even grading on a curve. its weird. people are raving about night 2 and while I thought it was perfectly fine, I dont feel any match really exceeded what I would consider a good tv match. might just be spoiled
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Ringo Roadagain posted:its weird. people are raving about night 2 and while I thought it was perfectly fine, I dont feel any match really exceeded what I would consider a good tv match. might just be spoiled Yeah that’s where I’m at too. None of the matches were bad or anything, but none of them were really good either. Just bog standard wwe matches.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Can’t believe the drat entertainment company is trying to make money , they should instead put out a game that nobody buys and tank their attendance with awful booking They're trying, but their fans keep calling it CINEMA.
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Kvantum posted:Now all Nakamura really does is collect a large paycheck and go surfing on his days off. Otherwise, he's past really... well, caring. Then why does Paul "Triple H" Levesque want him?
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Ringo Roadagain posted:its weird. people are raving about night 2 and while I thought it was perfectly fine, I dont feel any match really exceeded what I would consider a good tv match. might just be spoiled I'd say the US Title three way was a bit above that, but that's all.
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