Lets get ready to rrrrrummmbbbllle again...and again...and

I apologize ahead of time for I will most liked jump tracks of thought on this subject Whoooooooo!!

I miss old school wrasslin. Back in the day when the wrasslers would defend to the, sometimes violent, end that its all real and none of its staged. Back when (I am going to get a bit of Nostalgia on here) Pay per views truely meant something. I mean seriously one every month while gets the wrasslin fan in a frenzy does tend to get a little stale. I remember the first Wrestlemania. Man that was a night, It was a wrestling event on the scale we had not seen before and it showed just how profitable cable tv could be. What really got me was the build up. The stories got deeper , the rivalries more bitter, and the championships alot sweeter. Once Wrestlemania took off they knew they had a winning formula and were able to build stories for the whole year to the next wrestlemania. It was something special, Nowadays not so much. Sorry but they aren't at least they weren't when I was watching the WCW and all. Thats another thing that bugs well bugged me about both houses of wrestling. Championship titles were passed around more than a drunkin cheerleader at a frat party.
Old school they had the championship belt held on to for much longer and wrestlers "earned" their right for a shot at the belt. Though we rarely saw the tree of contenders, the organizations played a lot better at there actually being a tree at all. Course when talking old school wrasslin and championships we have to mention Hulk Hogan. IN his Hey day he was truely a marketers dream, he held the title for what seemed like forever and you were happy he did...for the most part. In reality I think people really started to see wrestling as more of a structured show than a competition. Hulk is really not the greatest wrestler BUT he was able to work a mic and a crowd. With his wild eyes and the "24 inch Pythons" and his take your vitamins, say your prayers, listen to your mom and dad" he was definitely a character that helped carry the franchise. HE was definitely a popular product. So were the payper views. So much they started coming out with others that , at least had schticks to them like the Royal Rumble which ended with a main event where you saw all your faves beat the snot out of each other and also take bets on when the ring was going to break from the weight. Survivor Series where you had "teams" of your fave bad guys and good guys who did an elimination type of competition. etc...but soon as they got more and more frequent so did the championship changes and the story lines not as deep. In the end I think the pay per view kind of killed its self in its special meaning. At least to me and thats the bottom line cause Crazyboy said so....

ok that was bad sorry...especially since I have now sprayed beer all over the computer.

Sorry where was I oh yes.
I was going to end it there but I wanted to add something. I truely enjoyed the whole New World Order (NWO) the originals ,,,If I remember right and I could be wrong I believe it was Ted Debiase who started it. But they did this whole elaborate presentation and it worked. This rebel group of bad boy wrestlers, a third party who picked on any one heel or face who was not part of the New World Order. Again here they went over board when factions of NWO came out and soon every wrestler was in some altered version of the NWO...the Latin wrestlers had their NWO and then the wolf Pack. I did enjoy the wolf pack though. They were decent wrestlers and you just loved to hate them.
Not a lot of wrestlers could pull that off well. One that always came to mind was "Hot Rod" Roddy Piper. The crazyman who you never knew where he stood but didn't really care. He had that charisma and that crazy schtick down pat. He seem not to care who he ticked off and he would get a pop no matter who he was fightin.
The guys in the ring weren't the only hated ones we loved. Lets talk managers, The mouth of the south and the Brain. Lets face it when it came to managers Bobby the Brain was just a guy you loved to watch. He made you love to hate him and hate that you loved him. Jimmy hart was just a guy you loved watching get the snot beat out of him and he played it to a T. He really had the geek getting beat down by the athlete down well and lets face it anyone with a Mega phone deserves to be beat down.
Other mangers that were great in the older days. Mr. Saito (sic) and The Dr of Style Slick helped as well. Managers were great because unlike today, most managers were somewhat normal looking guys. They sometimes were "former" wrestlers but never usually appeared as physically fit as the guys they represented. They were really fun and helped add another level to the game.
Final random thoughts on wrestling are about announcers. Lets face it Mean Gene, Jesse the Body and Gorilla monsoon just were dream team announcers. Then throw the guest announcing of Bobby the Brain in the mix. Man they really helped sell the show and also made some stale matches entertaining as hell. I miss those days. Since the cat was truely out of the bag about wrestling it seems its alot more show and less actual wrestling. Course there can never be enough bra and panty matches.

INDEED.