WWF Raw Is War used to be one of my favorite shows. I was a HUGE wrestling fan. I think it's safe to say that the WWF reached its peak of popularity in 1999, and has been pretty much downhill since. The storylines are lame, the acting sucks, the matches are about 3-5 minutes (at most, with absolutely no entertainment value whatsoever) and the current announcers suck. Jim Ross, with his screaming and yelling and hype, doesn't do much to make me want to keep watching, but certainly makes me want to change the channel. And Paul Heyman? Awful. They should have done their best to hang on to Jerry Lawler. At least he provided some humorous comments, as opposed to "Ol' JR's" cardiac arrest-type yelping.
I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too intelligent to watch WWF anymore. Once you hit 17 or 18, it just starts to lose its charm. That's a shame, too, because with the kind of stuff they're putting on the air now, you'd think that's their target audience. I definitely wouldn't let a 10 year old kid watch this stuff, but that seems to be their main audience (or dim-witted young adults.) I just can't check my brain at the door these days for the WWF, I guess.
People talk about the PTC and censoring the smut the WWF airs. I disagree. How about putting a quality control on their programming so it at least stays interesting? Forget it. Expect the next 5 or so years to be a steady decline in pro wrestling's popularity, then maybe after that it will improve when they actually have people having sex in the ring.
I don't know, maybe I'm just getting too intelligent to watch WWF anymore. Once you hit 17 or 18, it just starts to lose its charm. That's a shame, too, because with the kind of stuff they're putting on the air now, you'd think that's their target audience. I definitely wouldn't let a 10 year old kid watch this stuff, but that seems to be their main audience (or dim-witted young adults.) I just can't check my brain at the door these days for the WWF, I guess.
People talk about the PTC and censoring the smut the WWF airs. I disagree. How about putting a quality control on their programming so it at least stays interesting? Forget it. Expect the next 5 or so years to be a steady decline in pro wrestling's popularity, then maybe after that it will improve when they actually have people having sex in the ring.