Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

What Do Adults See In WWE?

Options
135

Comments

  • Options
    #62
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    The Golden Era was where it was at for me. Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Jake the Snake Roberts, The Natural Disasters, original Undertaker, Legion of Doom and their massive spikes, the Harts, Shaun Michaels, Tatanka, Million Dollar Man, Hacksaaaaaaaaaw Jim Duggan, Papa Shango, even Mr. T for a while... Such good memories. Didn't like the following eras tbh. Also didn't appreciate them turn the Undertaker into a biker/rocker.

    Edit: Golden Era roster

    Died a death a bit around ‘98 or ‘99 when the WCW were poaching the likes of Hogan, Hall, Nash who led an exodus of talent to WCW. Always thought it odd that no mainstream broadcasters had WCW tv shows available here...


  • Options
    #63
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    The Golden Era was where it was at for me. Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Jake the Snake Roberts, The Natural Disasters, original Undertaker, Legion of Doom and their massive spikes, the Harts, Shaun Michaels, Tatanka, Million Dollar Man, Hacksaaaaaaaaaw Jim Duggan, Papa Shango, even Mr. T for a while... Such good memories. Didn't like the following eras tbh. Also didn't appreciate them turn the Undertaker into a biker/rocker.

    Edit: Golden Era roster

    Your missing the rock and mick foley. Also ECW was crazy!


  • Options
    #64
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Foley is a mad fuçker... I remember mankind making its debut and somebody either Jim Ross or Jerry Lawler come out with something like “ I heard a few years ago he tried to enter an ugly contest but they said ‘sorry, no professionals’ “

    Mad as a box of frogs, creepy as fûck.


  • Options
    #65
    Zak Flaps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭Zak Flaps


    McGaggs wrote: »
    Watching WWE is exactly the same as watching soaps.

    Exactly the same? I don't think so.


  • Options
    #66
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,839 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Zak Flaps wrote: »
    Exactly the same? I don't think so.

    Yeah, WWE is more entertaining.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #67
    tonycascarino
    Registered Users Posts: 1,373 ✭✭✭tonycascarino


    Strumms wrote: »

    Same lad playing both wrestlers. ;)

    I knew that.:) I was just joking as back then we were supposed to believe that the likes of Tugboat and Typhoon were completely different people.


    Anyway, the WWF/E used to be good when it had larger than life characters, who had proper storylines and who acutally lived and breathed their gimmicks. Now, the wrestlers are far too bland, are being 'humanised' and have too much of a presence on social media.


  • Options
    #68
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Rothko wrote: »
    Yeah, WWE is more entertaining.

    It's a modern day combo of gladiators and theatre.

    Sure it's fake, everyone knows it's fake, but it's no more fake than any other fight scene in a movie or on TV.


  • Options
    #69
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,728 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    It’s people that talk about the fighters storylines and fights as if they were all real. That’s what confuses me. I’m not sure if they actually believe it’s fake. Have a look at the wrestling forum. They chat away like it’s real life. I can only assume they’re adults


  • Options
    #70
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,510 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    The most interesting part of Wrestling is watching the shoot interviews from old superstars.


  • Options
    #71
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,773 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    It’s people that talk about the fighters storylines and fights as if they were all real. That’s what confuses me. I’m not sure if they actually believe it’s fake. Have a look at the wrestling forum. They chat away like it’s real life. I can only assume they’re adults

    people do the exact same thing on the TV forums


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #72
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    I thought it was mostly kids who watched its on sat morning no?


  • Options
    #73
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,406 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Zak Flaps wrote: »
    I assume they know it's fake....so what's the appeal?

    Its no different to people getting excited about story lines in fair city/eastenders/corry etc.


  • Options
    #74
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,728 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    people do the exact same thing on the TV forums

    Do they? Jesus, what’s happening to society


  • Options
    #75
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Do yerselves a favour when the whole Covid-19 situation is over. Look out for OTT Wrestling shows in Dublin, Waterford and Belfast, or Phoenix Wrestling in Cork (and sometimes Limerick) and go along with a friend or two. Cheer for the faces, boo the heels, and you'll have an unbelievable night out. These people are incredible entertainers, and the shows are infinitely more fun when you're there in the audience.


  • Options
    #76
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    tonycascarino wrote: »
    I knew that.:) I was just joking as back then we were supposed to believe that the likes of Tugboat and Typhoon were completely different people.


    Anyway, the WWF/E used to be good when it had larger than life characters, who had proper storylines and who acutally lived and breathed their gimmicks. Now, the wrestlers are far too bland, are being 'humanised' and have too much of a presence on social media.

    Yep, now it’s like there are zero characters, just the ‘man in the street angle’. Cena is even hosting and presenting shows on Nickleodean, very blandsville. Probably a lot of wrestlers using it as an attempted stepping stone to Hollywood..trying at least..


  • Options
    #77
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    As for WWE specifically, it's the biggest company on this side of the planet. They have the money to do the big production. Music, lights, videos, pyrotechnics, bigger spots, the lot. The best of the best tend to end up there (apart from some who prefer Japan) so you're usually guaranteed elite athletic performances mixed with pantomime conflict and punctuated with some decent laugh out loud moments.


  • Options
    #78
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Do they? Jesus, what’s happening to society

    Nothing, but sure what's the difference between this and other speculation on sports?

    Take the massive amount of column inches about football, GAA, MMA or whatever you have. Most of the off the pitch/ ring stuff is PR make believe.

    The rivalries and drama are mostly between the fans, not the players. Do Man U player really give a sh*t about rivalry with Man City? Not chance.
    Remember the McGregor /Mayweather stuff. They'd spend 30 mins giving each other sh*t on camera. It's all a show.


  • Options
    #79
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,810 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    And at least something is happening constantly in WWE, unlike soccer where you could wait 90 minutes and still nothing happens...


  • Options
    #80
    Strumms
    Registered Users Posts: 24,807 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    And at least something is happening constantly in WWE, unlike soccer where you could wait 90 minutes and still nothing happens...

    Soccer at least is a competitive sport. Nothing is scripted. Wrestling the outcome and result as well as the finish is scripted, rehearsed the lot. It’s more like a slightly more violent circus. Not a sport.


  • Options
    #81
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,810 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Never said it was a sport. I inferred it was more entertaining than soccer. Which it is. Because soccer is terribly painful to watch.

    Also, there's plenty of scripting in soccer. It happens when someone suffers a life altering injury but is magically perfect again a few seconds after the ref has given a free and a card. They act better than those in Fair City in fairness.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #82
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,104 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Strumms wrote: »
    Soccer at least is a competitive sport. Nothing is scripted. Wrestling the outcome and result as well as the finish is scripted, rehearsed the lot. It’s more like a slightly more violent circus. Not a sport.

    It doesn't advertise itself as sport.

    The clue is in the name. World Wrestling Entertainment. The wrestlers aren't called wrestlers. For the most part, they're "entertainers" and/or "superstars". They're not going out talking about how they could take on Khabib Nurmagomedov.


  • Options
    #83
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,728 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Padre_Pio wrote: »
    Nothing, but sure what's the difference between this and other speculation on sports?

    Other sports are just that, sports. It’s made up, fiction.


  • Options
    #84
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    Zak Flaps wrote:
    I assume they know it's fake....so what's the appeal?


    What! No it's fcuking not!


  • Options
    #85
    ThunbergsAreGo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,399 ✭✭✭✭ThunbergsAreGo


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Do yerselves a favour when the whole Covid-19 situation is over. Look out for OTT Wrestling shows in Dublin, Waterford and Belfast, or Phoenix Wrestling in Cork (and sometimes Limerick) and go along with a friend or two. Cheer for the faces, boo the heels, and you'll have an unbelievable night out. These people are incredible entertainers, and the shows are infinitely more fun when you're there in the audience.

    Been meaning to get to one of these for aaaaaages


  • Options
    #86
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,805 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    ThunbergsAreGo wrote:
    Been meaning to get to one of these for aaaaaages


    Hear they're a good laugh alright


  • Options
    #87
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Fake as it is those guys take some pounding.

    :pac:


  • Options
    #88
    SlitsK92
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭SlitsK92


    I grew up with it & never really grew out of it, I used to be very into it believing story lines etc until I was a teenager, then I started to look at it as pure Entertainment & see it no different from someone watching a TV show for their entertainment, I still enjoy it now especially the likes of Wrestlemania


  • Options
    #89
    SlitsK92
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭SlitsK92


    Zak Flaps wrote: »
    I assume they know it's fake....so what's the appeal?

    Storylines fake, sure, boxing & kicks fake too, some are very good at making it look real, but the moves, nothing fake about those, throwing each other off ladders through tables ect, pure entertainment.. many people take the piss out of it and call it all fake, I'd love to see them get in and have a go lol


  • Options
    #90
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users Posts: 12,197 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    I used to watch wrestling in my early/mid teens. Not so much in my late teens and then I discovered the joys of MMA and left wrestling behind.

    Still don't have a problem with adults watching, as others have said it's no different than watching soaps except with probably better acting.

    That said I did know a guy in his early 20s who insisted it was real and used to get really annoyed when we told him it wasn't.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #91
    paw patrol
    Registered Users Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭paw patrol


    The Bret Hart autobiography was one of the best I ever read.


Advertisement