WWE's camera work is horrendous. It makes it really hard to watch. But I guess they have to find a way to compensate for the fact that nobody in the company can throw a decent punch.

I've been watching 92/93 wcw and 96/97 wwf lately and the quality of the promos / stories / and matches is so much higher. The current product is garbage in comparison. It's like an acrobatics performance a lot of the time.

anybody have thoughts on the new cody rhodes promotion?

i hope it succeeds. whether i watch or not will be something else entirely.

i don’t watch or really follow wrestling anymore, but i think there needs to be good competition for wwe

Competition is good. No doubt about it. When it comes to ability and putting on matches, both ROH and NJPW have had great shows and matches. NJPW is also number one in their primary market. I may be alone in this, but I think TNA (now Impact) has even had the best product at times, especially around the turn of the decade.

However, we all know nothing can touch the WWE, at least not since the 90s with WCW.

For AEW to really succeed, they have to become a lot bigger than ROH and NJPW in the US. Impact now is the smallest of the three in all ways, but TNA did use to pull some really good numbers. If AEW can match the numbers from TNA in their prime, that would be a really good start. To do that they need a really good tv deal, and more high profile names. Randy Orton is far from my favorite, but he would be the kind of big name that could put AEW on the map in a major way.

It's still a long road ahead though. Have to establish that you can book well, produce quality, stay consistent, not have financial problems, hang onto wrestlers, stay true to the product, have interesting concepts.

god i loved wcw

I've really come around on old wcw. Their 90s stuff, pre hogan, is really fantastic. After Hogan gets their it really goes to shit, but they had some great years with Dustin Rhodes, Austin, Foley, Rick Rude, Flair... Etc.

i love the hogan/nwo years

After his heel turn he's a lot more tolerable, but there are a few years before that where WCW turns into WWF light and it's really crap

But I've never been liked hogan. Even if when I was a kid I wanted to see sid justice beat the shit out of him.

I do too. Hogan/NWO was pure entertainment.

ah yeah, i didn’t watch a lot of that era...just whenever nitro first aired

i just wish they had treated their mid-card better...so much talent

I bet you wanted to b*ng Lex Luger

yeah so

Hulk Hogan wouldn't approve of your lifestyle

he sucked me off in 1992

god i love that gif

I really hope AEW is a success but it feels like JCP in the late 80s spending money like drunken sailors.

I do feel their mere existence has already been a huge positive for wrestling.