Storylines vs Wrestling

[MikeRaw]

Well title says it all really?
Dont say both, just a simple answer. Which is more appealing to you when you watch wrestling... The storylines or the matches?

 

[Evil Austin]

not that i don't like the storylines but probably the matches if they are good but as of the matches they have now i would have to say the storylines lol

 

[noumenon]

Obviously the matches. If I wanted to watch a bunch of sub-par actors play out shitty stories I'de watch soap operas. Storylines should never take priority over the matches, they should simply be there to enhance them. Sadly though it's become obvious that's exactlly what WWE is hell bent on doing. Not everything needs to have some shitty story around it that will later on be completely ignored and pretended didn't happen simply for the sake of creating another stupid ass story. What ever happened to the good old days "FUCK YOU, I DON'T LIKE YOU...LETS FIGHT" The build up to matches lately is just so fucking painful to watch and hardly ever done right. For example, Rics last run.... every week he'd come out and run his floppy old mouth for 15 minutes about "WOO IM THE WOO MAN AND YOUVE GOTTA WOO BEAT THE MAN TO WOOO JET FLYING WOOO VIAGRA WOOOO CANT BE ME WOOO" as he sweat profusely and stomped on his jacket. We're not stupid, we get it. People watch wrestling to see exactlly that...WRESTLING! Sure a few short little promos are necessary to give the fight a purpose or reason but kicking off the show every week with 20 minutes worth of talking is hardly what you need to be doing on the sinking ship of quality which is WWE right now.

 

[Qwake]

Yeah the matches are awesome!! I love to see all the moves they do and come up with, I also like to see the wrestlers I hate botch moves lol. I do enjoy storylines though

 

[Kaedon]

Storylines and drama are the lifeblood of wrestling. Without it, it would not be anywhere NEAR what it is right now. It has to do with relate ability. No one can relate to the moves done in a match so the drama of student taking over the teacher or asshole boss and blue collar worker takes over.

 

[Montana]

Storylines and drama are the lifeblood of wrestling. Without it, it would not be anywhere NEAR what it is right now. It has to do with relate ability. No one can relate to the moves done in a match so the drama of student taking over the teacher or asshole boss and blue collar worker takes over.

Good Topic and i agree.

Wrestling is a given. It should always be good. Storylines are like variables, and what takes good wrestling to great epic wrestling. I certainly don't want to watch 1 hour of promos, but storylines are needed to care about the wrestlers. If there was no storylines, it would be like watching amatuer wrestling.

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

I personally prefer the matches. But let's look at what certain companies give, and who the casual viewer goes for.

ROH: Way more wrestling orientated, not really a huge amount of storylines, but they always try to put out the best wrestling possible

WWE: Match quality isn't a priority, but characters and storylines are with guys like JBL at the top, as well as storylines involving Hornswaggle. WWE even used storylines to hit it big with the first WM, by using a celebrity like Mr T.

And who does the casual viewer choose? WWE. The storylines and characters make or a larger than life feel that children and adults can get into, where as only certain people can get into the ROH wrestling aspect.

 

[Bigfella]

Thing of Japan Wrestlers. Wrestlers walk out. Shake hands. Compete in Great match. Shake Hands. Leave!

No farkin 8 minute video hyping the match, especially when the match is shit!

 

[THE Brian Kendrick's Biceps]

Thing of Japan Wrestlers. Wrestlers walk out. Shake hands. Compete in Great match. Shake Hands. Leave!

No farkin 8 minute video hyping the match, especially when the match is shit!

Yes, but in a mainstream market, what will be more successful, NOAH or WWE? I'm pretty sure you know the answer to that.

 

[the dark knight]

im gonna say this for the last time, if you really watch wrestling for the WRESTLING itself, you're a flaming homosexual.

edit-

im not joking btw...

 

[The Showstopper]

Just the wrestling would get boring. Story lines are allways interesting and wrestling would suck without the story lines.

 

[Kaedon]

Thing of Japan Wrestlers. Wrestlers walk out. Shake hands. Compete in Great match. Shake Hands. Leave!

No farkin 8 minute video hyping the match, especially when the match is shit!

Japan is not America. Plus, a lot of Japanese wrestling is almost a shoot so its almost a different monster over there.

 

[Airfixx]

The wrestling itself needs to up to scratch for me to truly enjoy an event, but I can honsetly say I wouldn't be still watching wrestling if it wasn't for the storylines... (Not that I'd choose to, but ya may as well watch MMA otherwise). It'd just be like watching the same handfull of people play out the same match with the same moveset week after week otherwise...


Lets face it, if it wasn't for storylines and character development you wouldn't see the likes of Taker, HBK, HHH and such clocking up 10 - 15 year at the top. No matter how good they are the fans would eventually get bored of them.

 

[The Rated R CMStar]

Storylines, hands down. Let me tell you an example of how storylines make wrestling oh so much better.

Andre The Giant vs Hogan. Was it a good match? Hell no. But it is arguably one of the most talked main events in history, it will always be remember.

Big Show vs Hogan at Memphis Wrestling: Yeah, this match happened. I am just reminding you as you probably forgot about it already. Now tell me, what was different from this match and Hogan vs Giant, hey, in this match Hogan also slammed The Big Show...

I'll tell you the difference. Giant and Hogan had a massive storyline behind their match, and that storyline by itself managed to took a mediocre match and made it the most remembered main event arguably in history.


Also, if I would want to see men pretending to fight just for the fact of watching them pretend to fight, it seems very stupid.

 

[kingovkings]

I gotta agree Storylines, without storylines wrestling wouldn't be what it is. You need a good storyline to sell and hype the match so it kinda goes hand in hand i dont think i could sit and watch a match just for the wrestling with out storylines or promo's.