^^^As soon as I can I'll rep you for that!! I watched MSG in high school and I know EXACTLY what you're talking about.
Clash of the Champions was the fuckin shit!! Truth- I grew up poor and that stuff used to make my day. Bischoff had a great idea to run ppv's every month to fight WWF. That's over now. With the economy sucking and the State of NC raising my health coverage, I need all the free wrestling I can get!!
I grew up poor too, but one of the best things my family got was a hot box in the mid 80's. That saved a lot of money, especially since pretty much all of my extended family had one, as they said in Brooklyn at the time "it fell off the back of a truck". I asked my uncle about where he got my cousins' a Nintendo when they first came out & that was his response. As a kid I didn't get to watch a lot of NWA, it was regarded as fat hillbillies rolling around in a ring in the NY area, which was a slur probably started by Vince.
With file trading & video sites its just more convenient to watch them a day later if you hear a match was good, rather than watch an entire show that wasn't that good to view one or two standout matches. The cost of PPVs keeps inflating, while the cost of living keeps rising, I'm sure its making some people have to choose between their entertainment or a grocery trip. Its a shame that a lot of bars don't carry wrestling PPVs anymore, it was a good alternative to buying a PPV yourself. During the Attitude era they did good business & I remember some bars even advertising that they were showing the WWF PPV. WWE really should lower their PPV costs, add more sponsors to split some of the cost. Their prices are impervious to economic trouble & just keep on going up, while show quality keeps going down. I was thinking of ordering Wrestlemania, but after the bloodless Hell in a Cell matches I changed my opinion. I think I made the right call, there is no heat at all with this show & probably the worst PPV build I've ever seen.
