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I have to agree with this. Now, I am not nearly as much a Bryan hater as I used to be, I still find his overratedness on the internet extremely annoying. He is solid in the ring, but not nearly the fucking messiah of pro wrestling like some make him out to be.
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^What does people overrating him have to do with his freshness? Hes definitely something new in WWE.
I am not saying that it isn't fresh (despite the Benoit type feel I get from him), but I honestly feel that more than Bryan is going to be enough to stop the WWE from being overall just pretty boring right now
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That was kinda more directed at Hotrod. But your right, WWE is going to need alot of young fresh talent to fix their entertainment and make it fresher. They have Alex Koslov, Consequences Creed, and Tyler Black all waiting in FCW though. Kaval is pretty good and Justin Gabriel has a finisher like no others.
People complaining about freshness are either ignorant, not watching the product or both. Daniel Bryan,Swagger until recently, Nexxus, Sheamus, Miz, Morrison's micro-push, Cody-McIntyre, Albert Del Rio and an entire fucking show dedicated to young, fresh talent are more than proof positive that the WWE is trying to transition into a new era with fresh talent. So what if Orton, Taker, Cena ,Edge and Kane are still on top, they have experience and have drawn money in the past and that will always be the point of the WWE's existence.
People seem to forget that there was a 7 year transition period from the Hulkamania era to the Attitude Era and the E was really short on talent that could draw legit money from 91-98 and Hart, HBK, Diesel and Taker were at best doing 60-65% of the business that Cena and co are doing now. Almost all buyrates are up, albeit slightly and sans Mania (which had to do with the lack luster card and price hike) and live event attendance is slightly better. What that means is that the E is transitioning itself with it's youth injection successfully.
People seem to forget that there was a 7 year transition period from the Hulkamania era to the Attitude Era and the E was really short on talent that could draw legit money from 91-98 and Hart, HBK, Diesel and Taker were at best doing 60-65% of the business that Cena and co are doing now. Almost all buyrates are up, albeit slightly and sans Mania (which had to do with the lack luster card and price hike) and live event attendance is slightly better. What that means is that the E is transitioning itself with it's youth injection successfully.
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I wouldn't call it ignorance. The WWE isn't doing much new now. Nexus is just another version of nWo. Del Rio is just a rip off of JBL. I wouldn't call that fresh. New wrestlers, of course they are, but they still aren't original so it doesn't make them any more interesting. Bringing back Paul Bearer, wow, how original. Even the WWE rating in general is just going back to the 80's/early 90's. It's all been done before.
As I mentioned, things like Sheamus becoming champ was great. It was fairly unexpected and made wrestling exciting again because it wasn't Cena or Orton or HHH winning for the billionth time. It was a fairly new WWE wrestler who one day was fighting on Superstars and the next day was beating John Cena.
They started something with Swagger....and then suddenly stopped. Nothing was really explained, it just ended one day.
As I mentioned, things like Sheamus becoming champ was great. It was fairly unexpected and made wrestling exciting again because it wasn't Cena or Orton or HHH winning for the billionth time. It was a fairly new WWE wrestler who one day was fighting on Superstars and the next day was beating John Cena.
They started something with Swagger....and then suddenly stopped. Nothing was really explained, it just ended one day.
The nWo were a rip off of the Horsemen and JBL was a rip off of the Million Dollar Man. Wrestling is the most cycle prone industry in entertainment and most ideas have been beaten to hell and rehashed countless times. Fresh ideas are too few and far between in wrestling and if you've watched wrestling as long as you or I have, you've basically seen everything, and realized there are not really any fresh ideas, just old ones that get fresh coats of paint.
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I completely agree.
I will say, however, that some of the directions they go are rather interesting and do have some freshness in it. I love how they started something between Christian and Del Rio (sadly ending with Christian being injured for a while). IMO, that was one of the best things going in the WWE. Nothing else really stands out to me at all. I think Bryan is overrated and incredibly boring. He made me laugh once and that was about as interested as I ever got in him (the segment where he made fun of his shitty music). The rest of it, as you know, is all the same garbage. I understand that wrestling has been on for a long time and you can't expect amazingly new ideas to come out of a program that has lasted so long (just look at how shitty the Simpsons are now) but it's just plain pathetic where they are right now, imo. I still watch it religiously but wrestling is just downright awful at the moment.
I will say, however, that some of the directions they go are rather interesting and do have some freshness in it. I love how they started something between Christian and Del Rio (sadly ending with Christian being injured for a while). IMO, that was one of the best things going in the WWE. Nothing else really stands out to me at all. I think Bryan is overrated and incredibly boring. He made me laugh once and that was about as interested as I ever got in him (the segment where he made fun of his shitty music). The rest of it, as you know, is all the same garbage. I understand that wrestling has been on for a long time and you can't expect amazingly new ideas to come out of a program that has lasted so long (just look at how shitty the Simpsons are now) but it's just plain pathetic where they are right now, imo. I still watch it religiously but wrestling is just downright awful at the moment.