Who do you think deserves the most blame for the decline of wrestling's popularity?

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The day the Brooklyn Brawler retired, is the day wrestling died.
 
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Besides superhero movies.....what is universally successful across the board?

Music, tv, movies...I'd say literature but nobody is reading these days either.....are all fragmented and nothing is ubiquitous like something in the 80s, 90s and 00s.

Also I never said "orange man bad"....you just saw the word orange and went on the defensive.....talk about being programmed.

Not a single thing has ever been universally successful. That would imply that every single person loves it. There's a lot of room between universal and niche though.

TV is doing just fine with shows like The Mandalorian and The Witcher setting all sorts of viewership records. Movies are making more money than ever before. As for music, there are too many ways to listen to it for free so you can't expect as many people to be buying albums in 2020 compared to 20+ years ago. Pop, country and rap are all as popular as ever today. Rock is definitely niche now.

Wrestling was ingrained into pop culture for decades. Even people who didn't like it could recognize who the stars were. Wrestling having no real mainstream stars in an era where almost anyone can become a celebrity is just sad. Just take your boy for example. How the hell can he main event 4 WM's, beat cancer, be related to the biggest star in Hollywood and still be a complete nobody in the public eye?

(Here's a hint: he sucks)
 
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There's no numbers available for streams.....fuck outta here with that.

Pro wrestling was only mainstream on 3 seperate occasions in the 20th century. And it would add up to about ten years.

When TV became widely available, Hulkamania and Monday night wars era.

It's hilarious to act like it was ingratiated into the culture like Hulk Hogan was on Muhammad Ali levels.

So stuck in the rasslin bubble.....face the facts, pro wrestling was always looked down upon by the mainstream public since the 70s.

It's also hilarious that you feel the need to attack Roman Reigns just because he's my av.

Really shows how much water your bullshit argument has.

Orange man not bad btw....just milking you rubes like a grifter at a carnival.
 
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Roman doesn't suck. He was also a hell of a football player. Georgia tech was actually good when he was there.
 
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There's no numbers available for streams.....fuck outta here with that.

Pro wrestling was only mainstream on 3 seperate occasions in the 20th century. And it would add up to about ten years.

When TV became widely available, Hulkamania and Monday night wars era.

It's hilarious to act like it was ingratiated into the culture like Hulk Hogan was on Muhammad Ali levels.

So stuck in the rasslin bubble.....face the facts, pro wrestling was always looked down upon by the mainstream public since the 70s.

It's also hilarious that you feel the need to attack Roman Reigns just because he's my av.

Really shows how much water your bullshit argument has.

Orange man not bad btw....just milking you rubes like a grifter at a carnival.

Wrestling was mainstream up until the last decade. It obviously had eras that were more popular than others but it was still mainstream after the MNW ended. Everyone knows who Cena, Batista and Orton are. Not a single soul who doesn't follow wrestling could tell you who Reigns or Rollins are.

You're just coming across as bitter because "big dog" is the face of the era that saw wrestling lose all mainstream relevance.

Also, you're from Canada so your opinion on the US President means absolutely nothing. Not that you appear to know anything about his presidency anyway since you can't come up with anything to say about him except calling him orange. You probably watch CNN all day and thought his impeachment actually meant something :maury

Looking forward to 4 more years of this great economy, and 4 more years of NPC's calling Trump a racist while being the racist ones themselves making jokes about the man's skin color.
 

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RKO outta nowhere is a viral meme. Can't say the same about the superman punch.
 

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Viral meme.....right up there with such mainstream stars like scumbag Steve, success kid and distracted boyfriend..... :MJ:
 

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All bigger stars than the man who main evented 4 WM's in a row :Orton3:
 

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Ooooh your dig really hurts :heston

Doesn't stop you from being wrong.

Viral meme is par with RDJ 8D
 
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All of Roman Reigns' WM Main Event matches were a hell of a lot better than the crap of a main event they put out this past WM. Facts.
 

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Well this has been fun and gotten way past the point of the thread. So yeah. Stick to the political thread for politics talk.