Originally Posted by FMKK:
“That wrestling is fundamentally broken because there is such a huge divergence between the crowds and the stories being told. Can you imagine how bizarre and confusing that would have been for someone watching for the first time or something? It means wrestling is kinda confined to the people who are already into it and that the only people who can get over are certain types who are judged to 'deserve it.' The championship isn't about winning and being the best, it's a reward for paying dues and being in the indies/NXT/New Japan.
Meltzer makes a good analogy that a good booker gives the fans what they want and a great booker manipulates the fans into wanting what he intends to give him. A radica rethink is required to get back to the scenario where Vince McMahon or whoever can do that.”
“That wrestling is fundamentally broken because there is such a huge divergence between the crowds and the stories being told. Can you imagine how bizarre and confusing that would have been for someone watching for the first time or something? It means wrestling is kinda confined to the people who are already into it and that the only people who can get over are certain types who are judged to 'deserve it.' The championship isn't about winning and being the best, it's a reward for paying dues and being in the indies/NXT/New Japan.
Meltzer makes a good analogy that a good booker gives the fans what they want and a great booker manipulates the fans into wanting what he intends to give him. A radica rethink is required to get back to the scenario where Vince McMahon or whoever can do that.”
Agree on that first sentence there is a huge disconnect. But maybe fans have changed and react differently to how they did before and at that point surely it's up to TPTB to adapt accordingly. I just don't get the idea that the fans are 'wrong' - they are the paying customers at the end of the day.
I get the arugment that the likes of Zayn/Bayley are 'pure' wrestling characters and in the end if only all other superstars are like them then it'd be fans cheering good guys, booing bad guys. But then it works with them because they're Zayn and Bayley and other superstars on the roster aren't like them - if you had a roster full of Zayns it'd dilute his impact.
And on the 'indies/NXT/New Japan' point I'll just over the counterargument that Ziggler got a huge reaction on winning the World Title and he had little to no indy history.
The idea that fans will chant for superstars just due to their pre-main roster history too strikers me as a false one too.




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