Originally Posted by The_don1:
“So because you want to do something everyone else should?
I would have thought by now you would have stopped obsessing and following every word that some random person who has not been relevant for 20 years said, Are you better off for doing so? Or is that not hours of your life wasted?
Attending any live event nowadays cost money.People are more willing to spend money going to a event then they might have done in the past, Much like binge watch is now popular in 2016.
People are not watching "staged fights" they are watching a entertainment show how the entertainment is formed is down to the persons taste, It might be watching random people go clubbing getting drunk and having sex, It might be watching "famous" people sit in a house or a jungle, It might be "famous" people leaning to dance, It might be watching zombie's eat people etc etc etc.
You are not 40 yet? That is a surprise I have to say as by your posts I would have put your age older but today people around 40 are getting more and more social time and can enjoy watching their ideas of entertainment in so many different ways on their phones,Laptops tablets etc, Quite often I see people walking to work while watching something on their phones or tablets.
People today multi-task and do many things are once, They go places and can still enjoy going somewhere while at the same time watching something they enjoy.
Entertainment is very much something you can do on the go nowadays.”
You said he's not relevant, he's the only writer that has worked for all the major wrestling companies. No one else has done that. No one else has done that job in WWE, WCW and TNA and he's been gainfully employed for nearly 25 years doing that same job. So when you say he's not relevant, you would have to explain how he managed to do that job for over 20 years. That's one thing the dirtsheets have against him. Even the almighty Dave Meltzer has never worked for any wrestling company, he's never been in a dressing room. Russo talks often about being in there when the wrestlers are having their shower, talking about their promos, their matches, there was no place he couldn't go.
These are things that every dirtsheet writer wishes they could do but can't do. All they can do is rely on second hand information. It's fairytales. It's make believe just like the business. Only a moron would read a dirtsheet and believe what they say because they don't know anything. They've never worked in the business, never will work in the business.
He's also doing over 250,000 downloads a week on Podcast One, not including his own paid subscriptions thanks to Steve Austin and I know he's good friends with Chris Jericho who is also on there. If he wasn't relevant they would not be endorsing him and helping him, same with Shawn Michaels and Ric Flair, Russo is great friends with them also. Jim Cornette tried to twist things recently about Dutch Mantell and Dan Severn and many months ago Vader. Russo just did an interview with Dan Severn where there were no issues, he even asked him about Cornette saying he ruined his career and Severn rubbished it, he has been friends with Dutch since TNA and recently was on the phone with him for 4 hours and Vader lives in Boulder Colorado where Russo also lives about half an hour from his house and sees him regularly. I would have thought for someone that was irrelevant and hated all these people woulda said something. Russo is friends with everyone but you obviously believe what the dirtsheets tell you. If anything it shows you how easy the fans are to manipulate.
I will not question people watching on their tablets or phones or computers, that is their choice. It's not how I would watch any program or film. Look at Sky and cable. People can now have all those channels and a whole lot more in their living room without any dishes stuck to their wall or cables in their house. I think as time goes on the times of people paying £40 a month to watch TV when they realise a little box and their internet connection can do the same thing will be a major game changer. I know it's all over the UK just now, I don't know how it is in America. Even the Amazon Firesticks and Roku sticks do it and you seen Black Friday there, nearly every TV there was SMART. Forget about it. When more and more people realise what those little sticks and apps can do on their TV, it's over with. I honestly don't see how Sky or Virgin Media can compete with it let alone stop it and more and more people seem to be cottoning onto it and do you know what I notice more and more? It's the football. The way I find most people know about it is the football, my team's game isn't on TV so i need to go on here and watch it this way. It's live sport. I can only imagine their reaction when they see every channel on there that they could ever want. Wrestling however is different here because of the time it is on.
As long as people are paying for the tickets they can keep putting them up. I know back in 2002 that when I first went to a WWE show that £50 was the best seats. Now you can pay £350 for front row and get a chair and merchandise and meet a few wrestlers, you would really need to be a super fan to do it. I can only speak for where i I live, it might be different everywhere else but know here most just can't do it, it's too much when you need an adult to go with the kids, no way a family could do it for under £100. Especially in November just before Christmas infact I could imagine for many kids that is their Christmas present or part of it. What should be a night out and a chance for the family to enjoy a live entertainment show ends up being all about money, it ends up being most people just can't afford to go and by the time the kids are olde rmost have grown out of it anyway. I imagine most kids could be in a wrestling phase and the WWE doing shows local to them and them never having experienced it then when they turn 12 and their forced to grow up and go to secondary school and of course it's forced out of you pretty much unless you want made fun of, those kids will have never known what it's really like. I can only compare it to other travelling shows like the X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing. I don't know what the prices are for those shows but I imagine most families would be the same way, they watch it on TV, they like the dancing or the singing and you want to go see it in person and you want to see the celebs in person. When you have seats at £95 that's just too much. There's people that get less than to keep them all week, pay for their food and electricity and their bills. I imagine many that also work will be the same, they maybe just can't afford it once their bills are paid and rent's paid. I think anybody should be able to see whatever show or sport they want. It should be affordable for everybody.