Was wrestling really cooler in the 90s??
Yeah. That's back when your #1 guy could just be a psychotic heroin addict with a Ministry shirt.
>>19899328Raven was dimes, somehow he even got over in wcw
Bump
>>19899304Honestly? Most things were cooler in the 90's.
>>19899304yes it actually was. it was also ridiculous and embarassing at times but much more enjoyable. they did a better job of preserving the mystery, for one thing. these wrestlers weren't constantly posting on social media, so our main source of information was magazines and dirtsheets. the internet existed but was pretty limited, so there wasn't a lot of info there. this allowed people to fill in the blank areas with their own imagination.
>>19899304no. ECW was just the Attitude version of AEW
>>19899412How did it get so bad?
>>19899434Sounds great actually
>>19899435society became pussified. the good times created weak people, and weak people are easily offended. now most entertainment has become shit because people are scared and boring.
>>19899455How did someone like Vince even lose his balls? Dude turned wwe into Disney after like 2010
>>19899566chris benoit happened
>>19899610I mean Weinstein happened too and you didnt see Hollywood soften up.
>>19899434thats true, 3rd biggest promotion & can't make a profit
>>19899304Fraid so
>>19899435Late stage capitalism. The end goal is always to maximize profits, and what better way than to give the product the widest appeal, which includes families and non fans
>>19899678why friend?
>>19899566I think he never wanted to do the attitude era. I think vince made the content a little more edgy to keep up with current trends at the time, and it was just a means to an end.
>>19899363Raven even got his own JCW event named after him in the 2000s titled "Raven's Revenge?"
>>19901017Kek
>>19899304not sure if you found this after I made that post in the other thread about wrestling magazines on Archive.If anyone is interested in accessing probably a few thousand wrestling magazine scans for free just search things on archive like "wrestling magazine 1997" or whatever year, a wrestler's or promotion name and the word "magazine", magazine name, even organized by publisher too. Here's a link for one of them as an example>https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22G.C.+London+Publishing+Corp.%22there's all sorts of kino if anyone wants to look at mags from the 1960s-2000s
>>19899304>Kimona and Beulah
>>19899434>no>but actually, yes
>>19899304I remember seeing one of these as a kid before I was into wrestling and it scared me because I thought these were pictures of real murders.
>>19901680kekI went to an indy (IWCCW) show in a tent one time in the early 90s and there was a midge wrestler called Frankie "Third Degree" Burns who was a bad guy and he came out with a torch and spit fire. He threatened to light me on fire and I thought he was really going to and got scared desu.
>>19901693Johnny Webb was much shorter than Moxley, pretty sure they couldn't be the same person.
>>19899304kek
>>19901658thanks! I am going to make myself a huge library of old rasslin magazines now.
Wrestling was always for losers and edgy teens. Even back in the 90s. It was a giant meme that died in 2001.
>>19899304>$12.94 in the 90s for this.Fucking what? Porn didnt even cost that much
>>19904068At the bottom it says "USA 3.99"
>>19899434sounds based TK should copy that
>>19899304Tommy rich and Tracey smothers doing the full blooded Italians act was fucking hilarious
when did things change? 9/11?
