Pro Wrestling Power

This post will be just what the title says it is: A post, or rant should I say, to piss off the average Internet Wrestling Community know-it-all moron.  Keep in mind, everything written here is truth, no matter how hard it is for you to accept. So let’s get right into the fun:

1. Hulk Hogan>Chris Benoit

Actually, let me do that over. Hulk Hogan>>>>>>>>>>>>Chris Benoit

This one is not even disputable. You’re a moron if you think otherwise. This doesn’t even take into account that Chris Benoit was a sick, twisted, disgusting human being that killed his own family and himself. I’m just talking about the wrestler here. Hogan is infinitely better in all the areas that matter. Benoit had no charisma and is perhaps the most overrated wrestler in history.

2. Hulk Hogan>Your favorite wrestler

The only possible argument I’d take here is from Ric Flair fans. But arguing for anyone else is just being ridiculous. Stop weighing meaningless things like “workrate” and “technical ability” and start looking at things that matter like popularity, ability to draw and charisma. Whether you like it or not, these guys are actors in a fake sport, and it’s not how athletic they are or how good they are as legitimate amateur wrestlers, it’s how much they can capture the imagination of an audience. No one did that better than Hogan.

3. The end of Wrestlemania 20 was the worst ending to any wrestling event ever

To have a Wrestlemania go off the air with two WCW midget mid carders embracing as they held two world titles (which is asinine enough in its own right) is just down right pathetic. These guys should have opened the show or maybe been in some meaningless tag match as the third or fourth match on the card. Eddie Guererro and Chris Benoit were NEVER main event material. That’s right. Deal with it. Combine this terrible ending with the Brock Lesnar vs. Goldberg debacle and all the other things that went on at this show, and you have what I consider to be the most disappointing and underwhelming wrestling show in history. If I were to rank all of the Wrestlemanias, 20 would definitely be in my bottom five.

4. You can’t book for WWE or TNA

While you may have some good ideas from time to time, as this is bound to happen just by the sheer fact that you spend all day talking about this stuff, you are not writer or booker material. I’ve said it before in one of my posts, but if the IWC were to run the creative department of the WWE, it would be out of business in six months. Your only audience would be other 18-30 “technical wrestling” fans, or in other words Internet rumor mill fans, and that would mean the other 90% of wrestling fans would be turned away by a boring, terrible product. I’d rather have these awful TV writers or a 12 year old kid in the third row at a WWE event book the show than the 29 year old hardcore fan that thinks only cruiserweights and “mat technicians” should main event pay per views.

5. 1980′s and early 90′s WWF> Attitude Era

The attitude era was a cool time to be a fan. There was a lot of quality stuff going on. But I don’t care if you’re not old enough to remember the real golden age of wrestling, from 1984-1992, but it was much much better than any other era of wrestling in history, including 98-01. Speaking of eras in wrestling history…

6. The WWF new generation era (1993-1997) was freaking terrible

This is for guys like Scott Keith, who thinks that wrestling started to get good in the mid 90′s and like that was some golden era for the industry. The WWE almost died in mid 1997 for a reason. It’s because the previous five years SUCKED. Hulk Hogan left and it all went to hell until Steve Austin became very popular in late 1997. Hey don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Undertaker, but outside of those three guys, the WWF had NOTHING. They were a joke, their storylines were crap, their talent roster by and large had no talent, and they were way behind the times. This was not a golden era. This was quite possibly the worst era in the history of pro wrestling, including the extremely dull and boring post attitude era that we’re currently in (2002-2010).

And don’t think I’m letting WCW off the hook for this time period either. They were just as bad if not worse. Actually, in the entire history of the company, the WCW’s only quality programming occurred from mid 1996 until mid 1998. Everything else was pretty much garbage. If you got hooked on wrestling somewhere between 1993 and 1997 and this is your personal golden era, I understand how nostalgic it is for you. But sorry, it was just plain terrible for everyone else.

7. Old wrestlers are awesome

They’re all we have left. These young athletic guys for the most part don’t know how to work an audience anymore or really entertain. They just go through matches from one spot to the next and they can’t really involve the fans or get them to suspend their disbelief. Stop trying to kick the 40+ guys out the door, because they are the only thing good about the wrestling industry anymore, with very few exceptions. They’re not athletic enough for you anymore you say? Too bad, they have name value and popularity, something these young athletic types can’t seem to achieve because they don’t know how to be professional wrestlers. This is why TNA’s roster is currently better than the WWE’s roster.

8. Wrestlemania 17 is overrated

It was a good show, but the not the perfect mecca of wrestling excellence that everyone claims it was. Seriously, why was it so great? Austin vs. Rock was a very good match, so was Undertaker vs. Triple H. Angle vs. Benoit was overrated. TLC II was a nice spectacle and a very good match, but the rest of the card was very average. Actually, some of the matches were below average, but I guess that’s to be expected on any card.

Wrestlemania 19 was much better. It was the best modern Wrestlemania and it even ranks alongside Wrestlemanias 1 through 9 as one of the best ever. For obvious reasons, the best Wrestlemanias ever were 1-9, 18-19 and 21 was decent too. In other words, all the Hogan Wrestlemanias. The other Wrestlemanias have a definite lack of Hogan in them. They are lacking Hoganness, and therefore they are not as good. Oh by the way, Wrestlemania 10 is overrated too.

9. Scott Steiner is awesome

Not all Internet fans dislike Steiner, and not all non-IWC fans like him obviously, but here’s my major issue with the criticism he receives. Those matches with Triple H at Royal Rumble and No Way Out 2003 really weren’t all that bad. He botched like one move in each match.

People started booing when he did a bunch of suplexes in a row. I don’t get it. Kurt Angle or Chris Benoit or Eddie Guerrero do 25 suplexes in a match and the IWC fans chant “This is awesome,” but when Scott Steiner does it he’s repetitive and boring. You’re a bunch of hypocrites. Sure he was past his prime and dealing with injuries in those matches and really from 2003 to the end of his career, but he wasn’t terrible in the ring, and he was freaking hilarious on the mic. Steiner was a quality entertainer and at one time really good in the ring, especially with the Steiner Brothers tag team. His look alone, along with the newfound heel persona in 1998, made him the best thing about WCW in its dying days. Steiner was awesome. Just deal with it. Oh, and he was better than Benoit too.

10. The NWA/territorial wrestling hasn’t been relevant since the early 80′s

Sorry, but the WWE was, is and always will be wrestling. Don’t get me wrong, the territories back in the day were important for the evolution of wrestling and the business never would have taken off if it wasn’t for them. And I do like some of what TNA is doing now, and WCW’s product from mid 96 to mid 98. But honestly, the WWE is all that matters.

I find it laughable that people think there was some type of WWF/NWA rivalry in the mid 80′s and early 90′s. The NWA was so insignificant when Hulkamania was running wild. As much as I like and respect Flair, there was no Hogan/Flair rivalry in the 80′s. It was all Hogan. It was all WWF. Don’t kid yourself. Heck I didn’t even know what the NWA/WCW was until the nWo formed. Seriously, I didn’t even know where Hogan went when I was like 10 years old in 1994. I never heard of the company and had never seen them on TV. My friend had a Sting action figure and I thought he was from some cartoon or something. That’s how irrelevant WCW was.

And it’s not just them, but every minor league territory from 1984 to the present. Sorry, they just don’t matter. Well, FCW kind of matters because it’s a developmental league for the WWE, and TNA has at least been on cable TV. But Ring of Honor? Sorry, I’ve never seen it. NWA? I just found out they still exist when I started updating this website in January of 2010. Everything else? Completely and totally insignificant.

Say what you want about Vince McMahon and the current WWE product, because I’ll agree with you that it’s not near what it could be, but it’s all that really matters in the world of wrestling, and it’s all that mattered since around 1984, with the exception of the year and half when WCW was beating them in the ratings.

That’s about it for now for my list of things to piss off the Internet wrestling community. I’m sure I’ll think of more and I will be sure to include them on future rants. Just remember one thing when it comes to the wrestling business, oh Internet wrestling moron fans: I’m right, you’re wrong.

So come back and read more of this site often to get enlightened on what wrestling is really all about.