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Things that annoy you about modern wrestling?

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#1 ·
well that a simple enough title , what annoys you about the wrestling business in general (eg what do you hate about wrestling today in general?

mine are

too many breaks and not enough action on Raw and Smackdown
 
#16 ·
The idea that losing clean in wrestling makes someone less credible. I feel like these guys should look at it more like a real sport. If there is a big rivalry between top face and top heel, both guys getting clean wins doesn't hurt, if it still culminates in an awesome finale.

Wrestlers should be beatable by lesser talent. I mean, no one would look at an NFL team poorly if they go 14-2 and win the superbowl. The WWE pretends their top face has to go 82-0 (unless they get cheated) to make their championship look credible.

Now Cena shouldn't lose to Darren Young, but if he and Punk actually had a few matches (3 maybe?) with them being intense and hard fought, with no shenanigans, or very little, would that be bad? What if Punk gets a clean win, where both guys wrestle their ass off, then Cena does the same, leading up to a huge PPV? Does that make either look bad to lose to such a powerful competitor? Not to me, it makes it look believable. Even the best can be beaten, but then you have your big match that determines it all(the superbowl!)

Of course all booking gets stale if you overdo it, but I'd like to see a lot more instances where a guy can win clean over a guy that is booked stronger.

Even a monster. What if someone like Mark Henry slips and falls into a submission after getting dragged into a long fight with an experienced wrestler that is lower on the card? Mark Henry then has motivation to go after this guy, and the second match could even end in a squash, but it makes guys human, while also showing who the top guys are.

I guess variety is what I like. That, and not such defined "tiers". Like Cena can not be beaten by someone like Ziggler. He can be hurt, whatever, he'll just always find a way to win. That's bogus in any sport. Boxing, MMA, team sports, whatever, anyone that doesn't bring their A game can get beat.

WWE isn't a sport, but you have to do a better job of making everyone seem dangerous. Most of the roster is just there to prop up the best. People like conflict, the perception of quality competition. Dominance makes interest wane.
 
#6 ·
What he said.
 
#7 · (Edited)
The non-wrestling wrestling matches, which are infact more a choreography of repeated moves and sequences. The ad breaks dont bother me as I dont watch it live and I just download it. The constant twitter mentioning is cringe worthy. I also fear that looking back in 10 years time we're going to go 'what is twitter?' and it will look very dated.

The commentary is a big one. JR, JtKL and Heyman were absolutely brilliant in the AE and could save any match or segment. Now they don't have any enthusiasm and don't entertain. I would go as far as saying that apart from the wrestling, the commentators are by far the most important aspect of a show. They hold it together. They get the fans invested and up to date.
 
#10 ·
Generic baby faces
Lack of power moves: suplexes, power bombs, cool looking body slams in general are tough to find
Good, convincing promos: A few guys that can do these, but I can almost count them on one hand
Predictable match ups and endings to said match ups
Certain types of smarks
 
#18 ·
Respect your opinion, but I'm just tired of the PG argument. Smackdown has always been PG and has been able to be entertaining in the past. There are other reasons for the departure of Attitude-Era antics than besides the switch to PG.
 
#15 ·
So tired of Twitter being mentioned every 5 minutes. But it seems like everything in pop culture today is all twitter. Every commercial or sporting event you will see the # and @.
 
#21 ·
Amount of rematches, this past SD we had Ziggler/Kofi for the hundredth time, the match was also on Raw. Rematch with Jericho/Swagger from the past weeks SD and Miz/Cesaro what's been done two or three times in the last month or so. Another example would be the sheer amount of Orton/Barrett matches.

Dislike how there are very little mid card story lines, plus how the US/IC titles are treated. Also I don't expect every match on Raw or Smackdown to be great, across the week give me 3 or 4 top matches. Raw is 3 hours, please give me two great 10-15 minute matches. Finally the Raw announce team and way too many adverts
 
#23 ·
right now everything about the product, not one thing is good about it right now and were 2 weeks till wrestlemania
 
#25 ·
Oh, so many things! I'm not one for relentless bashing the PG-era however I do think it has a major part to play in why I don't like the product half as much as I did when I was younger. On the plus side though, I think the current roster, if utilised properly, has phenomenal potential. Whether it WILL ever be utilised properly is another issue...
 
#27 ·
its inability to look beyond their own borders and embrace a possibly more dignified future
 
#28 ·
Trending worldwide, I hate all this social media rubbish, I hate how there is nothing creative about creative anymore, I hate how there are no real charaters left in wrestling, how the story telling has diminished.
How they allow certain (one man) to dominate at the expense of others, no sell his opponent and not put people over.
I hate how wrestling is now a lost art form, I hate WWE basically!
 
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