The IWC existed then and had plenty of people who hated Austin, Rock or
both. Threads like these are just an excuse to make up stuff to get mad about which I don't get.
Anyway the people hated most back then were probably Undertaker and Kevin Nash.
Yeah, but did they talked about how the fotc is burying the hottest heel in the business like the example I just gave? From what I've read that they're mostly in-ring marks and hate the promo guys. Also this is just us having fun.
Their would be a lot of bitching about Dean Malenko, Jerry Lynn, Taka, Kaz Hayashi, Billy Kidman, etc deserving the spots that Rock, Austin, Goldberg, Hogan, Taker, etc had.
Product of its time or not, it was a way better product than the boring shit we have today. Their is a reason why Raw and Nitro combined had ratings that somewhat threatened Monday Night Football and even occasionally beat them in the 18-35 year old demo, which is absolutely fucking insane.
I can see these cucks turning their backs and complaining online during bra and panties match with Sable, Lita and Trish. Like how does Vince McMahon book this garbage, I'm sitting here with a hard on and I can't focus on the technical masterpiece Jericho vs Al Snow.
If WWE began filling 10,000 seater arenas every week for RAW and Smackdown, every fan screaming at the top of their lungs, every fan into every part of the show. And the home viewing audience doubling, then doubling again.
They existed back then but they were a tiny minority probably below 1% of the audience. They did nothing but bitch and complain that Austin was stale, The rock sucked, wrestler x can't wrestle and so on. They also made threads talking about how underrated Dean Malenko and Al Snow are.
The sad thing is they are the only fans left, despite a fifty million population increase since 2000 with a lot of the immigrants coming from Mexico which has a wrestling tradition.
They probably wouldn't appreciate it like me and those who grew up a 90's Wrestling fan but who knows how divided the groups would be if it were the modern kind, I know for sure Workrate smarks likely would criticize it more often.
In this thread.
Not so clever attempts to needle certain fans to get mad and react with fist shaking!
Said certain fans falling for it like suckers and shaking said fists!
OP loling at the rubes who fell for it.
WrestleTalk and Cultaholic and the rest of the YouTube channels that cover wrestling would be having a meltdown regularly. Even more than they already do when talking about WWE.
I first got on wrestling (And politics) forums around 1998-99. Obviously I’ve been here since the Cena Era was getting pushed hard. Smarks have always been overly reactive and negative.
While even Rock and Austin got some hate, I recall Undertaker and HHH getting the most (And that includes before his relationship with Stephanie. He was still seen to many as the guy who carried Shawn’s bags throughout 96-98 before he had to temporarily retire. Undertaker got flack because of his gimmick and that his wrestling style throughout the early to mid 90s was that zombie-like style before he loosened up later.
The one big difference between now and then that I see is that there were not as many “workrate smarks” as there are today. Even the Meltzer people didn’t emphasize match ratings as much back then.
Also, if you wanna see what the Meltzer smarks thought, check out the observer awards from the 80s and 90s. Pretty sure they were subscriber balloting their awards back then too. People like Hogan and Gorilla Monsoon often got shitted on in the awards section in the 80s.
The one big difference between now and then that I see is that there were not as many “workrate smarks” as there are today. Even the Meltzer people didn’t emphasize match ratings as much back then.
I remember the mid 90s message boards. It was all pushing Stunning Steve, Natural Dustin Rhodes and Marc Mero. Roll forward a couple of years and they hated Goldust, hated Stone Cold and hated Wild an Marc Mero.
That's the thing with smarks, they root for guys they think no one else is and then when they become popular they turn on them.
Different times. Different ‘Attitudes’ and that was a pun intended. Back then, Internet forums while available were scarce but I’m sure there were critics. I think a lot of us look back on those days with rose tinted glasses because of nostalgia as throughout the amazing moments there were some awful shit in there (ahem, Katie vick?) but regardless, it’s hard to predict what 2021 snarks would be like in 1997 because those same smarks in 2021 were much younger 20 years ago and therefore less likely to be critical because WWF was cool back then.
I saw a video of DX getting absolutely humiliated at a house show and I did think at the time that the smart fans would moan about how they buried DX if they ever saw it at the time.
I know he was in WCW but it was in this era, but Goldberg wouldn't have gotten as over as he did, it would have been leaked "oh the plan is for him to hold the title for over 100 matches and then drop it to Nash" and people would have hated seeing him win every week knowing where it was going.
They did...
Go search out the AE threads someone posted on here from another website back in the day. It was a few months ago that they posted it and nothing has changed in over 20 years with them.
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