WWE style promos these days are just terrible. Everyone using personal real life insults to get the one up on everybody.

 

WWE style promoes these days are just terrible. Every using personal real life insults to get the one up on somebody.

Well what's missing is there is no storyline. It's contender vs champion and that's it there's nothing to it

 

Totally agreed. At least Triple H gives them some leeway so that they sound more human.

 

Promos should return to their root which is, you know, PROMOTING a match. I am sick and tired of these roast battles which don't progress/develop any angle whatsoever. Give me a reason to want to see the fight for f's sake. I think that modern emphasis on the promo/microphone segments over in-ring nuances has created a generation (or a two/few) wrestlers who are unable to bring their gimmicks and the stories of the promos alive into the match they are trying to PROMOTE and sell.

 

The style is akin to The Gilmore Girls.

 

Brock Lesnar could do that.

 

More promos is better

 

I think promos are overrated anyway. I want to see more wrestling like Bret Hart.

 

Honestly, I would watch Cody and Cena go back and fourth all day over watching most of the roster wrestle.

 

The promos and characters were more entertaining in the 80s and 90s. You had guys like Psycho Sid and Ultimate Warrior that didn't have great wrestling skills.

 

Pro Wrestling isn't real though. In real co.bat sports you don't need the drama, the genuine competitive contest is what you're watching.

Wrestling needs the bells and whistles, otherwise it's just 2 dudes in speedos play fighting.

The problem is WWE loves giving people who can't talk so much promo time while the genuine talkers get so little.

Whys LA Knight never get to cut a 10 minute promo buy people like Rollins, Gunther, etc regularly do?

 

I enjoy promos than wrestling. Go watch some indies if you prefer wrestling.

 

WWE’s biggest problem is the time wasted on entrances. You got to cut that down. I still generally enjoy promos as long as the guy on the mic can talk. If you are giving promo time to people that can’t, that’s a problem

WWE doesn’t have enough talent to fill a 3 hour Smackdown.

 

Promos are the best part of the WWE... and they always have been.

 

What you proposed is boring.

Promos and segments build storylines, not choreographed fight simulations

 

Its going back to Jerry springer TV.


I facepalm everytime I hear the crowd "Ooooohhhhhh"


Its cringeworthy.

 

AEW has 80% less promos and 80% more godly wrestling where every match is a 20 minute flip fest.

 

Bobby Lashley would have stayed as the WWE champion if it was a real fighting competition.

 

So you want to take a core part of professional wrestling away?

That's absolutely bonkers,how on earth would that work? How can they sell their feud being mute? And it's not called a "promo battle". Just a promo or "segment".

Without promos' or segments' the wrestlers are nothing more than gymnasts and stunt men,while we're at it lets get rid of that pesky ring and that pointless referee too huh?

Let's go one further and ban storylines. Who needs em'?


Rename "finisher" into "the big move".



This is a terrible idea.



You should watch UFC or strikeforce they're actually fighting and don't have the entertaining aspects of pro wrestling. Enjoy.

 

There's a difference between promos and two people just standing there trading smarkish worked shoots back to back and trying to "cook" each other. Quite frankly it gets corny.

 

Yesterday I rewatched Bret vs Owen WM X for the first time since childhood.... I didn't even remember how good it was. Simple things were done so effectively. But then there was a tombstone pile-driver that from Owen that didn't finish off Bret which he sold like it was ddt.

Reminded me of how everyone gets so up in arms about stuff like that these days. Love Bret but not everything the older generation says is gospel. They're all biased.

Besides, Bret was never the promo guy so it's understandable he would think that. I think It's not that promos take too much time.. I think it feels that way because majority promos are shit these days.

If the storyline is not hitting... Promos won't hit. It's like building a structure on a crooked base.

Edit: that being said, entrances like Roman's need to be chopped in half. I understand they're wasting time because it pays to be 3 hours.. but come on. It's ridiculous how long some of these are.

 

Edit: that being said, entrances like Roman's need to be chopped in half. I understand they're wasting time because it pays to be 3 hours.. but come on. It's ridiculous how long some of these are.

You have time to go make a sandwich and some of these entrances aren't even halfway over by the time you get back. In a lot of cases that's not even an exaggeration lol

Like it's fine when you see the entrance once or twice, but it's the SAME bloody entrance every time. So why are we spending 10 minutes watching them every week? There's a reason why most people skip the entrances in the 2K games after seeing them a couple of time.

Rollins' attires might be goofy, but at least he changes it up every time. I actually appreciate that because it's not a literal copy / paste. There's at least SOMETHING new to see.

 

Road Warriors got screwed over by DX.

 

Man wrestling fans sure do love to complain