So....to all 5 of you Professional Wrestling fans on here, where does WrestleMania rank in your "Best of all time" list? (I know there's more than 5 of you, but it does sometimes feel that way😅 )
@BeAware this is a difficult question; night 1 was ok, more average than bad, but night two was spectacular.
However, if we’re grading a single moment instead of the entire event then the closing segment of the main event (starting with the run ins) was absolutely one of the top three wrestlemania moments. This was treated as one of the most important moments in recent memory. The closing celebration with Bruce Pritchard and H, when has something close to that happened in recent history?
@BeAware Night one was good, but night two was quite meh. The constant advertising in and around the ring was distracting. There was some good wrestling and a lot of sports entertaining, I'm more for the former than the latter.
@nafmo I feel that, but at least there's more coherent stories compared to that nasty old man's era and better than other companies like TNA and currently, AEW.🤷♂️
It wouldn't be "professional wrestling" in my opinion if there's not a "good guy vs bad guy" storyline. At that point it's just 2 people play-fighting in their underwear.🤣
@nafmo :kek: agreed, both of those appearances didn't make sense. Seth at least made sense. Stone Cold would've made sense too but like come on, they're almost in wheelchairs, let them be retired lol.
@BeAware@Siestacorta i recently learnt it was indeed a name still in use in England for instance (hence the New Catch Republic for instance)
I still don't really know how you make a difference between wrestling - the Olympic sport and wrestling - the sport entertainment business^^
I know we often talk about pro-wrestling (for the entertainment), but does that mean that wrestlers (the olympic sport ones) can't practice this sport professionally ?
@Siestacorta@Seth There's no organization that I know of, that pays real wrestlers to compete on a professional level. In US, AFAIK, you go from high school to college to olympics if you're good enough and that's it. You can get paid off your likeness, but after Olympics there's no "job" for wrestling like other sports... Id love to be proven wrong though.🤷♂️