Did Chris Benoit Kill Pro Wrestling?
Did Chris Benoit Kill Pro Wrestling?
This might be a controvesial post, but think about it. Before the Benoit family murders and suicide Pro Wrestling was its own little world. We had it all to ourselves. No one from the 'out side' ever looked in and Monday Nights we got to sit in front of our TVs and enjoy our own little dream world.
Then one morning you tune into CNN and there is coverage of the Chris Benoit story everywhere. Then former wrestlers are all over the news. And then Congress decides to jump on the WWE and steroid aligations like they did to Major League baseball.
Unfortunetly the wrestling world lost Brian Adams yesterday. A year ago you would only hear about this on a dirtsheet or rumor site. But now CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, and all other major news outlets are covering this death. Wrestlers are back on TV bashing the 'lifestyle' and whats going on in pro wrestling.
What does this produce? Obviously we can expect to see less 'monsters' on TV and more smaller tallent. Mainly because we all know that the WWE and other major organizations are going to start cracking down on steroids and drugs. But is this a good thing? Does this help wrestling? I think not...
These men choose their lifestyles. They choose to get big, hit the road, and entertain. But when I think about it, how entertaining will it be to see Billy Kidman vs Brian Kendrick for the WWE Title? I don't think it would be... Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs. Wrestling needs to be the way it used to and always should be... Our own little world that makes its own choices.
Wrestling was on the downswing even with Benoit.
Without he, Stone Cold, Rock, Eddie, Brock....its just too many stars to depart in such a short period of time. The "players" that replaced them just dont measure up
Wrestling was on the downswing even with Benoit.
Without he, Stone Cold, Rock, Eddie, Brock....its just too many stars to depart in such a short period of time. The "players" that replaced them just dont measure up I am not talking about talent level though. I am talking about the main stream coverage wrestling is getting now. Now the WWE can't really bring in super monsters anymore or push guys that are obviously on steroids because they are being forced to up their policies and everything is being looked at under a microscope now.
No...he didn't
Not in my opinion anyway
No but he put a huge temporary dent in it. It will eventually rebound back I think, but Vince needs do alot of things differently.
i think the lack of star power and lack of good storylines have killed wrestling, there's not much interest anymore IMO at least. but people change, i'd love to see wrestling as how it used to be, but times change, so do people.
You are correct, aside from Owen's death every other death has pretty much been ignored aside from Benoit because of how it happened. Vince does not seem to be interested in helping the investigation and I really doubt anything will happen with that so Vince will carry on pushing monsters.
Wrestling does not need drugs, sure a lot of guys will be smaller but they will still be big. The wrestling business survived very well without a huge amount of steroid or drug usage prior to the 1980's and could again. Drugs are the reason why all these guys are dropping dead not steroids on their own although they probably do not help but unless they do something about the doctors who prescribe the painkillers and muscle relaxers which is where most of the damage is done it is a waste of time if they want to save people, TNA who do no tests have also been written to and they have said it is a private matter.
As fans of this era, we have asked alot from wrestlers of today. I've heard so many times from different people that "back in the day", you could get more miles out of a punch, than you can today. Professional wrestling has evolved into a franchise that now has a higher price for the wrestler than the fan.
All Benoit's death, along with Owen Hart's and Eddie Guerrero's has done is re-open peoples' eyes temporarily to that fact
I'm not going to block him out and pretend he never existed but I can no longer enjoy his work. I feel that I am watching a man who did not kill the entire industry but did cripple it (no pun intended). I wonder if the wrestling industry will ever fully recover from this.
I dont think the wrstling industry will ever totally recover from this. Or if it does recover it will be totally different to how it is now. Once congress is finished with WWE we are bound to see an awful lot less Lashley-esque wrestlers and an awful lot more Kendrick sized talent.
To be truthful though, I dont totally see this as a bad thing. I sometimes watch the smaller wrestling shows where there are less jacked up guys and more often than not the actual wrestling talent there is far superior to the WWE. I totally disagree with this statement from the threadstarter...
"Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs."
Sorry, thats totally wrong. We look up to these people, we look up to the likes of Eddie Guerrero and Mr. Perfect...and at the end of the day, these people we look up to are killed by the same thing you are promoting
Honestly I think wrestling will go through changes that are beneficial to everyone due to the media taking more notice. Even though most of what the media reports is obviously biased fubar info, in the end I think the WWE and wrestling in general will be better for it. I think it's foolish to say wrestling needs drugs / steroids. With the WWE and other organizations cracking down on drug use, it'll be great for all parties involved.
I think believing seeing people the size of Spanky and Kidman all the time is a bit of a stretch. Those were naturally smaller men that were the exception to smaller wrestlers making it.
The best way for the WWE to protect their wrestlers imo would be to cut down their roster, cut all the fat around the WWE empire, move to an 8-9 month season, use the immense library that the WWE has to fill in tv time while the wrestlers are off.
Less = more, avoid over-saturation of product, avoid burning out the wrestlers, working 3-4 times a week for 8-9 months would be much easier on the body, with a season angles/feuds should mean that much more because it'll give creative a good 3-4 months to come up all types of storylines to evolve the entire season.
To all the people saying steriods are killing wrestlers: Ignorance is bliss, I mean c'mon can you really say that, do you realize what they go through, travelling 300 days a year working god knows how many events. and taking god knows how many bumps. Taking painkillers, drinking, doing recreational drugs, but no STERIODS did it :rolleyes:, these monsters obviously know how to properly run a cycle or guess what they wouldnt be that big, steriod abuse will do damage to you, mess will your blood pressure and endophin (sp) systems, but if its done properly isn't going to be any more harmful than getting jumped on from 15 feet and going through a damn ladder, or taking tons of painkillers to get by. Also the fact that wrestlers are ALWAYS injured, it takes a toll on their body.
Wrestling wouldnt be the same without the batistas and lashleys for the average fan, just think of how many people would quit watching wrestling if we had to watch 2 sub 200lb guys fighting in each and every match, the average watcher would quit watching, would people want to be memorobilia for simon dean or from a monster like lashley? WWE is a fantasy, not a place where we see everyday looking people fighting each other.
WWE needs steriods.
If you can recall Vince's WWF in the 90's after the Zehorian trial, guys like Hogan and Warrior were gone. Vince turned to smaller guys like Shawn and Bret to carry the company and the title.
This only happened after Vince was facing jail time, and barely escaped unscathed.
Vince is not going to make any changes, temporary or otherwise, unless he is personally affected, and affected greatly. You can see his arrogance in the face of governmental investigations, media scrutiny and even ever-so-real human death.
Unless his bottom line is crushed, or his freedom is in grave jeopardy, Vince will not change the status quo.
And even if he does, history has proven that those changes will only be temporary measures, until he slips under the public radar enough to go back to his carny roots.
No but he put a huge temporary dent in it. It will eventually rebound back I think, but Vince needs do alot of things differently. QFT. Give it time and the WWE will be back off the media radar.
It is more the muscle relaxers and painkillers taken in ludicrous amounts that are killing the wrestlers rather than steroids however steroids do not help the situation, the fact is the schedule is the lightest it has been for a long time and the style has been toned down, Lou Thesz and the older wrestlers had worse road schedules and had to take bumps on much harder rings yet they got by without painkillers and very few from that era died young.
Wrestling would be boring if everybody was small but a lot of these guys could still be big without steroid.s
To all the people saying steriods are killing wrestlers: Ignorance is bliss, I mean c'mon can you really say that, do you realize what they go through, travelling 300 days a year working god knows how many events. and taking god knows how many bumps. Taking painkillers, drinking, doing recreational drugs, but no STERIODS did it :rolleyes:, these monsters obviously know how to properly run a cycle or guess what they wouldnt be that big, steriod abuse will do damage to you, mess will your blood pressure and endophin (sp) systems, but if its done properly isn't going to be any more harmful than getting jumped on from 15 feet and going through a damn ladder, or taking tons of painkillers to get by. Also the fact that wrestlers are ALWAYS injured, it takes a toll on their body.
Wrestling wouldnt be the same without the batistas and lashleys for the average fan, just think of how many people would quit watching wrestling if we had to watch 2 sub 200lb guys fighting in each and every match, the average watcher would quit watching, would people want to be memorobilia for simon dean or from a monster like lashley? WWE is a fantasy, not a place where we see everyday looking people fighting each other.
WWE needs steriods.
He didnt kill pro wrestling... just his family silly.
I think the thing that hurts the wrestlers the most is their "wellness" policy. I really doubt that many of the guys in the WWE are downright ABUSERS of AAS. Yeah they may use some heavy doses like amateur BBers but i think they probably use more along the lines of Test year round with some HGH and or IGF1.
I think the BIG problem is the pain pills. The problem is even WITH a drug test if you've got a Doc's script you're not going to catch any heat for it. Their use needs to be frowned upon as a means to get by. If you have an injury and you're on some vic or percs to get you to the point where they can write you out or give you a break go ahead but to use everyday is insane.
The media doesn't give a shit. It's just another story to cover until something larger, more devestating and more important (to them) happens. Terrorist attack? You'll never hear Anderson Cooper say "pro wrestling" again for so long as he lives. 100 dead in a cult suicide group on a quest to find an alien spaceship? You'll never see Marc Mero or Hugh Morris again.
It's just a hot story right now. Vince will put Shawn Michaels against Jericho for the WWE title so they can have to scrawny, nicely built guys go at it while the media investigates, and once everything calms down, we'll see Lashley and all the other juice whores back in the picture.
Basically the only way anything would happen is if Hogan dropped dead and they found drugs in his house, even then the only way to change anything is for the government to come down hard on the doctors- they need people overseeing them and for the wrestlers who do not abuse to let them know which ones are prescribing to the boys.
The media doesn't give a shit. It's just another story to cover until something larger, more devestating and more important (to them) happens. Terrorist attack? You'll never hear Anderson Cooper say "pro wrestling" again for so long as he lives. 100 dead in a cult suicide group on a quest to find an alien spaceship? You'll never see Marc Mero or Hugh Morris again.
It's just a hot story right now. Vince will put Shawn Michaels against Jericho for the WWE title so they can have to scrawny, nicely built guys go at it while the media investigates, and once everything calms down, we'll see Lashley and all the other juice whores back in the picture. I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny.
no.
wrestling will never die, it will have its up and downs, but it will always be around
Mero is not bashing the industry, he is actually trying to help the industry. The media will not give a hoot if 50 wrestlers die the next year unless it is people like Hogan or Savage- wrestling is beneath the mainstream media, Benoit has been laid to rest, the investigation is being stonewalled by WWE and TNA and likely nothing will happen at which point the media will lose any remote interest.
I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny.
Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs. Wrestling needs to be the way it used to and always should be... Our own little world that makes its own choices.
I disagree with this. What has turned me off of wrestling is the lack of variety in the matches. Back in the 90's the WCW had a huge variety of matches during there show. One match you would see the luchidores (sp??) matches, then you would see some Japaneses wrestlers, and then you would end with the main event - which would be something like Sting vs Ric Flair.
I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny. Mero and Sable remind me all the former baseball players who are bashing Bonds. You haven't heard anything from them in years and when something big happens they come out to get there name in the news again.
The McMahon death storyline was making me uninterested and the Benoit incident destroyed it for me completely.
I only watch AAA via satellite now.
Mero is not bashing the industry, he is actually trying to help the industry. The media will not give a hoot if 50 wrestlers die the next year unless it is people like Hogan or Savage- wrestling is beneath the mainstream media, Benoit has been laid to rest, the investigation is being stonewalled by WWE and TNA and likely nothing will happen at which point the media will lose any remote interest. Yeah, it's just temporary. The media does that with absolutely everything, catering to the short attention spans of its viewers and needing something new to shock people. It doesn't even matter of lots more wrestlers die in strange and crazy ways soon - too many people will get tired of hearing about it, at which point it will no longer be in the news. The media just has a very good wire tap on the sentiments of the people is all.
But as far as the long-term future of steroids and other drugs in wrestling, this country is certainly in favor of creating more legislation and making things more complicated much more than it is in favor of cutting things away and making things simpler, so I think we all know the direction this is heading.
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Who's Chris Benoit?
This might be a controvesial post, but think about it. Before the Benoit family murders and suicide Pro Wrestling was its own little world. We had it all to ourselves. No one from the 'out side' ever looked in and Monday Nights we got to sit in front of our TVs and enjoy our own little dream world.
Then one morning you tune into CNN and there is coverage of the Chris Benoit story everywhere. Then former wrestlers are all over the news. And then Congress decides to jump on the WWE and steroid aligations like they did to Major League baseball.
Unfortunetly the wrestling world lost Brian Adams yesterday. A year ago you would only hear about this on a dirtsheet or rumor site. But now CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, and all other major news outlets are covering this death. Wrestlers are back on TV bashing the 'lifestyle' and whats going on in pro wrestling.
What does this produce? Obviously we can expect to see less 'monsters' on TV and more smaller tallent. Mainly because we all know that the WWE and other major organizations are going to start cracking down on steroids and drugs. But is this a good thing? Does this help wrestling? I think not...
These men choose their lifestyles. They choose to get big, hit the road, and entertain. But when I think about it, how entertaining will it be to see Billy Kidman vs Brian Kendrick for the WWE Title? I don't think it would be... Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs. Wrestling needs to be the way it used to and always should be... Our own little world that makes its own choices.
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Wrestling was on the downswing even with Benoit.
Without he, Stone Cold, Rock, Eddie, Brock....its just too many stars to depart in such a short period of time. The "players" that replaced them just dont measure up
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Wrestling was on the downswing even with Benoit.
Without he, Stone Cold, Rock, Eddie, Brock....its just too many stars to depart in such a short period of time. The "players" that replaced them just dont measure up I am not talking about talent level though. I am talking about the main stream coverage wrestling is getting now. Now the WWE can't really bring in super monsters anymore or push guys that are obviously on steroids because they are being forced to up their policies and everything is being looked at under a microscope now.
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No...he didn't
Not in my opinion anyway
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No but he put a huge temporary dent in it. It will eventually rebound back I think, but Vince needs do alot of things differently.
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i think the lack of star power and lack of good storylines have killed wrestling, there's not much interest anymore IMO at least. but people change, i'd love to see wrestling as how it used to be, but times change, so do people.
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You are correct, aside from Owen's death every other death has pretty much been ignored aside from Benoit because of how it happened. Vince does not seem to be interested in helping the investigation and I really doubt anything will happen with that so Vince will carry on pushing monsters.
Wrestling does not need drugs, sure a lot of guys will be smaller but they will still be big. The wrestling business survived very well without a huge amount of steroid or drug usage prior to the 1980's and could again. Drugs are the reason why all these guys are dropping dead not steroids on their own although they probably do not help but unless they do something about the doctors who prescribe the painkillers and muscle relaxers which is where most of the damage is done it is a waste of time if they want to save people, TNA who do no tests have also been written to and they have said it is a private matter.
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As fans of this era, we have asked alot from wrestlers of today. I've heard so many times from different people that "back in the day", you could get more miles out of a punch, than you can today. Professional wrestling has evolved into a franchise that now has a higher price for the wrestler than the fan.
All Benoit's death, along with Owen Hart's and Eddie Guerrero's has done is re-open peoples' eyes temporarily to that fact
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I'm not going to block him out and pretend he never existed but I can no longer enjoy his work. I feel that I am watching a man who did not kill the entire industry but did cripple it (no pun intended). I wonder if the wrestling industry will ever fully recover from this.
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I dont think the wrstling industry will ever totally recover from this. Or if it does recover it will be totally different to how it is now. Once congress is finished with WWE we are bound to see an awful lot less Lashley-esque wrestlers and an awful lot more Kendrick sized talent.
To be truthful though, I dont totally see this as a bad thing. I sometimes watch the smaller wrestling shows where there are less jacked up guys and more often than not the actual wrestling talent there is far superior to the WWE. I totally disagree with this statement from the threadstarter...
"Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs."
Sorry, thats totally wrong. We look up to these people, we look up to the likes of Eddie Guerrero and Mr. Perfect...and at the end of the day, these people we look up to are killed by the same thing you are promoting
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Honestly I think wrestling will go through changes that are beneficial to everyone due to the media taking more notice. Even though most of what the media reports is obviously biased fubar info, in the end I think the WWE and wrestling in general will be better for it. I think it's foolish to say wrestling needs drugs / steroids. With the WWE and other organizations cracking down on drug use, it'll be great for all parties involved.
I think believing seeing people the size of Spanky and Kidman all the time is a bit of a stretch. Those were naturally smaller men that were the exception to smaller wrestlers making it.
The best way for the WWE to protect their wrestlers imo would be to cut down their roster, cut all the fat around the WWE empire, move to an 8-9 month season, use the immense library that the WWE has to fill in tv time while the wrestlers are off.
Less = more, avoid over-saturation of product, avoid burning out the wrestlers, working 3-4 times a week for 8-9 months would be much easier on the body, with a season angles/feuds should mean that much more because it'll give creative a good 3-4 months to come up all types of storylines to evolve the entire season.
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To all the people saying steriods are killing wrestlers: Ignorance is bliss, I mean c'mon can you really say that, do you realize what they go through, travelling 300 days a year working god knows how many events. and taking god knows how many bumps. Taking painkillers, drinking, doing recreational drugs, but no STERIODS did it :rolleyes:, these monsters obviously know how to properly run a cycle or guess what they wouldnt be that big, steriod abuse will do damage to you, mess will your blood pressure and endophin (sp) systems, but if its done properly isn't going to be any more harmful than getting jumped on from 15 feet and going through a damn ladder, or taking tons of painkillers to get by. Also the fact that wrestlers are ALWAYS injured, it takes a toll on their body.
Wrestling wouldnt be the same without the batistas and lashleys for the average fan, just think of how many people would quit watching wrestling if we had to watch 2 sub 200lb guys fighting in each and every match, the average watcher would quit watching, would people want to be memorobilia for simon dean or from a monster like lashley? WWE is a fantasy, not a place where we see everyday looking people fighting each other.
WWE needs steriods.
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If you can recall Vince's WWF in the 90's after the Zehorian trial, guys like Hogan and Warrior were gone. Vince turned to smaller guys like Shawn and Bret to carry the company and the title.
This only happened after Vince was facing jail time, and barely escaped unscathed.
Vince is not going to make any changes, temporary or otherwise, unless he is personally affected, and affected greatly. You can see his arrogance in the face of governmental investigations, media scrutiny and even ever-so-real human death.
Unless his bottom line is crushed, or his freedom is in grave jeopardy, Vince will not change the status quo.
And even if he does, history has proven that those changes will only be temporary measures, until he slips under the public radar enough to go back to his carny roots.
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No but he put a huge temporary dent in it. It will eventually rebound back I think, but Vince needs do alot of things differently. QFT. Give it time and the WWE will be back off the media radar.
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It is more the muscle relaxers and painkillers taken in ludicrous amounts that are killing the wrestlers rather than steroids however steroids do not help the situation, the fact is the schedule is the lightest it has been for a long time and the style has been toned down, Lou Thesz and the older wrestlers had worse road schedules and had to take bumps on much harder rings yet they got by without painkillers and very few from that era died young.
Wrestling would be boring if everybody was small but a lot of these guys could still be big without steroid.s
To all the people saying steriods are killing wrestlers: Ignorance is bliss, I mean c'mon can you really say that, do you realize what they go through, travelling 300 days a year working god knows how many events. and taking god knows how many bumps. Taking painkillers, drinking, doing recreational drugs, but no STERIODS did it :rolleyes:, these monsters obviously know how to properly run a cycle or guess what they wouldnt be that big, steriod abuse will do damage to you, mess will your blood pressure and endophin (sp) systems, but if its done properly isn't going to be any more harmful than getting jumped on from 15 feet and going through a damn ladder, or taking tons of painkillers to get by. Also the fact that wrestlers are ALWAYS injured, it takes a toll on their body.
Wrestling wouldnt be the same without the batistas and lashleys for the average fan, just think of how many people would quit watching wrestling if we had to watch 2 sub 200lb guys fighting in each and every match, the average watcher would quit watching, would people want to be memorobilia for simon dean or from a monster like lashley? WWE is a fantasy, not a place where we see everyday looking people fighting each other.
WWE needs steriods.
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He didnt kill pro wrestling... just his family silly.
I think the thing that hurts the wrestlers the most is their "wellness" policy. I really doubt that many of the guys in the WWE are downright ABUSERS of AAS. Yeah they may use some heavy doses like amateur BBers but i think they probably use more along the lines of Test year round with some HGH and or IGF1.
I think the BIG problem is the pain pills. The problem is even WITH a drug test if you've got a Doc's script you're not going to catch any heat for it. Their use needs to be frowned upon as a means to get by. If you have an injury and you're on some vic or percs to get you to the point where they can write you out or give you a break go ahead but to use everyday is insane.
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The media doesn't give a shit. It's just another story to cover until something larger, more devestating and more important (to them) happens. Terrorist attack? You'll never hear Anderson Cooper say "pro wrestling" again for so long as he lives. 100 dead in a cult suicide group on a quest to find an alien spaceship? You'll never see Marc Mero or Hugh Morris again.
It's just a hot story right now. Vince will put Shawn Michaels against Jericho for the WWE title so they can have to scrawny, nicely built guys go at it while the media investigates, and once everything calms down, we'll see Lashley and all the other juice whores back in the picture.
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Basically the only way anything would happen is if Hogan dropped dead and they found drugs in his house, even then the only way to change anything is for the government to come down hard on the doctors- they need people overseeing them and for the wrestlers who do not abuse to let them know which ones are prescribing to the boys.
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The media doesn't give a shit. It's just another story to cover until something larger, more devestating and more important (to them) happens. Terrorist attack? You'll never hear Anderson Cooper say "pro wrestling" again for so long as he lives. 100 dead in a cult suicide group on a quest to find an alien spaceship? You'll never see Marc Mero or Hugh Morris again.
It's just a hot story right now. Vince will put Shawn Michaels against Jericho for the WWE title so they can have to scrawny, nicely built guys go at it while the media investigates, and once everything calms down, we'll see Lashley and all the other juice whores back in the picture. I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny.
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no.
wrestling will never die, it will have its up and downs, but it will always be around
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Mero is not bashing the industry, he is actually trying to help the industry. The media will not give a hoot if 50 wrestlers die the next year unless it is people like Hogan or Savage- wrestling is beneath the mainstream media, Benoit has been laid to rest, the investigation is being stonewalled by WWE and TNA and likely nothing will happen at which point the media will lose any remote interest.
I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny.
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Wrestling needs steroids. Wrestling needs drugs. Wrestling needs to be the way it used to and always should be... Our own little world that makes its own choices.
I disagree with this. What has turned me off of wrestling is the lack of variety in the matches. Back in the 90's the WCW had a huge variety of matches during there show. One match you would see the luchidores (sp??) matches, then you would see some Japaneses wrestlers, and then you would end with the main event - which would be something like Sting vs Ric Flair.
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I agree... It just sucks that right now another pro wrestler has died and we have these 'sharks' (Mero, Sable, etc) that get on these news shows and bash the industry. It really tarnishes the 'sport' and makes me wonder if networks will be weary to sign WWE programming in the future.
Think about it. If nothing 'major' happens in the news over the next year or so, but 5 more wrestlers die (god forbid), what will it be like for the WWE trying to get someone to carry their shows? You know the media is going to tear into wrestling so bad it wont even be funny. Mero and Sable remind me all the former baseball players who are bashing Bonds. You haven't heard anything from them in years and when something big happens they come out to get there name in the news again.
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The McMahon death storyline was making me uninterested and the Benoit incident destroyed it for me completely.
I only watch AAA via satellite now.
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Mero is not bashing the industry, he is actually trying to help the industry. The media will not give a hoot if 50 wrestlers die the next year unless it is people like Hogan or Savage- wrestling is beneath the mainstream media, Benoit has been laid to rest, the investigation is being stonewalled by WWE and TNA and likely nothing will happen at which point the media will lose any remote interest. Yeah, it's just temporary. The media does that with absolutely everything, catering to the short attention spans of its viewers and needing something new to shock people. It doesn't even matter of lots more wrestlers die in strange and crazy ways soon - too many people will get tired of hearing about it, at which point it will no longer be in the news. The media just has a very good wire tap on the sentiments of the people is all.
But as far as the long-term future of steroids and other drugs in wrestling, this country is certainly in favor of creating more legislation and making things more complicated much more than it is in favor of cutting things away and making things simpler, so I think we all know the direction this is heading.
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Who's Chris Benoit?