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If you read reports elsewhere, you can glean that WWE shows are not true sellouts. They tarp sections off, and the filled to the rafters shots they show you is usually the same one or two all night, just cut at different angles.
I remember going to a SmackDown taping, and they made us move into the camera angle to make the hard side look fuller, then tarped off the sections we were in and surrounding areas.
I think professional wrestling peaked in 80's to the late 90's back when they pushed the envelope during the attitude era after that ended it became terrible and people tuned out and the UFC came along and took the 18-35 Demographic..
I mean you can track the Rise of the UFC in popularity to the Decline of the WWE in popularity pretty much.
It definately peaked in the 80's to the 90s I think what ended the quality was when WCW Folded and WWE had no competition to play to, no one to go against on Monday night in the ratings, the quality of WWE really dropped off.
Competition is a good thing in any economy or business
UFC may have filled the gap because people said "Well rasslin is not as fun anymore" it certainly does not have my attention now.
Thats probably why i dont remember as when ECW was happening our cable provider never offered the channel so i've never seen any ECW events..
I'm liking Impact wrestling how does it compare with ECW?
Thats probably why i dont remember as when ECW was happening our cable provider never offered the channel so i've never seen any ECW events..
I'm liking Impact wrestling how does it compare with ECW?
Paul Heymans ECW was awesome, out of control, crazy. They brought in the attitude era, when Shane Douglas threw down the NWA belt everything changed.
Get an ECW DVD, and check it out, I went to the ECW arena 5 or 6 times in Philly and there was nothing like seeing it live, the fans and wrestlers were all nuts.
It's where Steve Austin became Stone Cold, His riffs on Hogan are hilarious.
The personalities, like the Dudley's, Taz, Sabu, Raven, The Franchise, Sandman, New Jack, And Terry Funk. If Heyman told New Jack to kill someone in the ring he would of done it!
ECW didn't have the money for production so the wrestlers and their personalities were the show, TNA might have better talent but the pumped in crowd noise and all the old timers just makes them seem like the Minor Leagues.
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