As I sit here and I watch Wrestlemania XXVIII again I can't help but feel the honor of being a wrestling fan during the late 90's. Today known as the Attitude Era and a few years ago the Monday Night Wars - was then known as the Wrestling Night. Go back in time, not the fans that jump on board every few years when wrestling is cool but the hardcore fans. Those that remember Bret Harts reign, remember identifying talent in a guy known as Stunning Steven Austin. I'm talking to the fan that saw Bash at the Beach 1996 and legitmately for a few months thought that the WWE had invaded WCW. That was the greatest era in wrestling history. I'm about the become the Morpheus of professional wrestling but ladies and gentleman - I'm going to offer you the chance to walk away right now before I break the brainswashing of the WWE. . . .
Here's the truth. Wrestling was not great in the late 90's not because of the few guys that WWE chooses to acknowledge today. It was the wrestlers of those times that were choosing to compete with one another and knew that there were job opportunities available to them via multiple promotions. This lead to wrestlers leaving it in the arena every night, compared to today - when you it seems that more wrestlers are holding back until Wrestlemania. The late 90's were a time where the guys wrestled and gave it 100% every time there preformed for the audiences that they were in front of. Today as I watched the Undertaker for Triple H - Hell in a Cell - End of an Era match - I couldn't help but disagree with the WWE and Jim Ross with - the era that will never be here again. I enjoyed Wrestlemania - I find it a travesty that I didn't get a chance to see, Daniel Bryan - Bryan Danielson, wrestle at Wrestlemania. It goes to show you that WWE has become more entertainment and less sport. More about the build up than about the match. More about the sizzle and less about the steak.
The Era that WWE is saying is gone, is not gone. Like The Rock did years ago, WWE is trying to let go of its professional wrestling roots and become an entertainment company that does TV, Movies, Online and Professional Wrestling. They are in fact the contributors to the demise of Professional Wrestling in general. They are more likely to put the Part-Time Rock over WWE 24/7 John Cena. Wrestling is becoming more of a business and less a of what makes people fall in love with it, the art.
If the WWE has ended an era, then I'm beginning a new one. I'm on the hunt for the Renaissance 5 - those 5 professional wrestlers that will usher in this Renaissance of Professional Wrestling. Keep coming back here to see how the scouting process of the indy's is going.
Here's the truth. Wrestling was not great in the late 90's not because of the few guys that WWE chooses to acknowledge today. It was the wrestlers of those times that were choosing to compete with one another and knew that there were job opportunities available to them via multiple promotions. This lead to wrestlers leaving it in the arena every night, compared to today - when you it seems that more wrestlers are holding back until Wrestlemania. The late 90's were a time where the guys wrestled and gave it 100% every time there preformed for the audiences that they were in front of. Today as I watched the Undertaker for Triple H - Hell in a Cell - End of an Era match - I couldn't help but disagree with the WWE and Jim Ross with - the era that will never be here again. I enjoyed Wrestlemania - I find it a travesty that I didn't get a chance to see, Daniel Bryan - Bryan Danielson, wrestle at Wrestlemania. It goes to show you that WWE has become more entertainment and less sport. More about the build up than about the match. More about the sizzle and less about the steak.
The Era that WWE is saying is gone, is not gone. Like The Rock did years ago, WWE is trying to let go of its professional wrestling roots and become an entertainment company that does TV, Movies, Online and Professional Wrestling. They are in fact the contributors to the demise of Professional Wrestling in general. They are more likely to put the Part-Time Rock over WWE 24/7 John Cena. Wrestling is becoming more of a business and less a of what makes people fall in love with it, the art.
If the WWE has ended an era, then I'm beginning a new one. I'm on the hunt for the Renaissance 5 - those 5 professional wrestlers that will usher in this Renaissance of Professional Wrestling. Keep coming back here to see how the scouting process of the indy's is going.
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