Posted by Scott Hensley
on 10/4/2009, 12:34 am, in reply to "Re: What is wrong with Nashville Wrestling in General?"
I guess part of my reference to Nashville being a "hotbed" had to do with the up and coming talent that once did pass through Nashville. It was mainly because of the developmental deals I guess. There are a lot of outside forces on Nashville wrestling that hurt it as well. Those being:
1) Wrestling isn't really mainstream popular anymore
2) There is a monopoly on mainstream wrestling(with TNA in all actuality being pretty far behind WWE when it comes to people knowing about it and watching it), which means there are less BIG places to go and less chances out there for wrestlers.
3) People aren't spending as much as they once did.
I think the solution to making wrestling more popular again and more mainstream is to take all the comedy garbage out of it and make people take it serious as a performance sport, like in Japan. Comedy has its place and grown men "fake fighting" in tights just sounds funny.... but when people turn across WWE and see Chavo in a cowsuit getting beaten by a leprechaun... they think, this is WAY too stupid!
The rise of wrestling again will be at the fall of MMA when there is controversy over thrown fights and scripted fights, just like boxing. There is too much money involved and legal opponents of "human cock fighting" for it hold up forever. It's great entertainment and I respect MMA but someone will die in the ring in a major promotion in the next couple of years and that will spark all kinds of backlash. With as big as UFC and other groups have become, they have a long way to fall and it may take time... but it will happen and people will turn to something they know will give them a good show where they can see a storied fight over someone's puppet show of "human cock fighting".
I love how only two people felt like they could reply in a respectful way. I'm betting everyone opened the topic and were instantly bored with as much as I wrote haha
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