When and how did lefty faggots take over Pro Wrestling?

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

I quit watching like 20 years ago, but it was always dumb redneck shit when I watched it in the 90's.

Now whenever I meet someone who is a proud pro wrestling fan they always end up being super liberal, annoying and faggy and their favorite wrestler is always some generic schmuck with no personality with a name like "Tyler Crewz".

Whateva happened there? Pro Wrestling was always a bit gay but it wasn't so faggy.

 

[Equivocal_Iki]

I'm guessing hipsters took over the fanbase.

 

[Niggernerd]

Lefties are full of homos.
Makes sense they'd want to see men in spandex

 

[FrigginWeeb]

I'd say right around when Smackdown lost the fist, and tween idol Cena became their guy.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

Wrestling has been shit ever since 2008.

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

I think WWE was always pretty liberal.

There was this one guy who played a Russian character and I remember in a promo I kid you not he said “I will fuck your kids, I will fuck your wife, and then I will FUCK YOU!”

Sounds pretty liberal to me.

Edit: In hindsight I think it may have been The Iron Sheik.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Show wrestling is fake, everything about the wrestlers is fake and manufactured includig their politics.

 

[Pee Cola]

It all started going downhill when Louis Theroux asked too many questions about whether or not wrestling was fake.

 

[Penis Drager]

I'm guessing hipsters took over the fanbase.

It's basically this.
Wrestling was a fun show to watch a bunch of body builders pretend to hurt themselves and act like retards and the hick crowd ate that shit up.
It started to lose its novelty and the hipster crowd went full "it's so bad it's good" mode and here we are.

Side note: Indian immigrants love WWE for some reason. I met a few who unironically didn't get the memo that it's all scripted and payed like $300-something to attend a live performance.

 

[Beautiful Border]

Personally never understood why people would watch fake wrestling when things like MMA exist

 

[Blue Screen of Death]

People moved on, and the only people that stayed behind were giant fucking nerds. Giant fucking nerds have more of a tendency to be lefties.
It seems when it comes to combat sports, everyone moved onto MMA around the time pro wrestling started to die out.

Maybe I'm just seeing a connection where it isn't there, but the beginning of WWE's decline lines up somewhat nicely with the rise of the UFC.

 

[Penis Drager]

Personally never understood why people would watch fake wrestling when things like MMA exist

Why watch a romcom when you most likely know some people with lolcowish dating lives?
It's all choreographed for entertainment value. You know it's all fake but it's supposed to be fun to watch. UFC is kinda boring and somehow more homo-erotic than WWE.

Don't get me wrong: I don't watch any of this shit. But the appeal is pretty obvious. I mean fuck, why watch any of the Rocky movies when you could just watch boxing. It's about the story.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Personally never understood why people would watch fake wrestling when things like MMA exist

I've yet to see something like this in MMA

Edit: I take that back, there was that time Connor threw that dolly through that bus window.

 

[Pickle Inspector]

For me it's:

1: Fans all act like they're insiders and need to know every backstage going on instead of just enjoying the show and it's really obnoxious.

2: Any huge star with charisma goes off to Hollywood.

3: Shows are far too long, one hour long show a week is enough.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Wrestling in the 70s and 80s was good. It was mostly localized and had every ism in the world. Ric Flair and Hogan would cut promos telling black wrestlers to "shine their shoes", eat watermelon and all the blacks had the hard head gimmick. I went to a few Allendale tapings of the old WWWE back in the 70s for the TV tapings but the good "dark" matches were almost never shown on TV.

 

[Black Light Red Panic]

MMA is too regulated and lame. There's no hype or excitement or genuine entertainment quality to it.

Just bring back gladiatorial arenas

Personally never understood why people would watch fake wrestling when things like MMA exist

 

[Beautiful Border]

MMA is too regulated and lame. There's no hype or excitement or genuine entertainment quality to it.

Just bring back gladiatorial arenas

Honestly, I think most people would secretly be up for bringing back proper Roman-style gladiatorial combat. A lot of the way people talk about ancient Rome has a "forbidden fruit" quality to it.

"And these Romans were so unlike us, that they would watch with glee as criminals were fed to lions and men hacked each other to death! Of course, we're not like them, are we?... We totally wouldn't want to see that, right?..."

 

[DDBCAE CBAADCBE]

For a while when I was a kid I was real into what we used to call Amateur “Pro” Wrestling. Basically it was the same set up as the major network leagues with costumes, backstories and lots of testosterone fueled vulgarities. The main difference was there was a hell of a lot less oversight and safety which made it fucking bonkers. To put it in perspective one of the last shows I saw as a kid was a tag team match between two dudes dressed in knight costumes and two short Irish men dressed as Leprechauns.

Long story short every fighter in these things has a gimmick and the red knight had a doozy of a trick. He fished a flask out of his consume, took a swig as he lit his lighter and spit fire at one of the Leprechaun’s but he ended up setting the Ref on fire instead and the match had to be called while they tried to work together to put him out. People were screaming and even some were trying to climb into the ring to help him. Keep in mind there were no barriers between the ring and the seating. It was just a huge empty warehouse, a ton of metal chairs, a ring, some costumed fighter, and junk food vendors as far as the eye could see.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

You could ask this question about any hobby and interest nowadays. Progressives have been taking over everything and changing to suit their ideas. Nothing is safe.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

You could ask this question about any hobby and interest nowadays. Progressives have been taking over everything and changing to suit their ideas. Nothing is safe.

Pro Wrassling is an especially odd one to me though. It's on the same plane of "redneck" as Nascar and Monster Jam IMO, and as far as I know faggots haven't taken over those yet.