Sherdog now covering Wrestlemania

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Should Sherdog cover WWE events(Wrestlemania)?

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  • No

  • I don't care

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Zarra said:
Doesn't make sense.
I guess it's good if its only for WM tho...
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I dont think he cares about WWE in his current state
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ClosetVitorFan said:
Children like wwe. I don't know how any adult can enjoy the current product of wwe. It's like an adult who watches blues clues or sponge Bob or that my little pony show. It's just weird. I understand like 15 years ago that the product actually catered to adult viewers. I was one of them as a teenager. But the product slowly became a kids show. And in 2016 it's unbelievably that way. They don't show blood. They don't even hit each other on the head anymore and have gone so far to ban moves!!! Not because the moves were dangerous. But because they just "looked bad" like this one guy used a move called the curb stomp. It looked cool but it was totally safe for the wrestlers. They banned it stating it looked bad and too violent. So they pretty much sanitized it to the core where children are their main target audience now.
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Please, it's always been a kids show. You're telling me Hulkamania was mature adult theatre ?

It's sad even for teenagers to watch it. I stopped at 11, even at 14 I though it was retarded. Sometimes, if I'm flipping around and its on I'll watch for 10 min to laugh how stupid it is.​
 
ClosetVitorFan said:
It is a kids show in my eyes. They almost go out of their way to cater to children. Because they know the hardcore adults will just lap up anything they are selling. A big factor is Triple H and Stephanie have small children of their own. From like 5 years old to 9 I think. They want to produce a show that their children can watch. It's painfully obvious. There is a reason why growth is stifled. I habe a cousin who was a big WWE fan just 3 years ago. He's 15 now. But when he was 12 he loved it. He stopped watching it because it got "too fake and too silly" in his own words. When they cater to kids. The kids grow up and watch something else. But prowrestling is in between a rock and a hard place. They used to present prowrestling as real back in the day. Even as recent as Rock vs Austin in 2002 at Wrestlemania. But with the total end to kayfabe. And with the rise of MMA. Yes UFC. It's hard to capture that golden era. Especially since now we have real fights with UFC. That's why it was super popular in 2008. (UFC) because at that time. WWE became PG and just got sillier and stupid while mma. UFC became a legit sport. And the same is to be said in 2016. But I still feel they can do a better job in WWE regardless of kayfabe being dead and buried. They just try appealing to everyone and eventually no one. Who knows.
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To say it used to be for adults is ridiculous.

It's always been a kids show except maybe like in the 1900s or something like that when it first started as staged public exhibitions where they lied that it was real and audiences believed it.

No way can you argue it was for adults even in the 90s. I remember Stone Cold and the whole beer drinking thing but it was done in such a kiddie way... like the way a child would picture a grown man drinking beer. He didn't even drink the beer mostly spray it everywhere like a cartoon character or something.

Then they had the D-Generation shirts w Suck It censored out... really aimed at adults.

There's underground wrestling rings where they use objects and bloody each other. They're still hammy cartoon characters tho.​
 
FrankieNYC said:
The average WWE viewer is 40 years old.
That is older than the average UFC viewer.
They have less kids watching in 2016 than 1999.
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Source, cuz I doubt it... where are you getting this ?

If that's the case it's guys like this

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Dead Kennedy said:
Don't watch it, don't care if others watch it. As long as it's kept in the pro wrestling forum, I could give a shit less if Sherdog covers pro wrestling. Sherdog is still an MMA site first, so would prefer MMA headlines take precedence on the front page. That is all
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So do I, that's why I made a thread complaining about it IN THE MMA section.
It should not be covered on Sherdog FRONT PAGE.
 
ClosetVitorFan said:
Children like wwe. I don't know how any adult can enjoy the current product of wwe. It's like an adult who watches blues clues or sponge Bob or that my little pony show. It's just weird. I understand like 15 years ago that the product actually catered to adult viewers. I was one of them as a teenager. But the product slowly became a kids show. And in 2016 it's unbelievably that way. They don't show blood. They don't even hit each other on the head anymore and have gone so far to ban moves!!! Not because the moves were dangerous. But because they just "looked bad" like this one guy used a move called the curb stomp. It looked cool but it was totally safe for the wrestlers. They banned it stating it looked bad and too violent. So they pretty much sanitized it to the core where children are their main target audience now.
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You're right. They should go back to the sophisticated days of using barbed wire and thumbtacks to make each other bleed. The curb stomp was never quoted to be banned for any particular reason, btw. It was just given the Benoit treatment. Stop reading dirt sheets. It'll improve your mental health.
 
About time they started covering a real sport instead of that fake mma shiz.
 
It's no different than them covering other combat sports like boxing and kickboxing.
 
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