Random Wrestling Thoughts (Part 2)

WWF was good in 1994 and 1995 but you are right, 1995 is considered the worst year money-wise in WWF/E history. One thing that rarely gets mentioned is Nash was champion for most of that year - November 94 to November 95 but does not get slated for it. He himself has mocked Bret Hart for being the "400 grand champion" around that time period (That Bret could not draw) but Nash himself couldnt.

Overall, and to quote Abe Simpson "it was the style at the time" - After the steroid scandal people turned off wrestling and WWF went in a different direction trying to distance themselves from the previous era. Looking back, the whole name "new generation" was a way to distance themselves. If they adopted a more edgy'er style that happened a few years later that probably would have bombed.

I am a firm believer that WWF took what ECW was doing (and even WCW) with how their content was geared towards adults and copied it. Without them, a WWF pre-attitude era probably would have sucked.

There's a lot to be said for that. It truly was of it's time. That fact Hogan/Warrior and the larger than life muscle characters sit shoulder to shoulder with the mainstream 80s actions stars isn't a coincidence.

Paul E. stated ECW rose aside the grunge movement and peoples changing tastes. Likewise piggy backing on that the WWE Attitude era was riding with Nu-Metal and the MTV2 stuff.

FCW talent reviews from 2009 that someone posted on Reddit.

Seeing someone doing a sidewalk slam on Impact made me wonder have we seen Chris Park (you know, Abyss) on WWE tv outside of his brief time working with AJ? Like don't think I've ever seen him in the pull aparts or any backstage segments.

I've enjoyed both AJ matches, the Logan match and Summerslam was all about Romans return to be fair. Don't feel let down at all by the run personally

Unpopular opinion but I've always thought Cody's ceiling was an upper midcarder and my opinion hasn't changed on that.

There is no doubting the hype has died for Cody.

There is a touch of the Lex Luger 94 situation. It all seems to add up up but it feels like there could be someone better.

Just watching an old TNA wrestling episode on Ayozat tv

So sad to see the how many greats pass away well before their time

Piper, Scott Hall, Don West

Damn