Post by egbugg79 on Aug 7, 2019 13:15:13 GMT
I'll give you guys my wrestling background so that you all know where I'm coming from when I comment. I started watching wrestling in 89 when i was ten years old... started watching NWA/WCW on saturday mornings and fell in love with old school Sting as TV champ. That was back when Ric Flair would keep the belt by getting counted out or DQ'd with the help of the Horsemen. By the time I was twelve, I was watching WWF too... about the time Ultimate Warrior and Hogan fought at Wrestlemania 5. I knew wrestling was fake by the time I was in high school, but I kept watching anyways and my perspective changed. I wasn't rooting for good guys anymore... I was rooting for the best, most entertaining workers. People in school would give me crap when I told them Steven Regal was one of my favorite wrestlers.. By this point, wrestling had changed from "real guys" to "cartoon" gimmicks... but wrestling evolved again by the time I was in college. It became edgy and more "adult".... which is kinda ironic because I was getting more mature and becoming an "adult" at the same rate wrestling was lol. I caught ECW one night on a station I never of before and my mind was blown. The girls were "slutty", the wrestlers cussed... I loved it to say the least. Then ECW sut down, WCW shut down, WWE became PG.... by 2005, I quit watching wrestling altogether. I still played the video games, mind you... as well as watching on e PPV a year, the Royal Rumble, just to keep up with new talent. In 2011, I startted playing in the IWA, Imaginary Wrestling Association (you guys have probably seen the cartoon ad on the inside cover of PWI magazine). About a year into the game, I met an indy wrestler that also played the game and met up with him at a show and within weeks I was training to be a referee. Keep in mind that at this point... I 'm still not watching wrestling other than old DVDs. I worked a few indy companies in Virginia over the course of 3 years and eventually quit for personal and financial reasons. I got back into the IWA after that and eventually came across the first 3 seasons of Lucha Underground on bootleg DVD. I fell in love right away. They used the ECW philosophy of hiding the negative and accentuating the positive. They started with a small roster and added to it each week and told great, and yes, fictional stories.... but the production was fresh and in my opinion, Dario is perhaps the most entertaining company owner I have ever seen. I haven't seen season 4 yet and I know that it is going to be disappointing... which is why I focus mostly on games where I have creative control. I literally have friends that will come watch me play WWE2k19 becasue they say what I do on there is more entertaining than what is on telelvision. So that s my love for wrestling in a nutshell.