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Originally Posted by Tango&Cash
The Rock
Stone Cold
Goldberg (to some degree)
nWo
DX
These guys/groups made wrestling in the 90's and early 2000's
Once these guys left, WWE had no talent or marketable personalities to match them. I mean they had the older guys like Undertaker, Kane, Triple H, HBK, and so on. But nothing compared to the 3 above, esp Rock and Austin, those 2 took America by storm. Shit I still like the Rock, even though he's a shitty actor and his movies are crap not counting Walking Tall and The Rundown.
Even Kurt Angle, Brock Lesnar, John Cena aka the whitest mexican thug on the planet, are all junk characters.
That and MMA became absolutely HUGE in America. Add that to the fact that Pro wrestling is fake and MMA is real, then you lose a lot of fanbase, and Lesnar didn't help WWE too much by leaving for UFC.
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I agree with your post 100%... and to be honest I haven't watched wrestling in years. Couldn't even begin to tell you any of the current wrestlers or storylines for that matter...when I was younger of course...I watched all the time. I think we all did for a period or so. For me/ my generation you are correct...the glory days were certainly topped by The Rock, and Stone Cold. Stone Cold being my fav. of the bunch. I will disagree with your remark of throwing Kurt Angle in the junk character mold...maybe his character is a bit "junk" but damn he's one hell of a wrestler. That guy is tremendous. I like you mentioned, started watching mma years ago about the same time I quit watching wrestling and haven't really looked back since. From time to time I'll actually be watching mma and thinking to myself if it were years ago and Kurt Angle was a bit younger, he'd make a hell of an mma fighter I do believe...maybe that's just my opinion though. But most wrestlers, or fighters with a wrestling base rather do quite well in mma. I'm thinking Angle would have been no different.