I was just thinking of how Bruno Sammartino rants... rants... and rants some more due to how professional wrestling has changed including how the women turned into "sex symbols", trash talking and the drug usage in the industry.
IMHO Bruno Sammartino's main problem is he is still living in the 1960's. I can not nor will I antagonize with Bruno Sammartino on the drug usage in wrestling which slowly throughout the years it's getting better, however on everything else just makes me want to think Bruno is a little crazy and for good reasons.
With the way I read and listened to many of his interviews, a perfect superstar that would not be acceptable in every way would be Stone Cold Steve Austin. Yes I said it correct, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Look at the WWE losing the war in the mid 90's and try comparing it with WCW.
There were literally these badasses known as the New World Order that was taking over the WCW that would require more "acting" than wrestling for some of the top nWo members on Nitro and guess what, it drew more. Nobody wanted to see Bruno Sammartino's vision of the business on television anymore. Back in his days, people would be watching shows such as Leave It To Beaver and Batman which the most harsh term/s used on television was something like a "rotten rat" (who the hell would use that as a come back or as a name calling in 2007? LOL). Not only did wrestling change, but the "trash" that Bruno would be talking about was then brought to a very large portion of television shows.
IMHO I doubt the WWE would still be alive if they didn't make their promotion "cool" back in the late 90's. Nobody wanted to see a very basic product after WCW rocked the industry with the formation of the New World Order. People liked seeing Stone Cold drinking his beer. People liked seeing the boss being made a complete jackass from his top employee on a weekly basis. Sable's Playboy issue made a lot of money. People liked telling others to suck it. Overall, the people liked controversy which eventually turned into everything that Bruno Sammartino doesn't believe in, but hey it worked and brought RAW the highest ratings ever.
My point here is how can Bruno Sammartino have an actual valid point with how "trashy" the industry is as if it really hurts the promotion/s (mainly the WWE) when ever all of that stuff brought the WWE to one of their all-time highs that did nothing but help the promotion.
I loved the Stone Cold character overall and no matter what, I wouldn't change a thing he did back in his days. I could care less if it's not appropriate for children or if it offends old people. To be honest, I thought DX was the shit and still do (reference to the original DX which the current DX is more for kids).
I'm just sick and tired of hearing Bruno Sammartino rant on and on when everything he doesn't believe in piratically saved the WWE's asses from being a home video collection for a future WCW 24/7 On-Demand service. Sometimes people needs to live in reality and realize things changes throughout time. The only problems now is the WWE is they focuses on bringing in wrestlers with more looks than talent. Hell, if the WWE would hire the correct wrestlers and re-write the entire "Attitude era", I'm sure the WWE could be in a new all time high. Hell, there's MANY wrestlers from the past that still follows the industry and even make appearances here and there including Harley Race, Billy Graham, etc.
This thread is just on how Bruno rants on problems that did nothing but help the industry in the 90's. I don't see what is so exciting about going back 4 decades to watch when someone would put his opponent in a headlock for 40 minutes long. However, I do agree with him when it comes to the drug issues (he went as far as discontinue to speak with his own son due to steroid use) in the industry, but drugs in the business is NOT what this thread is about. It's just off topic.
It's 1:03AM, I'm dead tired and caught some typos and bad grammer but please excuse me this one time.
IMHO Bruno Sammartino's main problem is he is still living in the 1960's. I can not nor will I antagonize with Bruno Sammartino on the drug usage in wrestling which slowly throughout the years it's getting better, however on everything else just makes me want to think Bruno is a little crazy and for good reasons.
With the way I read and listened to many of his interviews, a perfect superstar that would not be acceptable in every way would be Stone Cold Steve Austin. Yes I said it correct, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Look at the WWE losing the war in the mid 90's and try comparing it with WCW.
There were literally these badasses known as the New World Order that was taking over the WCW that would require more "acting" than wrestling for some of the top nWo members on Nitro and guess what, it drew more. Nobody wanted to see Bruno Sammartino's vision of the business on television anymore. Back in his days, people would be watching shows such as Leave It To Beaver and Batman which the most harsh term/s used on television was something like a "rotten rat" (who the hell would use that as a come back or as a name calling in 2007? LOL). Not only did wrestling change, but the "trash" that Bruno would be talking about was then brought to a very large portion of television shows.
IMHO I doubt the WWE would still be alive if they didn't make their promotion "cool" back in the late 90's. Nobody wanted to see a very basic product after WCW rocked the industry with the formation of the New World Order. People liked seeing Stone Cold drinking his beer. People liked seeing the boss being made a complete jackass from his top employee on a weekly basis. Sable's Playboy issue made a lot of money. People liked telling others to suck it. Overall, the people liked controversy which eventually turned into everything that Bruno Sammartino doesn't believe in, but hey it worked and brought RAW the highest ratings ever.
My point here is how can Bruno Sammartino have an actual valid point with how "trashy" the industry is as if it really hurts the promotion/s (mainly the WWE) when ever all of that stuff brought the WWE to one of their all-time highs that did nothing but help the promotion.
I loved the Stone Cold character overall and no matter what, I wouldn't change a thing he did back in his days. I could care less if it's not appropriate for children or if it offends old people. To be honest, I thought DX was the shit and still do (reference to the original DX which the current DX is more for kids).
I'm just sick and tired of hearing Bruno Sammartino rant on and on when everything he doesn't believe in piratically saved the WWE's asses from being a home video collection for a future WCW 24/7 On-Demand service. Sometimes people needs to live in reality and realize things changes throughout time. The only problems now is the WWE is they focuses on bringing in wrestlers with more looks than talent. Hell, if the WWE would hire the correct wrestlers and re-write the entire "Attitude era", I'm sure the WWE could be in a new all time high. Hell, there's MANY wrestlers from the past that still follows the industry and even make appearances here and there including Harley Race, Billy Graham, etc.
This thread is just on how Bruno rants on problems that did nothing but help the industry in the 90's. I don't see what is so exciting about going back 4 decades to watch when someone would put his opponent in a headlock for 40 minutes long. However, I do agree with him when it comes to the drug issues (he went as far as discontinue to speak with his own son due to steroid use) in the industry, but drugs in the business is NOT what this thread is about. It's just off topic.
It's 1:03AM, I'm dead tired and caught some typos and bad grammer but please excuse me this one time.