I just finish reading this article: http://www.camelclutchblog.com/monday-night-wars-march/
It’s about professional wrestling and how, wrestling entertainment Juggernaut, WWE may finally have some competition; TNA.
Growing up I watched wrestling all the time; I would talk about at school with my friends. We grew up in the golden age of wrestling when WWE was in their attitude era, going up against WCW. The trusure of seeing The Rock and Stone Cold, my favorites, facing Mankind, The Undertaker, and The McMahons kept me glued to WWE.
Wrestling’s death came once WWE bought out WCW. I was still watching because the storylines of an invasion from the competition were fantastic. The coming of the 2000′s helped Chris Jericho, another favorite, quickly reach success. He used the gimmick of Y2K and the anticipation of a new decade to draw my attention as well as many others.
Only WWE was around and I started growing older… anyway I’m going to skip the rest of my history story and start analyzing.
This entire article is an ad. It brings up how TNA is going up against WWE on Monday Nights now. Which means competition. Competiton made WWE write better storylines and have better talent, back in the day. Once they bought out the opposition, they began focusing on their audience and how to make more money off them. Their audience is the young crowd with several adults too. I stopped watching when they kept John Cena as Chamion for an entire year only to push his merchandise and because the fans liked him most. WWE now uses guest host, who are popular at the time, to host shows to draw in their audience as well.
WWE has guest hosts and the article advertised Cheech and Chong as hosts as well as The Rock. I am a fan of these guys, so after a couple years of forgetting about wrestling I’ll be tuning in to see program them and which program, TNA or WWE, creates the best universe. Because we all know it’s ”Real”.
The use of competition fuels both programs to create better storylines and then becomes beneficial to the audiences. They are focusing on entertainment and quality of the product they put out rather than spitting (I wanted to use another S word, but didn’t, which you might be thinking about now) out whatever the kids want, because the kids want it and will force their parents to get it for them. Better business more money.
With the draw of quality, I’m hoping, and old favorites , I’ll see for myself if wrestling is being resurrected.
