Well yeah its always been that way. But I don't recall one quite as fully blatant as this. Every square inch will be covered in ads, but not entire basic skits to this level.
But maybe I'm just filtering them all out of memory as well.
A few years ago there was a Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match. They shut off the lights and the wrestlers wrestled in a day-glo ring, covered in Mountain Dew ads
Guess I'm just out of the loop too much, so my opinion is worth little here. But probably for the best, because I'm far too cynical to enjoy anything if I see that.
I suppose I'll just rewatch my old attitude era tapes some more.
People lose their mind if a wrestling show gets a 3 share in the ratings. They don't understand during the Attitude Era WWF/WCW were getting 5 and 6 shares. The Attitude Era was an amazing time to be a wrestling fan
Well yeah its always been that way. But I don't recall one quite as fully blatant as this. Every square inch will be covered in ads, but not entire basic skits to this level.
But maybe I'm just filtering them all out of memory as well.
A few years ago there was a Mountain Dew Pitch Black Match. They shut off the lights and the wrestlers wrestled in a day-glo ring, covered in Mountain Dew ads
Pure Dorito Pope level, nice.
Guess I'm just out of the loop too much, so my opinion is worth little here. But probably for the best, because I'm far too cynical to enjoy anything if I see that.
I suppose I'll just rewatch my old attitude era tapes some more.
People lose their mind if a wrestling show gets a 3 share in the ratings. They don't understand during the Attitude Era WWF/WCW were getting 5 and 6 shares. The Attitude Era was an amazing time to be a wrestling fan
Its honestly the peak in terms of mixing all possible avenues from what people desired.
Story? Gimmicks? Technically impressive? Titties? Things to make you cool at school?
You had someone doing one or more of those things at any time. Everything before and after was missing some part of that.
Then there was the time they had Dolph Ziggler wrestle dressed as Colonel Sanders.
It may be rose colored glasses, but I suspect it got worse after Rahm Emmanuel's brother bought the promotion.