Wrestlers back in the day >Big muscled up men >were actually

Wrestlers back in the day
>Dead or crippled before 60.

Wrestlers today
>Alive

>What the fuck happened to this business?
It improved.

>>2901813
>What the fuck happened to this business?

Steroid awareness, drug awareness, STD awareness.

WWE is a high profile company, and a publicly traded one too. They pretty much have to keep their talent as healthy as possible, because it is, as Vince himself would say, best for business.

There's still tons of Roid heads on the Indies, but WWE won't touch that shit for the most part.

Interesting side note though, part timers are not subject to the wellness policy rules. That's why people like HHH, Cena, The Rock, and Lesnar look blown up to hell a lot of the time.

If a guy is big and know how to throw a punch, he goes to boxing or UFC for becoming rich. Only a geek is stupid enough for trying a career on wrestling knowing he won't have a health insurance, won't be signed as a full-time worker and he won't have an union.

>>2901813
Don't worry, today's wrestlers would still kick your fat ass.

>>2901813
>Social media
every little scandal is blown up and exposed now
>Corporate responsibility
WWE will lose sponsors if you do anything edgy

>>2901813
Lmao you're deluded if you think today wrestlers don't also drink, fuck girls and so drugs. They're just quieter about it, goddamn mark.

>You now realize guys fueled on steroids painkillers and cocaine made the greatest generation ever

>>2901823
Hi sanjay

>>2901822
How come Ryback was in the company for so long, then?

>>2901813

SJW's happened. Just like what happened to video games.

It's why we have Tiwnk05 Live and no guys like Steiner

>>2901967
aside from literally killing you, that combo does literally turn you into a superman.

>>2901813
>ring rats are virtually non-existent
lol

I was listening to a podcast where a retired wrassler, I forget who, was talking about the locker room atmosphere. He thought it's weird how they're all good friends now, compared to his time when people would legitimately stab each other in the back to get ahead and haze each other and generally have a rougher atmosphere. I wonder how much it affects in-ring performance when there's no tension backstage

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>what happened
Manlets happened. First Eddie and Benoit fucked up with steroid abuse, so now we got given skinnyfat scumbags like Phil. Then Phil got given a mic and awoke the cancerous smarks. Then the smarks started begging for no draw manlets to be pushed to the moon. Then Bryan finally killed wrestling and the ratings by winning at Wrestlemania 30. Now look at the state of the company. BEGGING indie talent to work for them. It's pathetic.

>are bigger marks than the fans in the seats

Hogan literally cried like a bitch on camera when he lost his belt. If you think dudes back then weren't fucking omega marks you're kidding yourself.

>>2902487

But there's a difference between being sad that you lost the belt because the champion makes the most money and being sad that you lost the belt because you're no longer seen as the best at fake fighting

>>2902495

Are you honestly trying to imply that Hogan was the former and not obviously the latter?

>>2902504

Not necessarily Hogan. But guys like Brody and Hanson who refused to job.

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>>2901822
>Implying Haitch and BMJ do steroids instead of using their vast wealth and access to their own personal trainers to bulk up naturally

>>2901813
Sure thing del rio, that's why xavier woods a fucking "video game dweeb" fucked your fiancé??

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>>2901813
It's not just the wrestlers either, modern wrestling fans are SJW women/children/nu-males

>OP thinks a jacked-up roidpig knows how to fight

>>2902460
Reminder the worst drawing WWF Champion of all-time was roided-up lanklet Diesel.

>>2902761
>unironically posting this

>>2902538

Fair enough I'll give you that, all I'm trying to say is that wrestlers being gigantic marks for themselves and the business is nothing new.

>>2901813
>Wrestlers back in the day
Every women's """""""""wrestler""""""""" is a fucking ringrat. You think Paige was the exception? She's the rule...

>>2904021
Meant to quote
>ring rats are virtually non-existent

My failure brings embarrassment upon my family.

>>2902460
/thread

The same shit that happened to ratings, the rest of the world changed around wrestling. "Back in the day", it was standard for people to look and act like neanderthals because there was fuck all else to do for entertainment besides playing sports and fuck all else to do for a job besides blue collar, industrial shit.

Now we have advanced technology that doesn't take up an entire room and live in a post-industrial society. Roidmonkeys are no longer more successful because, short of making it big in a legit combat sport, or living your whole life in Shithole, Montana, where there's still room to make a career out of manual labor, there's nothing for them to do.

>Mick Foley.

>>2901822
Name one guy who died from steroids alone.

>>2901813
Just watch gayporn

>>2904101
And just a heads up - traps count as gay porn.

>>2901813
>What the fuck happened to this business?

Shawn Michaels and the Kliq.

Your green text for the 2nd part is Shawn to a T

>>2901813
wrestlers "back in the day" were majoritively fat and out of shape

the whole roided up era was a small and unsustainable blip in the history of wrestling. more often than not wrestlers have looked like average people

>Only thing that matters is money
>Would have a stroke anytime someone came close to "exposing the buisness"
>Petty enough to haze people to test their loyalty

All you faggots romantizing the past generations need to accept that no amount of propaganda will change all wreslers are fucking geeks.

Stop trying to spit in the face of the current roster, it's a fucking circus show and they're still putting their bodies on the line.

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>>2904143

"back in da day" to /asp/ is 2000's WWE.

>>2902585
>I have no idea what I'm talking about, but went to /fit/ once

>>2901813
i think is way better to live a healthy life style than being on drugs

>>2901813
>What the fuck happened to this business?
They aren't all on coke all the time anymore

>>2901822
Yeah, cause Strowman, Reigns, Rollins etc. are totally natty, right?

>>2901822
the loophole is if you get a doctor to prescribe you TRT you can just medically roid

Vince, HHH, The Rock etc. and all the prime guys most likely have doctor's prescriptions for pharma grade test and growth hormone etc

>>2901904
it's not as prominent as it used to be you cuck

>>2904125
Autistic Bret cuck spotted

>>2905211
I hate Bret cucks! Always trying to rewrite history. Y'all want to know where it all went wrong? It was the moment No Dimes Hart went to WCW and ruined them to the point they went out of business. No competition = no need to evolve.

Fucking Shitman deserves his miserable cripple life rotting in his own personal hell.

>>2901822
>Steroid awareness
Meaning what, exactly?

>>2901967
There are people on this board that didn't know this already?

>>2902460
END OF THREAD

>>2902453
No one gives a fuck about pushing ahead because the company either likes you or not. You're either one of there guys or you're not. There is no competition. Most guys are just happy to be there, and top guys can just be shit for years and no one cares, like Orton.

>>2904186
>they're still putting their bodies on the line.
No one cares how many bumps these morons take.
>Stop trying to spit in the face of the current roster
But they're an unwatchable band of geeks.

>>2901967
I want to relive those days once again

>>2905249
It's over man. Just be glad it happened.

>>2904585
Vince roiding at 90, haha!