[Weirdwolf]

Yep, I miss the old days as well. The WWE as it is today has just killed pro wrestling in general to me. I used to work with a local wrestling promotion (helped with ring set up, sometimes ran the intro music off my laptop, made and hung fliers, and did security during shows) and it was awesome. I got to meet great people in the business.

I just got tired of people telling me they weren't interested in "that fake crap" when I tried to talk it up to people and get them interested in coming to the shows. They'd seen what's on TV now and it ruined it for them. It's all about sex and extracurricular activities that's going on backstage and not the in-ring performance at all. Most of the current-gen wrestlers have talent, but it's seldomly used to its fullest potential. I just can't watch it anymore. Couple that with not being able to afford traveling to our shows very little pay (if any) for what I did, just a free ticket in and the ability to go backstage, I stopped on the indie scene too.

Vince McMahon has just poisoned pro wrestling and I fear it may never recover, especially with other similar sports out there like MMA people can watch.