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How Come Nobody Posts in Pororesu anymore?

AceBrentonJrPosted on 06/06/04 at 00:39:13

Just wondering? It seems that if they want to talk about pororesu they do it in the WWE forum??
PulsarPosted on 06/06/04 at 08:03:07

Cause the wrestling world is a complete blur right now. Everyone's waiting for the Next Big Thing (not Brock) to bring the life back into a dying body.

If people aren't even interested into what they see in the states, they're not even going to realize what's happening elsewhere.

It seems more and more, the older wrestlers are outnumbering the new school. You do have some future stars in John Cena, Randy Orton and AJ Styles, but none the level of Bret Hart, Stone Cold, Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage and the such.

When both America's and Japan's economy are struggling, there's just not enough money to go around. I think the numbers of careers ending in the last two years has not helped out wrestling at all. In Japan, you had Hayabusa who brought alot of American fans of ECW into watching FMW. Hayabusa went down, and then so did FMW.

When the wrestling world is losing the top dogs, there's not much to hold a steady audience. I'm sure, although I'm not a huge following, is having the same struggles. Also, they are suffering for the same reasons American feds are.

I most likely didn't answer your question, but that should be good enough.
H8-SuperstarPosted on 07/31/04 at 07:17:03

Here's why. FMW IS DEAD! Experimental wrestling is dead in Japan. Garbage matches? BJPW and quite few Jap feds took their style. Sports entertainment? It said it will never get over. Well look at DDT, awful World 1, and Hustle. Whoever said (and I'm sure there hundreds of them) sports entertainment will never get over in Japan is an idiot. FMW was pretty much experimental wrestling in Japan. Now its dead Jap wrestling isn't fun to watch.
americamamushiPosted on 07/31/04 at 07:48:27

Japanese fans will never take storyline over wrestling.  (thank god)  Having the WWE comes every now and then and having their shows on TV is one thing, but Japanese fans (at least for the most part) couldn't really give a flying crap about angles and sotrylines like we as americans know them.  They care more about fighting spirit than anything else.  It's just that puro, like american wrestling has it's ups and downs with fans.  This is just kinda one of the downs.  The only big stuff (that I can think of off the top of my head) that has happened lately (or will happen soon) is Muto wrestling against Misawa in that tag match in NOAH, Misawa making a his return to AJPW to wrestle a match, and Ultimo Dragon changing things around at his dojo making Toryumon Dragon Gate or whatever happened (it's late, I can't remember)... hee hee... dragon gate... that sounds like a japanese wrestling scandal ;D

Anyawy I don't think it has anything really to do with the death of FMW.  And Japanese wrestling is still fun to watch if you're a true puro fan, cause you'd be watching it for the skill of the wrestlers and their fighting spirit.
Rick GarrardPosted on 07/31/04 at 17:50:11

isn't Dragon Gate when Bischoff and WCW sent Ultimo Dragon to get his elbow worked on  by the doctor that messed it up even further thusly ending Dragon's career for a couple of years?  ;)
americamamushiPosted on 07/31/04 at 18:40:47

to quote some TV show that I can't remember the name of at the moment...

"*hard laughter*I think I just peed a little" ;Dlol
PulsarPosted on 08/01/04 at 04:56:23

That was some stand up comedian on Comedy Central Presents:  she was like 50