>>13663620>Peak WCW/WWE was tons of backstage and in ring promos. NWO open show, DX open show, Austin will respond to McMahon’s challenge, Rock, etc. Christ the highest rated segment during the attitude era was talking.The thing you don't get is that all of these were short and simple. You had Austin, DX, nWo, Sting, etc and it never took more than 5-10 mins from the whole show. The rest were matches. Go watch a single show form Nitro-Raw in 96-00, you won't find any of that modern WWE crap. It's short, doesn't overstay its welcome and it is always impactful and sweet. Promos and segments are great in wrestling, but you have to know when to limit them
>NJPW didn’t revive anything. It peaked at 20k us subscribers for world almost 10 yearsFlat out lie. NJPW peaked at 130k subscribers. Which isn't something to scoff at given they are a foreign company which absolute dogshit antiquated management and NJPW World sucks in general
>Ratings continued to die for years and years until Vince hit on something with the Judgement Day and BloodlineYou can literally bring prime Rock, Sting, Hogan and Austin in modern day WWE and they wouldn't change the ratings at all. Because no matter how great they are, it's the product that drives the viewers, not the stars themselves. Austin can't really be PG, nor Sting can be the Crow without the mass grunge rock appeal of the 90s
>AEW’s numbers reflect itIf anything, AEW has kept far more stable than WWE. They have gone down from their peak but not from the overall trend they've had. They've always been in the 800-1m range. You can argue that they haven't seen growth, that much is correct, but they also haven't been going down either.
>You can get all faggy and angry about it but you just want to imagine some guy fucking your face while putting you in a hold.Why did you have to insert your homoerotic fantasies here?
