@Lost_My_Mind - eviltoast
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  • Soooooooo, after watching the whole thing, I’m not sure who the audience is for this?

    It’s nothing new that hasn’t been said over the years. So wrestling fans will have nothing new gained here. It’s nothing that non-wrestling fans would ever watch. So it’s not for wrestling fans. It’s not for non-wrestling fans…who is it for?

    I don’t get why everyone was saying this will be damning to WWE. And how it’s going to paint them in a bad light. I don’t see that. It painted Vince exactly how he’s been known for years to be.

    It’s using old, known facts, and nothing more.

    It uses an editing style that kind of bothers me. They’ll take someone talking about a real life event, and showcase it with footage from a storyline that vaugely matches up with what’s being said.

    It’s almost as if the directors of the documentary was finding out all of this stuff as he was producing the documentary, and thought it would be shocking stuff, not knowing his main audience is watching and saying to themselves things like “Actually, Stephanies introduction to WWE wasn’t the Test storyline, it was the Undertaker abduction angle…” because wrestling fans are lifelong and have dedicated memories for this stuff.

    The only thing I learned is that Vince the human is legitimately a psychopath with no ability to feel empathy, probably has ADHD, and has no ability to view things from the other side.

    Overall, I’m not going to say it’s bad…but it’s far from the must see documentary that will change the industry I thought it was supposed to be. It feels more like a retrospective of the WWF/WWE, as told through the eyes of Vince. Honestly, the WWE produced dvd “McMahon” back in 2006 revealed more shocking stuff (for the time) that we didn’t know than this did.


  • But my point is that you look at what I described, and realize what it would take to pull that off. First off, you need a fanbase sizable enough to do something like that. You also need the cash flow, and distribution to produce essentially 4 weekly TV shows all at the same time. Obviously it couldn’t be live, but it is still 4 different venues in 4 different countries, with international travel for at least a portion of the roster on a weekly basis.

    And I don’t think that’s possible once you realize how low budget and limited their logistics are.








  • You guys are going about this all wrong. All you gotta do is connect your smart tv to the internet. Don’t use pihole. Let your tv communicate exactly how it wants to. Then buy some DVDs of local indy pro wrestling. The kind where women staple each other with staple guns, and smash light tubes over each others heads and bleed profusely.

    Now…why would you do this? Because advertisers HATE advertising with pro wrestling. They also have nothing TO advertise for women with bloody faces, and broken noses.

    Let THAT data get back to them. Who’s going to advertise to the guy who watches pro-wrestling from a high school gym where women leave pools of blood on the ground??? If everyone did this, for 10 hours a day, advertisers would deem the American market not worth the money to advertise to.