Are You Ordering WWE Elimination Chamber?

Modern wrestling is like modern sports - super produced and flashy. I'll admit that the things I enjoyed when I was younger have an allure to them that todays stuff doesn't. Part of it is in the production. Watching old baseball games and football games you had these clean classic uniforms with great design and the visuals on screen were simple and the announcers were all dressed nice and did a great job. Contrast that with the wild uniform designs, the flashy graphics (and sheer amount) and the announcers that sound lazy but look like they're dressed for Paris . . . it just doesn't feel the same.

Wrestling was like that. They'd have those old school interview sessions in the back with Okerlund. Hogan or Piper would rail on and then you'd see them come out to ring side with a little music but simple bar barricades and regular trunks and attire. The focus on wrestling was a little talk before hand and then a match. Today it is much more about the whole experience. Fireworks and pyro and extreme graphics and if you watch the weekly shows its less wrestling and more talk. It doesn't feel as much like an "actual" sporting event as they used to make it feel like. Thats part of the allure of wrestling, its entertainment for guys and guys like sports. So they put on stories centered around a "sport". Its less and less about the ring work these days.

Fortunately there are guys that are worth watching, both on the mic (like Piper used to) and in ring. CM Punk, Chris Jericho, Cody Rhodes is getting there, Daniel Bryan (Bryan Danielson if you want to look up his indy time), a guy named Dolph Ziggler is great in ring (reminds me of a lean Mr. Perfect). The biggest problem isn't with the stars - its with the people booking the shows.

I do urge you to look those guys up (you may know Jericho).