I was a big wrestling fan as a kid, and still regularly watched until about a decade ago, around the end of the Attitude Era. Would anybody be able to give me a very breif rundown of what's happening now?
Whenever i've tried to delve back into it in recent years i've been very disappointed. Technically it's probably improved, so my guess would be that if you're a traditionalist you'd still quite enjoy it, but there seem to be very few great characters nowadays, which is what drew me to it more than technique. They have far too many PPVs and the episodes of Raw and Smackdown look to exclusively to build up storylines for said PPVs. The storylines, to the half-interested eye, look boring and unoriginal, and the match-making dull - too many former stars getting wheeled out to up the PPV figures.
The only character i've liked when i've watched the odd episode was CM Punk. He struck me as a real throwback, an oldschool heel who was good on the mic and could work the crowd, quite a traditional grappler as well. The rest, well, a bit meh. Perhaps i'm just too old.
