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Originally Posted by molson
Even if the guy wasn't a scammer and was able to put together a coherent 8 episode season or whatever, could he have done the same thing over 110ish TV/PPV shows a year? 160 if you count Main Event? And draw several million people for every TV show and several hundred thousand paying $50 for every PPV? While dealing with injuries/talent defections/etc?
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Probably not, and personally, that is the big drawback to wrestling for me. At some point it became so over exposed that you get about 8 hours of it during a week. Quite truthfully, they probably lost me when Thunder and Smackdown debuted. They went from a single two hour "big" show a week to two of them.
I could handle not watching the garbage shows, but now you are starting to force me to dedicate two nights a week to you. I just lost alot of interest at that point.
Also I've seen some people talking about guys like Cena and other guys. The point I make is that a guy like Hogan was on top for almost a decade in the WWF. For much of that time he was only wrestling on PPV's and the big SNME. So you would see the guy, maybe 8-10 times a year. Nowadays the big stars are forced down peoples throats that many times in a month. It just makes the long reign of a guy like Cena even harder to swallow for alot of fans(myself included, I only watch about a half hour to an hour of wrestling a week as I flip channels, but Cena is an auto turn the channel at this point.)
At this point it is almost like Hogan ran wild for 40 years in terms of exposure. I'm not sure there is a fix for this. The guy has to be making money, but I would suspect his major audience would be people who didn't even know wrestling existed/were not alive when his reign started.
Seems I just need to come to terms with the fact that wrestling just isn't for me anymore.