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Message: [QUOTE="MDTed, post: 1384221, member: 32475"] Many years ago, in the mid 1970's, I was in Charlotte. It was right after my first college degree, I took a job at the Charlotte paper just to pass time during the summer before going back for my master's. Back in those days wrestling was held in high school gyms or other small places. Arenas were out of the question. I was in a bar one evening when Greg Valentine and Ric Flair came in. Being a northerner I had no idea who they were but they sat down at the table with me and, many drinks and hours later, I was talked into not only going to see them wrestle but to take part. So the next evening I went to some dinky gym, there were maybe 200 people there at the most. I had a nice ringside seat and orders to come out of the crowd once Flair threw his opponent near me (can't remember the opponent, he was never a star) and then I was to "smash" him in the head with my shoe (a tennis shoe) which would "render him insensible" and then I was to "help" him back in the ring while Flair kept the referee occupied so Flair could put on the figure 4 and win. Well, it's a good thing I went with Flair back to the dressing room area, otherwise the crowd would have killed me. Those people evidently didn't understand that it wasn't real. The only televised wrestling I really liked was the old WCW, before Nitro, when it was aired on the weekends. It was always on TBS with Gordon Solie as the announcer and it was just great. The WWE lost me when it became PG rated. When it became more about the act and less about the wrestling. TNA definitely is not PG rated, it's fairly close to R rated at times. What I'm curious about is whether TNA can attract the proper audience (18-39) that advertisers want while competing with WWE on Monday nights. If they can then WWE will be forced to actually care about the product they present to the viewers and in person audiences. I'm hoping TNA becomes real competition. They already have the far better wrestling and personalities. As long as all the old guys Hogan is dragging in there only stay long enough to put over the newer ones, it will work. If they depend on the old guys winnings matches and belts, it will fail. [/QUOTE]

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