Quote from JBLCENAFAN on Jul 12th, 2009, 1:40am:They scarred themselves permanently and the footage of it is now being ruined.
You're kidding right? I mean if you buy a old car from me I should follow you around and worry about what you do to it? Those guys got paid at the time for the matches. WCW sat on all the footage for years and did nothing , so alot of this is seeing the light of day for newer fans and now WWE is going back to being kiddie friendly and thus the changes. The footage is owned by Vince so he can do what he sees fit. I mean we had arcade then we got home vidoe game systems , get with the times sir. They are a changing...
I'm guessing you're under 30 years old. Am I right? What you have to realize is that there is a certain amount of respect you give to men who dedicated their lives to professional wrestling and scarred their bodies permanently just fir the enjoyment of the fans. These matches are part of history and the footage of the matches is being altered.
Suppose you were wealthy and bought a museum full of classic paintings and you decided that some of the classic paintings from years and years ago weren't "kid friendly" so you had the paintings altered to get rid if any nudity or violence depicted. Don't you think that would be disgraceful? There isn't anywhere else that people can see the pictures, and just because the artists got paid, that's your argument for it to be alright to alter these classics?
Vince McMahon owns classic film libraries which are very precious and beloved by fans of wrestling. They aren't kids; they're adults. But they can't view these films of matches in their original form just because of a marketing decision? What do you suppose would be the public reaction if the owner of The Salvador Dali Museum or some other museum of a famous artist decided to change the original paintings so that nobody could see them in their original form?
This is a matter of respecting the work of these wrestlers and keeping the footage of the matches inatct for the sake of history, so that people can continue to watch these matches AS THEY WERE MEANT TO BE SEEN.
If Vince McMahon wants to market to kids that's fine but don't destroy great works that are captured on film and can't be seen anywhere else. To do so is a huge disrespect to the wrestlers, the history of wrestling, and the people who love to see it.
RAW, Smackdown, and new ECW are already kid oriented. They're on free TV. The PPVs are kid oriented. Is it too much to ask to allow an adult who is willing to spend his money to watch matches with the scenes of blood intact to have the ability to do that? Children aren't buying WWE Classics subscriptions anyway. You need to be an adult with a credit card to order WWE Classics.