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Lack Of Older People Attending Wrestling Shows
Jun 17th, 2010, 1:51pm  
Have you noticed how while you used to see people of all ages at wrestling shows back in the 70's and early 80's, that now you see very few middle aged or old people at wrestling shows anymore?
 
Today's product is appealing to a much narrower age range, which consists of primarily kids and young adults.  About the only time you might see people a little older is if they're there because their kids really wanted to go and so their kids needed a parent to come along with them to drive them there and keep an eye on them.  The parents aren't necessarily fans of wrestling though.
 
What do you think will be the implications of the wrestling business appealing to such a narrow age range now compared to in the past?
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Re: Lack Of Older People Attending Wrestling Shows
Reply #1 - Jun 17th, 2010, 2:02pm  
Quote from KennyKendall on Jun 17th, 2010, 1:51pm:
What do you think will be the implications of the wrestling business appealing to such a narrow age range now compared to in the past?

 
The implications are pretty obvious. There's probably an average of ONE major show a night each week in the US nowadays (and that's just spreading out each week's RAW and Smackdown tours,) compared to multiple shows in the past. It's a different ballgame nowadays and I don't think it will ever change.
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Reply #2 - Jun 17th, 2010, 2:17pm  
A TRUE wrestling fan would not have to ask questions like this. They would already know that wrestling (if that is what they call what they do now) shows nowadays are very few compared to when the guys had to wrestle every day of the week and sometimes two to three times a day.
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Reply #3 - Jun 19th, 2010, 11:31pm  
Meanwhile the sport of Mixed Martial Arts continues to grow.  Pro wrestling's loss is MMA's gain.  It's interesting to see how the best background for going into MMA is a strong wrestling background. Of course I mean actual wrestling such as freestyle and Greco-Roman, or having excellent collegiate wrestling credentials.
 
It seems to me that we're seeing the sport come full circle from when pro wrestling was a shoot, to the time when it was a work but the pro wrestlers usually had a strong amateur background, to less and less emphasis on the ability to shoot, to the point where they've stopped even trying for believability in WWE and TNA now.  
 
Without believability in today's pro wrestling product, the mature fans turn more and more to watching MMA.  
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Reply #4 - Jun 28th, 2010, 8:08am  
in a nutshell wrestling isnt the same in the 70s-80s  as it is now the product they put out now is total crap wrestling has no meaning as to a story line like back in the early yrs when you could draw up a angle and run it for 6-10 weeks and it kept you interested now days it a different attidude of workers
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