The Bouncing Articles: Wrestling viewers

The Bouncing Articles

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The Bouncer

             I was looking at some old articles from different writers, and instead of continuing my review of the SVR series into this week, I am going to give this article a shot. I know that there was a similar one that was published, but I asked the writer of that article for permission in writing this. He accepted, and so here it is. We will look at different wrestling fans and “fans” from MY PERSPECTIVE!!!! Well, let's get started!!!!

The anti attitude era “fans”

             These are the fans that HATE anybody who may have some sort of positive feeling towards the Attitude Era. What is wrong with this? THEY WORSHIP THE PG ERA. You cannot say one thing that the PG era lacks without being scolded by these “fans”. If you say “remember that first blood match...” they will be extremely quick to react with “WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM???? IT ISN'T ENOUGH THAT THEY PUT THEIR BODY ON THE LINE? NOW THEY HAVE TO BLEED??” etc. Anyways, these people do not appreciate the Attitude Era, and say that anybody who watched it MUST stop living in the past. Maybe instead of telling that to the fans of the Attitude Era, you can tell Vince to start trying to make the present at LEAST decent.

The 'YOU FORGOT ____' “fans”

             Do not tell me that you have not ran into these kinds of “fans”. These are the people that do not let you make a top ANYTHING list without them getting extremely mad that you did not include their favorite wrestlers. Here is a conversation that I had with one of these “fans”:

“Fan”: Who are your top ten of all time?

The Bouncer: John Morrison, Rob Van Dam, Ken Shamrock, a tie between Snitsky and Ken Kennedy...

“Fan”: I hate ties, but go on.

The Bouncer: Then it is Jack Swagger, Connor O'Brian, Cody Rhodes, Dolph Ziggler, and finally Billy Gunn.

“Fan”: WHAT???? YOU ARE SUCH A STUPID IDIOT!!!! You forgot Stone Cold, The Rock, Eddie Guerrero, Randy Savage, Triple H, John Cena, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Undertaker, Shawn Michaels, Dusty Rhodes, Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Jim Neidhart, Kane, Christian, Edge, Chris Jericho, and of course CM Punk!!!!

The Bouncer: I would love to see your top ten. Here are my only two rules, which I got from you. Rule one, it must contain all of those wrestlers you just named. Rule two, there cannot be any ties.

             Do you get that? You HAVE to have all of those wrestlers on your top ten, or else they WILL get mad at you.

Bandwagoners

             We all knew that I couldn't make an article like this without talking about bandwagoners. If they see that a wrestler is getting followers, what do these people do? They hop onto the bandwagon. Why do they do this? Is it to fit in? My theory is that they do it to make everybody think that they know what they are talking about. There are the other types of bandwagoners that just go after whoever is the current champion. There were a lot of these in about 2007. Another case of bandwagoning is with Zack Ryder. It is now showing that people are getting sick of him. I say that Zack Ryder could have done without Green Day in his video, and maybe his supporters will still be here to support him, rather than just loathe at his “fans”.

Reverse bandwagoners

             I don't know what else to call them. These people HATE success. They do not want their “fave” wrestlers to win a world title. If a wrestler does win a world title, they are going to hate them. There are not a lot of these, but this still needed to be added into this article.

The fans who see things how it is

             This type is my favorite. That is all I am going to see about them. The title speaks for itself, and it does not need extra explaining.

The “fans” that only look at merchandise sales

             These people probably don't even watch matches, but they base wrestling skill on merchandise. Let me say that parents are going to buy stuff from whoever the champion is. John Cena was the champ for a year, so of course people bought a lot from him. Same thing with CM Punk. As soon as he became champion, he was able to make it to #1. The difference is that CM Punk can wrestle.

The anti-if “fans”

             This is the type that rivals the type that sees things for what they are. Let me explain the difference. Let's say the main event for Wrestlemania 30 would be Batista Vs. John Cena. It gets terrible ratings. The ones who see how it is would say “The match would have done better if there were better competitors, like John Morrison or Jack Swagger”. Here comes the anti-if fans saying “Well WWE did not do that”. All they do is state the obvious. Most provide nothing else to the arguments. You can try not to say “if”, but they may still find a way to state the obvious.

The “fans” that say that if you don't watch Indies, then you don't know anything

             Do NOT deny that you don't run into these kinds. They are going to hunt you DOWN for saying Daniel Bryan instead of Bryan Danielson. I don't mind them calling him Bryan Danielson, since I do almost the same thing by calling Mr. Kennedy by his pre-getting fired by Randy Orton (who got Kennedy fired) wrestling name. Anyways, they force a lot of people to watch Indies through fear. Some get afraid of being insulted, so they watch Indies. This isn't insulting anybody at all, but it is okay to watch whatever your preference is. Nobody should have to be pressured to watch Indies, or even TNA for that matter.

The Bouncing Q & A

Q: What has been the most disappointing world title reign?

A: That is a very tough one. I would make it a tie between Rob Van Dam's 2 week reign as double champion, Dolph Ziggler's ten minute reign as The World Heavyweight Championship holder, and Jack Swagger's reign as World Heavyweight champion. Dolph Ziggler's and Rob Van Dam's are obvious, but I want to speak more about Swagger's. Let's look at it. He gets an extremely triumphant victory over an injured Chris Jericho. After that, he loses to John Morrison in the OPENER on Smackdown. This was the ONLY time I did not want John Morrison to get a win over a world champion in a non title match. I wanted Jack Swagger to look like a good champion. Also, his ONLY defense was through DQ. After that, he loses it in a fatal 4 way, then loses after getting another shot at it. It was NOT Swagger's fault. He was easily able to keep me interested in everything he had to say. I was definitely over, so he did his job. It was just TERRIBLE writing. Jack Swagger deserved a longer reign with REAL title defenses.

             Well, that is it! I hope you enjoyed it, and if I defended any of you, I am apologizing for it right now. Remember, if you have a REASONABLE question that you would like to ask me, what are you waiting for? Ask it!!!!

Comments

1. Comment #1

   Correction, jack swagger had 2 defenses, he beat randy Orton at extreme rules in an extreme rules match (great match) and got DQ'd to keep the title at over the limit to then lose it to a very worthy competitor in rey Mysterio (good for rey)

   Posted by viper on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

2. Comment #2

   Juggernaut, why did you add a space after your first open parenthesis?
   
   The Sound, it would be nice if you got your facts straight, then it would most likely be a better argument. Please refer to where I stopped liking Ryder because he got more fans.
   
   Viper, Jack and Swagger are proper nouns, so capitalization is required.

   Posted by The Bouncer on Saturday, January 28, 2012

3. Comment #3

   what you does not seem to understand is that you yourself are an Anti Bandwagon (as even though you didn't say so it is obvious that you think of yourself as a part of the fans that see things as it is (witch is actually what you think, not was is necessarily true)) you feel that EVERY legend is overrated and that everyone in the main event picture is bad. As soon as Zack Ryder received fans and a push you stopped liking him, you seem to always wan't to go the other way than most of the fans.
   
   I enjoy your articles from time to time but this was just plain bad as you show very little insight into the wrestling Business and your own stand as well.

   Posted by The Sound on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

4. Comment #4

   Bouncer, you are forgetting a very important type of fans in your article: The "everything I say is a fact by my standards" kind of fan, which pretty much consists of you.
   
   I give an example from your own article:"
   
   He was easily able to keep me interested in everything he had to say. I was definitely over, so he did his job".
   
   See the irony? So if YOU believe in a wrestler, that makes him do his job perfectly and the entire WWE board of directors should think:
   
   Hmm, The Bouncer ( who writes lame articles) says that Jack Swagger is doing a good job. Since he is the sole person responsible for all our profits, let's keep (Jack Swagger in this case) the WWE champion for a year now!
   
   I guess that is not gonna happen, Mr. Bouncer (who writes lame articles).
   
   Thank you for your attention.
   
   Juggernaut has Spoken

   Posted by Juggernaut on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

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