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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dahak" data-source="post: 369592" data-attributes="member: 784">Raw (is Nitro).  As far as television goes, I'm a mark for sports entertainment, not professional wrestling. That said, I do enjoy going to indy wrestling shows. But I don't think TV gets across the nature of in-ring wrestling in any way other than making it look like a bunch of fake fighting and stunts.RAW has been admittedly horrible for the last two weeks, but still tends to entertain me more by wasting less time in the ring, and using more time for vignettes. SmackDown I largely fall asleep watching, and if I miss an episode I don't sweat it.  This weeks episode was great however, largely because they did a Sports Entertainment-oriented episode and did it WELL. NWA-TNA was actually a good blend between the two, though now they lean too much toward their "X division". If you want to watch this kind of action, believe me it's done just as well, sometimes better, in the non-televised indy promotions. CZW Fake You TV has replaced NWA Wildside in this area, which wouldn't be horribly bad, but CZW is about as bush league as it gets.  They try to do the vignettes, but they do so extremely poorly.  Two wrestlers go into a bar (seem like a punchline is coming?) where a newer wrestler is working as a bartender (world class wrestlers have day jobs? boy has kayfabe fallen by the wayside) and proceed to berate and belittle him. Their "world champion" Justice Pain attempts to cut a promo which lasts 8 minutes in which he stutters his way through how this title means to world to him (is that why it's a world title? god knows there is no NWA branch legitimacy...). I swear he makes Doug Gilbert look like less of a reject from early 80s Mid-South Wrestling.  Dear god, why didn't they give us 3PW instead? If I want to watch an ECW wannabe, at least give me one with some ECW talent in it. Sorry for the rant. What was the question again? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />oh yeah, shouldn't this be moved to the Non-RPG TV/Movie board?</blockquote>

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