Vince Russo - 'Only nerds watch wrestling'

Former WWE Head Writer Vince Russo feels like casual fans have stopped watching WWE and AEW. He feels like it's only a small hardcore minority of 'nerds' who watch professional wrestling these days. Former WWE star EC3 has a much more positive outlook. He talks about how pro wrestling can be cool again in a promo on this week's edition of The Wrestling Outlaws. Hosted by Dr. Chris Featherstone, this is an insightful conversation into whether you think the future of WWE and AEW is positive or negative.

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[cutiemarshall]

The problem is that you just can`t respect it anymore. These wrestlers are making double the salaries of a few years ago for working once a week and still they look like they have never seen the gym.

[Hunkzilla]

Most people dont seem to realise that Smackdown failing FOX has major implications for Pro Wrestling as a whole. FOX is free to air and the best they could do was like 2 Million viewers . That showed the state wrestling industry is in . Wrestling has gone back to the 1970s when it was a niche sport back then.

[BurgerQueenDoudrop]

Just finished the McMahon doc. The lack of any Russo mention during the Attitude episode really pissed me off.

[lamelmazerouno]

They are not creating new fan's like they did in the past. Now you have old fans coming back or die hard fans, children, that's it.

[travisford]

100% right on The money, Mr. Vince Russo, wrestling fans are geeks and nerds! Didn’t used to be that way, but that’s all it is now! And they all live their mom basement and probably Will for the rest of their lives

[BurgerQueenDoudrop]

For me the fans are the most pressing issue in modern wrestling. Even if I liked the current product I wouldn't dream of going to a show because I don't want to be associated with those weirdos.

[gregsullivan]

Vince is right! All the cool kids left the party at around 2002 and they are not coming back! Sad.

[alanchamberlain]

Wrestling isn’t believable anymore Bianca losing to Iyo, Bron Breaker losing to Sami Zayn and Sami fighting for the title. Where are all the bodies gone? You wanna watch wrestling and see very strong and fit men/women whatever your into. It’s too PG too no edge or storylines through out the show. The entrances and lack of pyro is awful. HHH just pushes the wrong people. He’s a mark and all the NXT people he pushes sucks. Beautiful women always draw money, they sacked Mandy Rose 🤦‍♂️ and got rid of Eva Marie.

[Hunkzilla]

Its been like this ever since Survivor series 2011 when the smarky fans attempted to hijack the show by crying out for Zack Ryder throughout the night . Nobody took them seriously until Wrestlenania. 28 after Daniel Bryan got destroyed by Sheamus in 20 seconds and then they proceeded to hijack the show throughout the night chanting Daniel Bryan's name. That was when the smarkys outnumbered the casuals in the live audience . The same smarkys would disgrace themselves by chanting "Husky Harris " during Bray Wyatt's debut and they also chanted "Seksual Chocolate " at world heavyweight champ Mark Henry when word got out that Henry was a bigger ratings draw than Christian .

Lets face it, there is a huge discrepancy between how certain wrestlers are over with the live audience and the fact that the same wrestlers draw low nunbers for tv ratings, PPV buys and House Shows despite being over with the live audience. I think Vince McMahon realised to his horror that the smarkys now outnumbered casuals in the live audience and he had been catering to them by pushing Daniel Bryan, CM Punk etc even though those wrestlers werent PPV and tv ratings draws hence why business eventually went down Vince was forced to rely on Brock Lesnar, Goldberg, Bobby Lashley, Undertaker etc during the latter stages of the dreaded 2010s just to boost PPV and tv ratings .

Some of those smarkys were so arrogant they demanded that Mr Mahon should feed Goldberg to Kevin Owens, Bray Wyatt and Dolph Ziggler . That should tell you how arrogant those smarky fans became . THere is no doubt they drove off the last of the casual fans .

[genarogilormino]

Pro wrestling is simply affraid of tackling current issues in society that people might identify with 😂because they are hot controversial topics 😂😂..Dr. Chris and Vince are 💯 correct. Wrestling doesn't want to be edgy anymore 😂

[Joby]

Yeah if wrestling is lame and nerdy then only nerdy people will watch it. Pretty simple...

[Robert-zvqu]

Russo is right. Mostly nerds watch wrestling. I asked a random girl who Roman Reigns was and she didn't know.

[AiresLA]

I can tell ya that in Europe that surely is the case, since they don't give us a legit way to keep up with things without resorting to pirate websites that publish the episodes.
We only get PLEs on time through the Network.

[nathanpreston]

Still packing arenas tho idk i went to summerslam had a goodtime and im a casual fan

[Maddux]

This is good stuff, guys. Keep up the good work.

[znqo]

I love these 3.
They tell it like it really is. Most wrestling fans are pimple faced goofy virgins

[genarogilormino]

Wrestling nerds/ geeks/ marks are brainwashed masses😂

[JAKJacobs]

Vince mcmahon did the same thing for too long

[travisford]

What is EC three close his eyes when he talks like basically he’s got him close, but his eyes are rolling underneath? It’s a little strange. I mean he’s a little strange. He’s cool but he’s a little strange. He’s the over Man cuz he’s over MAN!!!!

[stevemelnyk]

Grandpa Russo looks like a huge, old nerd to me. Certain wrestling promotions are for nerds but not AEW these days. With characters like Cody Rhodes, WWE has become a bit nerdy but otherwise I think that wrestling is heating up again.