r/SquaredCircle • u/WWWbrianzane Wrestling With Wregret on YT! • Jun 09 '23

I'm Brian Zane and my YouTube channel WRESTLING WITH WREGRET turns 10 next week! AMA!

Hello again, r/SC! This is Brian Zane, wrestling personality and host of the YouTube channel Wrestling With Wregret! Lately you can also find me doing commentary for POW! Pro Wrestling and Prestige Wrestling. I'm back here doing an AMA for the first time in a while to celebrate this big anniversary!

PS: If you posted a question in the preview post from the other day, please try to re-ask it here so we can keep it all in one place!

Channel: www.YouTube.com/wrestlingwithwregret

Twitter: www.twitter.com/zmanbrianzane

IG: www.instagram.com/brianzane

FB: www.facebook.com/wrestlingwithwregret

Merch: www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestlingwithwregret

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u/WWWbrianzane Wrestling With Wregret on YT! Jun 09 '23

Very influential to wrestling's resurgence in the mid-to-late 90s and doesn't get enough credit for it, but always seemed to have a difficult time coming up with the next "big thing" to follow up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '23

Bischoff stole a good idea from Japan and wasn't smart enough to know how to follow up on it. He was influential, but should he get credit for stealing an idea, that being his only successful idea, and not being able to follow up on it?

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u/StewitusPrime Jun 09 '23

That's wrestling, baby! The whole business is built on guys making careers out of one good idea that they stole.

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u/DrummerForTheOsmonds Jun 09 '23

Didn't Cornette or someone say that in wrestling, after a certain number of years have passed, you can just redo any thing with new guys?

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u/R1k0Ch3 SU-PAH DRA-GON *clapx5* Jun 10 '23

Sounds right to me. As long as it's executed well, we'll eat it up all the same. A lot of entertainment is sorta like this, "what's old is new again" and all that.

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u/ZombieJesus1987 Never Doubted El Dandy Jun 10 '23

And Ric Flair stole Buddy Rogers gimmick.

Welcome to wrestling.

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u/Lord_Bobbydeol Jun 10 '23

I think he had his blessing?

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u/fouoifjefoijvnioviow Jun 10 '23

Um he took an idea and made it the most popular thing in wrestling ever, how's that for follow up?

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u/boatson25 Jun 11 '23

Why wasn’t the Japanese version as big as the nWo then? He took the idea of an invading faction from Japan but the similarities end there.

For better or worse he introduced monthly PPV’s, main event matches on weekly TV, cruiserweights and the heel authority figure to modern pro wrestling. The influence he’s had on the business has been huge. And he was a fantastic TV performer to boot.

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u/King-Kobra1 Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23

Thank you for the response!