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Wrestling Journalism (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's a good source of wrestling news that respects the readers intelligence and time?

The amount of clickbait and non news is horrific and feels like it has gotten worse recently.

A good example is the recent Punk ESPN interview. We had a bunch of stories reporting that people are unhappy about it or it was a shoot before it even came out but it was clearly all above board.

When it did come out, websites like cultaholic split it up into about 5 different stories when all you had to do was read the one interview.

Wrestling news for the most part feels like YouTube reaction videos. One piece of news that then gets spun off into 100 opinion pieces and hearsay until the original story gets lost. That's if the original piece of news was even legit because there are hardly ever any tangible sources.

Or do you not read any 'news' and just enjoy the shows? I do wonder if enjoying wrestling and reading about wrestling are two entirely different hobbies sometimes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure anymore tbh, Meltzer and Alvarez are on my shitlist cause they are literally just trying to cause shit for Punk.
I used to watch a lot of WhatCulture but they now just seem to peddel the same stories as WON. so at the moment i am only getting news from the "Internet Wrestling Discord"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would avoid news sites if at all possible. If you absolutley need to know, find any article Mike Johnson has posted. He's usually right and unbiased. Stay away from Scherer, Meltzer, etc.

[–] uSirPatrick 1 points 1 year ago

I've just adjusted my expectations. The business of pro wrestling is just so closed off that the concept of traditional journalism is a tough one to pull off successfully. I read reports from folks like SRS with the fact in mind that the things that I'm reading have been provided by a 3rd party source who may or may not have all the info needed. It's like someone telling you about something a friend told them, you know it's probably not 100% correct but you also know there's probably a grain of truth in it.

Wrestling "journalism" is less of a traditional journalism situation and more of a rumor mill. Thinking about it in that way has really helped me to temper my expectations and enjoy things more.