Top 10 Wrestling Pay Per View of 2010s

If wrestling in the 2000s was much less about hardcore appeal from 1990s wrestling, but more focused on the “purity” of pro wrestling (meaning more workrates, less gimmicks, absence of character, absence of in-ring psychology, and more random storylines that have no rewarding pay-offs) then wrestling from 2010 – 2019 all about that. This is where wrestling fans that still hang on to WWE finally lost interest by the end of the decade. It’s all because Vince McMahon despises it when things don’t go his way and ruin it for everyone on board. You had the ‘Summer of Punk’ giving you the mass media and viewership that you’ve haven’t had since the Monday Night Wars and you still managed to screw it up for CM Punk (who drew so much heat and money), NEXUS, and Daniel Brian to lose all credibility. It is no wonder why the audience in attendence have been hijacking in many of WWE’s shows. To think that someone like Roman Reigns was a good fit to replace the aging John Cena is one of the most counter productive decisions that any wrestling product has ever made. It was not enough to keep Brock Lesnar back and give out less than 5 minute matches within every appearance by 2017. All of WWE’s alternatives in North America from the 2000s decade also screwed up big time. TNA’s appeal got all destroyed from letting Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff into WCW 2.0, The Aces & 8s storyline turned everyone off, Jeff Jarrett portraying Kurt Angle’s broken family in a disgusting manner, and rebranding Total Non-stop Action into Impact Wrestling, then Global Force Wrestling (thanks Jeff Jarret), then back to Impact made us all stop being fans of the company. Ring of Honor refused to grew as a company, lost all of their best stars to WWE, and underpaying and mistreating women’s wrestlers made ROH unwatchable by 2018. With TNA and ROH nearly dead at this point, there was so much wrestling out there. New Japan finally got Antonio Inoki out of the booking decision and made one of the most wonderful wrestling shows the world has ever seen. Because it was still hard to access to Japanese wrestling in North America Tony Khan took the perfect opportunity to start All Elite Wrestling and officially became the fastest growing wrestling promotion of all time! This is ultimately what WWE’s viewership have been the lowest since the New Generation era and never before have former wrestling fans jumped to UFC and MMA promotions. Sadly, I’m one of those former wrestling fans that switch over to MMA because wrestling is for decades is nowhere as good as it was in the Monday Night Wars. As the final Top 10 Pay Per View list, I wanted to show you what were the last wrestling shows that satisfied me and what was worth revisiting this decade of bad booking? 

Top 10 Worst Things of the 2010s

No decade can ever perfect.  You expect 3,650 days to never go wrong? With so many people in this world and countless series of circumstances caused by human beings, you’re doomed to expect big mistakes and bad things to happen.  Even if you’ve grown nostalgic for ‘better times’ they too have gone through truly awful times.  I don’t agree that the 2010s was the worst decade I mean do you remember the tragedies that the world had to go through during the 2000s decade? Not just how stupid last decade was but also how paranoid everyone is over the subject of terrorism.  As we continue living in the post-9/11 world, the debate over how many countries’ security has been a heavy topic globally and deeper political issues of left vs. right has gone too far.  So far the people who were protected by their own government (in first world countries to say the least) have incredibly uncivilized. Now that millennials have grown up but still remained as cry-babies and Generation-Z has their eyes glued toward to social media, this leaves many of us worried about what the 2020s will be once Baby-Boomers and Generation X is no longer in charge. I have no doubt that we’re going to look back at the 2010s decade in a couple years from now and just laugh at all the stupidity that we’ve been through that will make us glad that we’re moving forward. Let’s just take a look at ten of the worst trends & events that occurred from 2010 through 2019.

Top 10 Cartoons of the 2010s

Cartoons in the 2010s decade was a wild ride. This was a return of a large cast of characters and inventiveness.  Never before has there been a decade where cartoons appealed to all audiences.  Adults were paying attention to the new shows as much as the children were making ‘target demographic’ just a phase than a necessity.  Writers of these shows know that they can no longer afford to make self-contained stories in each episode but instead maintain consistency.  Sure it puts in a lot of effort on the studios’ resources but it benefits most to an audience that prefers continuity.  Expectations for an animated show has never been this demanding but yet it brings artistic integrity among animators to meet longevity.  Cartoons have always remained cartoons and predictions from last decade have subverted.  What we used to believe is the death of 2D animation, everything is turning into 3D, adult animated programs are the only ones that live the longest turned into a wrong opinion.  Cartoons have never been this exciting to watch where everything is a new material, not an extension of old franchises that we’ve seen before.  This is proof that audiences are willing to get out of their comfort zone and try new things.  The old ways of the 1980s toy commercialism have now transformed into wonderful storytelling to those who demand escapism from reality.  And these are the ten animated programs that did just that!

Video Games of 2019

After all the effort that the gaming industry and forward thinking that the gaming industry has accomplished what do we think of the last year of the 2010s? Meh! There were more games to be announced for 2020 than it ever were releases or surprises for 2019.  This year of gaming was more of the same IP’s of yesteryear and much less of a leap forward in gaming.  The old news of filthy big name developers continue to stoop themselves lower than before like how Bethesda made a charge of $100 a year for their Fallout 76 Subscription service.  The lack of integrity shows how withdrawn and intolerant we are with new releases and nothing has changed with consumer’s war with paying more than paying full price games.  Plus we’re moving onward from this okay-ish decade of gaming; one that I don’t think many of us are going to miss as much.  After all the gamergames, war on loot boxes, and many once beloved companies falling from grace it makes me intrigue to see where is this going rather than to revisit old controversies.   As the final year of the 2010s, lets look at the ten best releases.