Why do fans seem to have a problem with a family friendly wrestling product? ?

Some fans believe that because the most successful time in wrestling that they experienced was based around crash television and hardcore wrestling.  That's the only thing they know, and some only know about that through generational whispers.  They don't understand that blood and guts weren't the only things selling back then.  Charismatic athletes with creative freedom, continuous angles and believable storytelling, and just Vince, Heyman, and Bischoff having their pulse on what was cool and hip at the time is what made that Monday Night Wars/Attitude Era time frame so special.  What's funny is that so much of that stuff was hearkening back to territory angles with jilted lovers, long-standing rivalries from childhood, a hard working man's man raging against the machine, and even the occult were all common angles in Memphis, Florida, the Carolinas, and the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. as a whole.  People bled back then in WarGames matches, they went a believable and restrained level of hardcore wrestling with dog collar matches and I Quit Cage Matches.  Don't even get me started on the so not worth it Scaffold Matches back in the day where guys didn't have the ECW luxury of having tables breaking their fall.  Even in a regular match, you'd be hard pressed to find a card at the time where some down on his luck pretty boy babyface wasn't bleeding profusely from his forehead or having a limb broken by a faction of degenerates.

I've went off on sort of a tangent here, but the funny thing about all of those old school angles, gimmicks, and standards listed above is that they were all on family friendly shows.  The very stuff that WWE, ECW, and WCW marketed as a 'cutting edge' and 'edgy' wrestling program was being done by the likes of Bill Watts, Bill Dundee,Jerry Jarrett, and Jim Crockett Jr. a decade earlier. I feel like I'm still off topic, so I'll veer back into the right lane here and say that those things don't necessarily make wrestling great.  As a matter of fact, I'd argue the opposite. Wrestling needs original ideas.  ECW, XPW, and CZW have proven time and time again that there isn't a market for the blood lust or 90's nostalgia that wrestling fans think they have.

There's a segment who believe barbed wire wrapped baseball bats and the like are enjoyable to watch.  those are the ones you're hearing from. 

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