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Originally Posted by DelFan
What does PG mean in the wrestling world?
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It's the parental/viewership advisory TV rating.
Back during the Monday Night Wars/Attitude Era peak (1997-2001), the TV viewer advisory rating was TV-14...there was cussing, sexual innuendo/bitches in thong bikinis, hardcore matches/lots of blood, beer drinking/getting shitfaced was encouraged, among other stuff. It was good TV back then, usually had more viewers than MNF. This era gave us honeys like Sable, Debra, Trish Stratus, Lita, Stacey Keibler, Torrie Wilson, Terri Runnels, Ivory...and WWE made it a point to have them dress up in the smallest amount of clothing as possible..because sex sells.
With the bullshit PC culture we live in today...there is just NO WAY any of that stuff would fly today.
Hell even my parents watched it and thought it was entertaining.
Now the show is marketed to kids (TV-PG), and the stuff mentioned above is no longer shown on TV...maybe some blood during the PPV matches but that's about it. The writing and match booking is terrible, character arcs/gimmicks are ****ing dogshit, mic skills are crap because they can't really be themselves and actually talk shit..EVERYTHING is scripted and overseen by people who don't really understand the rasslin' audience. It's just all really silly-ass'd cartooney nonsense.