He took it to the gutter for sure. I liked it when the good guy was the American flag waver and the bad guy was the one whose nationality was of the nation that was the enemy of the times... Iron Shiek, the russian guy...
I guess PC helped kill that
I haven't watched it in years because they took all the fun out of it.
My cousin and I used to really like Bruno Samartino.
Yeah, those days are long gone.
Not really. Wrestling is pretty far from PC. Peoples tastes change as the times change. The promotion drives some of that change, and in other cases reacts to it.
Not too long ago, there was an incident where one wrestler, Jake Roberts, put his hand on Randy Savage's wife/manager Elizabeth, intending to put a wrestling move on her. The incident was shocking and memorable - for mainstream wrestling, women weren't attacked very much. This incident turned Roberts into a much bigger bad guy, and it sold tickets because everyone wanted to see Savage beat him up.
These days, women are routinely manhandled by the male wrestlers. The audience is desensitized to it. It doesn't sell tickets. A woman can get power bombed one day and be back on tv (maybe with a neck brace) just a couple of days later.
Not too long ago, if in the storyline a wrestler seduced one wrestler's woman (wife, manager, valet), he would more often than not be the bad guy. These days, stealing another guy's wife or woman is applauded by the audience.
None of this has anything to do with PC.