Here's what I believe/think of what went wrong in the Nisei show:
1) Voice acting was fine, dialogues were fine and appropriate for children. I am a serious person that doesn't get into children's jokes much.
2) Storyline was pretty suckish…. :/ I mean the beginning was great, but where it went wrong was where Checkmate's spotlight was in the show for like 4 episodes or so, and I love checkmate myself, but I thought that it was too damn long episodes for children to keep track of. Then after that, the storyline picked up better again, then it went down and up and down, and so on.
3) Nobody knew the history and stories behind the old characters and what they were talking about when they talked about the past of their matches and relationships together. So how is everybody supposed to pick-up a new story? >:/ Like, what the heck?
4) I know it was a kid's show, but blood should've been shown in here (if they're able to show blood in Naruto that was aired on Cartoon Network and etc., why not show blood in Ultimate Muscle too?) It would've been more realistic and amusing.
5) Kid Muscle ALWAYS WINS…. -_-' He should've went down when Checkmate, Eskara/Mars, and Kevin more brutally beating him to death.
6)There was no creativity in the storyline. I see too much resemblance of stories between the Old Shows and the New Shows. I'm not saying the story lines are the alike, but how the plot is laid out is too much alike… :/
Overall:
I like the Old Shows ALOT better than the new. They should do remake of it! Like how they did it with DragonBall: Battle of the Gods or whatever it was called. I would definitely LOVE to watch it!
Plus, I remembered how popular Ultimate Muscle was back when I was about 5-10 years or so. I actually had a crush on Kid Muscle (to this day I don't like him due to the fact that he sucks and he's a crybaby) when I was a little girl, I'd draw pictures of him and etc.
They SHOULD'VE aired the old Kinnikuman shows in America back in the 80s too…. :/ That way, people would finally know what's going on and how the characters were and etc. But sadly they didn't because of Brocken Jr's association with Nazism…. :'/ That'll always be a killer to me that the old Kinnikuman was never aired back then…. not to mention, that Kinnikuman itself will never go back to its glory days here in the US… (NOOOOOOO!!!!) *sigh and shrugs* Oh well! Guess I'll still have to hunt for old Kinnikuman shows here on the Internet… :/