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>Eddie and Benoit dying, forcing a change in style as CTE and concussions become household words
>drug enforcement policy; no more coked up wrestlers on pain pills doing crazy shit
>all the old guard failed to gatekeep towards the end to prevent shitters from getting in and also failed to teach anything meaningful to the new kids while struggling to hold on to their spots.
>tapes and footage from Japan became more widely available, prompting and entire generation raised on the 2 minute crash-TV structure of Monday Night RAW to minick what they were seeing instead of understanding the buildup to the big payoff instead of spamming moves
>women, trannies, Wolfies, Ojamas and faggots not only infested but they got their own tranny rodeo fed to even further run the bidness into the fucking ground
>no selling, no story, no starpower, no rhyme or reason; just do spot and flippy shitter move and get ready and in place for next spot flippy shitter move
>Twitter completely removing mystique and instead of hashing out grievances in a ring, they whine on there
>masculinity being replaced by 5oy and any semblance of testosterone that made the product a juggernaut all left for UFC and got replaced by mutants, troons, and walking talking obese protoplasms with eternally hanging-out unwiped asscrack syndrome
>any conversation about a match or a wrestler gets stalwarted and shut down by whether or not it has a star rating or what it is, because some grifting retarded tongue-wagging jackoff somehow became the arbiter of what constitutes good wrestling based on his arbitary rating system.
>what used to be redneck bloody brawls turned into thuperkick faggot parties
Judging by the fine state of affairs the industry is in, wrestling deserves every bit of disdain, indifference and vitriol it receives akin to when people yell "TURN THAT GAY SHIT OFF!" whenever you see it flipped on TV in a bar.