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Ya know I just read Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway. In it he explains the transformation of bullfighting from a sport where the object of the bullfight was to wear down the bull and kill it with a sword at the end of the fight. All the stuff with the capes had an objective purpose: to tire out the bull and use it's own momentum against it. As time went on, the bullfighters put more and more pressure on the bull breeders to breed smaller bulls that were easier to handle, and eventually bullfighting became more of an artform than a sport. It became more about doing artful flourishes with the capes, escaping the bulls horns at the last possible moment, killing the bull "properly" and generally just being an exhibition of skill rather than a genuine fight between man and bull. In fact it degraded even further after that to the point where the bullfighters would merely make it look as if they were performing these high risk maneuvers in the bullring and in effect tricking the audience into thinking what they were doing was more impressive than it actually was.
Basically the exact same thing has been happening in pro wrestling since it transition from being a real sport to a worked fight. The more time that passes, the more decadent wrestling will become.
