>>12424997Wrestling is different in its very nature to most things. It's largely a spectator sport and one of its core attributes is the spectacle and grandiosity of it, especially for people who started watching in the 80s/90s/00s through WCW or WWF. The grand stage and importance of everything are kind of a central theme. For that reason the lesser known indie stuff has less of an appeal for a certain portion of viewers, less than say music or film. Because in a way, for those types of fan at least, it defeats the point of wrestling.
I personally fall into that group. I started watching WCW in 98, went with WWF in 2001 when WCW ended. I've never been able to enjoy smaller indie companies. If you grew up watching wrestling at the same time as me, you expect it to be high stakes drama. It just seems dumb when people are cutting promos and talking about betrayal and world titles and "you took this from me" and whatever else like it's life and death, when they're wrestling for nothing in a half empty bingo hall. It's just farcical, breaks suspension of disbelief and makes whole thing feel silly. There are some exceptions of course, I liked NJPW back in the mid 10s since it felt like a pretty big deal, drew decent crowds and kind of existed in a separate world to American Wrestling. Lucha Underground also did a great job by portraying it as an underground fight club sort of thing. But for the most part, in wrestling, I can't buy people in tiny indie feds wrestling for their worthless titles like their life depends on it.
I think that is a large contributing factor to why wrestling fans don't discuss indie stuff as much as fans of other types of entertainment. Wrestling shows just really benefit from being the biggest and most important thing, that's a huge part of its appeal. Not really the case with music or film or whatever else.
