>>15292899>It feels like it'll only grow increasingly more niche and unpopular from here regardless.That is the trajectory for the entire wrestling business, and has been true since shortly after the Monday Night Wars ended. AEW has only been around for 5 years and their ratings show a clear decline too. It's the nature of the business and unlikely to change now that WWE has become corporate subsidiary owned by non-industry vets with Hollywood writers, AEW is owned by a geek playing live action TEW, Japan's industry running on fumes and serving as little more than feeder feds for WWE and AEW, and lolTNA.
Wrestling needs a massive, generational star that can connect with, and draw in, both lapsed fans and non-fans. It needs a Hulk Hogan or a Steve Austin. And it also needs to go back to bigger wrestlers, working a more legitimate style, who can actually talk. And women's divisions need to be small, treated as a gimmick, or not even exist at all. None of this will happen btw.