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What is the future of pro-wrestling?

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 04:47:10 No.18338047 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>18338089 >>18338103 >>18338133 >>18338136

With the decline of kayfabe, reduced wrestling skill, and a lack of compelling in-ring psychology, the charm of wrestling has diminished. Do you think it will still be around in 2040?

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 04:52:33 No.18338071 Report

Quoted By: >>18338080 >>18338115

It'll be around, just like how Roller Derby is still around. It will be filled with a lot more undesirables, just like how roller derby is now

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 04:53:54 No.18338080 Report

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>>18338071
is that thunder rosa? she would definitely count as an undesirable.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 04:55:54 No.18338089 Report

Quoted By: >>18338115

>>18338047
Once the crowds go away it will morph into an episodic TV show like lucha underground was

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 04:58:44 No.18338103 Report

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>>18338047
yeah I think it will still be around, but the nostalgia aspect will be reduced because everyone from the boom periods will be dead. Then it will probably go into a long period of near-irrelevancy until someone figures out a way to either reestablish kayfabe or recapture the popularity it had in the past. Things tend to go in cycles like that.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:00:28 No.18338115 Report

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>>18338071
What will replace wrestling?
>>18338089
Is lucha underground successful?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:06:10 No.18338133 Report

Quoted By: >>18338140 >>18338148

>>18338047
>decline of kayfabe, reduced wrestling skill, and a lack of compelling in-ring psychology
Nigga....this shit was exactly the case in the mid-1990s

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:06:24 No.18338136 Report

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>>18338047
The future of wrestling is bringing back kayfabe, larger than life characters, promos, stories, in-ring skill, and psychology. History is cyclical. We're just in the really fucking bad part of the cycle right now.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:08:23 No.18338140 Report

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>>18338133
All the Gen Xers and Millennials said they believed it.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:10:59 No.18338148 Report

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>>18338133
In America wrestling has become an entirely different form of entertainment altogether

It's still played straight in Japan mostly, outside of promotions which emulate western promotional tactics like DDT.
It's definitely slowly changing and becoming more like American wrestling but from the days of the JWA up until Inoki-ism, kayfabe probably was the most protected its ever been in Japan.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:11:21 No.18338151 Report

Quoted By: >>18338170

I think RAF might end up being the future. If they can make real wrestling popular it will create the very real possibility of re-establishing kayfabe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:16:49 No.18338170 Report

Quoted By: >>18338183

>>18338151
>RAF
Isn't Hogan canceled? Will the powers at be allow RAF to grow?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 05:19:46 No.18338183 Report

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>>18338170
Hard to say, but Hogan seems to have effectively uncanceled himself and RAF does have some big money backing it. I think they at least have a chance. And I know a little secret about it but no one would believe me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2025 12:49:50 No.18339698 Report

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>>18338148
Hashimoto died two decades ago.

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