>>19065708Wrestling's entire purpose is the art of working crowds
Selling tickets and drawing ratings is the whole goal, not even in a monetary sense but because this is the only gauge for success
If crowds leave a show bored and don't want to go to the next one, it's because it was shit
Music, literature, cinema, other artforms, can afford the luxury of being self-indulgent and niche, existing solely for the author's vision to be expressed and meet his audience.
Whereas an audience is literally wrestling's raw material. No audience, no professional wrestling show. It doesn't need mainstream mass appeal, but there needs to be a crowd and a following. Wrestling doesn't live on the same way other artforms do, if it doesn't work a crowd and make them believe and remember, it disappears and never reemerges. Art that didn't find mass appeal on release sometimes reemerges later on when the zeitgeist catches on, never wrestling
