>all the old guard passed away and an entire generation has come and gone not knowing the small fundamtentals of storytelling and psychology and now we have to have multiple flips and 2 counts and no-selling
>UFC happened, creating perhaps the most successful pro-wrestling promotion today by utilizing many of the audience getting techniques wrestling did in the 1970's
>WWE went public and now has shareholders to cater to
>once it was discovered smaller guys can be pushed, more and more smaller guys came in instead of gatekeeping and telling the cruiserweights they can cruiser-wait, brother. At one point, if you weren't 6'5 300 lbs, you weren't getting looked at
>hardcore and deathmatch wrestling inundated audiences with over the top violence that is impossible to top and wreckless to do
>more and more entertainment options became available
>everyone has 5 moves, a pose, 5 taunts and no one is over or recognizable with generic names and go nowhere gimmicks (Jack Johnson vs. John Jackson)
>bad acting and cringe backstage segments
>no one can be themselves, have to read scripts and not shoot from the hip or speak from the heart on live tv (you can thank Timblerlake and Janet Jackson's superbowl incident for that)
>once the territory system went away, the training ground went away. You could wrestle every town in your area nd be home every weekend; now you wrestle 300 days a year and its a safer style but its made in a performance center instead of honed in front of several different audiences and different opponents and mentors
>you can make money in the NFL if you're a big guy, you can make money in the UFC if you can fight, you can make money in WWE, but when and if you Hollywood comes calling, the bigger names would rather take that life and so the brand becomes the star as opposed to the wrestlers so they can't get bigger
>pushing women and getting trannies involved
>wrestling with a room full of failed Hollywood writers as opposed to three or four bookers
