>>63579251. The Monday Night Wars lasted from 1996 to 2001. That's six years. That's a good run for a TV show.
2. WWE became a publicly traded monopoly run by a pop culturally tone deaf boomer.
3. The in-ring product became more choreographed, more over-the-top, less logical, less about storytelling. It all became so much more phony and boring.
4. Storylines became cartoony soap operas that make no sense within the context of athletic competition between adults.
5. Guaranteed contracts. Good for the wrestler, bad for the product. Back in the territory days wrestlers left all the time to work for someone else rather than stick around and tread water while their star power waned. It kept things fresh.
6. Nielsen ratings are painfully outdated. The broadcast television industry still has not truly figured out how to interface with the internet.
