10 Old-Time 'Rasslin' Traditions WWE Should Kill In Order To Live

There needs to be a new way of doing things.

Maybe we have this whole "wrestling's in a tailspin, how do we fix it" thing all wrong. Maybe we're just sitting here and trying to fix problems with solutions that are known, and maybe we're in an era where those ideas are now irrelevant. Maybe it's 2015 and just like pro wrestling in 1995 (or eve in 1983), it's time to radically shake up the industry again and save the business from itself. Let's maybe sit here and think that pro wrestling is dying because we now have three generations of antiquated traditions stacked upon each other that represent the governing logic of how WWE runs their business. Let's also include the idea that WWE saying that wrestling was pre-determined, then becoming a "PG" and publicly-traded company, and finally being a popular industry in the digital age has finally caught up with the promotion. When these three things collide, wrestling can't be "wrestling" anymore, and whatever lies beyond traditions must be explored for the industry to survive. Here's ten "traditional" pro wrestling concepts and notions that WWE must depart from using or defining their business through in order for their business to improve and for wrestling to not significantly decline in popularity.

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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.