Hardcore asked more of its participants than other styles of wrestling had up until that point. Matches had to be harder, faster and more impactful, high spots needed to be more creative, storylines and angles needed to linger in the mind and play upon the conscience. The business itself was required to adapt or die in the wake of this ceaseless onslaught. Hardcore wrestling was a world of brute force, a world gone mad. It was an arena of uncertainty, a last gasp of violent innovation to round off a tumultuous century. With hardcore wrestling, the business got closer than ever to the gore splattered arenas of ancient Rome and emerged all the more popular as a result. Even in todays blood-free, PG era WWE, hardcore style wrestling leads most, if not all, of the major Pay Per View events. Regular PPVs like Hell in a Cell, TLC, Extreme Rules and Money in the Bank feature No Holds Barred and No DQ matches at almost every turn. Wrestlers get put through tables, thrown off ladders and whacked with foreign objects in a manner that can be seen as the direct influence of hardcore wrestling. The athletic intensity of the new breed of pro wrestlers positively screams hardcore and the acceptance of painful gimmick matches and super bumps as being part of the job simply speaks to how absolutely the hardcore wrestling ethos has been absorbed into the business as a whole.