How Exactly Wrestling Will Return Better Than Ever
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Wrestling is weird now.
That which exists to help us escape cannot help but remind in this eerie new context. Beyond the blip that was WrestleMania 36 - the peaks of which were as memorable and or as seminal as anything the company has ever produced - WWE's approach has invited scorn.
And strong praise, insofar as the excellent Road to WrestleMania promos, but the steadfast in-house match layouts and presentation style create such a synthetic vibe, which is doubly alienating since WWE is synthesising that which is already lacking for soul.
Recent episodes of AEW Dynamite, not bad shows per se, can not replicate the stirring, irresponsible creative magic of the first empty arena show. Kenny Omega can still operate very well in this context. His match with Trent on last week's Dynamite was a superb war of attrition; an exhibition of sportsmanship wrestled in the spirit of the occasion consumed and made ugly by its ultra-competitive edge. It was in tone and structure the perfect match for an imperfect context, but he had to seemingly re-injure or exacerbate his torn labrum to get the story over. The talent has to work super-stiff to get matches over now, and it isn't sustainable.
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