How The Future Of Wrestling Might Be In Grave Danger
Wrestling is a teetering ladder bump in 2020.
Your writer, in an altogether different phase of lockdown grief, penned an article entitled 'How Exactly Wrestling Will Return Better Than Ever'.
It took an incredibly optimistic view of the morality of the North American government branches and wrestling and television industries, and a very, very naive understanding of the science behind this ongoing crisis. In a state of pure denial, a scenario was dreamt up in which pro wrestling promoters would coordinate their first live shows in front of fans, when it was magically safe (enough) to do so consistent with government guidance. With the curve flattened to a line, a festival would ensue: a huge season premiere week doubling as an ultra-competitive race to recapture the attention of fans.
AEW would reopen to the public with the abandoned Blood and Guts Dynamite special; NXT something in the vein of TakeOver: Return; the main WWE rosters a bonanza spectacle of returning legends, title matches, and a huge angle or two to drop that episodic hook. All of it would be enhanced, even beyond an unprecedented thank-f*ck spirit, by what is arguably the greatest collection of talent ever assembled rested and motivated to an extent the industry had never seen.
It was going to be amazing, except it was all total bullsh*t; a source of great internal shame to the man who pitched it.
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