10 Easy Ways Of Injecting Realism Into WWE
4. Desaturate Gimmick Match Overload
Gimmick matches were once utilised on a sparing basis, for various reasons.
The novelty, the special aura, had to be preserved to ensure they would continue to draw in future. There had to be sufficient storyline reasoning to justify them - the steel cage for example would only make an appearance in the event of excessive interference or cowardice on the part of the heel, thus guaranteeing to the paying public a decisive outcome worth the investment. Moreover, a wrestling promoter is meant to be running a legitimate sporting enterprise. Forcing its employees to maim each other on the regular would be illogical. There'd be nobody left for them to make money from.
Obviously, it's been decades since the then-WWF professed to be anything of the sort, but think of the typical calendar year for upper card to main event WWE talent. The multi-man ladder match seems to be a WrestleMania Weekend tradition once more. Money In The Bank sees yet another incredibly violent match of that type. SummerSlam is rarely without one gimmick bout. Hell In A Cell features more than namesake match every year. TLC then sees us out with another set of ladder matches - as many as three in recent years.
It's impossible to believe even one wrestler, let alone the majority, would escape from all brutality that unscathed, which is a(nother) indictment of how unrealistic the current product is.