10 Old School Wresting Gimmicks That Need To Return

8. The Stats Guru

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The world is now dominated by data.

Every move you make on the internet is documented. Every single click, scroll or or hover carefully spotted by another device somewhere else collating the data to be fed into a bank housing the everybody else's data in order to service the tech industry's muscle with advertisers.

Computers remain just as powerless as they were when WCW's York Foundation used to pretend their robotic minds could locate the weakness of a potential opponent, but the data that can be entered into and mined from them has never been more potent or powerful. All that Terri Runnels' Alexandra York character professed to be now actually exists in the form of the Tech Bros and Data Gurus of Silicon Valley.

AEW flirted with the idea during their first Dark Order reboot, but wrestling in general hasn't tapped into an increasing social dilemma powerful enough to give a Netflix exposé its perfect title. It should - if only to scare some of the worst offenders off Twitter for good.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation nearly 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett