10 Old School Wresting Gimmicks That Need To Return
8. The Stats Guru
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.