Wrestling has changed a lot over the last ten years. Moves which wrestlers would once not have dreamed of doing are now a dime a dozen. Suicide Dives appear in every other match, and Super Kicks are having a party. It's exciting, yes, but it has led to a reduction in selling, which is quickly becoming a lost art. People now bounce back from things that would have previously kept them down for ten to twenty minutes and continue with the match, often then going on to win. Which is a problem, but one we have to grow to accept. Plus it does lead to rather exciting matches. One we don't have to accept, though, is what happens after the match is won. When someone has had their hand raised. I mean, there must be something in the water at WWE as they all seem to have gained superhuman powers of recovery. Suddenly, once the bell rings to signal the end of the match they are all fine again when minutes after the contest ends they should probably still be in some degree of pain. That's just common sense, right? However, it's not just the minutes after the match where wrestlers fail to get across the battle they've been through. Far too often we see someone go to war on a PPV and then the next day turn up to Raw and everything is rosy and they don't have a limp or a wince to show for it. If you are thrown through two tables and dropped on your head at WrestleMania, you shouldn't be running to the ring and putting on a fifteen-minute match the next night. The art of selling may have changed but, by dismissing it entirely, WWE is doing nothing to help themselves or their performers. If people don't believe that moves hurt then the moves have to get crazier, and the crazier they get, the more dangerous this thing turns out to be.
