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5. Too Much Violence

ECW built their brand on violence. They were the promotion who would go where nobody else would go and their fans cheered like crazy along the way. However, there simply comes a time when the violence gets too much. Hardcore spots, and hardcore wrestling in general, can be effective if used in small doses. If it's featured on every single show, the crowd begins to get desensitized and you have to keep getting more and more violent. Jim Cornette described it like this: Let's say walking to work one day, you see two dogs humping on the side of the road. You instantly start laughing your head off and point at the dogs. The next day, you see the same two dogs, still going at it in the exact same spot on the side of the road. This time, you might chuckle a little bit but don't laugh nearly as hard as the first time. By the third day, the dogs no longer interest you and you walk by pretending you didn't even see them. As ridiculous as that sounds, hardcore wrestling is almost the exact same thing. The first time you see someone fall off a ladder through a table, it's amazing. Then, you end up seeing it so much that now they have to fall off a bigger ladder through two tables. Eventually, guys are falling off 20-foot scaffold through 20 tables and everyone is wondering why there are so many injuries.