10 Things Wrestling Needs To Ban RIGHT NOW
6. Certain Gimmick Matches (Temporarily)
This is never going to happen, and if that needs any further explanation, on the February 14 Dynamite, Tony Khan booked a Texas Death between Orange Cassidy and Matt Taven.
The match was actually a blast, and felt as hysterically violent as it should have, but much more of that excess, and Texas Death - among the last of the truly great, scary stipulations - will lose its mystique.
The artistic story of professional wrestling is too vast and intricate to be summed up in a single sentence, but if that were true, the sentence would read as follows:
The professional wrestling promoter simply cannot help themselves.
They'll indulge their own whims, they'll repeat their own and in many cases everybody else's mistakes. Between Gedo doing mandatory 30+ minute main events, Vince Russo swerving all over the shop, and every booker ever promoting too many gimmick matches, not a one of them operates on the basis of less-is-more - and this fatal attitude is all the worse when combined with wrestling's never-ending schedule.
They should all learn the lesson of the antibiotic: even the most effective things wane if overused.
A self-imposed and temporary restriction on each gimmick match - doing a ladder match once per year but never on a fixed date, for example - would preserve their aura and test the true creativity of the storyteller.