10 Things WWE Are Secretly Telling Fans About Their Future
8. Everything Means Nothing
If you're reading this, there's a good chance someone somewhere has once questioned why you even watching professional wrestling in the first place. They're not bothered about the answer, and the question itself is usually loaded with the same cliche that completely misunderstands the medium.
"You know it's fake, right?"
The implication is that the lack of genuine violence somehow takes the enjoyment away from the show, but few fans ever find wrestling because they're looking for bonafide combat sports. Vince McMahon's WWE vision in the 1980s was so strong because it steered into mainstream entertainment over competitive sports. He clings on to the self-styled narrative to this day because of it.
Future fans almost certainly won't find wrestling in the same ways old ones did. Storylines had defined beginnings, middles and ends despite the product being a ride you couldn't ever get off. Characters behaved with consistency and competitiveness that asked you to care about ramifications and stipulations.
These will simply not be things that hook people in the future. WWE's continuity is wretched - perhaps the worst it's ever been - whilst its star creation is tempered and tepid. The monied organisation couldn't care less, even if fans could care far more.