10 Ways Wrestling Is Ruining WWE

Elsewhere in this piece, the tragic tale of Mitsuharu Misawa was briefly revisited as a warning sign for the dangers of pushing a body beyond reasonable expectations.

But if death feels like an extreme, decay is a visible reality. AJ Styles' Madison Square Garden US Title victory was fun to read about when it occurred at a recent house show, if only because it made a change from ingesting a report and grainy iPhone video of a performer breaking a bone or tearing a muscle.

Fresh from working back-to-back pay-per-view main events against Brock Lesnar, Samoa Joe faces at least a month on the bench with a knee injury. Working a WrestleMania storyline centred around a massive injury (and his perceived weakness for suffering it), Seth Rollins was then re-injured as irony yet again stepped into Sports Entertainment to take the p*ss out of it as it does better than most. Big Cass has worked that hard that often since coming up to the main roster that he crocked himself for nine months amidst the biggest push of his career merely by missing his big move.

Those who work through the pain do so with half their body covered in enough tape to parcel an ironing board for an Amazon Prime delivery.

Whatever wrestling is in 2017, it's hurting. Fans ache for something new, whilst those that do it better than most just ache. Here's to more ambulances, but just the ones Braun Strowman tips over, rather than those employed to carry bodies back to the emergency room.