10 Worst Things To Ever Happen To Wrestling Creatively
5. Talent Booking Their Own Impromptu Matches
Wrestlers should not have the autonomy to make their own matches on the spot.
It's a rancid, suffocatingly fake trope that exposes the whole show as bullsh*t. There's no attempt to emulate a sporting card, which would be fine, were the show good for its own genre. It's not good. It's at best very good for what it is, and what it is is an outwardly fake show that has somehow contrived to exist in the same rotten format for 20 years.
The way WWE produces television is f*cking garbage, and it's up to the talent to put the bins out. It's an efficient service, if nothing else, since waste and recycling are handled on the same day. It's something less prickly fans have come to just accept, which is fine. It would be preferable not to get pissed off at the unemotional mass-produced afterthoughts of a faecal matter-obsessed 74 year-old children's action figure baron. But nobody gets excited about this way of doing it.
Imagine watching Austin Theory emerge in front of no fans to issue an impromptu challenge to Drew McIntyre and getting jazzed.
Holy.
Holy sh*t.
He's only going to f*cking do it man, holy sh*t. It's happening.
We're actually going to see a match between these guys after the break!