10 Wrestling Clichés You Can't Ignore
6. The Invisible Camera...
...and what it's done to wrestling in general.
There was something amazingly lurid about WWE's first uses of the backstage area in the mid-1990s. Typically, the shots felt more like found footage, or wrestlers (notably Diesel and later Sid in 1996) aggressively dragged camera operators backstage. But the more it was normalised, the less the company tried to explain how or why any of us were seeing what we were seeing.
25 years later and it's become a rule of the universe that every hall and corridor is perfectly lit and filmed at all times. That level of hoop-jumping is f*cking sh*t of course, but that's often their opinion of all of us too.
AEW created a unique problem for themselves in so stridently pitching against the concept on launch. One of the many galvanising oppositions to how WWE do business on-screen, the promotion promised not to fall into the trap. They've just about managed it, but to such an extent that the tip-toeing around its occasional convenience is almost as annoying. Or at very least attention-drawing.
Is there a way to defeat this accepted paradox?
TNA once went inside the head of Jeff Hardy, but imagine extending that out to the rest of wrestling. Their social medias are often more than enough of that, maybe well-lit stilted dialogue isn't so bad.