15 Biggest False Narratives In Wrestling History

3. Wrestling Matches Aren’t Important

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Readers added context you may wish to know: wrestling matches are, in fact, important. 

It really is astonishing how the truth is most often found between two colliding, dogmatic opinions. There are two extremes, and helpfully, for illustrative purposes, AEW and WWE have occupied each at various points across 2024. 

AEW has promoted countless moderately heated, well-worked matches on Collision this year that served no compelling narrative purpose beyond handing a name wrestler a win - so much so that the Saturday show has been stigmatised as utterly missable and inconsequential. 

WWE meanwhile promoted Jey Uso Vs. Jimmy Uso at WrestleMania: a match so actively atrocious that not even the preceding, acclaimed Bloodline storyline could make the fans in the stadium care about it. 

Wrestling evidently can’t just be about stories; nor can it just be about matches. This should not be especially difficult to grasp, but hop on X for a few minutes. Matches apparently do not matter. If they’re bad, so what? 

It’s almost a shame that Hulk Hogan Vs. André the Giant happened at WrestleMania III. The take was true precisely once, and the exception, to some, has become the rule.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!