20 Ways WWE Killed CM Punk And AJ Lee's Passion For Wrestling
19. Boredom
For as much as fans complain about how arduous it is to sit through seven hours of in-ring main roster WWE programming per week, imagine extrapolating that to having to be on the road with this product, and as a champion defend the championship in this product, too. For as much as CM Punk having the 75th match in a row with Sheamus on TV has to be painful for us to watch, imagine then having to wrestle that same match on endless house show loops, week after week. For a performer who wants more from himself and the product, that boredom-inducing cycle really has to stink.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.