2. Big Guys Get Over-Exposed Easier
We've seen Kane do so much of the limited amount of things that big men can do really well in pro wrestling in such a relatively short frame of time that we're now getting him doing things that we probably didn't need to seem him do at all. Wrestling's intriguing in the sense that it's possibly the best industry to use to understand the classic adage of "less is more." In the days of yesteryear, big men were attractions because they were so large by comparison to the much smaller wrestlers (by comparison) who regularly appeared in a promotion. However, in the 1980s, Vince McMahon ushered in an era of wrestling where seemingly every wrestler became big and some wrestlers became enormous. As well, he regularly featured the big men who were attractions, but now built even larger to now ultra-super human proportions. At some point, when wrestling then became a weekly, then bi-weekly, now almost daily accessible entertainment vehicle, "big men as attractions" suffered. It's now 2015. Vince McMahon's chickens that he hatched 30 years ago may now finally be coming home to roost. What was once a boom of an idea is now most assuredly a bust.
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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.
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