It's Official: Wrestling Needs An Unthinkable Revolution

Promotions take the absolute piss with the rules of storytelling to facilitate these developments, too. This has been the case for years, obviously, but does it have to be timeless?

Who freely gives out manager's licences to repeat offenders? What does Tony Khan in his capacity as AEW's fictional General Manager actually expect, when, as an example, Saraya and Toni Storm flank Ruby Soho for one of her matches? Because it's an endless, tedious loop of carny sh*te that makes no sense.

The wrestling promotion is meant to be on the level, otherwise, they can't be trusted. The heels are meant to be fiendish, capable of such cunning wrongdoing that a fair mind can't anticipate much less understand it. In AEW, all too often, the heels are awarded the platform to do the easiest cheating you've ever f*cking seen. It isn't nefarious, and thus it isn't effective.

Also: why hasn't a North American major implemented a standby referee policy? These daft bastards get bumped every other week, and a standby ref should be despatched to ringside immediately when this happens to maintain order. That's what the ref is there to do. The answer, of course, is that a standby referee wouldn't allow a promotion to enable contrived storytelling.

The sheer volume of wrestling's bullsh*t is starting to just...reek. The commentators registering their indignation at the antics of the heels feels more phoney than it ever has. This might be a subjective opinion. Maybe an element of personal burnout is informing all of this. But isn't it time - particularly at a time when AEW conflating itself with WWE has only achieved a decline in popularity - to do something radical with the form?

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