Why You Must Read This Wrestling Article
It's getting tribal out there. It doesn't have to be.
If you're reading this, it is likely that you engage with pro wrestling discourse on some website or social media platform or other. This site. Aggregate sites. Twitter. Facebook. YouTube. r/SquaredCircle.
Ostensibly, these outlets exist to drive conversation. You want to know what other people thought about the wrestling show you've just watched. You want to share your opinion on it, you want to laugh at the memes created on the back of the odd moments, you want to read insights into why something was as good or as sh*tty as it was. You want to bask in the afterglow of an incredible moment or set the world to rights.
That's only half-true. A lot of you want to hurl scathing abuse at real human beings for expressing their opinion because you are starved of attention and fulfilment.
Online wrestling tribalism is completely out of control.
Wrestling through its very platform cannot be great all of the time. It's a relentless, unending beast that is impossible not to tire of at some point in a calendar year. It is a medium that no-sells its own premise. The point is to build and promote matches. There are only a finite number of ways to do this and make it interesting all of the time. The anticipation is never as constant as the product, and with there being no offseason, even the best or most acclaimed promotions phone it in at some point or other. Nobody, not even three jobs Tony Khan, has the energy to promote 104 10/10 wrestling shows per year.
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