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Is Pro Wrestling Dead?
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Thoughts: 1) The WWE has done an excellent job with being a monopoly. For 90% of Americans, WWE = pro wrestling. If you like em, great, if you don't, most don't look for alternatives. 2) TNA has killed the cable business for other wrestling companies. I mean, there are shows on cable about dating naked and somehow the cable networks are too good to put wrassin on their network. They don't believe it'll get ratings so it doesn't happen. 3) For the people that like wrestling but not WWE, there was the great indies of the 00s, but all of them (maybe not PWG) feel very stale right now. 4) The good indy talent is getting sucked into the WWE system faster through NXT. El Generico was a top indy star, but he spent 3 years in NXT (one of those years, he was hurt) instead of going to the main roster fairly quickly. Now, you have young indy stars getting signed and spending a lot of time in NXT instead of being the star of a lesser promotion. The result is the indies are worse off AND NXT becomes the new outlet for those that like wrestling and not WWE. 5) Making money. The model of generating revenue through DVD is drying up. iPPVs would seem to be the way to go, but, as fans of ROH can attest to, fuck one of those up through no fault of your own and you kill the business. To me, the best possibility may be the one Chikara is trying where you have your own 'network', but I think the shows have to get on the network fast enough so that fans avoid spoilers and can enjoy them as fresh shows. 6) Finally, there is no lack of sports to watch. I think the appeal of wrestling in the territory days would be watching a sporting event and some of the biggest territory would be cities of decent size that lacked major sports teams (Memphis, Portland, Calgary, etc.). Now these mid-sized cities do have major sports teams through expansion and also college sports have gotten bigger. So, any Tuesday night, you can probably find three or four events on cable as opposed to the old days when you might be able to listen to a baseball game on the transistor radio. In that case, I can see why local carny wrestling is on the outs.
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