2) Moving women from being sex objects on the side of the ring to being actual wrestlers with main events at PPV's. Nobody wants to see women's wrestling FFS!
This is where pro wrestling missed a trick.
for a teen boy, seeing two good looking women wrestling each other, is akin to a live sex show. ECW in the 90's picked up on this by giving the ex porn star Jasmin St Clair a contract to work shows. When she turned up to the shows all the boys in the crowd started shouting "SUCK MY COCK!" in unison. Really nutty stuff.
The closest WWE got to this was with the beautiful Trish Stratus. Had posters of her on my wall.
Then we get to Rob Black's attempt with XPW. Black used to get his porn girls to turn up at shows to wrestle some times.
The joy of the older 90's pro wrestling was that it was politically incorrect. Women were girly girls in skimpy outfits. It was escapism.
In terms of the wresting a good way to see it is like a version of Judo Randori practice. There is an art & a form to it. A good example is the old tapes of Kurt Angle "working" Chris Benoit. Their submission matches in the WWE PPV's are still some of the best technical wrestling outside of the MMA or Olympic stuff.
Final thought; we need more big boobs in pro wrestling.
If they (guys in charge, Vince) want to fix wrestling they need to do lots of things, the biggest of which (1 in the list) will never happen because they will get their pants sued off in court for discrimination:
1) Eliminate women's wrestling. It's uninteresting, it's boring, it's like watching kids fight. Any aficionado or columnist who talks about women's division in positive light is a male feminist. yuck.
2) put women back on the sideline in sexy clothing
3) go back to 4 ppv's
4) go back to ONE finisher only...jfc!
5) do not bring back any nostalgia wrestlers. I'm sure they are planning an undertaker rumble appearance. you heard it here first. WWE - just don't. Please.
6) Three belts, that's it. Championship, Tag team championship, Intercontinental championship.
7) I would start tracking and providing wrestlers records. Hell, what I'd do is start having a rating system like chess. It would be quite dramatic to see them respond to the big video screen adjusting their rating up or down. Then fans would know how close someone really is to challenging for the championship, not a frequent guessing game.
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