"Wrestling promoters are for the most part uncreative smacked asses you see (and when you add in failed TV writers to the mix, that tendency towards mass-produced photocopying is increased exponentially)" Tom Holzerman
Its getting to be a bit like point/counterpoint, and I hope that Tom doesn't think that I'm cribbing his stuff, but I don't know if I can solely blame lazy promoters, and hack writers, what I do blame is our ADD addled society, and the fact that we have become a culture so "desensitzed" that nothing can truly be revolutionary or shocking any more. The last great wrestling feud (IMO) was Raven vs. Dreamer. That feud lasted 2 years, there is no way that the modern day wrestling fan has the patience to wait for a pay off for 2 whole years. As far as the photcopy analogy-yeah you can clone Y2J and SCSA all day long, but after 100 or 200 photocopies you're gonna lose the crispness of the original. If anything the wrestlers need to be given a way to sink or swim in front of an audience-in the old days you had territories, now you either have WWE (and their developmental rosters) or TNA. Until there is a middle ground b/ween bush league and big league the copy machine is gonna be spitting out xeroxes all day. Remember though after so many copies, the machine is gonna crap out!
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