Recently, after a lengthy hiatus, I have found myself in my spare time following wrestling once again. I was aware of the merger of WCW and WWF what is now called WWE. I was prepared for the new talent to have replaced the old. (sort of) The one thing I was not prepared for was how incredibly boring the shows have become. After the WWE monopolized the wrestling world they have apparently sold their collective soul for the sake of marketing. Wrestling was always the risk taking television that regular programming hated. No matter how sexy or curse riddled or exciting your show was, wrestling was always more in your face.
Now I find that every month of the year has a pay-per-view which pretty much means all of the good matches you have to shell out to see. The shows are also very top talent heavy which means only about three people ever really compete for the title. The straw that breaks the camel's back is how much of the show is devoted to mindless babble, the stupid one-liner laced talking that has almost made the shows unbearable. WCW Monday Nitro used to be three hours with about 12-15 matches and most of the time, it over ran its time slot because they refused to show commercials during matches. Now, shows are two hours long and I counted five matches a few weeks ago, FIVE, in two hours. The time is now filled with "I'm great because of this" and "you suck because of that" and 40 minutes to explain how these two are gonna settle their differences by *gasp* wrestling. Just shut up and wrestle already! We want to see more fighting and less jabbering, more blood and less commercials, more stars and definitely more style and profile! WOOOOOOOOO!
