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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
I don’t watch as much as I used to be but every now and then I flip it over. It seems to me that its more performing and acting now than actual wrestling. Theres always been characters of course, but now its like 30 minutes of a scripted act in the middle of the stage before any actually wrestling begins.
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Originally Posted by beach tribe
It's been that way since like 1990.
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Yup. It's been that way ever since television and consolidation killed off the territories system.
Before, a wrestler could succeed with a shallow gimmick. No need to develop his character through many, many storylines because once he ran through his character in one territory he could then go to a different territory -- where no fans knew about you -- and go through the same story over again against a different opponent.
When the territories died off, wrestles needed to constantly keep their gimmicks fresh. Thus, increased time spent on the mic, developing new stories outside of ring-work.