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njpw has moved to mirror American wrestling with a Japanese coat of paint. its working right now because theyre hot shotting. hot shotting always works for a period but then is followed by droughts. essentially a period of time for a new potential audience to exist that hasnt been exposed to all the angles that they ran through.
that time frame is dependant on exposure.
its where we are in the states right now. we're in a down swing created by the hot shotting on the 90s.
the potential wrestling audience that exists looks back on wrestling fondly from when they were fans and everything was new. it can never be new again.
the issue now is everything is visible and exists forever. its unclear that recovery is possible on a large scale.
my opinion is that it will be but will require a much longer period. im thinking wrestling might get hot again in the 2050s or so but thats only provided it goes away soon enough for that to happen.
at the end of the day wrestling is athletic theater. theater will never die. it just needs to be fresh and it cant be that right now. there are no new stories to tell. they simply dont exist.
over a long enough timeline old becomes new. thats where we are imo.
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