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Yes, it sucks to see talented wrestlers get mishandled by awful booking, but at the same time, at least most of those guys still have jobs at the end of the day.
The indy scene is a rough place to work; unless they pull something crazy on a regular basis to make a name for themselves, 99% of the wrestlers out there live from paycheck to paycheck, without contracts, and without anything definite on the horizon. And with the bar being raised so much over the years on what it takes to make a name for yourself in the wrestling world, it's no wonder that indy wrestling has degenerated into a series of who can come up with the most convoluted way to drop someone on their head. Just being a sound wrestler doesn't cut it anymore; if you want to be noticed on the indy scene, you've got to be willing to practically kill yourself (or your opponent) every chance you get, and there's extremely little chance that even TNA will pick you up.
Sure, there will always be guys like Raven, who would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven, but that's because they can afford to. They already made their money and careers in the Big Two or ECW, and can cruise on name recognition and get a payday pretty much any time they want. But if you want to be a wrestler and succeed in it, the only logical place to do it is WWE. It's a safer environment (even if that hampers match quality), there's a chance you could get national recognition on TV, and you'll make exponentially more money there than any other promotion in the world.
Looking at wrestling as a business or as an art form, WWE is still the most prominent promotion anywhere on Earth, and it just doesn't make sense to shoot for lower than that.
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