But back then the only major internet providers were AOL and Prodigy with long distence fees.....now everybody from the college kid to trailor park redneck is hooked up to DSL, Cable or local dial-up. The people who read the rumors on the net has grown at a rate at which nothing can be hidden anymore. Kayfabe is dead: Mr. McMahan declaring WWF as sports entertainment may have killed wrestling's credibility then the internet rumor mill made damn sure that everybody is an insider......then Vince Russo overkilled this concept and now nothing can be taken seriously.
It is time for WWE to stop using dead ideas from the glory days and think of something orginal for once. All of the character gimmicks have become stale....it's time to stop pretending to be a movie-of-the-week anti-hero and just be natural. Stop coaching the "talent" to remember the lines, the silly hand gestures, and dances and just be natural.
If the wrestling business does indeed run in a cycle then maybe its time to promote it as a sport again instead of being the late night movie. WWE is to wrestling as Circus Solie is......to the circus. When somebody says lets go to the circus you expect to see animals, clowns, etc........not a damn chinese/russian ballet done to new wave music. The same can be said about a wrestling show the fans want to see some kind of athletic exhibition not 2 oiled up body builders re-enact scenes from a John Walters film.