Masked Marvel vs. the Internet

Wrestling is doomed. What, hadn't you heard? The product is so awful, the backstage management is so bad, the talent is so misused, that professional wrestling will cease to exist quite likely within the next year.

Okay, I don't really buy it either.

If you're a fan of wrestling "news" sites online, however, you're quite likely ready for the apocalypse in the world of sports entertainment. They've been preaching it ever since the fall of WCW in 2001. Books have been written about it. Yet, somehow, the product still moves forward and is still seemingly quite successful.

Congratulations, you have just learned one of my many issues with wrestling "analysts", "reporters" and their websites. Over the course of the future (how's that for broad?) I will be taking a look at the things I hear yelled over and over again and make a passioned plea to just shut up and enjoy the show. As a preview, I will give three points that will soon be covered:

• So-called "experts" are just ordinary fans with fancy titles they gave themselves. The people who are ruining the business are the people they personally would boo at shows, and the people who are being held back are the ones they would cheer. It's just a mix of the common crowd reaction and a unyielding urge to bitch to as many people will listen.
• Triple H is the ultimate scapegoat for everything, period. If something happens that doesn't go over, it's because Triple H did it. If something is well received, then someone finally went over Triple H's head. Give Trips some credit for how good he really is - not what you assume he's doing backstage.
• When talent sabotage themselves (Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam) it's not a glass ceiling holding them down - it's the worry that a similar mistake will happen again. Or it's Triple H.

So sit back and enjoy as I fight off the Internet in a fight so massive that I wear a mask to keep my actual life separate from it.