Pro Wrestling Needs More “Bad” People

Irony, Fun, And Athletic Competition Are Secondary To Unmitigated Disgust

Of the many problematic things about professional wrestling — at every level from World Wrestling Entertainment to regularly running independents like Capitol Wrestling, the one I co-founded, co-own, and co-promote— is that in the modern era, the most is the lack of truly convincing “bad guys/girls” playing the role of “lead heel” in organizations worldwide is a frightening deterrent to sustainable business redevelopment and growth. It’s probably the one thing that, above all else, is the worst of all things for the economic sustainability of what we do. Troublesome to the idea of “bad guys/girls” Because we’ve successfully indoctrinated a generation of fans into believing that professional wrestling is “a fun social exhibition” instead of “a real sporting event,” we’ve lost the crux of the actual commercial value in leading our industry with good versus evil as the core principle upon which the enterprise can and should always, inarguably, be foremost built.

There’s nothing in the annals of the traditions of American borne entertainment quite like an intrinsically and stereotypically “good” human being and an intrinsically and stereotypically “bad” human being having a serious athletic contest. The idea that a person who is…