But that's what the WWF is going after, and it's working. It's the highest-rated show on cable television. Maybe the art of wrestling is already lost. In matches these days, the young guys are great athletes and they can do all the moves, but the art of using a match to tell a story seems to be lost. All kinds of storylines surround the matches, but, in the past, the match itself told the story.
Matches become nothing but a series crazy moves.
Those things can be fun to watch, but those matches also fail to tell any sort of story. I know that's a concern to some people in the WWF and that they're working to ensure storytelling does not become a lost art. It doesn't seem there is much build-up to a match that tells a story. Often, the culmination of a big feud or start of a big feud was in a match, and it doesn't seem to be that way anymore. Now they run an angle for 20 minutes and do a quick match.