With the decline of kayfabe, reduced wrestling skill, and a lack of compelling in-ring psychology, the charm of wrestling has diminished. Do you think it will still be around in 2040?

It'll be around, just like how Roller Derby is still around. It will be filled with a lot more undesirables, just like how roller derby is now

>>18338071
is that thunder rosa? she would definitely count as an undesirable.

>>18338047 (OP)
Once the crowds go away it will morph into an episodic TV show like lucha underground was

>>18338047 (OP)
yeah I think it will still be around, but the nostalgia aspect will be reduced because everyone from the boom periods will be dead. Then it will probably go into a long period of near-irrelevancy until someone figures out a way to either reestablish kayfabe or recapture the popularity it had in the past. Things tend to go in cycles like that.

>>18338071
What will replace wrestling?
>>18338089
Is lucha underground successful?

>>18338047 (OP)
>decline of kayfabe, reduced wrestling skill, and a lack of compelling in-ring psychology
Nigga....this shit was exactly the case in the mid-1990s

>>18338047 (OP)
The future of wrestling is bringing back kayfabe, larger than life characters, promos, stories, in-ring skill, and psychology. History is cyclical. We're just in the really fucking bad part of the cycle right now.

>>18338133
All the Gen Xers and Millennials said they believed it.

>>18338133
In America wrestling has become an entirely different form of entertainment altogether

It's still played straight in Japan mostly, outside of promotions which emulate western promotional tactics like DDT.
It's definitely slowly changing and becoming more like American wrestling but from the days of the JWA up until Inoki-ism, kayfabe probably was the most protected its ever been in Japan.

I think RAF might end up being the future. If they can make real wrestling popular it will create the very real possibility of re-establishing kayfabe.

>>18338151
>RAF
Isn't Hogan canceled? Will the powers at be allow RAF to grow?

>>18338170
Hard to say, but Hogan seems to have effectively uncanceled himself and RAF does have some big money backing it. I think they at least have a chance. And I know a little secret about it but no one would believe me.

>>18338148
Hashimoto died two decades ago.