The Effect of the Expanding Digital Landscape on the Professional Wrestling Industry
The expanding digital landscape has had significant impact on the professional wrestling industry. The focus of this post will be: how websites ruin suspension of disbelief how wrestlers try to use the digital landscape to enhance their characters how the internet has benefitted smaller wrestling promotions Professional wrestling relies on viewers being so absorbed in a storyline that they forget the outcome and stunts have been previously coordinated. However, this willingness to suspend disbelief has been harder for professional wrestling to maintain since the Internet era has began. The ever-expanding digital landscape now includes websites dedicated to digging up every professional wrestling secret. Websites like wrestlezone and bleacherreport give fans up to the minute information about every aspect of the major professional wrestling companies. Things that were once regarded as sensitive information in order to make the industry as realistic as possible can be fou...