Wrestling

I'm nowhere near as much of a "professional wrestling" fan as I used to be - it was a long time ago since I went to see a live WWE show.  But I do still keep an eye on the wrestling industry news and developments.  And it is an interesting and good time to be a wrestling fan.  WWE has had a monopoly on wrestling for a long time, for better or for worse (mainly for worse) - but it is about to have it's first proper challenger for years.  An upstart wrestling promotion - AEW - is about to begin airing weekly shows on TV.  And their live shows and pay-per-views have been quite critically acclaimed so far, so I hope they do well.  And I welcome the challenge because it means that WWE has to raise their game - especially because one of their flagship shows, Smackdown, is about to move to one of the main broadcast networks - Fox.  WWE has got increasingly complacent and increasingly mediocre over the years, so perhaps this will be the kick up the ass it needs to bring it back to it's glory days.  They are definitely not taking the challenger lightly - they've already started airing their developmental brand NXT directly against AEW (and NXT itself has a good reputation for their matches).  When exactly the WWE/WWF glory days were is very open to debate - but for me it was the post-peak Hulk Hogan era with the likes of The Rock, The Undertaker and Stone-Cold Steve Austin, and this was also the era of the Monday Night Wars, which was a great time for wrestling with 2 competing promotions.  Here's hoping for more of the same now.