May Collection Services Be Utilized In Stories For Wrestling Shows?

By Rob Sutter


After watching World Wrestling Entertainment's product recently, it seems like the storyline writers do not fully comprehend how actions are supposed to unfold in real life. It's almost like everything is blown up, from characters to the narrative that they are supposed to follow. While I am all for suspending disbelief and enjoying the show, there's only a certain point that this can be done to before I realize how ridiculous matters are. Collection services could be a potential idea that wouldn't work very well.

I think that one of the most sizable tropes in wrestling is contract signings and not many of them seem to deviate from the norm. For those who don't watch, I'm sure you're curious as to what the norm exactly is. Allow me to break it down for you: two competitors step into a ring and sit down at a desk before they throw insults at each other before they ultimately sign the contract, at which point chaos spills over. It's a repeated process that longtime viewers can tell from the word, "go."

There are also certain aspects of real life that wrestling tries to emulate but simply cannot make compelling. For example, the Divas Champion known as Kaitlyn is currently involved in a secret admirer storyline, which comes across as very childish. It would be one thing if this was done between middle school students, at the most, but this a storyline which has adults involved and they don't act this way. It's an example of a group of writers with their fingers not being exactly on the pulse.

It's because of this that I fear writers in wrestling taking hold of the idea of collection services. I just don't believe that these writers are smart enough to handle all of the details of the business, such as the multitude of services that the business offers. Along with the guidelines that each company has to follow, it seems like the kind of subject that you have to possess some degree of intelligence in order to write for. I just don't feel like wrestling will do companies like Rapid Recovery much justice, if any at all.

When you're a fan of any type of media, you have the right to critique it. You want the product to be better and sometimes you have to complain to some extent if you want to see changes made. Wrestlers, in my mind, don't seem to complain nearly enough and this often results in storylines not coming across as genuinely as they should. Freedom is one of the aspects of wrestling that I have always enjoyed, so why not employ said aspect once again?




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