Through numerous mathematical equations designed by me, I have determined that the PG Era will in fact be the end of wrestling as us Wrestling Fans know it today. Most of us who watch the product today do so out of a sense of loyalty. We grew up in times much different than now when Wrestling actually meant something.....be it the Attitude Era, Golden Era, Territorial. We all come from a product that had character, heart, respect. Today's target audience has not, and most likely will never have that privilege. With WWE's massive push to gear their product to a 12 and under audience, its rational to assume that the majority of these young fans will most likely discontinue their "love" of wrestling by the time they turn 14 and realize they can watch streaming porn on the internet. This will create a vicious cycle in which there will be no TRUE wrestling fans left to carry on the torch once our generation dies off. I predict in as little as 15 years, the vast majority of "wrestling" fans will not know what "Independent Wrestling" is, especially with WWE's creation of the Performance Center which will rob all upcoming wrestlers of any discernible character achieved by putting in their dues. We have entered a sad day in wrestling.........bless all of you (with the exception of PG marks, go fuck yourself.)
Where as the wrestling world really has evolved and the talent from territories seems to be less and less over time, I don't think that wrestling will come to an end, simply because we are in a PG era of wrestling.
The Hogan era was when WWE went mainstream, worldwide and became such a huge phenomenon all over the world, yet this was considerably a PG era .... sure, it wasn't as PG as it is now (they would blade and juice back then, moves have been incredibly limited now in today's WWE due to safety of the talent), but apart from the Attitude Era times, wrestling has always had the PG tag to some degree since it's been mainstream, specially from the early 90's onwards ... so I don't think it's because of the PG era that's doing it ... what will do it (if anything) ... is the quality of the programming.
It'll be very interesting to see where WWE goes when Vince has completely stepped down, because although Vince does seem out of touch quite often in recent years, Vince was also the master mind and the genius that made WWE what it is today, so when he steps away from the product ... whoever takes over (Probably Triple H) ... it will be such a testing time for the company, depending on which way they take it ... personally, I feel that HHH will do a great job, he seems very in touch with things and he does seem to listen to the fans, more so than Vince does (Vince still has the final word right now).
However, wrestling will always continue through the generations and you will always get the loyal fans that support the product, people misunderstand the demographics of wrestling so much, thinking that the majority of the audience is kids, when that's actually a very small percent ... it's just a very important percent that are a big target audience for marketing products towards ... though a percentage of those will stay loyal, mainly those who grow up with parents loyal to the product also, so it continues that way quite often.
The only way WWE will seriously go down the pan is if the quality of product doesn't keep up with things, other than that, it'll be around long after we're all gone from this world we live in.
