While I agree with your first statement about the amount of shows they have to do and the tough schedule, I kind of disagree with the next paragraph.
They don't do an indy style at all it's total WWE. If you read the live show circuit and you usually have two tours happening at the same time. Take a Reigns tour for example, read the first set of results, and every show after that will mirror it. It's like some sort of choreographed dance routine, only at certain times someone gets their toe trod on. Also look at the age group that attends house show and you see it's mostly kids with their parents. They don't want to see thumbtacks, fire and shots to the head, they are happy just seeing their favourites in the ring.
I don't think the match are more technical or longer, but I do think that they perform the moves too often and don't get a chance to totally rest before going out and doing it again. The WWE should cut back on the house show circuit and give their guys time to rest and let any lingering problems heal. People are working injured and when they do go down, they are out for longer stretches, like what happened with Cesaro. He was working with a dodgey rotator cuff and finally had to have surgery on it. Now he's out for up to 5 months.
it's time to go back to the drawing board and map something out that benefits both the wrestlers and the fans.
It seems you're totaly missing my point, or are not seeing it. How can you say the matches aren't longer or more technical!? Go back and watch an episode.if Monday night Raw from the Attitude Era. Go ahead and do it, I do all the time, they're on the WWE network for only $9.99 :-D
What do you see!? Raw is War is 2 hours long, making ahorter.matches necessary. Alot of talking.....promos.....ads,....random brawls backstage and in the ring. Matches are typically 2-5 mins other then main events. Let's look at a typical sequence from an attitude era match:
Punches are exchanged till one person gets the advantage. That guy punches a few more times and then irsh whips his opponent who reverses the Irish whip. The opponent bends down for a back body drop but gets a kick to the head. The opponent rolls outside the ring but is followed. Clothesline to the back of the head. He picks his opponent up and slams his head into the stairs. He then whips him into the barricade before getting in his opponents face and taunting him.
Now let's look at a modern Raw.
What do you see? Raw is now 3 hours long which allows for longer matches.Shows will have multiple 20+ min matches and the rest of the matches are closer to the 10 min mark instead of the 5 min mark. There's still alot if talking but not as much as before, There's less backstage segments too. More of the story is.told in the ring. All of these changes are to free up more time for the longer.matches that fans crave. Something that didn't come from The WWE, but something people started to appreciate from the Indy's.
And that's where the "Indy style" comes into play. Doing the same.match over and over doesn't mean it's not an indie style they are doing over and over.
So we saw that sniper if what an attitude era match would have. Now.let's look at today's matches. A sequence could look like this:
He hits a running forearm on his opponent and pushes him back to the ropes. Irish whip into a Japanese arm drag, both get right back up, he.dropkicks the.opponent and picks him back up. His.opponent hits a quick knee to the gut followed by an Irish whip eh CH is reversed into a hurricanranna. The opponent rolls.to the outside but then gets hit with a suicide dive to the outside. He picks the opponent up and whips him into the steel stairs. He picks his opponent back up, the opponent swings but.misses. he grabs his opponent from behind and hits a belly to back suplex, back first into the barricade. He stands over his opponent and taunts.
I tried to keep it similar to the other one but with a more.modern style so you can see how it differs. Taking back bumps constantly and at faster paces/higher impacts takes alot more out if a body then taking worked punches/kicks for the majority of the match.
The faster more technical style along with longer matches are some very big reasons why there are so many injuries. You combine that with the tougher schedule and lack of performance enhancing/pain killing drugs, and you have a recipe for disaster.
And on your point with Cesaro....20 years ago he wouldn't have needed surgery. That's the point I was making about that. The pain killers would have covered the pain and the roids would ha e healed the injury. He wouldn't have missed any time. I'm not saying people should take.those things, just pointing out why injuries are more common Nowdays
