It seems recently that wrestling is reaching its saturation point. You can now turn on the TV and find wrestling on just about any given night of the week. As a fan, you might think this is a good thing, but I find it almost the opposite. Even as fan, you can get burned out very quickly.

I’m not a TV watcher to begin with, but I do watch wrestling. My staple show is on Monday night. Other than that, I don’t sit down to watch any other wrestling program. But…if one happens to be on, then I’ll probably watch, even if half-assed.

Last night while enjoying a card game with the Mrs., Saturday Night’s Main Event came on NBC. The Main Event went off the air in the early 90s and came back just recently after the WWE (once WWF) re-signed a deal with NBC. This put pro wrestling back on network television. Frankly, I forgit that the Main Event was even on at all, but sicne it was one, I watched.

And thank you Main Event! By far, last night’s Main Event was the most entertaining wrestling show I’ve seen in a long, long, long time. The Main Event is you standard 2-hour show, but since it is generic show, and on NBC, the show features wrestlers from ALL of the WWE’s other shows. Typically, if you want to see a certain wrestler or match, you’d have to tune in to each respective wrestling show - a good idea, but it doesn’t work on me.

Last night I saw wrestlers fight that I hadn’t seen spar in ages, simply because I don’t watch the show they’re on. The other great thing about the Main Event is that there’s actually wrestling! There were more matches last night than I’ve seen on the past month’s worth of Raw or Smackdown. Sure, you had your storylines and promos, but they were short and sweet, just like the old days. Plus, they were all mid-top card wrestlers. There wasn’t one jobber match during the entire show - now that’s rare everywhere else.
They keep the soap opera storylines going, but last night it seemed to be your classic “I don’t like you, so lets fight” type storylines, which is all I need. Plots and promos are great, but the cable shows are starting to get bogged down with them. We want more wrestling, less soap opera - and with the Main Event, that’s what we get. The entire WWE is spreading themselves too thin. As the Main Event proves, when you put all your talent on one show, that show kicks ass. Splitting them up forces you to add filler and jobber matches that get fans like me to tune out.
Now the only chore is remembering that Saturday night has good wrestling on. But, all in good time for good wrestling.

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