5. Backstage Politics
Yeah, ALWAYS going to be a problem in wrestling, always has been, always will.
Whether it’s a clash of personalities, bruised egos or jealous spot GUARDING, there will always be backstage issues in wrestling. The reason it made this particular list is that in today’s wrestling world, where only one truly major league product rules the day, backstage BS is truly more dangerous than ever.
In the days of the territories, many (but not all, of course) ego problems and/or political struggles could be resolved simply by leaving for another territory and plying one’s TRADE elsewhere, but in today’s WWE, one wrong move can mean career suicide.
Of course, it is tempting to attribute every failed push to the cutthroat politics inherent to pro wrestling (indeed, many unmarketable wrestlers are only too keen to blame anybody but themselves for the fact that they never got over in a major company). However, the sad truth is that a lot of promising careers have been scuppered by backstage nonsense and it is a trend that is getting worse today because of the lack of big MONEY OPPORTUNITIES outside of the WWE.
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