Beyond The Beermat

Wrestling has many ways to draw your attention, to grab your imagination from an early age and ever let go. Quite possibly the most flamboyant and ultimately biggest of these are the superstars themselves. These larger than life athletes decked in these incredible costumes. So in today’s WWE we have to ask ourselves, where have they all gone? Even more alarmingly, did we make them all go away?   Beyond The Beermat is back to confront perhaps the deadliest question of all, did we just get old? We’re going to have to have a serious look at what makes a gimmick great and perhaps in the modern context even redefine what it means altogether. As times have changed, so too have tastes. The types of personalities had to adjust accordingly. This episode we’re going to trace it all back from childhood and see if our hunger for more realism went too far or did the outlandish gimmicks of our youth simply outrun their course. It becomes – in all senses of the word – a question of character.