From certain acts and wrestlers of the past being great or not, to other stars being fumbled or wasted by bookers.

I am here to talk to you about many a wrestling narrative that is anything but true.

So let's get to it. I am Gareth, you are watching What Culture Wrestling?

And here are the 15 biggest false narratives in wrestling history.

Number 15, the Bucca ruined this wrestler's career.

Vince McMahon broke the way in which pro wrestling is received.

His dire legacy haunts every conversation surrounding the medium, even indirectly.

This is a broad false narrative to unpack, but because Vince was so atrocious at his job

for so damn long, by willfully destroying careers through his inability and unwillingness to

create new stars, the onus on whether or not a wrestler gets over these days is placed entirely on the

booker. If a popular wrestler stagnates, in the eyes of the public, it is very rarely that wrestler's

fault. Consider Wardlow. Wardlow was awesome as an explosive emerging force between 2019 and

2022. Wardlow was AW's Batista in storylines, and was almost equally as good

at conveying his motivations through understated body language. Now, Tony Kahn did kill the

credibility of the character by not going with him when CM Punk was forced to vacate the

world title in the wake of Double or Nothing 2022, but would it have really gone all that

well? Wardlow was more Goldberg in the ring when tasked with the longer four main events

demanded by the AEW audience. His big business match with Samoa Joe was eye-opening in 2024.

Wardlow's offence looked limp there, and it didn't look like Joe was in much

trouble when Wardlow went through the motions of an attack on the outside. That might have

worked had Wardlow still possessed something in the way of aura, but the point remains the

Bucca is not always at fault. Wardlow as T&C champion wasn't particularly great either,

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