The value of a 3 star match

Scott,

Is it me or has a 3 star match lost much of its value?

By this I mean there was once a time where a WWF undercard would have matches that barely hit 2 stars and if they did get 3 it felt earned and special as it didn’t happen often.

Now we get wrestlers who are more all-round capable and put in the work to get a 3 star match but it doesn’t feel very well executed or special, it’s just the norm.

Clash of Champions had a couple 3 star matches yet most are instantly forgettable. This once wasn’t the case, yet why is it now? Are we being spoilt and are taken it for granted? Has wrestling lost its way? Do we need a new different system? Must we adapt?

Cheers

​Well, *** is pretty much an average – above average match, so it’s not exactly high praise to call something a three star match. And given that the company can now curate all the best talent in the world and book them however they want, they damn well better be getting above average matches all the time. As hesitant as I am to ever agree with anything that zanatude says, he summed it up as the show being "a bunch of technically proficient matches that the average fan doesn’t care about", and that’s a good way to put it. Kevin Owens is a fantastic character, but he’s just not right for the spot he’s in right now. That’s not on him, that’s on the company failing to turn anyone into a bigger star than they were when they came off the indy scene. ​