Professional Wrestling Cleanup

Bringing this up from I Was Just Joking. I think the namedropping of the book deserves a slicing-off.

• By all accounts, this is the reason why David Arquette was made WCW Champion. Tony Schiavone made an off-hand joke about it during a creative meeting. Everyone burst out laughing... and then Vince Russo, head booker of WCW at the time, thought it was a great idea. That was just one of the many, many reasons why the book The Death of WCW exists today.

The page for The Gobbledy Gooker has two quotes, one of which is an R.D. Reynolds rant (only one page quote is allowed per page). Should I cut it?

Bringing these up from Audience Shift, likely because this thread has been left to gather dust for a long time and these examples are a bit whiny and snarky, and need a cleanup, especially the last sentence of the second example, which is just some needless WrestleCrap-level snark.

• Raw is basically a three-hour variety show, or a commercial for a national tourist board. Everyone's goofy and having fun, smiling and laughing, making jokes, nobody is being serious about the fact that they're supposedly fighters trying to settle feuds and obtain championship belts. This is amplified by the commentary team consisting of three salesmen constantly trying to pitch you something (which isn't even being presented at the moment). Come to the WWE... We have entertainments.
• Spurred on by the more athletic product being delivered by WCW at the time, the New Generation Era morphed into the Attitude Era around 1998. No longer making any pretense of being child friendly, the Attitude Era was aimed squarely at the rich in disposable income 18-to-25 demographic, with a heavy emphasis on in-ring violence, sex appeal, and more adult storylines. After WCW collapsed and WWE was left standing on top of the heap, the need for the Attitude Era had passed. The avid teen viewership was starting to grow up and move on and, thanks largely to its edgy product, younger viewers had been discouraged from watching. Starting in late 2002, the second major retool began with the rise of stars like John Cena and Randy Orton, largely discouraging blatant swearing and over-the-top hardcore violence on the weekly shows and toning down the amount of female Fanservice. The result is a much more family-friendly, if not as revolutionary product, albeit one that acknowledges a more "educated" wrestling audience by not insulting their intelligence. As much.