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Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan The story during the match can go a few places but it's a story we know is leading to the final minute or so of the 60 minutes being the deciding fall. Kinda makes you think "Who gives a shit?" when it comes to the rest of it. And obviously I wasn't being literal when I said it "can end at any moment". Obviously Steamboat-Flair or HBK-Taker or Punk-Cena isn't gonna end 3 minutes in. There's still some build. But it's building toward a climax that, once it hits that peak, could end out of the blue. Say you've got a CM Punk vs John Cena iron man match. It's 20 minutes in and the pace is picking up. Who cares? You can turn away for 35 minutes and you know when you turn back, you'll be seeing them going at it for 5 more minutes with someone trying to get the deciding fall. Now say it's a regular match. There's no way you're gonna turn away at that 20 minute mark. The finish could come at any point. It could even still come 40 minutes from now. But you'll keep watching. And they'll keep you on the edge of your seat with a ton of false finishes which just aren't really possible in an iron man match until the end.

but if you turn away, you're going to miss most of the story and naturally it's going to feel a bit shit. You know how long a film is going to be before you see it and 95% of the time, if you've watched a lot of film before, you can work out it's going to end only one of a few ways. It's the story they tell in between that decides whether it's any good or not. It's the same with pro wrestling. Don't really see how an iron man match stipulation changes that fact, especially if the two guys are tied going into the last few minutes. I understand your point of view but all an iron man match really is at it's "core" is a glorified time limit that you know is going to be reached.