Playaz Eyez
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Wasn’t expecting for them to pull so many different things from my own mind they were spot on in every way with crowd comparisons and current era wrestlers.
You know who bout to show up and make his usual post
This is the first time in history where old people are actually right. AEW is wack. There's 50 high spots a match and they a go 20 minutes. Wtf, I can't help but notice shyt fake.
Here's the thing though. You're telling people not to do high spots, but the only way they can get over and make money is spamming high spots. So how the hell are you gonna go back to a realistic style?
So back in the old days, wrestlers used to show up to the arena drunk and do the bare minimum in the ring because “we got the marks $ now”. As fans, we are supposed to be want those days back?? Wrestlers practicing their match in the ring to ensure its quality is bad? That’s stupid.
It would take yeeeeears for this to happen. You remember why back when HHH said the WWE needed to scale back Hardcore style stuff so when you bring it back out, the fans would actually miss it? It’s basically the same thing (but the WWE went overboard having such a mediocre, soft safe style for like 6-7 years)
I think of it more as fans/viewers want the days back of legit engaging shows involving larger than life characters instead of dudes that could be the Kroger store manager. There’s a reason why wrestling doesn't appear to be “cool” now on a mainstream level, and a lot of it has to do with all aspects of the presentation, from the tempered crowds to the wrestlers themselves (the latter part in which I would fault booking more than the wrestlers themselves).
Another one of their points with all the high spots, I recently watched a match with two heavyweights featuring multiple super kicks, Frankensteiners, dives, and barely selling powerbombs, it was ridiculous
I think of it more as fans/viewers want the days back of legit engaging shows involving larger than life characters instead of dudes that could be the Kroger store manager. There’s a reason why wrestling doesn't appear to be “cool” now on a mainstream level, and a lot of it has to do with all aspects of the presentation, from the tempered crowds to the wrestlers themselves (the latter part in which I would fault booking more than the wrestlers themselves).
Another one of their points with all the high spots, I recently watched a match with two heavyweights featuring multiple super kicks, Frankensteiners, dives, and barely selling powerbombs, it was ridiculous
EDIT: I actually re-listened to this clip and literally none of that in the bold was even implied from Disco/Konnan lmaooooo
The issue is who gets to decide what a larger than life character is? If Floyd Mayweather and Conor Mcgregor were 25 and showed up at the PC as their 150 lb, ultra charismatic selves, they’d be shown the door. Wrestling being exposed as fake, and the prevalence of UFC made simply looking like Hulk Hogan or Lex Luger not enough, as it would have 30 years ago.