Figure I'd share some of the wrestling I grew up on. There's some famous matches, but also a few album cuts.
Enjoy!
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Wrestling fans went from rooting for wrestlers to win to rooting for the wrestlers to put on a good show.
That's the inherent problem with modern wrestling.
And the shoes simply cannot book consistently around the fans to make it all work on a high leveland now when they root for a wrestler it isn't because of what you see on-screen, it's because of who they perceive the guy to be in real life
I was asking myself the same thing not too long ago.when did "banger" become a part of wrestling slang I feel like I didn't start hearing that till recent years on twitter and now wrestlers themselves are saying it on tv
I wish I could dap this twice.When kayfabe officially died, a lot of the kids who went on to become wrasslers decided that "Since everyone knows it's predetermined, why bother making anything look credible?"
That goes for their appearance, their matches, and their characters. It's obviously not everyone but that's the biggest problem I see with modern wrestling. They see themselves as artists who have no problem showing the collaboration with the other people they're working with.
Which is a silly attitude because if someone is an actor, they don't just say to themselves, "None of this is real so I won't even bother trying to make it seem real."
There are still ton of great people in the game who get the way things are supposed to work, even in the modern context but there's still way too many goofs who are more worried about Unca Dave than the lapsed fans who would come back if they could just restore that feeling of believable competition and conflict.
ThisWhen kayfabe officially died, a lot of the kids who went on to become wrasslers decided that "Since everyone knows it's predetermined, why bother making anything look credible?"
That goes for their appearance, their matches, and their characters. It's obviously not everyone but that's the biggest problem I see with modern wrestling. They see themselves as artists who have no problem showing the collaboration with the other people they're working with.
Which is a silly attitude because if someone is an actor, they don't just say to themselves, "None of this is real so I won't even bother trying to make it seem real."
There are still ton of great people in the game who get the way things are supposed to work, even in the modern context but there's still way too many goofs who are more worried about Unca Dave than the lapsed fans who would come back if they could just restore that feeling of believable competition and conflict.