Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
bret, had great matches.
yet his style of unyielding non-malleable character only yielded one type of atmosphere.
or one type of storytelling template with no actual room for any other component to fit into.
which is why, his matches with flair were ho hum.
or his matches and subsequent angles in wcw were also lacking as well.
as bret was so much into and coddled by his travels.
he never had to develop a larger robust charscter model to tell differemt story types.
angle had several successful character models all welded and melded together.
which allowed him several compelling storytelling types.
which also allowed him to grow faster and never become a one trick pony.
as bret criticized flair...
yet real talk bret never realized flair was better than him.
as flair had a robust spontaneous bag of experience/adversity and workrate to call upon while calling a match. to interweave different aspects that drew in more terrotories and in effect larger than bret. as flair's career still goes on.
plus is not limited to just being the grisled hair ring veteran.
that allows flair the ability to still be incredibly lengthening to wrasslin's entertainment value, and draw.
angle also has this component and versatility that bret lacked.
as angle has a larger host of more classic matches in modernized times.
which we can call off in faster succession than bret's legacy.
if bret was capable of working differen types or styles or characterization like kurt.
bret would still be an inring competitor as well.
as bret's unyielding character model.
actually could have lead to goldberg overprocessing the moment in his inexperience to look on par with bret.
which lead to the bret-killer savant kick that took bret away from us.
also,..bret's ability to never be yielding is also in part.
why vince was forced into the screw job as well.
as bret's unyielding one dimensional character.
also, created in part, the reason why the screwjob occurred as well.
these are issues kurt does not have. as kurt has more than one character model. so kurt could ineffectively lose more consistently, and still get back over. while appearing vulnerable to loss.
whereas bret would not even in injury.
allow himself to be pinned as it would damage his one-dimensional character.
that was how confining and unmalleable bret's character was.
which was also his achille's heel and reason his career took the strife riddled turn it took.
as bret never had a multitiude of compelling ways to draw.
which created numeorous avenues or angles to storytell from.
whereas kurt had numerous characters and avenues to create and draw from.
in a very rapid small window of time,...that could go down as unparralleled.
if ric flair did not exist,...yet, real talk, angle has more effective drawing characters and storytelling ability.
in a shorter time frame than flair as well.
kurt angle is an enigma.
it is a shame we never got to see kurt versus bret.
yet, real talk,.....benoit was better than bret.
so we got more from benoit/angle, than we would have gotten from bret anyway.
art barr
