You don’t have many big men that work the big man style any more. Sure guys like Vader and Bigelow did moves off the top and middle ropes, but they did it sparingly.
I blame the Indy scene of thinking where people couldn't get the fans to care about them as characters, so they had to resort to being someone who they could get behind purely from an in-ring standpoint.
However, this translated poorly as high spots and feats of athleticism became the go-to to elicit a response from the crowd, cheapening said moves to the point where your average wrestling fan looks at it and goes
. Psychology is an art that is getting rarer and rarer every day in North American wrestling and it's a dame shame because some of the athletes here are fukking insane and it pains me to see guys coming out to crickets or having to almost kill themselves just to get a small pop from the crowd.
A dude like Ricochet is
because he just does what everyone else does pretty much, but on a more extreme level. He isn't bad in the ring at all, I think he is one of the best talents today but his moveset is borderline corny to me now because I've seen the shyt before.
Don't even get me started on big men doing this shyt
. Knees already on
status and dudes wanna do suicide dives and landing on their feet to the outside. The spectacular moves should be a reminder of how good said big man wrestler is, but since its just a regular move in their shyt its