Not only is this shyt performance art BUT IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN.
The wrestlers are performing, playing the part of competitors in a combat sport.
The audience is in on the performance, they are playing the role of an audience watching a real athletic contest.
Little kids think it’s real but for the rest of us it’s like a play or a movie, where we go in knowing it’s a performance but we let ourselves get taken by the suspension of disbelief.
What makes it different than a movie which is art, is the performance of it being done live. And just like in any art there are those that do it by the numbers and there are those that master the tools and techniques and give you some shyt that actually manipulates your emotions or makes you consider things in a different way.
Cornette is just trolling for attention and he’s living in a kayfabe world that doesnt exist anymore.