Once The DDT stopped being a finishing move I gave up being bothered by how dudes recover like Superman from every move.
Since wrasslers in aew get to keep their continuity the indies intact.
A vet guy like cole would be able to recover from an apron move.
As he already been through the killer apron spot.
If grapplers get to keep their continuity.
It aids psychology of the match.
For so long you guys never were able to keep up with the continuity of grapplers.
If they signed to vkm.
So at least now...
When you view a grappler from an indie background.
You get them where they left off in their story.
Instead of no continuity.
Only guy i can think off given some of his rub and continuity aas aj styles.
Even then it took forever to see any psychology rrmotely close to why aj was aj.
shyt you had to beg to see a styles clash.
Plus no psychology that made the styles clash was employed.
Which made aj styles aj styles.
So at least with a large alternative like aew present.
You do not get the continuity of a vet undermined and disrespected.
Hangman page is a grappler.
who had probably the craziest apron spot in the past five years with jay white.
If he no sells an apron bump i understand.
In wwe hulk hogan is the only guy who had atypically had continuity when it served him going on. Other than that. Continuity on a main stage was generally lost.
Sting is the only other grappler i can remember who debuted in my life time.
From another promotion and given some semblence of his continuity aftrr going to a major promotion. Ric flair maybe the only large drawing me i remember who kept his continuity in the wwe originally. Yet even that was purposefully undermined.
or at this point being systemically buried by WWE.
using their in house created charlotte.
Everybody else typically was buried.
Outside hogun in wcw.
Hogun is probably the only one given his full continuity as a character.
I would like to say macho. Yet macho was systemically buried in wcw.
Plus alternatively had his angles stolen by the other promotion.
in less quality but in a main event setting with stephanie.
Art Barr