I'm not sure if thats the actual issue though. For instance whenever Ospreay and Ricochet were in the G1/Super Juniors together people would always anticipate that match because it was the only one like that that could tell that type of story.The disconnect between "telling a story" and doing high spots is so fukking bizarre to me. I'm sure if you asked Taker who is the "greatest in ring performer of all time" he'd name Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels immediately. And both those guys did a ton of high spots and bumping for their time, and were called out for it by older wrestlers and more "conservative" (for lack of a better word) fans.
Even a flippy match with 15 minutes of nothing but high spots has the story of "two people/teams trying to prove who is the more athletic". Now, you can absolutely hate that story and how they execute it, but you can't say it didn't have any story because it would be false.
I've seen a lot arguments lately about this, like someone telling a story requires the wrestlers to do the absolute minimum and that's just completely false and I'm a guy that LOVES minimalistic stuff in my wrestling with people doing the most basic shyt and getting the biggest pop possible, but it's just nonesense that there's just 1 correct way of "telling a story".
I don't disagree with any of that. I think it's different to what what Taker said though and I was using that as an example of the discourse I've seen online the past week.I'm not sure if thats the actual issue though. For instance whenever Ospreay and Ricochet were in the G1/Super Juniors together people would always anticipate that match because it was the only one like that that could tell that type of story.
But now if we got three matches on the same show telling that story then it dilutes the hell out of the book.
Similar but Not exactly the same, It's like Ospreay building a big portion of this feud with MJF around not using the Tiger Driver to win...........Then some dumbass did it on TV in one of their matches. I don't even remember who it was because it's not even worth remembering unlike when Ospreay will/would've finally did it again.