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Old 09-26-2022, 10:15 AM   #4603
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Sure, but to me, and maybe I'm very old school. All these big bumps are really becoming meaningless. I mean sure there's a segment that wants to see Wrestlers risking life and limb for their entertainment. And sure there's an appeal to what Cornette calls trampoline kids.

But at the end of the day, when you're pulling out multiple stupid moves on every TV show and in meaningless matches, it makes you less likely to give a crap about watching a ppv where really you're holy shyte moments happen.

I mean the WWE is guilty of it as well in their booking. But at the same time while guys like Rocochet (sp?) is supremely talented and an aerial artist. I'm not especially drawn to watch his matches or believe that he's anything but a lower mid card attraction, because everyone one of his matches feels the same, and the big moments don't feel big anymore. And he can't tell a story or get me interested in a feud to save my life.

Sting should know better, he was mentored by one of the best less is more, tell a franking story workers in history.

Orton when he's engaged does literally no harmful spots unless its on a PPV but his feuds are incredibly well done.

AEW right now is just injuring workers for no reason and putting wrestlers in danger for no reason.

I mean the other thing is it drives me crazy and its bad in both feds is that finishing moves, are completely meaningless. We have mid carders kicking out of upper carder finishes moves repeatedly. So the whole setting things up for the finish. Or the heel that cheats and gets his finishing move is meaningless.

When Paul Heyman appeared on Stone Colds pod cast (Which had the weirdest ending as they tried to make it a fake shoot at the end but I digress) he talked about using the sleeper as a finishing move. Protect it, sell it and make it mean something.

Nowdays finishing moves are just finishing move. And whover thought it was smart to have a guy kick out of 2 finishing moves for a false finish is stupid.

Sure you can have a guy kick out, but do it so rarely that it actually means something, and only do it in a PPV.

There's a reason why I am a fan of Paul Heyman, and Bret Hart, and to some extent Cornette (though he's crazy)

AS extreme as ECW was. As much as we saw blood and botches and violence. The guys there that got most over

A fat over weight guy that stopped doing hardcore stuff and denied it to the fans and spent a ton of his heel matches exchanging headlocks.

Incredible technical vanilla midgets (the industry term not mind) who got over with 4 and 5 star matches and not frying pans and chairs.
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