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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
No more than you'd see in NXT. Plus, it seems NXT talent tend to get hurt more with injuries outside the ring, particularly in the women's division. Not sure what's going on there, but their training methods are suspect IMO.
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I really really agree with this Ozy, there's something wrong with how wrestlers are being initially trained, and the risks their willing to take.
I remember, and remember I'm older then dirt, that when I first started watching wrestling it was pretty simple, the high flyers were rare, and the biggest high flyers like Steamboat and Savage and Dynamite kid weren't doing anything that would be get "This is awesome" chants today. Savage had a double axe handle and the elbow drop from the top. Steamboat had the cross body, Dynamite had the flying headbutt (Which turned out to be intensely dangerous.
The rest of the workers, the technical guys had a more deliberate pace, lots of punches kicks, lock up moves to the mat occasional drop kicks.
Hell, the sleeper was the deadliest move in Stampede and sold incredibly well.
But the audiences forced the evolution to the high risk stuff. Then ECW came along and to this day workers still emulate that incredibly dangerous risk taking style. I've always said that audience demands were going to lead to injuries and eventually death.
But I blame the trainers and even the workers. The fundamentals of how to tell a story in the ring, I don't think they're being taught anymore. Instead matches go 10,000 miles an hour, with high risk moves when they're not necessary. I mean wrestlers in interviews can talk all they want about building stories, but that focuses is on promo's and non match moments. In match, there's very few that understand ring psychology. People and especially younger workers are getting hurt because they're trained to do big moves when they're not needed. They're not trained to pause and bring the audience in, they're not trained on pacing. And they're not trained to not do stupid things.
The other people that are responsible and should know better are the veterans who are writers or producers or whatever who's questions should be framed around "Why are you doing this", "Does this advance the story line", and are "You stupid".