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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
The fact that punk can make total strangers hate him tells you everything you need to know about how engaging he is. It is wrestling not synchronized swimming. Feelings are going to get hurt, wrestlers are going to get into fights back stage.
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Boy when you read or watch some biographies of old school wrestling locker rooms, its amazing that they've pretty much flushed out the old school kinda karny protect the business mentality.
And some of it for the better, but also when I read up on even modern wrestling, the concept of the dressing room respecting the business and the veterans who were a key part in training seems to be gone.
the day and age of Jericho feeling disrespected by Goldberg in the WWE dressing room and taking him apart, or the story of Koko BeWare going after under taker after a botched tombstone left him 2 inches shorter.
Or receipts.
But I miss a lot of things, I read Rhonda Rousey's interview where she was upset that she didn't get enough rehearsal time. Then thinking about the guys like Flair and Hart and others that wouldn't go into a match with any more then a rough idea of a story, then call the match based on crowd reaction.
Or wrestlers having a rough idea of the point that they wanted to get across in a promo and then going out and just doing it without a script. And if you couldn't do it, you either got a manager or became a Mulkey.
Even down to the little things for me. I loved loved Roman Reigns post wrestlemania press conference where he did it fully in character and booted a reporter.
I don't know if I'm a fan of the workers posting videos of them hanging out with their blood enemy. I remember Dakota Kai and Tegan Nox feuding in NXT and it was great and intense, then you'd see them playing video games together.
It kind of ruins it for me.
I remember during the height of Stampede Wrestling me and my old man used to watch it, and you felt the heat of it, and the suspension of disbelief. My Dad always said that the secret to really enjoying wrestling was to be able to believe the illusion. I think that's gone now. I still remember my Dad ran a business right next to an auto shop that a lot of the Stampede Wrestlers worked at, and he was kinda disappointed that Champagne Gerry Morrow and Doug Moffat were working and laughing together.
I remember my dad would go on the road and when he came home he used to bring me copies of PWI or I think the Observer and they'd have those Kayfabe stories that were complete works of fiction, but it was cool reading about the Freebirds and Von Erichs running into each other in the bar and arrests happening. Or an interview with Paul E Dangerously plotting to expand the Dangerous Alliance.
It was cool in the day when Wrestlers would use different entrances based on if they were heels or faces. Or read about Junkyard Dog being blinded and he would walk around his neighbourhood with his eyes bandaged and using a cane just to carry on the illusion.
So where am I going with this? Hell I don't know. but the kid in me would be looking for a Jack Perry versus CM Punk feud built off of that video. But it will never happen, and really Jack Perry just isn't that good, but he would have gotten a nice bump from it.
Now because the fans got a video that literally is nothing more then a temper tantrum by Tony, that they started cheering for Punk at an AEW show, and if their plan was to bring back Perry as a bitter anti-hero, it'll fall flat he'll come back to the wrong type of heat and get boo'd of the business.