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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
OC was perfect because no one else was doing it. Unique. Jim just can't handle the non old-school stuff.
When Sting did the bit with OC, it demonstrated that even the old timers can change with the times and understand the business evolves. Jim refuses to get out of the 1980's.
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Thing is though this Swerve/Hangman criticism is a very different bucket to me.
It's one thing to dislike a gimmick or talk about "Ruining the Business"...honestly that's stuffs dead and gone. There is nothing worse about Orange Cassidy's gimmick than there was about some stuff back in the old school days.
But this criticism is very much stuff that Cornette, Punk, Bret Hart, Lance Storm, and many others have criticized which is working safe and working smart.
I think the stuff like the staple gun or needle he's probably wrong about. That's no real more risky or painful than when guys used to blade to get colour. And there are lots of "wrestling" things that can relate to "why let a guy staple you with a staple gun" in wrestling.
But I do think there are some things like the cinder blocks, and some of the other more dangerous maneuvers that guys across all organizations need to start being more careful about. And that goes for WWE and AEW both for that matter.
It's not something that causes a long term issue for somebody...until it does...and then at that point it's too late. And I know that's part of wrestling in general, really any move can leave you paralyzed at any time, but honestly no need to take even more incremental risks on top of the stuff you're doing that's already risky.