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CavemanLynn

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  1. Good god. When Dalton wins them back, he's going to need to spend weeks showing the Men how to be Boys. THIS IS PRO WRESTLING.
  2. The more I see of Mone, the more I think she must've been agented to fxxx in NXT, because every time she's stretched athletically or seemingly been allowed to have her own input, she ends up nearly breaking herself in two on suicide dives, or concocting awkward, overcomplicated yet unspectacular manouevres like that Gory DDT. Her promos are stilted WWE checklisters, and she has a tweener persona that immediately kills any heat let alone fire (mind you, being a middle-aged white bloke, maybe I'm out of touch and the smug "bad bitch" thing is a face gimmick). For all the industry hype and bells and whistles, I've never seen what she brought to the table apart from confidence, earned or not.
  3. "DM HUNK, baby!" Outstanding.
  4. It might be that the average wrestler these days comes from a very different background to those pre-2000, but I think they have to go through the same transition as wrestling nerds to actually get good - you start trying to be a bigger character than you are, then you start learning the inner workings and turn into a movez nerd, then you get the confidence to pick the movez you want, then you finally uncover the final form of the bigger character you originally tried to be. Regardless of what the attitude seems to be among a lot of modern workers, most family crowds I witness want the characters; that requires confidence that only experience can provide. I assume most of the guys in your list pre-2000 were also working a helluva lot more frequently than today's lot, both on the indies and your weekend warriors, so they simply made that transition loads faster. They didn't have libraries of matches on Youtube to cadge spots from, bloat their movesets and diminish their crowd work; almost every thing they learned was on the road, either watching other matches on the card or travelling with actual vets who'd made the transition. There's a seminar by Raven where he counts three matches as one week's wrestling experience, so with lower schedules, it makes sense that the current lot have comparatively longer careers. My main issue with guys wrestling for ages is the lack of variety and change. It's been noted on here at least how homogenous the WWE 'eras' have become where the last 20 years feels like one stale format, whereas there felt like distinct personalities for the 80s, early- to mid-90s, millennium, and so on. I also worry about "the love of the game" causing a worker-bee mentality, when I would prefer wrestlers maximised their value, made their money as quick as possible, and got out healthy and happy to mentor the developmental crews and indies.
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