>>13564270Anon, I'm not a casual fan. I'm a hardcore wrestling fan. I hardly watch anything that's not wrestling. But I watch almost exclusively classic wrestling from the 80s and 90s.
Wrestling has to be treated as real for me to care at all. And that means the wrestlers need to treat each match as a sports contest. Instead the wrestlers toss all reason out the window so instead we get things like:
>not organic at all, looks like a choreographed tumbling routine>no respect for size differences aside from a few pre-planned spots>obvious cooperation to setup spots>selling rarely lasts longer than the spot calls for>commentary is the drizzling shits, and pulls me out of the few matches that are actually goodI could go on. There are still some good workers out there, but the wrestling product is so broken that it's hardly worth it to seek out when it's always surrounded by garbage.
I won't even go into how virtually no one can cut a proper promo anymore, or how the storylines are basic bull crap that lack any nuance. Or how sports presentation has been replaced by cringe skits that would make a high schooler blush. The matches themselves are a big enough problem on their own.
And yes, this is a problem for AEW and WWE. That is why I mostly watch WWF, JCP/WCW, and 80s/90s matches from Japan.
