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I remember getting into wrestling knowing very little about it, but watching movements happen and recognising the dynamic storytelling that was taking place.
They had the first women's MITB match 3 weeks after I started watching new wrestling for the first time in my life.
Ellsworth (manager) climbed the ladder to get the briefcase for Carmella. I recognised it as good heat. You get the scrawny simp to get heat by doing this, you legitimise the victory because the stip said the first woman to hold it wins, then you babyface the women who got screwed by this and do the blowoff at the next PPV by squashing Ellsworth which is believable because look at the guy.
Basic, basic storytelling. Equal ground, unfairness = heat, intrigue and showboating second week, angle third week, stip on Monday before PPV week 4.
A fucking retard can do it.
I look to see what other people think of it on youtube. "Sexism, a step back for women's wrestling, Vince is a lying hypocrite who ruined the women's revolution, they deserve to lose all that share value". I was shocked that so many people are this dumb about the wrestling they've been watching their whole lives.
Surely I don't know better than them?
In the years that followed, I learned that I did know better, and do know better.
But now?
Look at the WWE.
Look at AEW.
Look at how the matches are choreographed and produced, how they're called by an agent with a script and not actually called in the ring like all the good wrestling used to be.
I feel like I don't just know better than the marks. I know better than the wrestlers in the ring too, and I haven't even seen a whole year of modern wrestling. Never paid for any of it. Never bought merch.
I'm 31, fat and out of shape, not athletic at all, and I see every single thing they do wrong as if I've done it all for 30 years.
That disgusts me.
