>>12081987It's more a gradual thing. PWG was the culmination of a style that had been building for a long time but if you want to blame any single promotion then the one to blame is actually Dragon Gate and to an extent Ring of Honor and one specific match.
Spot monkey style was actually a controversial thing on the indies in the 2000s for the reasons people bitch about now. But Dave loves spot monkey shit and this was just a bunch of Jappos moving at turbo speed doing high spots and drivers and shit with no real psychology and Dave creamed his jeans over it. Once he approved of it, then the smarks started approving of it because they've always been zombies who largely just follow Dave's opinions. The popularity and praise for the match meant more people checking out Dragon Gate and copying it's lucharesu (Japanese for "spot monkeys who trade psychology for flips and being able to actually work for high spots") style. This built for a few years until PWG dropped all of its OGs and just became a super indy showcasing spot monkey bullshit which meant Dave went and creamed his jeans which is where he befriended the Cucks and started talking them up as the greatest tag team ever while the Cucks cynically and carefully cultivated their relationship with Dave to build brand and make money.
But make no mistake, without that shitty DO FIXER vs. Blood Generation match, the spot monkey style doesn't really take off the way that it did.