>>10145958Furthermore, you continue to accidentally prove me right, anyway.
There's no deal rebuttal there. You got so pressed by my callout that you hunkered down and put all your chips onto the "N-no! I'm a real puro fan! I swear!" play that you ignored the rest of the post.
Here's the bottom line: Crowdwork's effectiveness is entirely measured by, you know, how the crowd responds.
>Yeah, crowds just care about MOVEZ nowEven then, Tanahashi's really nowhere close to the level of gymnastic faux workrate that someone like Ospreay employs and if you think him applying a stray running forearm or slingblade is the same, you're blind AND delusional. In no fucking universe do you look at someone like Omega, Ospreay, or Ibushi and go "They wrestle just like Tanahashi", because they don't.
And the crowd reaponds to them. But do you know who the crowd also responds to, DESPITE wrestling a style that's considerably slower and more psychological style?
Tanahashi's not impressive because he wrestles like your fake favorite. He's impressive because he wrestles like himself and transcends trends.
Wrestling is getting faster, for better or worse (often worse), and Tanahashi is still THE heart, despite kneecaping the breakneck pace of modern wrestling. He's still working the audience harder with a leaping forearm than any flip or thigh slap.
Internet fans will always like the new guy. Okada. Naito. Ibushi. White. Shingo.
But the AUDIENCE loves Tanahashi, no matter how old he gets. That doesn't happen with a wrestling style based entirely on athletic feats and a willingness to bump your neck to sawdust, certainly not long-term.
Tana continues to be over YEARS after practically every single one of his peers would've or have fallen off.
If, by some impossible miraculous reveal, you actually watched tape in the 80s, then you've been watching shit wrong and you've been learning nothing. You lose anyway.
You're either a fraud for lying or you're a fraud for being a retard.
GO ACE!
