>>11448286>I have no idea why these crowds always react to it so positively when it looks like shit and should be laughed atI suspect the vast majority of the people applauding wrestling like this are newish fans who discovered wrestling later in life.
Look at it this way - on one hand you have the layperson, the non-fan who is critical of wrestling and all its farces - they are not yet indoctrinated with the language of wrestling that allows us wrestling fans to suspend disbelief and willfully ignore the farce of things like irish whips, jumping up to take moves, etc. The kind of thing that would be off-putting to your average person.
On the other hand, you have your life-long wrestling fan, somebody who has watched a tonne of different wrestling since childhood. These are the ones with a keen eye for what looks good and what doesn't, who can give matches a fair appraisal based on the body of wrestling they've watched throughout their life.
Then in the middle you get the kind of fan who enjoys and celebrates this type of wrestling. They have sturdy enough wrestling goggles to look past the aspects a layperson would criticize, but not enough to differentiate between good wrestling and a poor man's imitation of good wrestling. They see that the same types of moves are being performed in the same sequence and so it looks the same to them. No thought is given to the finer details of how each maneuver is performed because they simply lack the eye for it.
