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You can see the same thing with some podcast marks who can't stop talking about the premise.
"When you've done what Ric has done, and you're out at the age of 75, you try doing that" completely misses the point that what Ric did could be done by a 90 year old, it looked so safe that a child could do that.
"It's Ric Flair, he's 75" and look at the atrocity.
The single biggest problem with wrestling is that all the talent who spend a long time in it taking bump after bump completely mark out for themselves and forget how fucking effortless it is to do a bit of safe bumping and giving some hits after years of doing nothing.
It's what makes all these old legends think they can wrestle another match. They genuinely can, if they wrestle like they did 40-50 years ago, which they do.