>>16162636It's a reaction to Vince's fetish for beefcake bodybuilders. He would hire these guys and push them to the moon even if they couldn't work a match to save their lives. Then when they were well and truly exposed he'd give them a dancing gimmick, fire them and replace them with a new lumbering shitter who couldn't work. Rinse and repeat for decades (with a few very notable exceptions to the rule) and eventually we reach the stage in the late 2000s where wrestling fans want to see smaller guys wrestling faster paced matches with flashier moves.
By 2024 this trend has degenerated to the point where the smaller guys don't even need to look like wrestlers anymore, and worst of all, they don't need to be good workers either. So now we see two skinny unathletic dweebs fumbling around the ring in a way that would make the clumsy beefcake shitters of yesteryear blush with embarrassment. This of course defeats the purpose of selecting for smaller guys in the first place because what's the point if they can't even work an exciting match at breakneck speeds?
The point is that they subbed to chugs and he read out their name live on stream (because that's his job) and now they think he's like, such a nice guy, and they would feel bad if they didn't cheer for him even though they know deep down that he is objectively a piss poor professional wrestler who can't even a cut a promo half as well as everyone likes to pretend he can.
