>>18873505I noticed the same in 2019.
While "sports theatre" does fit as a description of pro wrestling, the theatrical component does provide an avenue for arrogance and hubris.
Movies and the stage are inundated with hoity toity prima donnas who think they're God because they're in the leading role and get paid accordingly, especially in Hollywood.
The old-school wrestlers didn't get paid that much for their services. Some made a fortune, most didn't, and the most respected guys were the ones who kept their feet on the ground and maintained their sense of humility.
I can't see any of that in today's wrestlers. They're all waxing each other's dicks with admiration and lovey dovey work rates and such devotion, always harping on and on and on about the sacrifices they're making like they're a martyr or a prophet, just like the Hollywood people.
Veterans never talked about it that way. It's a job, and they worked the job the same way a lineman works his job and a plumber his job. The element of sacrifice doesn't come into the equation until the wrestler's talking about how he got screwed and made a sacrifice to keep his career or something like that.
Not with today's wrestlers. Their sacrifices are like a noble cause to them, a virtue and not a price.
"The marks are in the ring".
They all seem like self-marks but it doesn't sit right...
Those agents who choreograph everything, the producers, the creative writers who are always shown patting themselves on the back and somehow never breaking their shoulder despite how passionately they're complimenting themselves...
In AEW it seems like the talent are high on their own cum.
In the WWE, everyone behind the curtain certainly is.
