>>4762509There are people who have dedicated years of their life to hating the WWE, Vince McMahon, and everything the WWE and McMan stand for in pro wrestling.
These people took that hate and chose to watch indie wrestling, also for years upon years and years more before.
In all that time, the indie darlings became the hero to these people, and McMan the villain.
When AEW showed up, the villain promotion now had to face a hero promotion, in these people's mind.
This means that if anyone criticises the hero for what the hero is (young, inexperienced, naive, booked by a mark not by a wrestler, full of unheard talent that never did amateur wrestling and doesn't know any holds just knows spots), he's an enemy of the state and gets the McMan hatred.
JR's play-by-play is entirely based on the wrestling show you're watching with him.
If the show's a good wrestling show, JR gets excited.
If the show's shit, JR used to keep quiet and now he's cracking jokes and exposing the absolute state of the shit we're all watching.
These people who adore AEW and hate the WWE will simply hate anything that breaks the illusion they cemented for themselves over a decade+ of self-brought-on cognitive dissonance: the illusion that anything that ISN'T the WWE, must by definition be better than the WWE.
Which AEW isn't.
