>>7288889Pretty much this.
Unfortunately a lot of children and idiots permeate through wrestling social media so you get the types of opinions shown in this thread.
Wrestling hasn't fundamentally changed in over a hundred years - the same angles are still drawing now that were drawing then. This is fairly reasonable because human psychology hasn't changed. Almost every Hollywood big budget movie is yet another retelling of Gilgamesh and that's four thousand years old. Stories don't fundamentally change structure and neither does the psychology behind the story beats we see.
Cornette understands wrestling on a fundamental level but the most annoying thing about him is that he is unable to separate the psychology and the presentation. Presentation is a sign of the times and as others point out here, the stuff that he enjoyed in the 70s was blasphemous to those from the 60s etc. Russo is the diametric opposite of a man who hit the perfect presentation in the 90s but didn't have the psychology to progress. Which is why he has basically tried to recreate the Attitude Era everywhere he has ever been.
Cornette is great when he's talking about the theory of wrestling or pitching high level angles. When he talks about it in the concrete then he gets lost. His Guest Booker is an excellent example - the theory behind his angle was great, the details he filled it in with were stupid.
His "everyone in a box is over" stuff aswell shows his character. He fundamentally understands wrestling - that the box creates buzz, surprise, suspense, drama etc. But again he doesn't the presentation in 2022 of a man in a box being a stupid thing.
When he is talking about the higher level theory then he's as smart as anyone I've heard in wrestling, and he should really stick more to this as when he tries to overlay this great psychology on today's presentation then it makes him a bit of a mockery.
