>>8748086The different levels/layers of mark these days are pretty deep. It seems like the proliferation of podcasts and social media is slowly moving us past the forum smark days outside of places like here. Certain entire styles of wrestling are believed to be less worked than they actually are, and old bookers turned podcasters with very limited knowledge of japanese or indie wrestling perpetuate these ideas to their mark audiences who work themselves into these shoots where they pretend no American wrestlers have ever been permanently crippled in the ring.
Strong Style and all the head drop finishers are heavily worked even in the supposed legendary matches where AJPW guys supposedly sawdusted each other hundreds of nights a year for a decade. It's just weird how often you see "smart" fans pretend suplexes and slams involving a guy landing on his upper back are unsafe head drops when you can clearly see them being properly executed.
