>>8981892Modern wrestlers either aren't trained this way or refuse to structure their matches this way though.
Regal has alluded to it on his podcast.
The point of learning the old school shoot style/British/Canadian grappling stuff was you learn how the body works and how to quickly and naturally go in and out of holds, there would be a few sequences you'd learn with codewords to pepper into a match but mostly it was about organic reacting and actually making each other work, with some help, to get in and out of moves or legit holds applied only 20%.
Modern wrestlers want to be more eye-catching and spectacular especially because social media means if it's GIFable/fits in a 30-60 second clip it gets lots of visibility, and short attention spans mean people won't watch longer slower paced stuff. Look at other media, when people share favourite TV or film scenes they tend to run 2-3 mins, 6 max. A wrestling match might be 15-20+ minutes, but functionally is a single scene within the show/PPV. So to get people to watch you need easily eyecatching highlight clips, but also lots of them.
The best way to have lots of complicated eyecatching clips is to script out the whole match so you can practice and choreograph the complicated moves. Which means they structure matches very tightly scripted so never learn how to adapt and react organically especially to botches or injuries.
That's why botches are more obvious or disruptive now rather than feeling like natural fight mistakes, and why you get shitters hitting moves on concussed guys. They're not trained to adapt and don't want to work that way because it's harder to get attention in the modern media format if you're not doing flashy retweet shit.
