Pro wrestling likes to try to be "progressive" nowadays. Sometimes, it's from an earnest attempt. Sometimes, it feels like more like a marketing ploy. And sometimes, it can feel split between those two.

But having a pro wrestler, on national television, as a babyface, normalizing and commending things like seeking therapy and having a "support system" like Darby Allin did tonight, and it being cheered by the crowd, is one of the best and genuinely most "progressive" things I'll see on wrestling TV this year.

I mentioned this on another Board I frequent, and someone noted how a promo like that back in the Attitude Era would have likely been booed. I could imagine it being used by a "weak" heel back then.

Wrestling' still has a lot of its older roots and people and philosophies still entrenched in it in a lot of ways, but sometimes seeing something that feels like a "step forward" is really neat.