>>9895930>>9896164Jungle Boy's entire popularity was being a true babyface and having his jurassic crew or whatever show up with him and doing a few of those cool/semi-unique rope swing variants with that polished Tarzan movement. He fucked up by roiding and bulking and lifting heavy too hard trying to be a standard heavyweight and now he can't ride on Luchasaurus' shoulders as well or run on the top rope as well and he's dressed in what's that, a trenchcoat or something?
The point is his "fully dressed" attire is him being a "modern, believable" guy in a jacket from the streets. He should have worked on his aerial stuff, kept up the rope gymnastics work, and leaned harder into his gimmick. AEW was supposed to be not WWE, so he should have started carrying a wooden club on his shoulder while ring walking, gotten rid of or prehistorified that little mini-me jobber whatever his name is, gotten a flashier entrance with more waving palm trees on the big screen and orange sunrises and parrots chirping and stuff.
"Mature" wrestling fucking sucks.
Either make it all the way big poppa pump roided huge assholes who die at 50 of heart explosion, or make it lucha, or make it a thousand dress-up gimmicks and intentionally absurd plotlines, or if you want to run an actual decent wrestling show do all of the above mixed together eclectically and tell the critics, match raters, "serious contender" worshippers and gay smarks to fucking kill themselves.
Even Hogan had a mullet, a bandana, a solid universal appeal gimmick, a recognizable style with lots of big visually obvious signature moves the commentators didn't need to explain or tell you you were seeing, and a whole repertoire of repeated mannerisms and gestures to the crowd and his opponents, he didn't just stand there being blonde man #1. And he was good! And he was HUGE and is basically the definition of doing aesthetic roiding to the extreme and getting lucky with the result.
