Everything surrounding wrestling has become so insufferable it makes it actually hard to enjoy anything.
Every journalist, podcast, "fan" online, and many of the various places meant to discuss it are Lefties who treat things like "Wrestlecrap" as gospel and think the "mostly buff dudes in tights and tassels*" of today is somehow less cringe than full kayfabe "no he is actually dead and that's his baby and that's an actual voodoo shaman" of yesteryear.
What's sad is that most of that isn't actually there in the business itself, its just every single facet of the fanbase you can find trying to force this narrative. Especially now that Vince is both gone and "cancelled" due to totally believable allegations that just coincidentally came out after he retired from someone happy to take his money before.
*These were always there and prevalent, but now its the overwhelming majority and that makes it far less impressive while also making everyone less distinct.
They lost me when they started having fights outside the ring; like in parking lots or offices. I guess it helped their ratings, so I'm probably in the minority thinking that way.
It was only a matter of time before DEI got into the ring though, given how WWE is a performance show designed to maximize profit (and who has deeper pockets than the DEI collective?).
Also pro-tip for OP: Please wait for the archive to finish and post the final link instead of the wip link.
Everything surrounding wrestling has become so insufferable it makes it actually hard to enjoy anything.
Every journalist, podcast, "fan" online, and many of the various places meant to discuss it are Lefties who treat things like "Wrestlecrap" as gospel and think the "mostly buff dudes in tights and tassels*" of today is somehow less cringe than full kayfabe "no he is actually dead and that's his baby and that's an actual voodoo shaman" of yesteryear.
What's sad is that most of that isn't actually there in the business itself, its just every single facet of the fanbase you can find trying to force this narrative. Especially now that Vince is both gone and "cancelled" due to totally believable allegations that just coincidentally came out after he retired from someone happy to take his money before.
*These were always there and prevalent, but now its the overwhelming majority and that makes it far less impressive while also making everyone less distinct.
They lost me when they started having fights outside the ring; like in parking lots or offices. I guess it helped their ratings, so I'm probably in the minority thinking that way.
It was only a matter of time before DEI got into the ring though, given how WWE is a performance show designed to maximize profit (and who has deeper pockets than the DEI collective?).
Also pro-tip for OP: Please wait for the archive to finish and post the final link instead of the wip link.
Cornette would agree with you.
Cornette would probably try to fucking shoot us to death because he is about as much of an unhinged Leftist as Kieth Olberman.
True, but he's an old school wrestling guy. So he hates the gimmick matches