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Old 12-16-2020, 01:22 AM   #3429
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Originally Posted by Mr. Nerfect View Post
JR has had enough and blasted AEW on their “evolution of wrestling” bullshit. Ripped into guys, friends and foe alike, standing around to catch idiots. Brandon Cutler took JR’s words and tried to use them to promote his unwarranted appearance on Dynamite this week.

TK is spineless and JR is just happy collecting a cheque, but it would be hilarious if this spirals into something.
This whole issue makes me think of a story from Lance Storm a number of years ago where people from both ROH and TNA around the same period of time asked him to critique them; and be brutally honest.

The ROH guys pretty much took what he had to say to heart, asked him questions, picked his brain about how to fix said criticisims, etc. A lot of those guys ended up going to WWE.

The responses from the TNA roster, on the other hand, were like "aw man, why you gotta be so negative?" and there was one thing about a stupid finish to a match, and the people involved supposedly KNEW it was stupid, and did it anyway. And their reply to being told it was stupid was "Yeah, but...", which Lance picked apart as a peeve.

Just because you don't like something said doesn't necessarily make it false. Also, why hire these vets if you have no plan on heeding their advice? Yeah, it's nice to have JR call your match, but if you're worried about him burying you on air, how about you don't do the stupid shit that gets you bured? Maybe Jim Ross knows what the fuck he's talking about in the business and has more to offer than to be the nostalgic voice on-air.

Of course, that's the type of critique that would come from someone like Cornette, which means AEW should do 100% the opposite just to be contrarian instead of actually giving thought as to WHY that is a criticisim.

And I want someone to answer - because I'm not going to watch - but I'm betting they specifically do a wait-and-catch dive spot in the 7 on 7 just because its fun to "rebel" instead of it just being yet another dive spot that Randy Orton even called out being a trend YEARS ago. I'd even go so far as to say there will ALSO be/have been (if it's past tense as of this post) multiple finishers kicked out of in this same show, if not same match, just to completely PROVE JR'S POINT without any trace of irony of self-awareness.

I want to know after the fact if both of these things happened.

Everyone remembers Snuka diving off the cage. He didn't do it every fucking week, though, nor was he surrounded by a roster full of people doing the same spot. If they were, nobody would remember Snuka because there'd be nothing special. If everybody did what Jeff Hardy did, Jeff wouldn't be shit today. Same with Rey Rey. One of the reasons why Ricochet isn't nearly as over as he should be is because most of his contemporaries work like he does. What makes him special outside of his "hero pose" spot?

A big part of why nobody's special on AEW is because the roster is full of guys making themselves not special.
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