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Old 04-26-2022, 11:07 AM   #3718
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Originally Posted by Jordan View Post
You know I totally agree. The modern style of wrestling is "better" in some ways, imagine if you were the kid version of you and were able to see a 2022 Dynamite match after watching years of WWF Superstars. You'd be blown the fuck away. But yeah we get that every single week, match after match in both WWE and AEW and anywhere else.

I call it Hyper Speed wrestling. I feel like it really got to this level with Ricochet and Ospreay had that Super Juniors match that pissed Vader off so bad. Since then NJPW went to hyper speed for almost every big match, then ROH copied and PWG took it to a whole new level. It seeped into NXT and took over and of course worked it's way to the main roster by default.

You can't change it at this point it just won't go back. For me I can still enjoy Hyper Speed wrestling but it does match a two hour show a bit up and down for me. However generally speaking AEW PPV's which are all on hyper speed are fucking awesome. I think at least they are only doing 4 a year so it really feels like "something special" to have a 4 hour wrestlefuck fest on speed.
I respect what you’re saying here. I don’t really agree with the AEW PPV point and feel it started to boil over before even Ospreay/Ricochet and has got a whole bunch of different sources, but I get what you’re saying here.

For the record, I think BOSJ ‘95, ECW, The Radicalz, casual fans getting run off, Triple H, ROH, CM Punk, Bryan Danielson and Meltzer have all contributed to the circumstances that make this shit en vogue with such a loud and vocal segment of the audience.

Overall, I think that since kayfabe was put on life support and no one tries to keep it up, there’s been a shift from reacting to the action to reacting to a perceived quality of the performance. There are guys that “deserve” main event runs (the story of Benoit and Eddie’s rise), and guys who “don’t” (a large part of Cena rejection).
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