10 Iconic Wrestling Images That Show History Repeating
Haven't I seen you somewhere before?
Jim Cornette reckoned that it was safe to recycle an idea in wrestling approximately once every seven years, but Jim Cornette's reckoned a lot of stuff lately so it's a shame the good stuff ends up drowning like Braun Strowman in a swamp fight.
When the 'Prince Of Polyester' was almost universally beloved for takes such as the above, it was in the year 2000, when he was predicting that John Cena and Batista would main event WrestleMania in five years. The wrestling legend knew and knows his wrestling sh*t, and it's a genuine shame that a series of confused and difficult personal biases have resulted in the objective being lost to his hypocritical subjectivity in recent years.
He wants wrestling to repeat what works, even though there's equal evidence that the genre constantly needs to move and evolve. It feels as though he's rooted in this belief more than ever because of clicks and the toxic discourse following a snitch tag, again making a nonsense of a half-decent philosophy. Wrestling's uniqueness means that the hits can be played louder and somehow sound different, as was the case these reimagined moments...
10. Cody Goes All In
A glorious match that was effectively the making of Cody as the AEW lead babyface a full year before the company (and his in-ring role) was made real at Double Or Nothing 2019, the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match at All In leaned on family history as much as the belt's less-than-impressive present.
That's not to discredit Nick Aldis' work with the title before and after this quick switch with Cody, but the 'American Nightmare' evoking 'The Dream' was doing the work here.
He craved and cradled that title as if Aldis had been disrespectfully walking around with Dusty's ashes. As if Aldis was as bad as WWE locking down all of his Father's ideas in a trademarked vault. The chance for validation and vindication was available to the man that was deemed chiefly responsible for making the evening's miracle take place.
Much like Dusty's own victories over Ric Flair, this felt like one for America, for the common man, and for the dream.