10 Dumbest Wrestling Controversies That Went Too Far
3. The New School Vs. Old School Debate
You know it goes; old school wrestling was the battleground for real men, modern wrestling is just skinny pale guys performing gymnastics routines.
This controversial divide has tainted pro wrestling discourse forever. "Old school" wrestling to a very glaring extent was slapstick comedy. Mr. Perfect and Arn Anderson, held aloft as paragons of an old value system, took funnier bumps than Billie Kay.
It.
Never.
Looked.
Realiastic.
Kenny Omega's V-Trigger looks like one of the most painful wrestling moves ever executed, but he's a sensitive and softly-spoken man who once wrestled a blow-up doll and a small child in a comedy match, so he's a disgrace to a business that was most famously exposed on the nascent shoot interview circuit by none other than his harshest critic: Jim Cornette.
Corny hates Omega to an extent that can be best described as "pathetic" and "troubling". "It doesn't look real to me, damn it!" Cornette is prone to wailing, and once took this obsession so far that he compared Omega and Kota Ibushi to Adolf Hitler. "I don't really care if Adolf Hitler was an amazingly talented painter, he should get no compliments," Cornette once tweeted. "These f*cks Omega, Ibushi, same thing".
F*cking hell.