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5. Older Wrestling Looked More Realistic
It’s all flips and gymnastics and no-selling now, isn’t it?
Stupid vanilla midgets doing acrobatics in the Tokyo Dome for the express purpose of inseminating their critical cache with that massive mark Dave Meltzer’s fanboy milk. It’s pathetic. Five star matches ruined wrestling. It isn’t like it was in the 1980s, when everything looked real.
1980s wrestling was so awesome, subjectively and critically and in terms of its mainstream pull, but it didn’t look more realistic. If anything, the flailing arms, jelly-legged selling beloved of the heels looks fairly comical viewed through a 2019 lens. The old ten punches to the head spot was very effective for its time, since the fandom at largely legitimately despised the villains, but now, it looks a bit silly and very, very painful. They are getting the brains beaten out of their skull, which theoretically should hurt more than a padded kick to the wide surface area of the back.
The Irish whip automatically disqualifies any pro wrestling from realism, and while selling was perhaps more pronounced within that long-forgotten context, the style of it, broadly, no longer looks authentic.
People go on like JCP and Mid-South were W*ING.