10 Wrestlers Who Are The Most Overrated At Precisely One Thing
2. FTR: Bringing Back Old School Wrestling
FTR an excellent tag team. This entry isn't designed to rubbish their achievements, since their 2022 is rivalled only by the Young Bucks' 2021 as quite possibly the best in-ring year that any tag team - ever - has put to record.
The idea that they are the rugged, old school, less choreographed contrast to the Young Bucks however is absurd.
Stylistically, they are very much removed from the Young Bucks, but in terms of match structure, what they do is far more similar than a lot of people seem to think. Their matches are complex, embrace a high volume of twists in momentum, and lovingly embrace melodrama. The Young Bucks are perceived in some circles - circles that adore FTR - as am-dram-level purveyors of soapy storytelling that you'd never see in a "real" fight.
But how many fights have you seen, as the scintillating dramatic peak nears, where the gang members hold one another's hands in support for a camera-friendly close-up?
Or: how many territory matches have you seen that very meticulously build to a moment like that?
FTR don't call it in the ring. They choreograph their movements - in a way that you might even call contrived! - to extract the loudest reaction from a modern crowd that holds an expectation, raised on WWE, of a certain premeditated cinematic flair.
And that is absolutely fine. Seminal at its very best. They've committed some of the best ever tag team wrestling to tape.
FTR are a phenomenal tag team, easily amongst the very best of all-time - but it's weird that they get more praise for doing something that they don't than for what they do.