EXPOSING The Biggest Myth In Modern Wrestling
Goldust echoed this to Sports Illustrated…
“I'm very curious to see what Cody and the Young Bucks can do with All Elite Wrestling. I hope this really takes storm and becomes something formidable. You need places to go and work, competition is great and it is the best thing that can happen for WWE.”
…as did the Hurricane on Booker T’s podcast.
“AEW is gonna be good for the business. Competition is good, there’s an excitement in the air.”
It is this mentality that many fans cling to in hope for the future. If AEW flourishes, Vince McMahon will need to make fundamental change.
This isn’t going to happen.
Where iron once sharpened iron, Vince is now rusted beyond repair, merely applying licks of garish paint to a product that is no longer porous in its plot holes —but in a rapid state of complete creative disintegration.
It isn’t 1996 anymore. The WWF of 1996 was unfashionable—but outstanding at its best.
Steve Austin, at King Of The Ring, went out there and made himself a star. In 2019, his successors do not even boast the autonomy to quit. While unsuccessful, Vince at least promoted Shawn Michaels as a pure Champion babyface with a near-horny conviction. In 2019, WWE babyfaces are so lame and so toothless that only by turning heel do they command cheers. Mick Foley arrived, on the night after WrestleMania XII, as a major upper-card force. In stark contrast to those who turn up on the modern RAW After WrestleMania shows, Mankind’s debut was heralded via deeply intriguing vignettes, and following that debut, he both defeated the Undertaker and regenerated his act in consummate reverse of that phenomenally awful 1994 Royal Rumble bit.
By In Your House: Mind Games, Foley’s awesome brutality had bled into the WWF’s shifting in-ring mode. In 2019, elite performers are instead influenced by WWE’s interminable, broad, regulation style.
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