What Wrestling Legends Really Think Of Modern WWE
4. The Undertaker
The Undertaker, who in his most famous match mostly just did a sh*tload of finisher kick-outs and it was great - has criticised WWE's in-ring for its apparent lack of subtlety. Reports state that when 'Taker delivered this critique, his eyes grew wide in melodramatic shock.
Less facetiously, 'Taker in an interview with Onnit Stories claimed that the issue with modern WWE - presumably he isn't downloading torrents of PWG, all that grenade-throwing is beneath a dude who has died like eight times - is that ring psychology has been deemphasised.
In favour of spots!
Those kids, man. When will they learn that the key to getting over in 2020 is by grabbing a damn hold and slowing that sh*t all the way down - i.e., working within the WWE in-house style that has declined steadily and then rapidly for 20 years.
"Everybody's calling, they want to backflip off this and into that instead of learning the finer nuances of what we do, and that's tell stories. Granted, physical, painful stories, but stories nonetheless."
What is it with WWE and the constant conflation of "storytelling" and slow as sh*t pro wrestling? It can be both.
Is this mentality - seriously - informed by the malignant carny idea that the crowd, the "marks", need fairly comprehensible story beats spoon-fed to them?
The intricacies of a Baron Corbin match demand that every move he hits is registered!