Post by salTy on Nov 26, 2006 17:02:28 GMT -5
torch said:
lobo said:
Skill in wrestling is your ability to make a match entertaining and make the audience care about what's going on in the ring. Being scripted doesn't make a damn bit of difference. It's painfully obvious the skill difference between wrestlers when it comes to their work in the ring. There's a reason not just anybody can do it. It takes a combination of timing, physicality, storytelling, creativity, AND acting. It's not like coreography where you get multiple chances to get something right. When you're in the ring you get one chance to nail something or you look foolish.
You have NO idea what you're talking about, and your logic is so flawed it's ridiculous. Acting in movies isn't real either, but would you say some actors have more ability than others? I would.
Okay, so the greatest wrestlers of the last 20 years are Hogan and Austin as nobody else had the "ability to make a match entertaining and make the audience care about what's going on in the ring" as much as those two?
If that's the criteria then I'll be happy to conceed the point.
Yep, take the words out of context. You're obviously having a really hard time grasping this concept.
The whole point of professional wrestling is putting on a staged fight to entertain an audience. Still with me? Ok, a wrestler's job is to make this staged fight look as believable as possible, to keep 'kayfabe' as they say. Still with me?
Determining "skill' in this business is hard for the casual fan, because he or she is just casual or too young to know what workrate is. These fans make up the majority of the fanbase. They usually determine who is at the top, and this determination is no way affected by what the wrestler does in the ring. More often than not it's based on what goes on outside the ring. Still with me?
Now when you turn to the hardcore fans like myself and many of the IWC allumni, the flashing lights and catchphrases don't have the same effect they did when we were casual fans ourselves. Over time we began to appreciate certain wrestlers for the skill they showcased within the ring. This is how guys like Chris Benoit became such internet darlings. His matches have always been high intensity, chocked full of psychology and realism. This in opposition to someone like John Cena who just hits moves, takes bumps, and doesn't sell.
If you're just a casual fan(which I'm assuming), you won't understand what I'm talking about.