Here is something unusual I have noticed after the last year of Triple H booking WWE: the better the promotion has gotten at re-focusing on good wrestling and solid booking, the more I find myself softening up on the bizarre, "cinematic" era of 2020 WWE.
At the time, you could not have found a more bitter critic of the promotion seeing spectacles like the "eye-for-an-eye match", the swamp fight, and the entire Fiend/Orton feud. If I had anyone of my friends on social media see clips of that stuff and message me about it, I would roll my eyes and say "that's nonsense, it's not wrestling" and try to side step it as fast as I could to avoid getting bogged down in the "how can you watch this crap?" discussions that almost always followed.
Now, however, that we have good wrestling in WWE again, I find myself a lot more willing to go back and re-watch those events with a less critical eye and treat them more like popcorn movies rather than serious cinema. I couldn't do that at the time because I felt every thing they were doing was detrimental to the future of professional wrestling (especially at a time when it could have been very easy for everything to go sideways without fans buying tickets.)
Now that things have improved dramatically, I am delving back into it and going "I'm kind of liking this goofy junk!"
At the time, you could not have found a more bitter critic of the promotion seeing spectacles like the "eye-for-an-eye match", the swamp fight, and the entire Fiend/Orton feud. If I had anyone of my friends on social media see clips of that stuff and message me about it, I would roll my eyes and say "that's nonsense, it's not wrestling" and try to side step it as fast as I could to avoid getting bogged down in the "how can you watch this crap?" discussions that almost always followed.
Now, however, that we have good wrestling in WWE again, I find myself a lot more willing to go back and re-watch those events with a less critical eye and treat them more like popcorn movies rather than serious cinema. I couldn't do that at the time because I felt every thing they were doing was detrimental to the future of professional wrestling (especially at a time when it could have been very easy for everything to go sideways without fans buying tickets.)
Now that things have improved dramatically, I am delving back into it and going "I'm kind of liking this goofy junk!"
