Aint that the truth.... "ahhh again"

Usually means buckle in, we’re going to unpack some shit here 😂

I’ve always liked the “oh, dear god” lol 😂

Hawwwwwwwwwwwww!!…..

That’s my cue to go pour a glass of bourbon and sit down to enjoy this one

Hey, dad

I'm dying!!🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes he just gives up.LOL

You're telling me you don't love 30 suicide dives and no selling?

And let's not forget the old tights-pulling, and feet on the ropes, and all the unfair pinning advantages too. But yeah I wholeheartedly agree your point. Wrestling died a long time ago. I'll start watching again when rises from the grave again. If 30 dives into a crowd of bunched up people waiting to catch you is your thing; if kicking out of 15 F5s is your thing; if watching them do a bunch of moves _at_ each other without any selling or psychology is your thing.... ... well, then I'm happy for you, because you're getting what you want these days - but I also feel sorry for you, because you're missing out on an actual decent wrestling match

@@malikevans2615 what about the 5 Canadian destroyers and the suicidaes along with the forearm smashes?

Agree. These things matter.

@@darknesswinter0085 with the punches, they were open hand, and usually done as a transition to soften the opponent up. The tombstone as a finisher works, because A. It was done after inflicting enough punishment, and B. In real life, if someone had you upside down with your head pointed to the ground, you wouldnt try to struggle and make it worse. Todays wrestlers almost ALL look like they are waiting for their spot, whether its tag teams waiting on the floor outside, holding each others hands on the top rope, and overall not selling with their faces, they make it look way too obvious that they are just waiting to get their shit in, not reacting like its a fight.

And to rant...?? Be honest sir lol. jk.

cant we do both?

@@mmabuff101 i second that.

Education from a guy that still hasn't figured out that his contribution to wrestling was nothing more then a sports jacket, tennis racket, and an innate ability at bad booking

@@mikelachey824 damn lmaooooooo savage. Jim Cornette had a lasting impact on the business and he’s very well respected, why do you hate on him so much man?

I was there, phoenix arizona, absolutely insane and I lost my voice when I was done

They had the same match like 13 times to the buildup to Cena vs Reigns

@@thomaskia8441 the man knows what works, so if it ain’t broke and it ain’t on tv, don’t fix it.

@@thomaskia8441 SO WHAT?! YOUR GOAL AS A TOP TALENT IS PUTTING ASSES IN SEATS

Meltzer is a veteran critic. The guys you named are nobodies except maybe Morton.

@@duckmercy11 I'm pretty sure I've heard Austin talking about Tom Pritchard, more than once too.

@@duckmercy11 So I guess NBA announcers should start coaching NBA teams? Listen, I don’t care how much wrestling you watch I will always value the opinion of the guys who have done it and experienced wrestling.

@@duckmercy11 did you just say Dr. Tom and Rogers, who are the best trainers in the business, are nobody? Go watch Dark, dweeb.

@@duckmercy11 stop kissing meltzer ass you young buck lovers

Dolph?

@@blancosfamilyfarm1798 no, Mike Mondo that Jim is talking about in this video.

@Veer Shanky indeed.

See that's the problem with some of Jim cornett's followers they like himself like to prop up the people that were his friends or closest confidants during his days if mikimando was as great as Jim says he is he would have caught on with any promotion anywhere and he hasn't called Ziegler hasn't had a problem making the Spirit squad gimmick work for him and making money after the fact so we're blaming the Spirit squad for something that it definitely wasn't it was their lack of charisma and being able to get over in front of a large audience.

@@mikescott8903 Mike Mondo is just correct with the fundamentals of pro wrestling. Not saying he was a super star with charisma. No one really is. Guys from the 80s, 90s and early 00s that were no where near as athletic as guys now, those older guys were way more charismatic than guys now, that can flip and fly. The reason why a fraction of people watch pro wrestling now, compared to back in the day.

Corny is Gold 😂

Twice.

Shouldn't they listen to a guy who doesnt have a hard time getting employed in the business, because his booking skills have down damage to promotion that never recovered from his inability to actually grasp and display, what he just loves to talk about. LOL The difference between groupies and knowledgeable wrestling fans. We deal with the facts that groupies never bother to look at, while they are throwing their pom poms up into the air. This man chases ambulances, for attention. Always has. Hasn't been able to find employment since he was fired for his embarrassing booking skills in ROH, or should I say lack of booking skills.

🎶 Beat your meat. Beat beat your meat. Beat your meat. To the elite 🎶 - Dave Meltzer and the IWC

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Yeah they are gonna still do whatever the fuck they want

Kahn upsets me, because he doesn’t respect wrestling and thinks he’s clever.

Sad but true. That's why wwe has the pc. If guys are going to do what they want we will hammer all the right stuff to do that it's instinct.

That does seem like the logical move to make, but can TK see that past his "enthusiasm"?

@@jeremyhearne3499 Probably not.

@@maxxdahl6062 Dammit. I was hoping for some optimism there, but looks like we're both out.

@@jeremyhearne3499 It's even worse really when you realize he has an epic crap ton of people already employed that have experience in doing this, but he won't get out of his own way.

@@maxxdahl6062 I hear that. When he made the ROH announcement I was hoping he'd relinquish the AEW booking and try to elevate things to that next level. When it's good it's great, but there's plenty of swings and misses.

He is too honest and won't sugarcoat what he says. Unfortunately Vince McMahon and Tony Khan will only surround themselves with ass kissing yesmen instead of someone who will tell them the truth. And that is why Cornette is out of the business

@Nicholas OVW actually pretty success. It was failed because WWE took it away from Jim.

I wouldn’t say that for NXT 2.0. They’re learning a whole different style, namely V-Mac and his “sports entertainment”.

Who are any of them

@@chrischar9428 well MJF is the best heel AEW has, Hook is Taz' son, Kris Statlander is I think that female wrestler in AEW with the stupid alien gimmick, bear country are a tag team in impact I think and the acclaimed are...actually I have no fucking clue, but it's safe to assume they're either a former WWE tag team that went to AEW or are an AEW 'original'

@@thatonebritishidiot3037 ohhh

I know exactly what you mean. I once sat on the second turnbuckle, with Bullet Bob on the apron holding me in a sleeper while Scott Armstrong pinned my partner with an absolutely beautiful Oklahoma roll. I literally had the best seat in the house for that move, and I shan't forget it even if I live to be 200. Also from the ring apron I have witnessed Adrian Street executing that gorgeous crucifix he does.

I fully agree with this. Finisher or roll up is the only finishes I’ve seen in forever. It makes everything in between worthless. I get so tired of watching wrestlers hit one of their signature non-finishes,only to look shocked when it gets a 2 count every single time.

I’ve been watching the start of the attitude era circa 1997 and their was just a recent match that ended with literally a punch. An elbow from the top rope ends matches, 450 splashes and all the indie moves are just coming to prominence and done by like one person on the mid card. It’s really refreshing.

Honestly I agree. Everytime someone hits a random move that’s not their finisher like a powerbomb or suplerplex you just know that the other one is going to kick out

Props to him, it was hard to get those words out lol

You notice that the business has never been as lucrative as it was before tweener characters were commonly promoted. Sure, there are many other factors for that decline, but I’d say that tweeners have as much to do with it as the spot monkeys throwing themselves through tables. At the end of the day, people generally want clear-cut heels and babyfaces to hate and rally behind, respectively.

@@james_the_animator yeah but…Stone Cold? The Rock?

@@NhBleker Brett Hart as a Canadian face and US heel.

Cena was a tweener for 10 years

There is a common denominator for all these guys you mentioned. These are some of the biggest stars in the business, EVER! The vast majority of pro wrestlers in the business will never reach those heights, so developing a straight face or heel character is a safer career move.

Powerbombs, piledrivers, DDTs, top-rope splashes, etc

Watch Stardom.

@@duckmercy11 not my cup of tea. I will give njpw a try after my break though. better than the alternatives although even they got stale lately

Tempo...its all about tempo. Pacing the match and allowing for moves and spots to breathe. When you don't allow for it to register to the fans, then you can keep them on the ride. When you speed through it one after the next, the audience gets bored because it's white noise at that point.

Don’t be so hard on yourself, you know more than Russo

Law of Diminishing Returns. It's a fact of life and most people ignore it.

I always wonder if the companies hear them and what their real time response is/would be! Lol

I tend to enjoy the unrealistic fast-paced spot-fests more than the work a body part for 10 minutes stuff, but I do miss a lot of the old-school wrestling promos that I don't see much of anymore.

The ad omnibus is pretty sweet.

This is roughly where I am. AEW’s much more watchable now than it was two years ago, even though I still get exhausted an hour in and usually need to finish it later. There’s enough wrestling talent, now there just needs to be enough authoritative backstage folks to whip them into line. Honestly, losing Cody and Omega recuperating has been a quiet boon (especially since the EVP titles have been shown to be more ceremonial than authoritative). The Elite booking themselves into total annoyance killed AEW’s strongest growth potential their first two years or so. The more experienced names able to get Tony’s ear, the less crap has been on-screen. It’s still exhausting, but at least more of it has been watchable week to week.

Yea cuz who wants to expose their own business

Are movies ruined as well because everyone knows its scripted and the good guy is going to win at the end?

@@zerken6151 Simple logic. It always blows my mind when people think wrestling is dead for this reason alone. Like, no, people were smart back then too and loved it because it didn’t insult their intelligence so they could get behind it

@@juliotorres3147 Well to be fair , everyone in 1985 knew wrestling was a real fight. Hogan and Andre sold 94,000 tickets at Mania three because Vince ran wrestling like the UFC . But then , Vince didn't want to deal with state athletic regulations anymore so he SECRETLY created a special secret locker room language and by the nineties he changed it to a circus 🎪 without anyone's knowledge. It was such an American tragedy because Hogan and Piper and Paul Ordorff and Mr. T had legit fisticuffs at Wrestlemania one but by Wrestlemania seven the CIA launched an investigation and discovered Sargent Slaughter really didn't work for Iraq and after a six month investigation it was revealed that Col. Mustafa was really just the Iron Shiek. That was the day my childhood ended. 😢

This is absolutely wrong. At the point Wrestling became scripted (early 1920s) it was already clear how it’s going to end up. More and more people are going to know but its impossible to create the expression that a scripted fight is real. That’s not what pro wrestling is suppose to be and never was. That’s why there is Amateur Wrestling (real wrestling) or Boxing, Mma etc.

@@jeffmac9642 you think wresting jargon was created in the 90’s by Vince? Holy hell… get off the drugs.

Long Term Storytelling, it grew up to appear on Wrestlemania 38 to beat up Sami Zayn.

@@ichneumon2776 holy shit. I'm dead. Well-played. WELL-PLAYED.