can barely sleep tonight, so you get our thoughts on wrestling, and chiefly:
god we love the concept of the 'shitty wrestler' gimmick.
there's something to wrestlers like Lulu Pencil (please come back soon we miss you in Chocopro), or Toru Yano, or Asako Mia, where it's like, they are truly the greatest wrestlers of all time, because they understand that wrestling is, and always has been, a carny business. so why not play it up? why not convince the crowd that you're deliberately a terrible wrestler and have a fun time of it? spend time hawking DVDs! have a low-impact, low-effort moveset! proclaim you're about to do your amazing top-rope finisher, only to hop off the top rope and do a really safe elbow drop!
it makes for really fun matches! because beneath that veneer of how much they appear to suck, they're secretly wrestling really well and no one's the wiser.
to quote an old description a friend made about The Rock: "do you have the crowd's attention? then you're a good wrestler."
you can spend all day watching folks do crazy flips, and that's perfectly fine
but sometimes there's equal amounts of joy in watching a wrestler whose signature maneuver is falling asleep on her opponent after running a train on 'em, y'know?
