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ParanoidObsessive 02/10/21 2:59:05 AM #161:	Zeus posted... Most of my exposure to AEW comes from hearing Cornette's trash-talk segments (so I'll admit a bit of a bias there) A little bias? Cornette is pretty much the most biased anti-AEW voice on the entire face of the planet. If the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega showed up and held someone's family and loved ones down while Tony Khan slit all their throats while they watched, that person still wouldn't hate AEW as much as Cornette does. Vince McMahon doesn't hate AEW as much as Cornette does. Bernie Sanders doesn't hate Trump as much as Cornette hates AEW. I actually like Cornette, but I just tune out completely whenever he talks about AEW at this point. He goes out of his way to paint every single thing they do as the worst possible thing in the world, and he decided to hate literally everything about the company long before he ever actually saw any of it. Which becomes kind of ridiculous when you realize that his hate for Kenny Omega is basically based on stuff Omega did years ago (which has prevented Cornette from being even remotely objective), and which has almost nothing to do with what he's actually doing now. It also doesn't help that 80% of Cornette's complaints about wrestling today are rooted in kayfabe, which is a ship that unfortunately sailed 20+ years ago (and as Cornette himself admits, it's something he himself is partly responsible for). He's holding the company to a standard that no modern company could ever live up to, and quite possibly shouldn't even try to live up to, because the audience demographics have changed so radically (a large part of why Vince is so out of touch these days as well). No matter how hard Cornette wishes that 70s/80s style "Southern wrasslin'" would make a comeback in the modern era, it's never going to happen. MMA/UFC absorbed most of that audience, and the audience for wrestling today is much different than it used to be. If most of what you know about AEW comes from what you hear Cornette tell you, then your view of the company is incredibly poisioned, and it's going to negatively shape your perception of any footage you DO see out of context on YouTube (especially if you're only looking for the "worst" aspects of the show, which are the things Cornette is most likely to talk about anyway). It would be like if your entire view of politics was shaped by only reading the political topics on PotD. The worst part is, as a lot of people have pointed out, the only reason he talks about AEW as much as he does in the first place is because he knows the more he bashes it, the more attention it gets him, and the more money it makes him via his podcasts. He basically ceased to be a real person years ago, and has basically transformed into his heel character more or less permanently (which is kind of appropriate, in a way, for someone who worships kayfabe as much as he does). He's basically trapped in a permanent state of cutting promos. It's telling that so many other wrestling analysts online love AEW (Dave Meltzer included), and that Cornette's only response to that is to call everyone who disagrees with him an idiot or a shill. Because it cannot possibly be that entertainment is subjective and different people will like different things, no, Cornette must be 100% objectively correct about everything he says about everything he ever talks about, and anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong. He's a brilliant wrestling mind, but he basically calcified somewhere in the 1990s, and most of his perception of the business since then is just "old man yelling at clouds". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:950477822] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote>Most of my exposure to AEW comes from hearing Cornette's trash-talk segments (so I'll admit a bit of a bias there)</quote> A little bias? Cornette is pretty much the most biased anti-AEW voice on the entire face of the planet. If the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega showed up and held someone's family and loved ones down while Tony Khan slit all their throats while they watched, that person still wouldn't hate AEW as much as Cornette does. Vince McMahon doesn't hate AEW as much as Cornette does. Bernie Sanders doesn't hate Trump as much as Cornette hates AEW. I actually like Cornette, but I just tune out completely whenever he talks about AEW at this point. He goes out of his way to paint every single thing they do as the worst possible thing in the world, and he decided to hate literally everything about the company long before he ever actually saw any of it. Which becomes kind of ridiculous when you realize that his hate for Kenny Omega is basically based on stuff Omega did years ago (which has prevented Cornette from being even remotely objective), and which has almost nothing to do with what he's actually doing now. It also doesn't help that 80% of Cornette's complaints about wrestling today are rooted in kayfabe, which is a ship that unfortunately sailed 20+ years ago (and as Cornette himself admits, it's something he himself is partly responsible for). He's holding the company to a standard that no modern company could ever live up to, and quite possibly shouldn't even try to live up to, because the audience demographics have changed so radically (a large part of why Vince is so out of touch these days as well). No matter how hard Cornette wishes that 70s/80s style "Southern wrasslin'" would make a comeback in the modern era, it's never going to happen. MMA/UFC absorbed most of that audience, and the audience for wrestling today is much different than it used to be. If most of what you know about AEW comes from what you hear Cornette tell you, then your view of the company is incredibly poisioned, and it's going to negatively shape your perception of any footage you DO see out of context on YouTube (especially if you're only looking for the "worst" aspects of the show, which are the things Cornette is most likely to talk about anyway). It would be like if your entire view of politics was shaped by only reading the political topics on PotD. The worst part is, as a lot of people have pointed out, the only reason he talks about AEW as much as he does in the first place is because he knows the more he bashes it, the more attention it gets him, and the more money it makes him via his podcasts. He basically ceased to be a real person years ago, and has basically transformed into his heel character more or less permanently (which is kind of appropriate, in a way, for someone who worships kayfabe as much as he does). He's basically trapped in a permanent state of cutting promos. It's telling that so many other wrestling analysts online love AEW (Dave Meltzer included), and that Cornette's only response to that is to call everyone who disagrees with him an idiot or a shill. Because it cannot possibly be that entertainment is subjective and different people will like different things, no, Cornette must be 100% objectively correct about everything he says about everything he ever talks about, and anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong. He's a brilliant wrestling mind, but he basically calcified somewhere in the 1990s, and most of his perception of the business since then is just "old man yelling at clouds". --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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