| Jumpin said: One thing about pro-wrestling over the past 25 years. The moves have got WAY better, and the working conditions have also become way safer. This is something hard to appreciate, how in the 80s and 90s people would botch power bombs and chair shots, they’d shorten careers. Nowadays you have guys like Jack Evans, Sydal, and PAC who have been doing crazy shit for 20 years, and not having the career ending issues. |
I would disagree with conditions being safer. Aside from being smarter about head trauma (most of the time), which is a big plus, they're really not. The problem is guys like Sydal and Pac (not sure how Jack Evans got on that list cause he fucks up on the reg) can do high flying moves well and regularly, and people who can't do it try to match them because they feel they have to. Lance Archer is one example. Red Velvet is another who for some reason kept trying to do a standing moonsault till she almost killed herself. Nia Jax almost killed people for years before being fired, although that was more just general incompetence. Sting, Balor, and Kairi Sane were injured by the buckle bomb which I have no idea why anyone is allowed to do. Jade Cargill didn't know how to do a sligshot but didn't let that stop her, and slung her opponent's head directly into a rope. Striking also has gotten way more snug leading to injuries. Xia Li knocked Mercedes Martinez out before she left NXT. Pac one upped her by knocking out Orange Cassidy then picking him up and powerbombing him. Nia Jax concussed Becky Lynch with a basic punch (but again she's incompetent). Alexa Bliss has had several concussions, Bryan lost years of his career to them, Punk was concussed in his last WWE match, Matt Hardy was somehow allowed to work a match after getting his head slammed into concrete... Paige had to retire before 30, Graves did, and so on so forth.
Go watch some 80's wrestling. It's 80% punching and rest holds. More exciting is debateable, but mostly safer. Most dangerous thing was a leg drop.
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