The very nature of the internet [insert subject matter here] community is for people to congregate atop whatever bandwaggon is rolling past, and then seek to pretend that they've been on bored all along by mobbing those who feel differently.
That's why we suddenly all like Jeff Hardy, despite the fact that 12 months ago everyone seemed to think he was a spot monkey who was only good at jumping off things. It's why almost everyone will vocally complain that TNA is so much worse than it was 18 months ago. It's why everyone suddenly seems to think that Rick Flair was overrated, that ECW was shit, that Vader was fantastic and that psychology trumps suplexes.
Give it another 18 months and I'd wager a lot of those opinions will be branded as "smakey", just as the RoH/TNA loving, Cena/Hogan hating, Flair worshiping fan of a couple of years ago has been branded today. As such we'll have a new agenda. Possibly that inferno matches are the pinnacle of professional wrestling.
As for Brian Danielson. The guy's phenomenal, and anyone who says otherwise is a fool. There's a comic strand of reactionary hypocrisy going round this place that states that those who wrestle a fast paced mat based style, or those who interject a lot of "flippys" into their matches are somehow not real wrestlers because they don't wave their arms around and grimace enough. I don't know how this ideology works, and I suspect those who subscribe to it haven't really though it though.
Anyway. Just and Hulk Hogan and John Cene's jobs were to appeal to the younger generations, Brian Danielson's job is to appeal to smarks who like fast paced mat wrestling; and there's nobody better at doing what he does this side of Japan.
That's why we suddenly all like Jeff Hardy, despite the fact that 12 months ago everyone seemed to think he was a spot monkey who was only good at jumping off things. It's why almost everyone will vocally complain that TNA is so much worse than it was 18 months ago. It's why everyone suddenly seems to think that Rick Flair was overrated, that ECW was shit, that Vader was fantastic and that psychology trumps suplexes.
Give it another 18 months and I'd wager a lot of those opinions will be branded as "smakey", just as the RoH/TNA loving, Cena/Hogan hating, Flair worshiping fan of a couple of years ago has been branded today. As such we'll have a new agenda. Possibly that inferno matches are the pinnacle of professional wrestling.
As for Brian Danielson. The guy's phenomenal, and anyone who says otherwise is a fool. There's a comic strand of reactionary hypocrisy going round this place that states that those who wrestle a fast paced mat based style, or those who interject a lot of "flippys" into their matches are somehow not real wrestlers because they don't wave their arms around and grimace enough. I don't know how this ideology works, and I suspect those who subscribe to it haven't really though it though.
Anyway. Just and Hulk Hogan and John Cene's jobs were to appeal to the younger generations, Brian Danielson's job is to appeal to smarks who like fast paced mat wrestling; and there's nobody better at doing what he does this side of Japan.
