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Old 08-16-2019, 03:41 PM   #1859
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Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball View Post
"Exposing the business" in an in-ring sense means to do something that makes it obvious to viewers that the action is controlled or illegitimate. In this sense Orange Cassidy absolutely is exposing the business.

That being said, nobody in a professional wrestling promotion has to worry about kayfabe now because the cat was let entirely out of the bag by the mid 90's.
Jim Cornette knows the cat can't go back in the bag with AEW or WWE so complaining about their wrestlers breaking kayfabe or "exposing" the business is ludicrous. It's even worse when everybody in their right mind knew it was fake for about 50 years before that.

I love Corny but he can't win the war on sports entertainment because it is effectively a stunt show now. Nobody tries to convince anybody it's real nowadays.

So all in all Jim clearly has huge insecurity over his assertion that everybody who saw his shows back in the day believed it. I think somewhere deep in his heart he knows that the average wrestling crowd knew it was a work and even the riots were born out of the audience's desire to misbehave than anybody truly believing it.

Those that did believe it were stupid, naive or deluded.

People forget that riots and dangerous crowd interactions don't mean that people bought it. It just means they wanted their money's worth whether that be in the result or the in ring work. Also, some people just like to stab, punch or kick wrestlers regardless of their authenticity.
We’re in trouble when you are making more sense than most other people in a thread. Corny doesn’t believe that people 100% believed it though. He states this constantly, and that people always knew something was up. He just appreciates when there’s logic unpinning everything, and there is a point to the platform for simulating conflict. He also likes it when wrestling attempts to play at your emotions and doesn’t immediately say “Hey, we tried to manipulate you, don’t get too invested though” like The Young Bucks did with the Shawn Spears heel turn.

If you think about it, that was literally the EVPs of a company trying to make you mad telling you not to be mad. It’s actually insane. Only wrestling.

I also disagree that people can’t be worked. Almost half the US voted for Trump. Have you ever heard a rumor get off the ground? There are people who are convinced that wrestling has always used fake blood. There are people who think Jesus loves them or that woman really did cum that many times. Marketing still exists when we know exactly what our needs are.

Working is literally everywhere except wrestling. It’s the weirdest thing.
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