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Old 08-16-2019, 02:01 PM   #1856
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Originally Posted by Conspiracy Victim Vito View Post
The point of Orange Cassidy is that he's a rich kid waster. He's always either too lazy, hungover or stoned to give a shit about wrestling. Him wrestling with his hands in his pockets isn't "exposing the business" because, when he's wrestling like that, he's terrible - his strikes have no impact, none of the moves he attempts really land, because he's not trying to win the fight.

If he gets serious, he's more than capable of winning, but he rarely does. If anything, that does more to support wrestling as a legitimate fight than if people were selling his hands-in-pockets stuff as serious offense.

But, of course, that would be apparent if people actually watched his matches before criticizing him.

"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.
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