The race to create conversations for credible content has overtaken logic and reason, causing the best-laid plans to be abandoned and the worst to become the norm. It’s a shame too – as much as luck and timing are as important as good stories and great wrestlers in the industry, there’s a lot to be said for making a solid plan and seeing it through. As a predetermined art form, the context in which professional wrestling’s shocks, surprises, and moments of joy or despair should be captured is that of a major motion picture, television series, or prestige drama. A calibrated reaction created by the confluence of elements that erupt at just the right moment, mimicking the fresh and real drama of sports only in a controlled environment. That’s why wrestling is better than what you like when it’s good. And when is it great? Forget it. Moments like the ones described below are a credit to the artists involved, the promoters who create the scenes, and the fans themselves who experienced them with the intended intent. THEthey are so incredibly devastating that a performer never really recovers… Professional wrestling is great. The oft-revived footage of The 1-2-3 Kid absorbing the blow of a lifetime from Razor Ramon before unleashing a moonsault of all things winning would be aesthetically pleasing even if the action wasn’t awesome either. The intimate Grand Ballroom at Manhattan Center was always small, but perfectly formed as it established Monday Night Raw as a new wrestling hotbed, especially with the Kid and Razor’s eye-catching outfits that exuded the classic color palette of the New York landmark. Having lost a squash in the weeks leading up to his fight with “The Bad Guy”, The Kid was at this point considered so lost that there isn’t a year he has a chance until he’s speeding out of the building with his panicked hands. lifted up. That he did it in such a dazzling move served as the icing on the cake – the win was unexpected, but the nature of it was a combination of guts and career-defining skill.
