Former WWE star Gangrel on how wrestling has changed: “There’s no meaningful moves anymore”

They’re doing wrestling, they’re just coming out and doing a lot of wrestling moves, high flying, a lot of cool stuff, but they’re not working into those moves now. Giving me a story, and why you’re building up to why this move is so deadly and so important, because everybody’s kicking out of everybody’s finishes now.

You wouldn’t have got that 40 years ago, or 20 years ago, or maybe even 15 years ago, the finishes were a lot more protected. Even the Attitude Era, it was the wild west, and they were gunslingers, and they kicked out on everything, but it’s still kind of protected finishes and stuff like that.

So, I just think it’s more acrobatic, smaller guys, I have nothing against that, because now I’m a big guy. I was never a big guy when I started. In 1987 they told me you’ll be lucky to be a junior heavyweight at that. Because everybody was like 305, six foot seven. Here I’m coming in at 230, thinking I’m gonna make a difference at six two. But now I feel like a giant, but I feel like with wrestling, everything cycles too, so I feel like they’re cycling around to bigger guys and some body stuff in healthy ways.”