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10 Wrestlers Who Became Amazing After Heavy Criticism - The Undertaker! Chris Jericho! Adam Cole! Brock Lesnar?!

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🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Cleaning up toxic takes. Andy Murray presents 10 Wrestlers Who Became Amazing After Heavy Criticism...


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0:00.0

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So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Every single art form is inherently worthy of analysis, interpretation and criticism,

0:36.4

but there's a certain level of guilt that comes with critiquing pro wrestling in particular.

0:41.0

Take Shinsky Nakamura, that this constant traveler who physically

0:45.0

harms his own body for entertainment purposes is considered lazy, is a near sadistic

0:50.3

take, but you don't feel guilty about criticizing him because he probably doesn't give a damn.

0:55.5

The man came to Florida to surf.

0:58.0

Now the real guilt occurs when the performers are invested and take it personally, but even then, constructive criticism is all part of that,

1:06.1

and hey, perhaps Nakamura will make like the people I'm about to talk about and bounce back.

1:11.6

They're certainly precedent for it. I'm Andy for what culture wrestling and here are

1:16.0

ten wrestlers who became amazing after heavy criticism. Number 10, Kenny omega. In 2019 they said Kenny Omega wasn't a star anymore.

1:26.0

They said that he hadn't made the transition into episodic TV,

1:30.0

that he couldn't cut promos, couldn't sell people on his matches, and couldn't project charisma.

1:35.6

He couldn't replicate those 40-minute New Japan epics in a two-hour TV show with commercial breaks,

1:41.4

and, as a result, he was overtaken in the best in the world conversation.

1:46.2

But guess what? Those takes were wide of the mark.

1:49.8

Omega has been nothing short of exceptional in 2020, working outstanding tag team bangers with

1:55.8

Hangman Page on a near weekly basis, all while playing an important role as the man in the

2:00.8

middle between his drunken stablemate and the rest of the elite.

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This has brought something else back into focus as well.

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The chemistry and feigned lack thereof serves as an awesome reminder that not since the day of Mitzaharu

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