Amine’s Final Slam event is approaching and the criticisms are piling up.
Whether it’s from fans excited by the project of a passionate content creator, or from the main detractors who don’t view this wrestling night in a good light. Known for his unabashed analyses, often sharp, the cinema-focused vlogger Regelegorila did not hold back in slamming the fighters’ acting following Monday’s press conference.
“The Twitch press conference proves to me that it’s completely failed, off target in terms of acting. First of all, they’re not actors. So obviously they perform very poorly in every sequence. But I think there’s a real problem with wrestling: you’re supposed to believe in it. Here, you don’t believe it because you know these people a bit.”
“There is a strongly parasocial relationship that basically means you can’t believe their myths, their lies, their fake feuds, their moments of acting… Because, in fact, there aren’t any. There isn’t that big moment of acting that’s a bit strong, because you know them. There aren’t those shocking moments because you know they’re all joking. Whereas wrestling, they go to such lengths to sell it as real, with real rivalries, real alliances, real brawls, real stuff. There, when you listen to these excerpts, you think that first of all, acting lessons are needed, and second, even with acting lessons, you wouldn’t take them seriously because you know them. They stream from their bedrooms. And that, that takes away the possible credibility of events like this.”
“This is my take anyway; I’m not planning to watch it. But when I see clips go by, I find it embarrassing and it doesn’t work. Because I don’t know whether they’re playing their character, whether they’re playing themselves, whether they have their influencer shtick on top. There’s something that fundamentally doesn’t work by nature.”
Some agree with him, others prefer, rightfully, to wait to see the event through to the end before judging. In any case, the Catch-Newz team will be at the forefront this Saturday, November 14 at the Plenitude Arena to cover Final Slam!
