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Whenever a super-intense guy with an amateur wrestling background gets so pumped he yanks down the straps of his singlet. Kurt Angle is the GOAT at this, of course, but Jason Jordan did it SO well in NXT.
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also putting in a vote for stolen finishers. diy/revival stealing each others finishers in Toronto, then teaming up to do their finishers together on AOP at a later show, was such insane gas.
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Aug 31, 2019 23:30
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Dr. rear end posted:Whenever a super-intense guy with an amateur wrestling background gets so pumped he yanks down the straps of his singlet. Kurt Angle is the GOAT at this, of course, but Jason Jordan did it SO well in NXT. Straps down/straps up/straps down!!! Is my favorite also
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Aug 31, 2019 23:34
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Jobbers/comedy wrestlers showing that they can be competent is another favorite. Serious Toru Yano during his G1 match with Ishii was a joy.
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PunkBoy posted:Jobbers/comedy wrestlers showing that they can be competent is another favorite. Serious Toru Yano during his G1 match with Ishii was a joy. I loved Jim Duggan briefly putting the fear of God into Bischoff by cutting a serious promo about how Bischoff will have to explain to his boss why Jim is the WCW champ next week
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Sep 1, 2019 00:17
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I like when people do tropes off the top rope
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Gavok posted:A heel is satisfied over how smart he is, but then backs into a large face and has a moment of pants-making GBS threads fear before turning around. Similar thing happened last year with Miz selling Braun's entrance like death himself was coming for him
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Gavok posted:A heel is satisfied over how smart he is, but then backs into a large face and has a moment of pants-making GBS threads fear before turning around.
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Sep 1, 2019 02:10
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I love a good kip up. Especially when wrestler A gets beat down really hard, is able to rally and get a move off, then kips up to cheers. HBK doing that exact thing during his match with Triple H at Summerslam 2002 gets me every time. Just perfect poo poo.
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Any wrestler (ie Chris Jericho) hitting the bell during the match is one of the best tropes
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I loved Jim Duggan briefly putting the fear of God into Bischoff by cutting a serious promo about how Bischoff will have to explain to his boss why Jim is the WCW champ next week Hold on, I don't remember this and I want to see it.
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Dr. rear end posted:Whenever a super-intense guy with an amateur wrestling background gets so pumped he yanks down the straps of his singlet. Kurt Angle is the GOAT at this, of course, but Jason Jordan did it SO well in NXT. See for me now it's the removing of a knee pad before doing a strike to show it's the more dangerous version or when people remove elbow pads before doing lariats
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thatguyclint posted:Hold on, I don't remember this and I want to see it. Doesn't appear to be on YouTube but I think it was during the Bischoff/Russo era?
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forkboy84 posted:You would love Tetsuya Naito then. Hell yeah.
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PunkBoy posted:Jobbers/comedy wrestlers showing that they can be competent is another favorite. Serious Toru Yano during his G1 match with Ishii was a joy.  Gonna go nuts when Orange Cassidy gets real in about 6 months. (Also love Yano/Ishii because it shows how deceptively tall Yano is.)
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Sep 2, 2019 18:22
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When Orange Cassidy turns on the serious wrestling babyface part of him, it's great. Like that David Starr match or the Velveteen Dream match.
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I love the lil guy come back were an obviously weaker opponent gets one sliver of opportunity time and time again building up to maybey not a win but comeuppance against a larger foe.
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Beer_Suitcase posted:I love the lil guy come back were an obviously weaker opponent gets one sliver of opportunity time and time again building up to maybey not a win but comeuppance against a larger foe. So Walter v Bate from Saturday?
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Sep 2, 2019 21:01
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Weasley scrawny manager is booked for a match, wears awful gear (and possibly a helmet) but still flexes like he has the body of a Greek god.
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When a heel eats the turnbuckle they removed the cover from. When the commentary points out that there’s really no reason for those tables, ladders, etc. to have been under the ring.
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I'm really into when a wrestler turns to look directly at me watching at home through my tv, calling me by name to join them in the deeper world, their eyes a swirling dark bliss of a hungry cosmos.
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Lead Pipe Cinch posted:When the commentary points out that there’s really no reason for those tables, ladders, etc. to have been under the ring. This is a really fun one, yeah. "Why do we even keep a 20 foot ladder under there?"
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Sep 3, 2019 13:35
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Gimme a BTE segment where Joey, Darby and Jimmy are all casually stuffing poo poo under the ring before the show.
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The longer the wind up, the more dancing done before hand and the more elaborate the set up causing the moves power to increase by tenfold. The People's elbow being a prime example. A normal Elbow drop hurts but an elbow drop after the Rock has kicked your arm a wee bit, swung his arms back and forth, ran over your body twice, done a wee wiggle over you with his foot before hitting the elbow drop is devastating.
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Sep 3, 2019 14:57
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Actually yeah, I love how in Wrestling Logic, it totally makes sense to do a gigantic taunt before a move. If Scottie 2 Hottie actually *finishes* that minute long setup for the Worm, he'll have built enough strength to one shot you with a lovely chop 
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Sep 3, 2019 15:30
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Spinning to add power to a move owns
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The lights going out and someone appearing in the ring after they come back up. Preferably if that someone is Super Dragon.
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Masked wrestler we've come to know unmasks as someone we don't expect it to be THAT'S NOT CICLOPE!!!!!!
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banned competitors/losers of "loser leaves town" matches immediately returning under a mask to gently caress with the people who screwed them. Trying to make it a genuine mystery is dumb but when they lean heavily into the idea that people are playing dumb/exercising plausible deniability just to gently caress with the person who got them banned. Best variant of which is several weeks in when the masked man does a switcheroo with a friend/ally and the heel finally pulls the mask off and it's the wrong guy while the banned competitor shows up in the crowd in street clothes or whatever
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I like when rivals for the main belt wind up with the tag belts somehow. But only sometimes I like this. I like almost all the tropes mentioned here so far. Stolen finishers, lights on revealing face, heel stumbling into face who is ready in the corner, heel thinking cheers are for him then turning and getting decked by face, these are all great things. I think absolute favorite would be first time title win for a babyface and they play up the boyhood dream has come true angle. Again it only works sometimes but when it works, holy poo poo does it work.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I like when rivals for the main belt wind up with the tag belts somehow. But only sometimes I like this. I came to post this exact same thing.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I like when rivals for the main belt wind up with the tag belts somehow. But only sometimes I like this. Kurt angle and Samoa joe did this before having a match for all the belts and it owned followed by kurt defending the tag titles by himself and almost winning
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Gavok posted:A heel is satisfied over how smart he is, but then backs into a large face and has a moment of pants-making GBS threads fear before turning around. One of my favorite Eddie Guerrero moments is one of these. It was a six-man tag with Eddie and two partners (probably Malenko and Saturn) against the Brothers of Destruction and someone else. They went for the 'all the faces throw all the heels out of the ring at once' spot, but Eddie managed to reverse it and toss the 'someone else' over the ropes along with Malenko and Saturn. Eddie hits his pose, all proud for not having been tossed, and slowly backs up to where he's standing between Kane and the Undertaker. He just shows the briefest flash of panic, and then slides right into 'hell, yeah, friends! We sure took care of those guys! It's time to celebrate!' Then it dawns on him that Kane and the Undertaker aren't buying it, and he shifts straight to bargaining, and then the final stage of grief: the double chokeslam.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I like when rivals for the main belt wind up with the tag belts somehow. But only sometimes I like this. i enjoyed this for quite a while, up until TNA beat it to absolute death. Russo goddamn loved him some rival tag teams and established tag teams that teased breaking up every week
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UnlimitedSpessmans posted:Spinning to add power to a move owns It's why the discus Rainmaker is so strong, it's double the spinning.
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DeathChicken posted:Actually yeah, I love how in Wrestling Logic, it totally makes sense to do a gigantic taunt before a move. If Scottie 2 Hottie actually *finishes* that minute long setup for the Worm, he'll have built enough strength to one shot you with a lovely chop Close, but Scotty has a mastery of the running facebuster second to none. That’s what ends the match, The Worm is just an exclamation point.
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Suplex Liberace posted:Any wrestler (ie Chris Jericho) hitting the bell during the match is one of the best tropes  Made better when the heel celebrates like they've won the match and the PBP announcer has to vehemently deny that the match is over like there's someone, somewhere in the world watching that thinks the match is over because the heel rang the bell and declared themselves the winner
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I love singalong entrances and finishers that have a corresponding crowd chant (ie “3D!”)
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Insertnamehere31 posted:I love singalong entrances and finishers that have a corresponding crowd chant (ie “3D!”) Kurt Angle's giant  grin the whole time he got fuckin showered with the "YOU SUCK!!!!" sing-along when he got brought back a couple years ago was so great
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