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extradite THIS! posted:You should absolutely NEVER go to tape in pro wrestling. The only thing that does is open up the question of "why wouldn't you go to tape every single time a heel cheats to win". The ironclad rule should be that only what the referee sees counts, and the decision made by the referee is always final. Maybe allow for a tiny bit of leeway for an extremely rare Dusty finish. But never go to tape, it's pro wrestling and not real sports. The part I love related to this is that a pin only counts if the referee's hand hits the mat 3 times. Can't get in to break up a pin, pull the referee out of the ring. Hire a heel referee to count to 3 as slowly as possible when your opponent is pinning you, or as quickly as possible when you are pinning. Distract the referee while your tag partner is being pinned with a complaint about your hair being pulled. My favorite example of this, and I can't remember when it was, was Austin knocked the referee out, pinned his opponent, and then grabbed the unconscious referee's arm to count to 3 with it and call for the bell. Every time a ref gets KO'd I want to see that again.
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Similarly good ending to one of the early Summerslams where Jesse Ventura wouldn't make the three count so Randy Savage dove on his arm to finish the count. I guess if they did it these days they'd just come out on Raw and say touching the ref is a $100,000 dollar fine result is reversed blah blah blah
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Faxman posted:The part I love related to this is that a pin only counts if the referee's hand hits the mat 3 times. yea the 'the ref has to slap the mat three times' rule is easily one of the best parts of wrasslin's ref bullshit. I love heel/bought off refs doing hilarious slow counts.
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Faxman posted:My favorite example of this, and I can't remember when it was, was Austin knocked the referee out, pinned his opponent, and then grabbed the unconscious referee's arm to count to 3 with it and call for the bell. Every time a ref gets KO'd I want to see that again. It was Over the Edge '98 I think that had him use special ref Vince's hand to get the pin on Dude Love. That match rules
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Sep 25, 2019 00:35
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remember when mick foley had an existential crisis before finally partying with the "dudettes" and reverting to dude love form? i think mid-to-late-90's foley was the most textured character professional wrestling has ever achieved, problematic depiction of mental health issues and all. also mick really knew how to tell a story in the ring even if he did take a lot of retrospectively somewhat inadvisable bumps
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cactus' return prior to the rumble gets a lot of love but I prefer the debut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ohpJkHp-U also hhh loved to sell for cactus.
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Sep 25, 2019 00:47
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All this talk about forcing refs to count brings up an obvious one of "a dude ambushes both people in a match and drapes one unconscious person's body over the other unconscious person's body" OH! OH! Remember when AJ Lee once put someone in a black widow and then used her other hand to make it look like they were tapping? solid gold.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:56
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when a heel dedicates time to brainstorm and build the most destructive house of chairs and tables, but in the end, the babyface puts them through their own construction. when wrestlers react to chairs or bats being wielded against them as if they are firearms or swords
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Sep 25, 2019 05:15
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Veryslightlymad posted:Remember when AJ Lee once put someone in a black widow and then used her other hand to make it look like they were tapping? solid gold.
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Sep 25, 2019 06:28
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Howard Finkels 'AND NEEWWWWW' championship announcements. I miss that so much. Made every title change feel bigger.
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fadmonkey posted:Howard Finkels 'AND NEEWWWWW' championship announcements. I miss that so much. Made every title change feel bigger. Tony Chimmel was great with this too.
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The big fat guy who is deceptively athletic and agile is my favorite wrestler trope, full stop. Bonus points if they get better as they get fatter like Chris Hero and Super Dragon did. Insane violent old men are my second favorite. Why yes, I do love LA Park.
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ChuckDeNomolos posted:when a heel dedicates time to brainstorm and build the most destructive house of chairs and tables, but in the end, the babyface puts them through their own construction. What was the match where Kallisto put the heel through this ridiculous tray of chairs that they spent half the match building?
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Sep 25, 2019 21:40
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It was against Baron Corbin at a TLC PPV, I believe.
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kalisto vs baron corbin at tlc 2016, still the best chairs match ever and the best baron corbin match ever
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I was fannying about on Youtube when this came up in my recommendations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGr_y8NxcAo Reminded me of one of those great wrestling tropes: all the lights go out & when they come back on someone really cool and unexpected is in the ring. This particular example from PWG is a proper goosebumps moment.
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Veryslightlymad posted:All this talk about forcing refs to count brings up an obvious one of "a dude ambushes both people in a match and drapes one unconscious person's body over the other unconscious person's body" If memory serves, that was Mania 30, with Naomi in the hold, and Vickie Guerrero had specifically booked the match to try to gently caress AJ over Both AJ's and Vickie's faces at the end were priceless
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Anytime a heel taps the side of the head with one or two fingers to indicate that, yes, they are extremely smart. It's so cheesy but I love it so much. Samoa Joe just walking out of the way of a devastating high-flying move. If Joe did that and then tapped the side of his head I'd stand up and start cheering in my living room.
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when someone gives a sunset flip or yoshi tonic and jiggles in place while the count is being made everyone does it and it cracks me the gently caress up
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i like when the sniffer accidentally snorts while sniffing and the close-proximity cameras pick it up on their lovely little mics. Mmm
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A Fancy Hat posted:Anytime a heel taps the side of the head with one or two fingers to indicate that, yes, they are extremely smart. It's so cheesy but I love it so much. Unless I'm nuts he absolutely did this once.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Unless I'm nuts he absolutely did this once. He's definitely done this a time or two.
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karmicknight posted:"you can't escape" followed by the immediate escape is my favorite.
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When the red runs into counting the pin and they sliiiiiiiide across the ring Everyone post your favourite ref slides itt
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Oh, on that note, when the ref points in the heel's face threateningly after they did something sketchy but not enough to be DQed.
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I love refs that still admonish heels for getting up on the turnbuckle even though nobody has been DQed for that in like 40 years
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Gaz-L posted:Oh, on that note, when the ref points in the heel's face threateningly after they did something sketchy but not enough to be DQed. then you would love Aubrey Edwards if you watch AEW i don't know if this qualifies as a trope but it's something i've never seen anyone else do, when Takako Inoue gets someone up into a tombstone piledriver she walks around the ring a few times kneeing them in the face with each other step.
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Low Desert Punk posted:I love refs that still admonish heels for getting up on the turnbuckle even though nobody has been DQed for that in like 40 years Yessss this is great
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Alaois posted:then you would love Aubrey Edwards if you watch AEW Watched every AEW show thus far. Aubrey's ongoing friction with Jericho is exactly what I'm thinking of.
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DeathChicken posted:I remember Eddie Guerrero doing a thing where he deattached the tag rope from the corner, so he was technically hanging onto it for tags while walking all around the ring I think it was him that tied another rope to the tag rope to get extra distance on the apron. I’ll always love the look of shock from a heel when the baby face kicks out at the last second.
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it’s gone away mostly with the more MMA-inspired stuff, but I love the raise an arm twice in a submission and it goes limp, but then they get an arm up on the third one and make a big comeback
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I think Juice Robinson did one of those recently where he literally grabbed Marty Asami's ankle cuff as he was going to call for the bell.
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Bard Maddox posted:it’s gone away mostly with the more MMA-inspired stuff, but I love the raise an arm twice in a submission and it goes limp, but then they get an arm up on the third one and make a big comeback I remember seeing once live (I think it was Ultimate Warrior vs Rick Rude) where due to the position of the hold, the ref raised Warrior's leg instead of his arm.
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Bard Maddox posted:it’s gone away mostly with the more MMA-inspired stuff, but I love the raise an arm twice in a submission and it goes limp, but then they get an arm up on the third one and make a big comeback It threw me for a loop when Hulk Hogan, of all goddamn people, went limp for all 3 drops.
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Bard Maddox posted:it’s gone away mostly with the more MMA-inspired stuff, but I love the raise an arm twice in a submission and it goes limp, but then they get an arm up on the third one and make a big comeback This was going to be my original post, but I couldn’t remember how often it happened outside of Hogan/Warrior.
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Bard Maddox posted:it’s gone away mostly with the more MMA-inspired stuff, but I love the raise an arm twice in a submission and it goes limp, but then they get an arm up on the third one and make a big comeback Related: the more a face has had the poo poo kicked out of them, the stronger their comeback will be.
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Gaz-L posted:I think Juice Robinson did one of those recently where he literally grabbed Marty Asami's ankle cuff as he was going to call for the bell. Similarly, I think it was WrestleMania 2004 when HHH grabbed Shawn Michaels's hand to keep him from tapping out to a crossface.
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Open Marriage Night posted:This was going to be my original post, but I couldn’t remember how often it happened outside of Hogan/Warrior. I feel like The Rock did it all the time.
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I like when people get dropped on their heads and necks and somehow don't die.
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Hellblazer187 posted:I feel like The Rock did it all the time. He did, yeah.
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