King Pitcos Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 We all moan like bastards about wrestling now, but as a kid, back when you still enjoyed it, what annoyed you about it? Or what did you just think "that doesn't make sense"? Â For me, the ending of SummerSlam '93. After two years of watching people get pissed off if they beat a champion by count-out or DQ because it meant they'd not won, here was Luger celebrating on everyone's shoulders because Yokozuna didn't beat the ten-count. It didn't make any sense to me. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraserbee Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 One that always confused me was that if you hit a dropkick it doesn't hurt, but if you miss it, it does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 I always remember thinking it was rather strange that Randy Savage and Ricky Steamboat were teaming together at Survivor Series 1987. Seven months earlier Savage was smashing the f*ck out of Steamboat's windpipe on a guardrail. Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stallion Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Mine was seeing Jake absolutely gutted that Earthquake had squashed Damien but then was quite happy to team with him at Survivor Series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSF Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Mine was Randy Savage eliminating himself from the 1992 Rumble and it not counting. They said that you couldn't eliminate yourself in a rumble, but Andre had in a previous rumble. Wound the 9 year old me up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 One that always confused me was that if you hit a dropkick it doesn't hurt, but if you miss it, it does. Â One of the Apter mags did a column explaining that. Apparently if you hit the dropkick, you can plan to spring off the other guy, control your landing and brace for impact. If you miss, you wind up hitting the ground at an unplanned angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 How that sometimes a second referee would come out and reverse a decision and other times nothing would happen. That wound me up no end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Mine was Randy Savage eliminating himself from the 1992 Rumble and it not counting. They said that you couldn't eliminate yourself in a rumble, but Andre had in a previous rumble. Wound the 9 year old me up! Â I definitely remember being baffled by this one. Savage just obviously wasn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 When a wrestler took advantage of a referee not seeing say, a chair shot in a normal rules match and get the winning pinfall, and the rest of the crew would just go along with it such as the sound manager, the ring announcer announcing the winner of the match. Surely they could have informed the referee about the use of the chair? Â Another relating to foreign objects: a wrestler could be incapacitated with a chair shot or a sledgehammer shot etc. But as soon as it becomes a hardcore rules match, they can withstand dozens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 When heel tag teams would switch behind the refs back without tagging while being completely able to tag. Always annoyed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobra_gordo Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 For me the things that pissed me off were seeing the same things happen over and over again. Like when somebody throws somebody in to the ropes, they bend to go for a back body drop and then they get kicked in the face. What annoyed me even more was the double clothesline. It happened in every match in the early 90's. Even as a kid, believing everything was real I figured that surely they'd be able to avoid shit like that because it happened to everybody else and so they could be ready. And don't get me started on refs not being able to hear double teams in tag matches...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted September 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted September 19, 2011 I think it's DDT's and Piledrivers for me. Why, for example, when Jake Roberts or Jerry Lawler did it that it would literally kill their opponent. But it was just part of a repetoire for other Wrestlers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spotlightmagnet1 Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I think I mentioned it before, but watching Summerslam 96 at the time and in particular the Boiler Room Brawl match. We were told the winner of the match was the first person to touch the urn, never touched with your hands, so when Paul Bearer turned on Taker and hit him with the urn, that was touching and therefore Undertaker won the match. Does that make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cum Doctor Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 When heel tag teams would switch behind the refs back without tagging while being completely able to tag. Always annoyed me. Â Neither of these things annoy me these days, but I thought I'd throw this out there anyways. Â That sort of thing had me eating out of their hands when I was a kid, and so did this other thing. The above happening, and then the babyfaces getting a tag behind the referee's back and it not being allowed. I'd have thought that was a proper annoyance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie Freebird Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 When heel tag teams would switch behind the refs back without tagging while being completely able to tag. Always annoyed me. Â I never really had a problem with that. The logic is fairly loose I agree; but the baddies simply aren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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