Paid Members herbie747 Posted September 12, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 (edited) 2 random thoughts: 1) A catapult looks shit - I've never seen a good one. No idea why people do this move, especially Triple H. 2) It always amuses me in documentaries the way old wrestlers think that the fans believed their stuff was real. e.g "Sure, the fans knew it was fake, but when we went out there, they'd be thinking: 'well, all that other stuff is fake; but this - this is real!'" Edited September 12, 2014 by herbie747
Vamp Posted September 12, 2014 Posted September 12, 2014 I used to like it when any wrestler The Rock would face would catapult him into the ring corner post outside the ring regardless of whether or not they'd don't that move before.
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted September 12, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 I used to like it when any wrestler The Rock would face would catapult him into the ring corner post outside the ring regardless of whether or not they'd don't that move before. May as well exploit The Rock’s weakness!
Vamp Posted September 12, 2014 Posted September 12, 2014 I like that kinda thing anyway. It's nice to have some moves that reveal the campiness of wrestling.
King Pitcos Posted September 12, 2014 Posted September 12, 2014 (edited) I like that kinda thing anyway. It's nice to have some moves that reveal the campiness of wrestling. The "resthold"/transitional/bland submission moves are great that. I was in Ireland for that Raw match between Cena and Michaels that's only just finished, and my backwards cousins were pissing themselves laughing at the wristlock selling and reversing. And the way Michaels and Cena get out of wristlocks is nowhere near as camp as the way World of Sport wrestlers, Owen Hart and divas get out of wristlocks, with all the gamboles and jumps. And even more than the wristlock, drawing strength from the crowd to theatrically elbow your way out of some kind of headlock will never die. Edited September 12, 2014 by King Pitcos
Vamp Posted September 12, 2014 Posted September 12, 2014 (edited) Yeah that's one of the beauties of lucha, the springboard and flips all to get out of a wrist lock or the ridiculous arm drags, lovely. Obviously you can go too far with it. Like the Japanese head bump trading suplexes thing, I mean proper piss funny and great to imagine with the Benny Hill music over but probably not worth breaking the neck for. Edited September 12, 2014 by Vamp
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted September 12, 2014 Author Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 I miss the bear hug. Too underutilised. Especially the babyface escaping by smacking the heel in the ears with both arms.
Vamp Posted September 12, 2014 Posted September 12, 2014 Does anyone still do the 'rub the eyes across the rope' thing?
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted September 12, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 12, 2014 Does anyone still do the 'rub the eyes across the rope' thing? Not since it was revealed to be a big old con by the bastards on Exposed!... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW3DCnBbROI#t=545
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted September 13, 2014 Awards Moderator Posted September 13, 2014 Back rake!
King Pitcos Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 Does anyone still do the 'rub the eyes across the rope' thing? Someone has definitely done it recently, and the other guy's head was about a foot away from the rope.
Paid Members Bellenda Carlisle Posted September 13, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 13, 2014 Does anyone still do the 'rub the eyes across the rope' thing? Someone has definitely done it recently, and the other guy's head was about a foot away from the rope. Yeah, I want to say Dean Ambrose, I remember my girlfriend saying 'What the hell was that?' because the move is rarely used now. Brock used to do it all the time in the early part of his first run too.
Undefeated Steak Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 Back rake! My gawd, somebody call the EMT's.
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted September 13, 2014 Paid Members Posted September 13, 2014 I was watching Mania 3, and I don't care what anyone else says, it looked more real back then than it does now. Even Piper's sleeper on Adonis was magnificently - I want to say 'worked', but don't want to come off a cunt so I'll say - done.
Shane O' Mac Version 2 Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 If the wrestling in the 80s was shot with HD cameras using plenty of close up angles, I doubt it'd look so "real".
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