Paid Members air_raid Posted January 17, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 17, 2022 It’s the American way, isn’t it? Nothing beats a good straw man. Four years of “But Hilary.” Hilary isn’t running the country, Karen-Lynn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted January 19, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 19, 2022 Lawrence Taylor not taking his match at Wrestlemania 11 seriously. Bam Bam Bigelow deserves being in the Hall of Fame for saving that shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamura Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 Wrestlers who think they are seven feet tall and weigh three hundred pounds. If ever there was a match crying out for the spot where one wrestler runs into another and simply bounces off like they've run into a brick wall, that was it. Instead we have the ridiculous spectacle of Kassius Ohno being bowled over by Adam Cole, despite being at least twice his size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 Am I the only one who gets annoyed when during a match the person doing the pin on the other person just gets up on two before the other person can kick out because it's not the end of the match? It really takes me out of a match.I don't know whether it's bad timing or just some kind of "this isn't the finish, I'd best get up" mentality, but it can be really annoying. It should be on whoever's being pinned to kick out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mal the Glorious Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 It's up there with the ref stopping the count for "getting the shoulder up" when the shoulders are still clearly on the mat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 Or counting when a shoulder is obviously up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 50 minutes ago, jazzygeofferz said: Am I the only one who gets annoyed when during a match the person doing the pin on the other person just gets up on two before the other person can kick out because it's not the end of the match? It really takes me out of a match.I don't know whether it's bad timing or just some kind of "this isn't the finish, I'd best get up" mentality, but it can be really annoying. It should be on whoever's being pinned to kick out. I could never get my head why any contact from a tag partner is considered breaking up the pin if there’s still body on body and shoulders down. The guys still being pinned, so count! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 That is a big pet hate of mine and I love this finish, as a result: OK, Smash is a little late coming in if viewed through the lens of "trying to break up the pin but can't" but I love that he's trying to drag the big old giant off Ax but just can't shift him, and as a result Hebner counts the pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 1 hour ago, air_raid said: I could never get my head why any contact from a tag partner is considered breaking up the pin if there’s still body on body and shoulders down. The guys still being pinned, so count! This is a rule that has never satisfactorily been explained to me, actually. It just seems accepted that any physical interference would break up the pin, which is fine if that rule's quantified somewhere, but I'm not sure that it is. I suppose if I had to explain it to someone, that's the language I'd use. I imagine it's one of those things that started as something more considered, and as it became a regular part of wrestling and basically just a trope, wrestlers - as they often do - just turned to doing the bare minimum version of the thing, rather than keeping it logical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 Remember when WWE also introduced, but never made mention of, that rule where a partner was only allowed to interfere in a pin attempt twice, and the third instance was a disqualification? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Statto Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 Yeah, they snuck that in for a little while without actually explaining it, then dropped it again without explaining that they'd done so. I liked it, personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 26, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 26, 2022 A public warning!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Healys Chutney Spoon Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Why do half the tag matches never use the tag ropes now? Used to add something to the matches when the partner would be stretching over but couldn't reach as the rope wouldn't stretch far enough. Nowadays it just seems like 'I'll reach over and tag myself in from wherever I happen to be' which takes a fair bit of the logic of being in a corner away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted January 27, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2022 I guess it's narrative convenience, as with most of the rules. AEW must be glad Mickey Jay isn't a referee for them, as I remember how fast he used to count whenever wrestlers were outside the ring. Imagine him instead of Aubrey in the ring for that Punk/Wardlow match? Would have ended in a double count out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 27, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted January 27, 2022 One of mine is not wrestling so much as wrestling journalism, the way they will use the term “former WWE Champion” in their clickbait headlines as a catch all term for anyone that held any belt. They caught me out today, and the “former WWE Champion” was Eugene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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