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back rakes. It's such a stupid, petty thing to do as a heel and it cracks me up. There's no offensive purpose for it, it's just to be an rear end in a top hat.
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Low Desert Punk posted:back rakes. It's such a stupid, petty thing to do as a heel and it cracks me up. There's no offensive purpose for it, it's just to be an rear end in a top hat. Has a match ever ended with someone tapping out to a back rake? It seems like an obvious comedy spot.
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Sep 15, 2019 11:01
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Jerusalem posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybuIy0wKXk My head hurts just from watching that chair shot.
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Sep 15, 2019 12:33
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Low Desert Punk posted:back rakes. It's such a stupid, petty thing to do as a heel and it cracks me up. There's no offensive purpose for it, it's just to be an rear end in a top hat. this and eye-pokes. i love old-school heeling. i dont know if this is a trope, but I like it when an established tag-team beats a thrown together team of two singles superstars. makes tag-team wrestling seem important and its own thing,
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Sep 15, 2019 14:55
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Seams posted:this and eye-pokes. i love old-school heeling. this is why i loved the shield so much (and to a lesser extent, the nexus before they got cena'd) like no matter how strong the three guys were individually, the shield were better as a group unless they were a family. a wyatt family
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Sep 15, 2019 15:03
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Oh another one, when a smaller face offense actually makes sense, like keeping their opponents off balance or using their weight against a heavier opponent. I dunno why but I always thought of the Hurricane vs. the Rock is an example of a smaller guy, who wasn't using power moves but like his weight would like force the Rock to ht the ground so the ring did the damage. I realize I am not explaining this well but you get what I'm saying.
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Sep 15, 2019 15:17
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On the note of the Wyatts, it never happens often but I love when some wrestler ends up with a career-long nemesis they can't be rid of, no matter where things take the both of them. Bray Wyatt to Daniel Bryan, Tito Santana to Rick Martel. The sort of thing where a guy will be in a random battle royal, hasn't interacted with his enemy in forever, and yet here he is to ruin his poo poo.
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Sep 15, 2019 15:32
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Wasn't there some number one contender's match months after Wyatt and Roman finished feuding, and Bray busted out the 'ANYONE BUT YOU ROMAN' taunt. I thought that was neat and it'd be a cool running thing to come back to if WWE evey bothered to plan long term beyond "BROCK FIGHT BABYFACE AT MANIA". Like, Bray does not want Roman to be the champ. Even beyond his own ambitions for the belt, if it comes down to it, he'll cost himself the title if it means Roman can't win it either.
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Sep 15, 2019 16:58
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Jerusalem posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KybuIy0wKXk This is 100% my favourite wrestling moment of all time. I know this entire segment beat for beat, shot for shot. Every face in the crowd, every reaction. I've watched it hundreds of times. The greatest pop I've ever seen. Amazing. Perfection.
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Sep 15, 2019 21:19
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Did someone say when someone hits a lariat so hard it causes the other guy to do a full flip before hitting the mat? This is my favorite and don't mind agreeing with someone about it
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Sep 16, 2019 00:45
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Richter Scabies posted:Did someone say when someone hits a lariat so hard it causes the other guy to do a full flip before hitting the mat? This is my favorite and don't mind agreeing with someone about it Especially when the guy getting flipped is a big motherfucker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqFambBnAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tziKnlqEG8
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Sep 16, 2019 05:07
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Quantum of Phallus posted:This is 100% my favourite wrestling moment of all time. I know this entire segment beat for beat, shot for shot. Every face in the crowd, every reaction. I've watched it hundreds of times. The greatest pop I've ever seen. Amazing. Perfection. It still blows my mind that on the other station they did the Fingerpoke of Doom, AFTER making fun of the notion of Foley winning the title on Raw 
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Sep 16, 2019 05:15
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Something that was used tonight (not used to its maximum potential, unfortunately) that I absolutely love is the visual pinfall. It can be so crushing.
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Sep 16, 2019 05:26
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Shine posted:Especially when the guy getting flipped is a big motherfucker. it's called the Rikishi Bump for a reason it's amazing how even at his fattest, Rikishi was still an athletic enough motherfucker to be doing those flip bumps
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Sep 16, 2019 07:34
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Something that was used tonight (not used to its maximum potential, unfortunately) that I absolutely love is the visual pinfall. It can be so crushing. I remember being a 9 year old Hulkamaniac and losing my mind that the pin on Warrior at WM6 didnt count. I kept yelling "Everyone saw it they should look at the tape!"
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Sep 16, 2019 13:30
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Thought of another good one while I was falling down a youtube hole earlier today when you get a staredown between two sides of a hot angle on the last show before the big match This is my favorite one that I can recall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb6AVIwfb1Q crowd literally shaking the camera with their hype
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Sep 22, 2019 00:15
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IcePhoenix posted:Thought of another good one while I was falling down a youtube hole earlier today How did they gently caress this angle up as badly as they did, gently caress
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Sep 22, 2019 01:39
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SamuraiFoochs posted:How did they gently caress this angle up as badly as they did, gently caress WWE loves invasion angles but doesn't want anything outside of WWE looking good so this happens every time
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Sep 22, 2019 01:51
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IcePhoenix posted:Thought of another good one while I was falling down a youtube hole earlier today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAdWcfpM_Y&t=213s
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Sep 22, 2019 01:54
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IcePhoenix posted:Thought of another good one while I was falling down a youtube hole earlier today This was so cool, God bless John Cena's Stupid Team of loving Idiots 
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Sep 22, 2019 01:58
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Lmao
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Sep 22, 2019 02:05
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Watching the NJPW show right now and KENTA teasing a stomp but jumping over YOSHI-HASHI and then casually kicking his head and smugly celebrating reminded me that I really love just that: A heel doing a lovely, cheap move and then celebrating like an rear end in a top hat
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Sep 22, 2019 09:20
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hahahahaha perfect
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Mister Perky posted:It is apparently a callback to Flair's 1st World Championship win, in which he successfully came off the top rope for the finish. As a kid I always rooted for Flair's opponent trying to roll over while in the figure four. Just hulking the gently caress out trying to flip Ric over.
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Sep 23, 2019 02:41
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Jerusalem posted:This was so cool, God bless John Cena's Stupid Team of loving Idiots Critical posted:I remember being a 9 year old Hulkamaniac and losing my mind that the pin on Warrior at WM6 didnt count. I kept yelling "Everyone saw it they should look at the tape!" Mine wasn't even a special moment. I was a kid flipping channels on a Saturday morning and fell onto Superstars. Some heel cheated to win and I was livid. Why couldn't the face explain what happened? They recorded it, start the match over! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?! So I kept watching.
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Sep 23, 2019 05:58
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My favorite trope is they almost never go to the tape. I hate that weak bullshit when they do it in real sports.
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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.
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Sep 23, 2019 08:07
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always go to tape, always have a heel editor who makes the faces look like liars
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Sep 23, 2019 08:22
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A heel editor is a galaxy brain idea, I agree
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extradite THIS! posted:A heel editor is a galaxy brain idea, I agree The entire production crew of WWE are heels
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extradite THIS! posted:A heel editor is a galaxy brain idea, I agree I know AEW's editors are able to take bumps.
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Cavauro posted:always go to tape, always have a heel editor who makes the faces look like liars my concept for saving tna was to have jim cornette cut a two hour promo on how jeremy borash was sabotaging the show by editing it into looking like crazy bullshit
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No Irish Need Imply posted:Coining this + naming HBK's submission are the only two good posts I've made. gently caress IT IT'S SUBMISSION TIME was a great time in our lives No Irish Need Imply posted:I love that every poster has a young mark "look at the tape" moment. It's not quite the same, but I always loved Steve Austin telling the story about watching wrestling as a kid and seeing the heels beating on the face in an unfair situation, noticing a cop with a gun nearby and pleading with his exasperated mother to explain why the cop wasn't getting in there to hold them off with the gun and help the face 
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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. DDT had a match with VAR and it was a very good and funny one off gimmick.
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Sep 23, 2019 10:01
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using replay/VAR in a Dusty Finish for a Tag Team Championship match to make fun of the NFL's bullshit is the angle I'm dreaming of. "Upon further review, he did not complete the process of grabbing the tag rope with both feet on the mat, therefore we do not have a legal tag, therefore we do not have a legal pinfall, the referee's decision is overturned, champions retain via disqualification" [because when has the tag rope rule EVER been enforced in tag team wrestling?]
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Sep 23, 2019 17:19
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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
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Sep 23, 2019 17:43
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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 man, remember the tag rope
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Sep 23, 2019 17:44
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Man, I remember Eddie being the G.O.A.T. Spinning straw into gold like Rumplestiltskin. Trying to take Rey's firstborn like Rumplestiltskin.
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Sep 23, 2019 18:25
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ChrisBTY posted:Trying to take Rey's firstborn like Rumplestiltskin. The best wrestling storyline of all time tbh
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GEORGE W BUSHI posted:DDT had a match with VAR and it was a very good and funny one off gimmick. You can't mention that one and not post the video of it: https://twitter.com/dramaticddt/status/1014109618778398721
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