10 Illogical Moves Wrestlers Have To Stop Using ASAP
There are seldom few purest forms of entertainment than professional wrestling - we die hard fans know this emphatically. The emotions, the storytelling, and of course the athleticism all combine for compelling television. When it’s good, there’s nothing else on the planet quite like it.
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But some of those exaggerated and calculated maneuvers are sometimes way out of the field of believability. If we’re to believe that the two-to-several people in the ring are trying to win an athletic fight-sport contest, then some of the moves that the superstars do need to be left on the cutting room floor - they’re just not believable.
10 Destroyers From Canada, Panama…Sometimes Done By Bunnies
One of wrestling’s newest moves was brought forth by former TNA Superstar Petey Williams. Little Poppa Pump was able to pull off a Sunset Flip Powerbomb combination he dubbed The Canadian Destroyer. It’s also highly illogical and ridiculous looking that one person can completely flip over another and then bring them over as well.
It's particularly eye-rolling when smaller guys like Adam Cole somehow effortlessly pull it off against guys like Bronson Reed or Keith Lee, who Cole can barely lift one of their legs up.
9 Tope Suicida
At any point during a wrestling match, all sorts of action can spill out to the floor. Not to sound like an old man yelling at clouds (cough-Jim Cornette-cough), there should be some sort of reason to want to go outside when you’re supposed to want to win the match - in the ring.
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But over the past decade or so, a new fad in the business crept up - dive pit parties. Everyone involved in a match has to do some sort of Tope Suicida into “unsuspecting,” but totally obviously suspecting opponents.
8 Irish Whip
This one will not be going away anytime soon. It’s a wrestling move as old as time itself. Those are the kind that are the most believable seeing as how we all grew up just knowing if you heave a man by their arm into the ropes, they will move uncontrollably into the ropes and bounce off so that you can execute some sort of devastating move. But as commonplace as this move is in wrestling, it’s just completely against all laws of physics.
7 Assisted Double Stomp
From Kevin Sullivan to Finn Balor - there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the big Double Stomp in wrestling. But the assisted version, where the guy or girl getting stomped pulls themselves up by the ropes is an entirely different story. Why someone wouldn’t just drop back down, so their opponent misses the stomp and hurts themselves defies all logic but wrestling logic. Yes, as fans we get that the two competitors are 'helping' each other out, but for the sake of some credibility, there is just no reason for this move to exist.
6 Killswitch
Aside from Christian, there aren’t a lot of superstars who have the Killswitch in their arsenal. It’s an odd move to look at. More likely than not just wouldn’t work in real life. Then again, backslides, which the Killswitch derives from isn’t that believable either.
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There aren’t many wrestling moves that look completely awkward. Considering how skilled Christian is in the ring, he should know better. Perhaps spends the match working on his opponent’s neck for a big neck breaker or DDT.
5 Vertical Suplex Hold
A Vertical Suplex is an impressive feat of strength for superstar to pull off. After all, superstars like Bobby Lashley (Bobby Who?) have the strength of ten men and can effortlessly muscle up anyone by their neck and shoulders to drop them on their backside.
While it’s even more impressive to hoist an opponent up and hold them in the position, unless they’re completely unconscious, why aren’t they kicking like mad to escape.
4 Tightrope Walking
The Spoiler Don Jardine walked the ropes during the Territory Era. The Deadman followed suit with Old School. AEW’s Komander practically runs all over the top rope.
But other than the spectacle of it all, there is no benefit of leverage a superstar would gain from walking the ropes before assaulting their opponent. This is something that should probably be grandfathered out of wrestling.
3 Superkick Party
While hopefully most of us haven’t actually experienced one - have you ever been kicked right in the face? One kick is all anyone needs to beat another guy. Not the fifty thousand thrust kicks that now get used in matches.
Between Kevin Owens, The Usos, The Bucks Of Youth, and so many other HBK devotees, you could lose track week to week of how many foots to the face we see weekly and yet no Superkick recipient ever seems to have any sort of “drain bamage” from suffering a Super Kick party.
2 Ten Corner Punches
Speaking for “drain bamage,” the same question that was posed for Superkick Parties can be posed for fists to the face. But like the previously aforementioned Irish Whip, the move has worked in professional wrestling for so long, that it’s completely commonplace.
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But it’s also completely ludicrous when you boil it down to brass tax to watch a man smash another man’s face in ten times without a hint of the crimson mask.
1 The Rear View
Between Rikishi’s Stink Face, Yokozuna, the Usos, Solo Sikoa, and Umaga all running headlong into opponents with their backsides has become a Fatu family staple.
Trinity Fatu has put her own spin on using her derrière to inflict major damage - The Rear View. It’s just hard to believe that anyone would get out down for the three count in such a manner.
