Tropes in wrestling you hate

>UH OH (heel's friend) GETTIN INVOLVED

>person is female
>allowed in a ring

Suicide Dive

>>1955430
Every time that JBL opens his mouth

Nobody maintains a hint of kayfabe outside of work

>>1955461
Shut up, Maggle.

>>1955430
> YOU CANT WRESTLE
> YOU CANT WRESTLE
Wrestler in question looks noticeably agitated and is set to prove the crowd wrong
> Does a basic back suplex
???

>>1955467
You just made the list!

>>1955457
Fucking this.

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>>1955430
>Have guy in submission or in a pinning predicament.

>Hear a rival's theme music or see him near ring

>Release my opponent squandering a win that was potentially a moment away.

>????

Loss

>>1955489
this one gets me everytime

>>1955489
who dis bish

>irish whip opponent to the ropes
>bend over like an idiot and get kicked on the head

I can't remember when someone actually pulled off a back body drop, so there must be viewers who have no idea whats happening there

>wrestler on top of the steel cage, opponent lying down on the mat
>instead of climbing out of the cage, jumps off the cage to bodyslam opponent

The International
I get why it's there and I get how it sets the tone but people are just so uninspired with it and don't even really use it for its intended purpose at this point
It's why Masata Yoshino is the fucking man for doing his single leg dropkick whenever people go for the leapfrog, cause how would you not fucking know that's what they'll do? Of course you'd just hit them out of it

>>1955462

The fuck do you expect? They don't even maintain it ON WWE CAMERAS many times.

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>>1955462
has Matt done anything not in character since becoming Broken?

>>1955462
>Nobody maintains a hint of kayfabe outside of work
>the REALITY era

what did he mean by this?

>>1955687
I feel like I can remember in my mind when they stopped doing actual back body drops and started ALWAYS getting kicked

Faggot wrestlers who sell towards the camera. But when you're posed on the bottom rope looking like a fish out of water make silly faces at the camera, I reeeeeee.

ZIGGLER YOU'RE THE WORST AT THIS.

>>1956004

He broke character to save face after Reby went full tinfoil shitting on vaccines on twitter

>after hitting their finisher, the wrestler awkwardly spins around so they can face the hard camera as they pin their opponent

>>1956043
Fuck max is fucked Matt better get him vaccination asap

>hot feud
>match starts with a lock up

>>1955673
Scarlett Bordeaux (@Lady_Scarlett13)

>heel has his opponent on the mat and could easily get a 3 count
>proceeds to slowly as possibly climb the top ropes
>opponent rolls out of the way, and uses the time to pull off their finisher
>face gets the 3 count

One that I don't mind so much is during a match (tag team especially) when a referee gets ''''''''distracted'''''''' and shenanegians ensue.

>The 'international' spot; irish whip into the ropes, duck, leapfrog, etc. Easily the most rehearsed thing in wrestling, looks phony as fuck.
>Interference without actually interfering; fucking stupid and illogical.
>Rollups/schoolboys; you look like a gigantic dripping wet pussy when you get pinned by some dude just because you're 'surprised'.
>DABBING

>I'm mad as fuck at this guy and I'm about to run to the ring and assault him in public in the middle of a match
>But first let me make sure I stop and ask the sound guy to play my entrance theme

>>1955692
>Opponent KOed in corner of ring during cage match
>Try to climb over cage while looking exhausted instead of just walking over the door where the referees will happily open it for you

>>1955430
>Being 'awarded' the use of a finisher by the older wrestler who made it famous

>>1956004

If you mean in general, yes, he has done several interviews not in character.

Which I think is fine. The days of maintaining kayfabe 24/7 are pointless since kayfabe is long dead anyway. Just consistently playing the character as long as you're at a wrestling event is admirable enough - especially when basically nobody in WWE even has a gimmick anymore, let alone is even slightly consistent with it.

The "invisible camera guy" segment needs to fuck off forever. In the good old days you'd never see wrestlers doing shit backstage unless there was some clearly logical reason for the camera to be there (interview or whatever), and they'd actually acknowledge it and tell the camera guy to fuck off.

>>1955687

Similarly, they never do top rope suplexes anymore. Any time those fuckers set up for one it never works

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>Oh my I seem to have fallen on my knees face first draped over the second rope in this awkward position that no wrestler in history has ever landed in naturally. Hopefully my opponent Rey Mysterio won't capitalize!

>>1957441
Yeah, it's pretty weird that people have been draping themselves over the ropes a lot less since he left.

>>1955457
its good except for when Jasethy does them

>>1955430
>guy climbs top rope
>guy on the mat lifts his head to watch him

>guy spends 900 years setting up a table
>he goes through it 120% of the time

>belt in a ladder match is just buckled on a strap
>for some reason, wrestlers who buckle this on themselves 60 times a year can't unbuckle it

>rope breaks are a thing
>uses tarantula

>hell in a cell
>it's just a normal match that shows you where you can't normally go anyways

>haitch uses sledge
>hits you with his own hand

>ref searches boots and pads for brass knucks
>they're in the trunks for 30 years

>do finisher 11 times in ring
>all 2 counts
>do finisher backstage
>out for a week

>wearing body armour
>get punched in the chest
>sell

>be heel
>can't win clean
>be face
>winning clean just happens

>triple threat
>get hit by basic move
>roll out of ring

>>1957402
They still do them in triple threats and tag team matches but its always that shit powerbomb superplex spot that dumb yanks chant this is awesome to even though it happens every other week now

>>1955462
Wrestling isn't real and everyone knows it.

>>1958269
No shit. But it's supposed to be a performance.

Might as well have blockbuster movies with all the blooper footage in the final product.

>>1958278
Did you just mention movies? Because demanding kayfabe be enforced off-camera is like demanding actors be in character for all the promotional media stuff you fucking dunce.

>>1955430
>Wrestler gets the hot tag
>3 clotheslines and a slam

>>1955430
>Wrestler facing Orton
>Suspiciously spends a long time getting back in to the ring, doesn't fight back against obvious set up
>HANHMAN DDT MUH GAWD

>>1955462
Goldberg smiling at Rusev and shrugging at Lesnar triggered me these last few Raws

>>1955468
>That time Ryback got the chants
>Botched a Jackhammer
My sides

>>1958352
why?
goldberg did silly shit like that all the time

>>1958352
absolute autism

>Wrestler looks strong on the go home show
>Loses at the PPV

Got a bad feeling about Sami Zayn, Brian Kendrick, and Goldberg bros

>>1958255
>>do finisher backstage
>>out for a week
never understood that autism

>Non American wrestler
>90% of the time eternal heels

>Ladder match
>Wrestler(s) maintain a steady pace/work rate or run wild
>But when it comes to the ladder it's the hardest most monumental challenge to climb it

>wrestler who never does any top rope moves goes to the top rope
>slowly enough for the other wrestler to get back up and superplex him

>>1956095
Fucking this, I swear to the Seven Deitys if Crock v Goldstein starts this way I'm just gonna do something else

>>1958255
>not liking the Tarantula
What are you, some kind of fag?

> ric flair match

> he does a stupid ric flair spot that makes zero sense

>>1959286
where did i say i didn't like it you illiterate retard?

>>1959288
This, best of all time my ass.

>Can't lose your belt on a DQ and Countout
>Heel doesn't just get themselves DQ'd or counted out every match

>>1959297
Fucking this. You would never see that in any other sport, imagine if Connor McGregor turned around and kicked the ref in the face.

Literally any move that requires you to set someone up in the corner. Especially the motherfucking tree of woe. Who could possibly buy "oh that guy is pretty gassed, makes sense that his opponent was able to literally turn him upside down and hang him from his knees on the top rope"

> Heel wrestler
> Never cheats
> Is just more ruthless and bends the rules slightly
> e.g: Utilises ref's 5 count, works on body part they know is weak

>>1959297
heels are cocky

>4 vs 4(or more) tag team elimination match
>Enemy hits his finisher and starts the pin
>Nobody on the other team tries to cut the pin or interfere

They should just enter and cut it like a normal tag match

>>1959297
>they spend 30 minutes fighting
>Heel gets themselves DQ'd anyway, wasting literally everyone's time

>>1959317
Yeah, but then you run in to the same problems as the old video games. Literally every time you make a pin the other guy breaks and your partner stands there like a cheese baguette.

It would be better if they go for the pin close to their own corner so the outside partner can provide backup by putting one leg in the ring ready to defend.

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>no DQ match
>rope breaks

>indie match
>wrestlers smoothly go through their CAW movesets with zero intensity

>Flair match
>falls on his face

>Flair match
>ref can't see out of the corner of their eyes when his hands or feet are on the ropes

>diving headbutt

>steel cage matches since no one knows how to work them (TA vs. Blanchard the big exception)

>anime staredowns after a flip sequence

>Mexican 2/3 Falls match
>First fall is a one minute (or less) squash

>>1959344

>no DQ match
>rope breaks

Even if it's no DQ, you can't win by submission if the guy is touching the ropes. Not unless it's also a Falls Count Anywhere match.

>>1959358
What are they going to do if you continue the hold? DQ HIM!?

>>1957441
I didn't have too much of a problem with it, because I could always think in my kayfabe mind that Rey is intentionally setting them up for that. Like a well-placed drop-toe hold is fine. But, yes, sometimes it got ridiculous.

>>1955430
"Trope"

You're one stupid SOB

>>1958255
>>do finisher 11 times in ring
>>all 2 counts
>>do finisher backstage
>>out for a week
One of the biggest offenders.

>>1959368
would you prefer "idiom"?

>>1956004
you mean being a cringeworthy cancerous smark pandering faggot?
he's been doing that since the stronger than death days.

>>1959277
This match decides whether or not I get rid of the network

>>1955435
underrated

>heel makes it to the ropes
>Hebner kicks his hand
I hate that shit

>>1959317
Or, even worse:
>Wrestler goes for a pin in elimination match
>Gets broken up even though having a person out makes it easier for you to win the match

>the HBK 1 foot on the ground spot in the rumble
>WE'LL HAVE TO GO TO THE TAPES TO MAKE A DECISION!

>repeat a spot
>OH MAN! I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE IN MY LIFE!
Fucking hell. When big show and mark henry went through the ring and cole acted like he didn't watch the EXACT SAME SPOT happen a few years earlier was the fucking worst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDkWayjQ7zA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_21GvLf0U

>title match on regular tv
>champ loses via dq
hated this shit as a kid too

Painfully scripted comments, likely fed by Vince.

>Shane just throws himself off HIAC
>Before the audience can even react to the spot, fucking Cole on the mic
>FOR THE LOVE OF MANKIND

>>1959489
Apparently the was ready to collapse the entire match because they took out safety bolts from the construction before the match. Watching the entire match, I'm surprised it didnt collapse earlier

>>1959631
really? what the fuck? it looks like it's on hydraulics or something. looks super fake. weird to hear it's really imploding.

>>1959398
this

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>wrestler who shouldn't be there buys their own ticket to the show

>>1955430

>chants of the crowd power me up

>answering the thread prompt
>but not in greentext

>>1960625

I'm high and can't stop laughing at this picture

>>1960625
Charlotte looks milfy

>>1960625
BRIE BELLA BOUGHT A TICKET
BRIE BELLA BOUGHT A TICKET
BRIE BELLA BOUGHT A TICKET

>finally the encounter of heel vs heel (or between faces) and possibly a match. Crowd excited af
>Here comes the face/heel to interrupt

All the things in this thread are the reason I can barely watch anymore.

Just watching smackdown right now.

>entire massive group of tag teams shouting at each other outside the ring
>tiny ref in between just holds them apart

another one

>heel in ring
>face comes out to get them for revenge
>runs to ring furious
>heel gets out of ring to retreat
>ropes suddenly become a force field and the face just stands in the ring looking at the heel

Only slightly off topic but not really considering the past 10 years in WWE.

>face victimizes the heel/does the heel thing

What the fuck was with SD tonight?
>sasha, bayley and alicia fox attack Nikki (face) and destroy her in a gang attack while Nia is on the outside and charlotte attacks carmella

That was fucking retarded. The face women should not have been attacking the FACE DIVA WHILE SHE WAS DOWN

>lights go out
>person in ring looks toward ramp instead of behind them

Having to take a few seconds to adjust the positioning of a finisher, submission, taunt, pin, literally anything that requires them to forcibly turn to the hard camera

>count down from 10 during rumble any number after #22

>buzzer hits

>undercard/midcard wrestler comes out instead of uppercarder or surprise entrant

Examples: Titus/Swagger coming in at 26/28 the past couple years

>multi team tag match

>partner is totally available

>tags in a fucking opponent!

>WHY ISN'T THERE A MEMBER OF EACH TEAM IN THE FUCKING RING

>>1959398
Tiny penis.

Raw triggered me hard with the tag team matches.

>Ramen does his MOOOOOOOOOO
>Owens tags in
>gee better not spear this dude now

>Rollins goes for Pedigree retardedly close to the corner
>Jericho tags in
>guess I'll just not use my finisher

You have 5 seconds. Just do your fucking finisher instead of leaving the ring immediately.

>wrestler positions his opponent for the finishing move so he faces the hard camera

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>Takes the Stinkface
>Could've easily got out the ring

>>1957569
>implying Dean's isn't even worse

>>1959288
I cant think of a single good Flair match 2bh

My entire memories of Flair are
>watching 6 matches in a row where he kinda screams "OH GODDD" when he takes a bump
>awkward promos against Foley
>that time he teamed up with Haitch and was called "Naytch"
There were just so many more interesting wrestlers at the same time Flair was at his peak, I didn't bother with him

>>1962466
>every example from the mid-2000s

Probably because you were born while Nitro was airing.

>>1958352
Lmao, that's the same as getting triggered over him doing a backflips back in the day.

>>1959673
Yeah, Beeg did an interview where it came up and he was surprised it lasted as long as it did

>>1962468
I'm 28 m8

And still on 4chan. State of my life 2bh

> Storyline is shit
> Writing is awful
> "HUR, LOOK! X WRESTLER COULDN'T DRAW!"
What is with this meme of blaming the ratings on one poor fucking guy who is working his ass off and not even doing anything wrong? It's a combination of shit writing, people not wanting to see Steph eat testicles on screen and 3 hour long shows. The wrestler's themselves are fine, it has nothing to do with them. If Stone Cold was around today and put in a feud with someone random for 4 months as they have the same match over and over he would fail.

This goes double for the CWD. In the CWC they were given storylines and opportunities to show off everything in the ring. On Raw they've been used shit ever since. "HUR LOOK, THE CRUISERWEIGHTS CAN'T DRAW!" Who can draw after having the exact same 6-man tag over and over and over because God forbid the writers write more than one storyline in an entire division.

>>1955430
>that shitty headlock that happens in every single match
>that retarded feigning into going to sleep
>sudden burst of energy despite almost looking like he'd been choked out
>slowly starts getting up, starts shaking arm
>elbow to the stomach to escape

By far the most retarded shit ever, and it seems to happen in every single match.

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>One guy dives on more than 2 wrestlers
>Everyone falls down

>>1962474
Well now you don't even have an excuse for being that wrong.

>camera cuts to someone in the crowd during a segment for no fucking reason

just stop

>>1962479
It's called a sleeper hold, or rear naked choke

>move gets countered 95% of the time its used
>people still do it

looking at you, sunset flip

>>1962489
either way it's fucking retarded and needs to be removed from wrestling

has anyone actually ever been choked out from one if we're not counting signature finishers?

>>1962492
It will never go away, it's a spot wrestlers use to rest and whisper to each other their next spots

>catapult

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This

> Cena's kayaker breaking sequence
He's not this so much now thank God. But:
> "Shoulder block, ouch! I must shoot back up again to get another then blindly try and clothesline so he can duck it and slam me!"

>Royal Rumble match

>Military press

>drops opponent in ring

>multiple people in the ring
>they all line up 1 by 1 to take hits from a returning superstar instead of jumping him all at once
RVDs return stands out the most, it just looked so bad.

>>1962511
Kayfabe. Fucking autocorrect.

>>1962523
I remember thinking that when Stone Cold team WWF. But I was way too busy marking out! I loved every pop he got for every Stunner.

>>1962493
Honestly I don't think I've ever seen it in LU.

And it's great because it doesn't slow down the match to fuck and drains all my interest from it

>>1962459
Nice trip Carter

>>1962524

How often do you kayak?

>>1957013
This has legitimate backstage reasons though. Vets especially get salty when a newfag uses their move; God forbid they do it better.

Seth needs to stop letting go of the arms and his Pedigree would be goat.

>>1962527
It's used more by rookies or people who just have shit stamina. There's a reason Orton used to get so much flack because he always needed a sleeper hold /chin lock break.


>Wrestlers go to the outside and sprawl all over the place
>WELL GUESS IT'S TIME TO GO TO AN ADD.

I know it isn't the wrestlers fault but they need to stop cutting up matches. Once a show tops unless it's a long as fuck match like Angle / Lesnar or Cena / HBK.

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>>1962493
I'd be fine with it if someone actually managed to get submitted by a sleeper hold, otherwise it's just the same shitty cycle.
>hold
>get "sleepy"
>suddenly wake up
>irish whip or elbow counter

>>1962528
Carter left. I think.
Haven't heard about him in around 3 months.

>>1963342
Fuck off carter

Inverted atomic drop? PERFECTLY FINE.
Low blow? NOPE, NOT ALLOWED.

>>1958292
Well that's the point, isn't it? You're following the CHARACTERS on twitter. Not the people. Two different things

>>1962596
I don't understand why they can't just put commercials in between segments. Once they interrupt the match with 5 minutes of shitty annoying ads, I've stopped caring and am more likely to tune out.

>>1962170
Nah. That makes it more realistic. It would make this thread if every single entrant past #22 was always a big name.

>>1962503
I've honestly never seen that before

>>1962490
Backdrop

>>1962383
Nah, this I can deal with. Its really more of a "are you fucking swrious? I had it" blown away moment

>>1962488
Why the fuck did they do this so many fucking times this week? Like what the fuck

>>1962170
>Countdown from 10 for the next Rumble entry
>Crowd keep speeding up, completely out of sync
>See also, Cesaro Swing

>>1962495
This.
Looks too fucking stupid

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>being in babyface's hometown
>the crowd acts like if he's not gonna win

>>1963787
I think the explanation behind that is you're using your opponents momentum instead of your own

>wrestlers in a heated, personal rivalry have a match
>they go for covers in the first two minutes instead of just fucking brawling and beating the shit out of each other

>wrestler in a ladder match is alone in the ring with a ladder
>instead of simply climbing it to grab the title he wastes time making an elaborate and pointless seesaw or scaffold contraption

>>1964236
They wanna entertain the obese basement dwelling smarks so they won't start crying saying they gonna stop watching

>>1961005

Jesus thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one who got pissed off at this..

fucking Bayley of all people sneak attack kicking Nikki Bella was the worst thing I've seen this year.

Whoever made them do that is a fucking retard.

It should have been Raw heels in first, SD faces run out, then SD heels in to pick off one or two that got thrown outside the ring, and finally the Raw faces come to help, none of this fucking 7 day heel turn shit

>>1959286
Homer Simpson you fucking animal

>>1962486
if only everyone had left a big hole in the middle for him to land in..

>>1959398
>not liking DELETE
tiny balled idiota

>>1959489
>"When big show and mark henry went through the ring and cole acted like he didn't watch the EXACT SAME SPOT happen a few years earlier was the fucking worst."
>9 years is now defined as "few"
you went full retard

>>1961005
>muh plastic bitch
Cena, you're not getting some puss that night

>>1955430
>wrestler I can't stand
>other people enjoy them


I can't stand that shit

>>1955489
>pin opponent
>1
>2
>CAW
>referee stops counting and just stares like a fucking moron

Fuck you Sting

>Multi tag team match
>Doesn't trick your opponent to tag your partner and lay down and pick a three count and win

>>1964689
Outlaw rule.

18+

>>1964192
Did you not watch Hell in a Cell?

>undertaker stands behind someone
>they look everywhere but behind

>yell at wrestler to hit opponent harder
>they pretend they can't hear you through the TV
I'm sick and tired of these fakes

>>1959297
Because the governing body (the Authority, the on screen president/commissioner) would strip you of the belt if you do it too many times (that is if the governing body is face or heel but dislike the heel champion)

>>1963868
I don't think WWE and the in-ring wrestlers really gets to choose when the commercials come on

>hey ref, get the commercials ready, I have to put the sleeper hold cause I'm gassed
It's more like
>commercials in 30 seconds, boys, you got one spot left

The sleeper hold is used to relay info to the other wrestler too. If you have a long spot to call or you have to relay info from the ref to the other guy (cut time, time remaining in the match, etc), you do it through the sleeper

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>Wrestler A's going for their finisher
>*GONG* or Bray's Static
>Taker or a Wyatt Family member is IN THE RING
>Wrestler B rolls up Wrestler A while they're distracted
>This ISN'T interference

>>1964916
Interference is only when the foreign person actually touches the guy (or if the ref believes the face foreign person actually hit the heel wrestler but didn't actually see it because he had his back turned, depending on what the booker wants the outcome to be)

>>1964939
yep, remember when Zack's dad pushed Miz during a match and Zack didn't get disqualified yet when Nikki punched Charlotte it caused a DQ

>>1964893
I know the talent has no control over it, but the production team does. They can have someone cut a promo, then commercial, then match, then commercial etc...
Main reason I watch everything on upload; uploaders usually cut the commercials out.

>triple threat match
>two heels one face
>heels work together
>one heel tries to pin face
>other heel interupts and acts surprised/pissed off they tried to go for the pin
>start fighting each other

bampin

good thread opie