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10 Fake Things In Wrestling No One Complains About
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Wrestling isn't a real fight... sorry to be the bearer of bad news Little Jimmy... but for most of us that's something we know, accept and willingly suspend our disbelief for in order to enjoy the wonders of faux fighting. But there are some blatantly fake bits of the noble profession that everyone just accepts outright and we thought it would be fun to list them. THIS IS THAT LIST.
10 Fake Things In Wrestling No One Complains About
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Wrestling isn't a real fight... sorry to be the bearer of bad news Little Jimmy... but for most of us that's something we know, accept and willingly suspend our disbelief for in order to enjoy the wonders of faux fighting. But there are some blatantly fake bits of the noble profession that everyone just accepts outright and we thought it would be fun to list them. THIS IS THAT LIST.
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00:00Middle, middle on the wall, who is the fakest of them all?
00:04Well it sure as hell ain't me, I'm the most trustworthy guy around here, and it definitely
00:08ain't Shane McMahon who's made an entire career of slinging genuine, bonafide potatoes
00:12around the place.
00:13But what about Orange Cassidy's apathetic shin kicks?
00:15You're exposed into business.
00:18What about Kenny Omega vs a 9 year old girl?
00:20Don't you make a mockery of my noble sport, sir.
00:23And what about Kota Ibushi vs a blow-up doll?
00:27Long story short, wrestling isn't a real fight, I know, and people have hundreds of
00:36examples of moments like these that make it plainly obvious that what we're all watching
00:39is just some sort of glorious hand ballet.
00:42But there are a bunch of small moments that happen in most matches that are as fake as
00:46anything, but nobody really complains about them.
00:50So I'm gonna.
00:51Well it's more that I'm gonna list them for funsies.
00:52I'm Laurie, hailing from partsFUN, and these are the 10 Fakest Things In Wrestling That
00:58No One Complains About.
01:00Hey before we get on with the thing though, do a subscribe if you like wrestling lists
01:03and other fun wrestling content.
01:05I even made a video about the history of wrestling and how it turned from a legit competition
01:09to kayfabefickery, so check that one out.
01:1210.
01:13Let's Play Catch
01:15Wrestling loves a big dive.
01:17Fans love a big dive.
01:18Like Rubicon Mango, it's a cheap pop worth having.
01:21Why?
01:231.
01:24It's always fun to watch a wrestler go weee as they fly through the air.
01:26And 2.
01:27It looks dangerous.
01:28Having a whole grown ass person land on you from 8ft up looks like it would really hurt
01:32for real.
01:33But what is not for real and actual is the way that the wrestlers on the floor, the dive-ees,
01:38just wait for the dive-er to climb the turnbuckle, psych themselves up and then leap into the
01:42unknown.
01:43It's all stumbling about, throwing soft punches while they wait to be jumped on.
01:47Just flee you fools.
01:49Of course the alternative to this is just letting the wrestler doing the jumping splat
01:52on the floor.
01:53And judging by that bump that Nash Carter took on NXT 2.0, catching them is a much better
01:58option.
01:599.
02:00The 619
02:01Don't get me wrong, Rey Mysterio or Io Shirai swinging both their hind legs into your face
02:05at speed is going to leave a mark.
02:06There is nothing to obviously fake there.
02:09But why is it that their opponents always manage to fall so perfectly plum across the
02:13middle rope?
02:14Nobody ever falls on the middle rope.
02:16It's the ugly stepchild of the ropes.
02:18Bottom rope is good for breaking holds, top rope for jumping off of and it's crucial
02:22to a royal rumble.
02:23Middle rope?
02:24Good for catching your balls on, on the way into the ring.
02:27I dunno, I'm not a rope scientist.
02:29So how is it that Rey Rey has managed to create an entire arsenal of moves that land people
02:34precisely on the middle rope?
02:36I mean it's always a great moment and the same could be said for most moves that set
02:38people up for a top rope finisher, like Finn Balor's shotgun dropkick.
02:42But it's flown under the fake radar for far too long so I'm calling it out.
02:478.
02:48Wait for my music.
02:50Everyone deserves a friend that is going to watch their back.
02:52Through thick and thin, a true ride or die.
02:55Oli has Luke, Pete has Tempest and me and Adam, we're just colleagues, thanks.
03:00Wrestlers need them especially to save them from a beatdown when the dastardly heels jump
03:03you post-match.
03:04However, a good rescue can't begin without the mood being set.
03:09You gotta dim the lights, scatter the rose petals and PLAY MY GOD DAMN ENTRANCE MUSIC
03:14SOUNDMAN GREG.
03:15Why do they always wait for their music to hit before coming out to make the save?
03:19Picture the scene, Hulk Hogan is having a bad time in the ring, getting beaten up by
03:23Sid and Papa Shango and there stands the ultimate warrior behind the curtain, raring to go,
03:28ready to save his old rival, shatting about lightning bolts, he's the colour of old
03:32leather, but he just can't go out without his music Greg.
03:37Think of all the beatings that could have been prevented over the years if wrestlers
03:41didn't need announcing before they made a save.
03:43Do better Gregory, I do better.
03:467.
03:47The Tree of Woe
03:48What's the worst kind of tree?
03:50That's right, family trees, cos you go back 300 years and everyone was a murderer.
03:55Not me mind, I'm descended from angels, but you probably, Adam definitely, god knows
03:59what goes on on Jersey.
04:01The second worst tree is the tree of woe.
04:03Neither a tree nor woe, it's when a wrestler gets trapped upside down hanging from the
04:07turnbuckle as if they couldn't just unhook their legs and get out of it.
04:11See it's a little bit of a disbelief breaking sin, but what's worse is when the person
04:15in the tree of woe has to hold themselves up in order to receive a move, just sort of
04:20waiting to be hit.
04:21Alberto Del Rio foot stomp, I'm looking at you.
04:24Like why?
04:25What's the reason you'd hoist yourself up, because you can't see what you're
04:29doing over there climbing the turnbuckle Mr Del Rio?
04:31Oh no, he's stumped on me.
04:34Andrade and Pac managed to make this make a little bit more sense as Idolo pulled the
04:37bastard up for the move during their Rampage match, but it is still a very contrived set
04:43up.
04:44Number six, where's that heel going?
04:46WWE sure loves their count out finishes, don't they?
04:49It is an annoying way to avoid giving a proper finish, because who wants to be satisfied
04:54with the product that they're watching?
04:55But it makes a sort of sense when the heel decides that they're done wrestling and gets
04:58intentionally counted out in order to retain some sort of title or what have you.
05:02But what is a real bad is when a heel goes to get intentionally counted out and the baby
05:06face just stands there looking on stunned, seemingly unaware that they are capable of
05:11leaving the ring to retrieve said heel.
05:13Pop out and back in to reset the count, babes.
05:15Something like this snaps you out of your suspension of disbelief so fast.
05:20Those goody two shoes standing in the ring looking around like, oh man, if only there
05:24was something I could have done to keep this from happening.
05:26Oh, I don't know.
05:27Have you, have you tried trying?
05:29Number five, the slow crawl to the hot tag.
05:32Ah, well now this is a bit of fun.
05:34The build to a hot tag is as old as tag team wrestling itself.
05:38It is true drama or melodrama.
05:41You cut the baby face off, you grind them down and you make them work for that tag.
05:45You do it right and the fans should be coming unglued by the time they finally reach their
05:49partner.
05:50But man, oh man, is it silly to see the baby face crawling across the ring like a cat who's
05:54just come back from the vets.
05:56Show a clip of that, Vinny.
05:57Show a clip of the cats.
05:59People love cats.
06:00Because also then when they've made the tag, they miraculously pop back up on the apron
06:02and then they'll be running wild in a couple of seconds when they're tagged back in a minute
06:06later.
06:07These folks sell you on the idea that they are on the verge of death.
06:10One HP left, no stamina, whole body flashing red until they can make that tag and then
06:15suddenly boom, kiraga, back in you go.
06:19Number four, climbing the ladder.
06:21Picture this, there's a title hanging 12 feet above the ring.
06:24But you don't need to worry, that's a completely solvable problem as there's a handy dandy
06:28ladder at ringside.
06:29All you gotta do is climb it.
06:31Sure, you might be a bit banged up, you might be a little tired, but surely you can climb
06:35that ladder.
06:36Oh no, where did all the bones in my body go?
06:38From watching the way that wrestlers attempt to jelly limb their way up a ladder like they
06:41were nought but a sack of organs, you would think that it was difficult.
06:45But in wrestling, dozens of championship aspirations have been dashed by wrestlers just simply
06:49not being able to climb fast enough.
06:52Jeff Hardy tries to climb against The Undertaker in 2002, Shawn Michaels can't climb at No
06:58Mercy in 2008.
06:59A wrestler being able to climb 12 feet in less than two minutes is just so unlikely.
07:04There are instances of course, like the North American title ladder match from TakeOver
07:07New Orleans where all of the competitors agreed to climb as fast as possible for the whole
07:12match, meaning that it was someone else's job to stop them.
07:16That whole thing takes expert timing, which is why the slow climb persists to this day.
07:22Number three, they just won't go over.
07:26Look at every great Royal Rumble or Battle Royal elimination that you can, what comes
07:30to mind?
07:31Shawn Michaels going out in 2010, Paul London in 2005, Kane in 2001, there are tons to choose
07:38from.
07:39And all of them seem to involve a big lariat or a big finisher being hit.
07:42It seems like a pretty good strategy if you ask me.
07:45So why do so many wrestlers spend most of the match just hugging each other in the ropes?
07:50You can hug a man's leg all you want, but he's not going to go over, that's just
07:54physics.
07:55Or you could try hugging him for an uncomfortably long time and hope that he just leaves of
07:58his own accord, but what's to stop someone smarter than you, you know, eliminating you.
08:03And it's generally just been accepted that this is what the people not involved in the
08:06central spots do during a Battle Royal to buy their time.
08:10But when you look closely at it, it's like one of those flash mob things where everyone
08:14pretends to be frozen, a massive waste of everyone's time.
08:18Number two, battling in submissions.
08:21Now this is as dramatic as it gets.
08:24How many incredible matches have been made that much better because of a long, heated
08:28spot of a babyface battling through the pain while trapped in a deadly submission hold?
08:33Shawn Michaels and Kurt Angle at WrestleMania 21, CM Punk and John Cena at Money in the
08:37Bank, the list is genuinely endless and this spot is one of the most effective at creating
08:43emotion when done right.
08:45So then why is it on this list you filthy ginger beggar?
08:48Well because if you spent more than two seconds in a proper ankle lock, there's a good chance
08:51you would never be able to use that foot again for all of your walking and walking
08:54related activities.
08:56Submission holds, when applied properly, are incredibly dangerous, devastating and will
09:01cause serious damage to the poor soul unlucky enough to be trapped in them.
09:05Obviously, wrestling allows for the more dramatic, theatrical side of the sport to be showcased,
09:09but if you are basing your enjoyment purely on realism, there is simply no way that HBK
09:14lies in that ankle lock for two minutes and then is able to walk away.
09:19Kurt is killing them cankles.
09:211.
09:22Running the Ropes
09:24Have you ever tried to stop running?
09:26It's weird how you just sort of think about it, and you just stop, like you're in charge
09:31of your own legs.
09:32Madness.
09:33Madness.
09:34I know right?
09:35But in wrestling there's this mystical thing called momentum, which you build up enough
09:37of by bouncing off the ropes or being Irish whipped and suddenly the simple act of stopping
09:41running is impossible, like you got the speed booster in Super Metroid.
09:45And it's just one of those things that we all accept about sports entertainment, a wrestler
09:49is whipped into the ropes and they just keep running, because there isn't really a good
09:54answer to that is there?
09:55There's like what?
09:56Like velocity?
09:57Inertia?
09:58Am I using any of that correctly?
09:59I don't know, I'm not a legs scientist.
10:00Almost every wrestling match probably ever has involved somebody running the ropes or
10:05being whipped.
10:06It is one of the main things that we happily overlook to enjoy our wrestling.
10:11And you know what?
10:12Like all things on this list, that is just fine so long as we're all having fun.
10:16Isn't it nice to have a nice message at the end of a video?
10:19It is.
10:20So that's the list.
10:21Can you think up any other fake bits of wrestling that people just aren't talking about and
10:24widely accept?
10:26If so, drop them in a comment down below and click the videos on screen now to see even
10:29more glorious PFK content.
10:32Jam that jam hand ballet fans, jam that jam.