It also means you won it 10 times...you can't really ignore that part. Winning a title and losing it is better than not winning it at all.
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Wrestling titles not changing hands during a count out is such a dumb rule.
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I know it's dumb, but I always loved the 3 hand drop thing. As a kid I'd always pop huge when the hand dropped halfway on the 3rd drop and the guy started their fiery comeback. That shit was rad!
I also simultaneously like and hate wrestlers being in deadly submission holds for long periods of time, fighting towards the ropes, desperately trying to get out etc. There's a line though, and I remember the Bret Hart vs Bob Backlund title match went all the way over that line with Bret being stuck in the crossface chicken wing for an ETERNITY. Before that the move was deadly, nasty, and finished matches quickly. Then Bret sits in it for about 17 years while they do the whole drama shtick with Bulldog getting knocked out and Owen Hart convincing his mum to throw in the towel etc.
Part of me wants a locked in submission to be an instant tap out to really put them over, but I think I'd miss the imagery of wrestlers fighting in the hold to get out. The finish of Austin vs Bret at Wrestlemania 13 was AMAZING thanks to how long Austin was fighting a move off. If he tapped quick, it wouldn't have been the same.
Right, but winning a title and holding it longer is better. So if you win a title 10 times in the span of a year, that's impressive, but not as impressive as if you held it in one title reign for that same period of time.
There's something to be said about beating a variety of different opponents, or being a fighting champion and defending more often leading to more losses, but I get what you mean now.
I agree. I think it would add a nice strategy for in ring storytelling. A strategy can be trying to knockout your opponent outside the ring. I dig it.
how else are cage and hell in a cell matches gonna get booked in the PPV
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OP is a jobber booker, wouldn't last a day in the north east territory š¤
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I'm misremembering things, I completely forgot about that match, that's probably in part Piper's fault for how he asked (way too frequently) Backlund if he gave up.
All because he told an entire bar he was beating Yokozuna for the WWF Championship days before Wrestlemania.
If anything, fake wrestling should add more and more dumb rules, so that they can have some guy whose gimmick is that he exploits the rules cleverly. But maybe they have already done that one, I wouldn't know.
Adds to the story if used right. So I'm ok with it. Even though most wrestling now isā¦not fun to watch
If you really want the belt to be properly contested then let me introduce you to the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship.
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Yeah. But it was cute when he kept asking both people in the match "Do you quit" in rapid succession.
There was an Era where throwing someone over the top rope was a DQ. Jumping off the top rope was a DQ.
And that one promotion that decided to have 3-minute rounds.
Winning a Title and not losing it in 2 years is a greater acomplishement than winning the same title 10 times in the same timelapse. But wrestling promotion make their audience think the later is bigger than the former.
When WCW vs NWO World Tour was on the N64, my brother and I got the tag team titles in the game. And that was how we held on to them for so long. One of us would throw the active wrestler out of the ring, the other would beat him up with the count was going. Count out - victory - kept the titles
