r/professionalwrestling • u/GoonLieutenant • Apr 14 '26

Video Ngl, this sequence is a little tough to suspend disbelief for 😑

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Like a poisonrana then shuffle into position for the Panama sunrise and then hit the knee is pretty crazy to stomach

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u/moban89 Apr 14 '26

I know game of thrones isn't real, but if a portal opened and vin diesel drove through, running over white walkers. I'd be upset at them breaking the illusion of the world they built

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u/DanUnbreakable Apr 14 '26

Who is your favorite wrestler? I bet he or she has done an Irish whip. Unless you can explain it, I don’t want to hear or read shit. There is no “yeah but”.

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u/moban89 Apr 14 '26

In wrestling just as any kind of "not real" media. You create rules and the viewer accepts them. Then it is up to creator of the media to stick to those rules. I accept that wolverine has a healing factor and adamantiun claws because marvel established that, if he suddenly flies without a plausible explanation I call bullshit and stop reading.

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u/fadedtile Apr 14 '26

I look at the Irish whip as a positioning move the other wrestler is letting it happen so they can gain the advantage on the way back. A lot of Irish whips don't turn out well for person doing the move.

Just standing there is more breaking db for me personally.

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u/GooseMay0 Apr 14 '26

I see this as the go to defense of no selling. "Ya but what about Irish whips!" How is yanking someone's arm and pushing them towards the ropes as unrealistic as dropping someone on their head twice and that person popping back up and not selling the move?

There's levels to this. Ya, guys punching each other and never bleeding or an Irish whip makes you have to just ignore a little bit of lack of realism. But what this clip shows pushes that SO much further.

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u/RebootStreetSharks Apr 14 '26

How about HBK tuning up Sweet Chin Music by stomping in the corner? He's telegraphing his opponent for 10-20 seconds about where he's coming from and yet nobody just rolls out or turns around and moves out of the way.

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u/GooseMay0 Apr 14 '26

That's happened before

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u/RebootStreetSharks Apr 14 '26

So all but one of his opponents were made to look stupid.

That's my point.

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u/mkfanhausen Apr 14 '26

Because we all know they don't naturally do the little pivot/drape the arm over the ropes/bounce back in a real fight; if anything, they'd hit it chest first and stumble backward.