Wrestling Tropes You Love / Hate

[The Green Meanie]

23 hours ago, Cobra Commander said:

Having a storyline where a heel manager raided the stables of other heel managers would hit a little close to home if it was done in the mid/late-1980s.

I can remember something slightly akin to this in the WWF when Freddie Blassie retired and Slick took most of his men with Bobby Heenan and Mr. Fuji getting others.

[odessasteps]

Akbar stole the Samoans from Ernie Ladd in Mid South, i think-in 1982. 

[Mister TV]

9 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:

I can remember something slightly akin to this in the WWF when Freddie Blassie retired and Slick took most of his men with Bobby Heenan and Mr. Fuji getting others.

They had Slick join Blassie and his charges for a few tv tapings before The Hollywood Fashion Plate retired. Slick did sell the contract of Hercules to Heenan on a Saturday Nights Main Event, The Slickster was smart enough to have The Brain pay him cash at a bank! 

[BloodyChamp]

I think I’ve mentioned it here before but there was a Samoans vs Pillman and Z-Man match on WCW Pro I think, that had 3 or 4 very clear politically incorrect chants from the crowd lol! 

Here’s something I loved - I loved nasty nasty things in wrestling that were done so that they weren’t nasty just to be nasty, or bush league, or...well hell I can’t explain in. There was just something I couldn’t stand about somebody saying “shit” on TV in 1998 vs somebody saying racial slurs or seeing an incident that implied that somebody died in 1989. I suppose it was a combination of innocence and ignorance, which have similar spellings 

[Brandon Bones]

The concept of a tag rope was one trope that kind of baffled me.

WWF always seemed to have them.  I understood that the idea behind it made some sense in supporting the rule of a “legal tag”.  That the partner in the corner is only allowed to reach so far from their corner.  Otherwise, why not just make tags happen anywhere?  After all the potential for the ref missing visual confirmation of a tag late in the match could lead to dramatic high water marks.

But of course you could be choking a motherfucker out with it behind the refs back too.  Which makes having the tag rope at all really questionable.

I think I’ve seen few other feds use the tag rope but never in the same way.  Plus plenty that didn’t did just as well as to wonder why anyone would even bother.