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DA Baracus

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On the subject of refs, near falls obviously make matches exciting, but how is the ref able to stop his hand hitting the mat even when he's slamming it as hard as he can and the wrestler kicks out a fraction of a second before the three count. 

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When a wrestler hits a dropkick they're fine.

If however they don't connect with the dropkick (usually because their opponent, who has been whipped in to the ropes, grabs said ropes to stop their momentum) then it somehow incapacitates them enough for their opponent to capitalise.

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Heard one the other night “welcome to the uzo state penitentiary”.......cringe.


Tbf it’s “Uso Penitentiary” and it’s because you’re locked in for a beating from the Usos. It’s actually one of the better ones and probably earned as they kicked up a notch before they started using it. Finn Balor’s “extraordinary man who does extraordinary things” is much shitter.
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59 minutes ago, The OP said:

People who have been eliminated from the royal rumble eliminating others.

I absolutely hate this one. It's my most hated Rumble specific trope. Folk not even in the Rumble eliminating folk is just as bad.

It can be combined with an earlier mentioned trope, the one whereby it seems that absolutely no one involved in the show actually watches it (unless backstage at a funny angle!), because it would be very easy to prove that it was an 'illegal' elimination.

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On 2/23/2019 at 11:11, DA Baracus said:

People who are heels simply because they don't come from America.

Bonus points if they're "furren", but up against someone from Canada who gets a U-S-A chant, and super bonus points if said character isn't from uhmerica, but the guy playing him is.

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Getting anyone who is even slightly brown to play "evil foreign types" or in the 80's anyone with a name ending in -ski or -ov were in the same boat, I guess.

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WWE security staff. They need to review their contract, the number of times a dozen or so security staff are turned over by one man or even The Man.

 

Getting arrested - never been  sold on that line.

 

Two people in a ring holding microphones to speak to each other. Most wrestlers must be Mutton Jeff if they need someone 2 feet from them to use a microphone so they can hear them.

I get why they use microphones, but technology surely means there is a more discrete way of doing this.

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Security:

On the lead up to a big match the two wrestlers usually come to blows, security and the majority of the locker room come out and split the whole thing up in seconds.

However, when there's a babyface getting leathered with a steel chair for a good 5-10 minutes they're nowhere to be seen till the very end.

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