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Old 02-10-2013, 03:04 AM   #40745
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Originally Posted by CSL View Post
if they'd given the Cobra to Steve Blackman years ago and put it over as a "paralyzing nerve strike", people would have bought into it (Umaga hitting guys with his thumb anyone?) if Steve Blackman came out and threw an invisible hand grenade at Meat and pinned him, they'd have shit on it quicker than Randy Orton around some bird's bag. Yeah the Cobra is a big dumb comedy schtick but it still allows you to suspend your disbelief. The same can't be said about one guy giving another an atomic drop that knocks 6 guys and a referee over because he had an invisible grenade down the back of his shorts.
Still a pretty huge suspension, You can argue that "one is dumber than the other", but they're both pretty fucking dumb in the realm of guys who are supposed to be "fighting eachother for realz". It doesn't make one inherently "better" than the other.

Just saying, you can't quite put WWE on a pedistal as things like the hand grenade spot being beneath them. If we can be asked to believe Papa Shango made Ultimate Warrior bleed by magic, Vince McMahon blew up in a limo and walk around 100% unscathed the next week, a leprechaun has lived in a magical void under the ring, and Mae Young and Mark Henry's hand-baby grew up to be a full grown... Thing, we can believe a pause button on somone's pants makes them stand still. It just becomes easier to pick on because its in the lowly indies.

Hell, one of my favorite spots of all time is really fuckinig dumb, and it was done by none other than Ric Flair. 10 head bounces into the turnbuckle by his opponent while the audience counts, Flair keeps going, unassisted (as in, his opponent, usually Sting, is no longer touching him) for like 5 more bounces, then turns around, staggers to the middle of the ring, and Flair Flops.

You can't be so serious about this.
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