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RaginRonic
11-17-2009, 04:11 AM
This is just something that has been in my head for a bit, and I need to get it out there.

As we all know, referees in wrestling matches have, since pro wrestling began, always counted up to 10/20 for wrestlers outside the ring in order to get them back in before they're counted out, count to 3 when calling a pin for the winner, and count to 5 when a wrestler is bogged down in the corner of the ring.

I know that is the norm for wrestling, and always has been, but I was thinking that, in a story-telling sense, that maybe a good way to up the intensity for a big match situation would be for refs to count DOWN instead of up.

For example, I think that a wrestler would likely want to get back into the ring with greater urgency if the ref counted down to Zero as opposed to counting up to 10.

And, maybe, in pinfall and corner situations, have the ref during pinfalls count '2..1...Done!' and in corner counts, go '5...4...3...2...1...Zero'.

I guess, to me, it makes for a greater sense of finality to a wrestling match, and has the wrestler work that much harder to get a victory.

Rammsteinmad
11-17-2009, 04:17 AM
No.

Good concept.

But no.

TerranRich
11-17-2009, 05:13 AM
Yeah, I'll have to agree: no.

The 10-count (like a lot of things in pro wrestling) is borrowed from boxing, where if you're down for 10 (1... 2... etc.) you lose via KO. Counting backward would be... I dunno, weird.

Fabien Barthez
11-17-2009, 11:19 AM
the real question here is...


Who the fuck cares?

thedamndest
11-17-2009, 03:35 PM
I know the norm has been having the referees count in English, but I think making them speak in German would add a new degree of intensity to the match.

Tb1
11-17-2009, 03:59 PM
Interesting idea. But nah

DAMN iNATOR
11-17-2009, 04:08 PM
This has to be the most idiotic idea I have ever heard. And I've heard tons.

Waylander
11-17-2009, 05:20 PM
A fair idea but it would be very confusing if you'd been watching for years. Maybe if a show was just starting up it would help to make it seem different...

Tb1
11-17-2009, 05:21 PM
Are you serious?

Tb1
11-17-2009, 05:22 PM
Maybe they should just start shows with Main Events.

The Show Off
11-17-2009, 05:35 PM
If you counted down from 10 to 0 that'd be an eleven count. So the finality of "Zero" would be replaced by the finality of "One."

Anybody Thrilla
11-17-2009, 05:45 PM
Maybe WWE could test out a match starting with a pinfall and then both guys trying to hit their fiinish. It could continue with both men fighting up the ramp as a remix of both their theme tunes blare, the winner would be the first person fully dressed to board a plane to the city where the previous week's Raw was held?
Just an idea really..

:lol:

XL
11-17-2009, 05:59 PM
This is a truly awful idea all round.

Godfather4Life
11-17-2009, 06:29 PM
the Cont Down is only great for the Royal Rumble

Fignuts
11-17-2009, 06:34 PM
Utterly ridiculous.

TerranRich
11-17-2009, 11:25 PM
Are HBPunk's posts getting deleted again? Seriously, it makes it hard to quote the original post... I have to quote the quote that Anybody Thrilla quoted...

Anyway, HBPunk's idea is actually hilarious and makes more sense than the 10-to-0 count.