Wrestlers caught on Camera calling spots
 

The one that comes to mind instantly is when Sid had shawn Michaels in a rear chin lock ( the move where he puts his knee into the guys back and pull his head back )

and you can hear and see sid go : Okay! okay! - agreeing to something Michaels said. JR quickly quips " Sid talking to himself over there"

can you point out any others ( and in any of Brets matches as I have a few of them)

Matt Hardy vs. Jeff Hardy

Matt: BLOCK NOW!
Jeff: WHAT?! *kicked*

I remember hearing HHH quite a bit a few years ago... I remember in one of his matches (I think it was against Stone Cold) he was about to Irish Whip Austin and you could hear him say "High knee" and sure enough, he did his high knee.

There's always the classic "Dammit, Jeff!" moment. Not so much a called spot as a blown spot.

Plus, there's the incident where Ken Shamrock had to tell his "sister" to slap him.

Many people remember the Ryan Shamrock/Ken Shamrock incident....Ken got out of the ring and was yelling at Ryan and all of a sudden you here Ken say in a low voice right on camera "slap me"....then she slaps him...

One I remember was at the Rumble I believe this year or maybe last year when there were like 5 people jumping Big Show in the corner. You could here in the big show say "Ok first I hit you and you go over then I throw you off to the side"...something like that...next thing you see he hits RVD and sends him over and hes throwing people around the ring...

I remember in a match between Triple H and Big Show that Triple H called out 'Get up, Paul!' and Big Show did get up.

It's rarely audible, but I can usually tell when wrestlers are communicating with each other. A lot of the time they communicate in the middle of an Irish Whip before one whips the other. Cameras also get them talking while in rest holds a lot. It's a lot easier to see when both of them don't have long hair.

I remember one where HHH said side slam, and sure enough he got side slamed. I think it was against Big Show but I'm not sure.

how do guys that go to japan understand spots? do they use slaps? sometimes you see a guy in a headlock tap the guys arm twice thus calling a spot in body language. I've always wondered about japan and the language barrier though

During the, IMO, greatest match of all time possibly; Benoit VS Angle, you clearly hear Benoit and angle talking. The converstation is something like this:

Angle: "German"
Benoit: "Huh?"
Angle: "German"
Benoit: "Ah!"

:D

The Camera caught Austin talking to kane for a good 2 minutes while they were tagged out in a tag match.

BOOOOOOT!

Yeah, I know I've seen Test call out spots on more than one occassion.

Which match was the "Dammit, Jeff!" incident?

When I was an 8yo mark, I can remember I used to think that the wrestlers were hurling verbal abuse at each other during the matches!!

Of course everyone knows of the infamous "that's it! stay down!" encounter between Billy Gunn and D'Lo Brown at Rebellion I believe a good six, maybe more years ago. Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Jeff one was at Survivor Series 02 during the table match against 3 minute warning.

It's annoying, I used to know what that Dammit Jeff one was, now I can't remember, some one refresh my memory.

Yeah, but what exactly was the spot that he missed, or whatever?

So basically wrestling matches are scripted?

Yeah, Triple H has been terrible. Off the top of my head, I can think of a 1998 match vs. Owen hart and a 1999 match vs. the Big Show. Well, actually, it may have been the early 2000 match he had with Show.

I remember not watching for it at all and suddenly hearing, "Owen! Get me into the corner!" or something like that. Then in his match with the Big Show, he was all, "Bend over!"

Let's not forget the finish to Raw a couple of years ago where we heard a panicing Triple H yelling repeatedly "Come on Booker!"

Most of them are, there are only a few that are improvised with only the ending planned. But for the most part, yes they all are. (If that was a serious question.)

During a rumble one year, you can hear Trips say. If I throw you can you hold on

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I think this is the SS spot you all are referring to. Involving Jeff Hardy. :D

LOL!

LMAO @ "God damnit Jeff!"

Two off the top of my head

1. At Wrestlemania 20, after Trish turned on Jericho you Christian is talking smack and you could see Jericho laughing
2. I remember at a superstars taping in Cincy in Oct 96- Marc Mero and Goldust had a match and Mero won very quickly and then Goldust came right back out and challenged Mero to a Rematch and Mero won by Dq when I think HHH interfered and when I saw the taping later the two matches were mixed in together

Not a wrestler but I remember one of the referees telling the wrestlers to 'slow it down fellas' during the hardcore battle royale thing they had (which had a time limit) a few years back when Crash was champ.

Dunno if anybody else heard it, but I heard Flair ask the ref "How much time is left?" tonight during his match with Carlito.
... and in the same match, I heard Carlito tell Flair he wasn't cool...:shifty:

That was an error on everyone involved with the match though. You see Jeff Hardy jumping off a balcony and then they cut to the ring where Rico is on the top rope yelling "God Dammit jeff" and then he faked that he was losing his balance. I defy YOU to jump off a balcony and then push Rico off the top rope 10 seconds later.

I'm to tired to remember which thing this was at...but I have it on my RAW Tenth Annaveryry DVD...GOd Awful Spelling here sorry) But you can Obviously at one point after Bubba Ray and Jericho are knocked off a ladder a few moments later there just sitting there leaning on the edge of the ring watching the Match, then Bubba notcies the Camera on them reaches over hits Jericho's arm and they both collapse to the ground..quite funny heh.

Subtle Rico, real subtle

RVD vs William Regal at WMX8.

RVD pauses in the corner and says 'Dropkick' before doing a dropkick.

Old tactic. I didn't pay close enough attention to the match when I watched it the first time, but normally a heel (or in Flair's case, the dirtiest player in the game, heel or face) will ask that to get the referee to walk over and check with the timekeeper or something, so he can sneak in some illegal offense.

In Japan they do what we wrestlers call the shoot style, basically there is no calling, they go for something you either give it to them, they take it, or you reverse.

No, common misconception. Big spots are planned, the finish is planned, but everything else is on the fly.

:yes: :y:

That's what I meant in my post way above.

I remember a match during the alliance angle I believe, and I think chalres Robinson was refereeing Jericho VS angle or something.

Jericho had the walls of jericho on Angle and Angle crawled close to the rope, then you hear the ref say "pull him away from the ropes now!"
:D

another one, which isn't calling spots or anything, but I found it funny, was in a jeff hardy match in 2000 I think, and Jeff is hitting someone outside the ring against the barrier, and you hear a fan say "Come on Jeff, hit him!!!"
:D

I'[ve always wondered about that. When wrestlers are throwing fake punches by the barrier or in the crowd, isn't the audience (who will be close enough to see and hear if the fists are actually connecting) slightly disappointed they aren't making impact?

Do wrestlers work stiff in these situations?

It was clear at Unforgiven on Sunday when Angle was talking to Cena up against the turnbuckle. It was so obvious that JR said something like 'that's Angle talkin trash to Cena'.

'Take the elbow' is some nasty trash talking jive there Angle

question i have is do people want spots being called in the ring or known before the match. I know that both have advantages and disadvantages, for instance, Remembering spots backstage have resulted in forgetting them and messing up the match, but on the otherhand calling spots in the ring might include some miscommunication and messing up a match.

Yes. When we are close enough to the fans that they can see everything we generally throw potatoes.

BIG spots are planned before hand. Things that you would need time to work out in your head beforehand a discussed before the match. Or maybe just something you know that you want to do before hand and you definitely want in the match, it could be something simple like a power bomb on the floor. Little spots are called in the ring. When a guy goes to whip another guy he would say something like "Shoulder block, hip toss, body slam, fire up." So you would then hit the ropes, give him a shoulder tackle, run the ropes take a hip toss, get up get body slammed, and then fire up on on him. That would be calling a spot. Every match has both of these.

I like it better when they do it on the fly. It just looks and almost feels a lot better, even though technically I feel nothing through watching.

if the finish is planned then basically they know who is suppose to win before the match even starts right?

duh

I hope you are aged 7 or something, I really do.

:rofl: I watched this match more than once, but I've never actually heard that.

:wtf:

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and before you say, yes I know what potatos mean, it was for comedy effect :D

It was funny, but after gayrape you have a lot to live up to, cause that was funny.

At Summerslam 05, Eddie on top of the ladder to his wife:

EDDIE: (Loudly) Whoa! Whoa! What are you doing???

EDDIE: (Quietly) Push it....Push it!

EDDIE: (Loudly) Ahhhh!!!!!!

My favorite called spot was still the Stairway to Hell between Sandman and Sabu in ECW, if only because it was the most anticlimactic finish of a match I've ever seen.

Sandy and Sabu had been tearing each other up all night with sick spot after sick spot. Finally, Sandman gets his cane, and winds up to clock Sabu with it. Just then, he practically yells "Put your hands up! Ready?" and Sabu complies. Sandman swings and gets the pin.

:lol: Now I have to watch that match

Mania 21, HBK/Angle, when Angle reverses an irish whip, he says "Belly to belly". Michaels takes the upside-down bump in the corner, and turns into...a belly to belly

Just this Friday, when they replayed the 22.5 sec match (NOT the SUmmerslam one, the last one before this past Friday's matchup), I finally heard the referee mouth "Okay, tap out now!" or something like that, and then OJ tapped out. I've been trying to see that for ages, because I figured the ref had to tell OJ when the tap out due to the time "limit" of 22.5 seconds.

Also, hb2k, what the hell is an "Interlectual"? :wtf:

It's a joke, it's meant to be intellectual, but the fact I spell it wrong means I'm a retard

How humiliating. Tap out now jobber!

I know it was a joke and all Terran, but ref usaully does tell you when to finish the match. Do you think a wrestler is keeping up with how long he has been out there? Before you go out you know you are supposed work, lets say 30 min., when you hit 30 the ref tells one of ya to finish up and you do. That simple.

Uhhh...yeah, I know that. The entire point of this thread is to point out instances of guys calling out spots. That's what I did.

I didn't say anything about not knowing that it happened, nor did I express surprise or shock that it did in fact occur. :wtf: I simply said that I had been wanting to catch the ref DO it.