Counting Up or Counting Down?
 

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.

No.

Good concept.

But no.

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.

the real question here is...


Who the fuck cares?

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.

Interesting idea. But nah

This has to be the most idiotic idea I have ever heard. And I've heard tons.

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...

Are you serious?

Maybe they should just start shows with Main Events.

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."

:lol:

This is a truly awful idea all round.

the Cont Down is only great for the Royal Rumble

Utterly ridiculous.

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.