What qualifies a wrestler as a 'spot monkey'?

**Nark Order** · 12-16-2007, 12:48 PM

Was thinking about this the other day. What actually qualifies a guy as a 'spot monkey' in wrestling? We hear the term all the time. And how is it that guys like Jeff Hardy get the label but guys like Edge somehow escape it? Almost every huge spot in the WWE in the past 2-3 years (and many of the most memorable spots spanning across the past 8 years) has involved Edge. Side effect off the stage, getting FU'd off the ladder through a couple tables, Ladder bump from Flair, Spearing Foley through a flaming table, barbed wire with Dreamer and Funk, Leg drop off the top of the cage from Hardy, FU off the ring steps through the announcers table, Swanton from Hardy through a ladder in MITB... I could go on for awhile. Christian has been involved in crazy shit over the years also and escapes the label. So how is it that AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy are Spot Monkeys and Edge, Matt Hardy, and Christian are not?

What are these qualifications?

12-16-2007, 12:48 PM	#1
Nark Order Soundly Defeated Wadding Posts: 40,590	What qualifies a wrestler as a 'spot monkey'? Was thinking about this the other day. What actually qualifies a guy as a 'spot monkey' in wrestling? We hear the term all the time. And how is it that guys like Jeff Hardy get the label but guys like Edge somehow escape it? Almost every huge spot in the WWE in the past 2-3 years (and many of the most memorable spots spanning across the past 8 years) has involved Edge. Side effect off the stage, getting FU'd off the ladder through a couple tables, Ladder bump from Flair, Spearing Foley through a flaming table, barbed wire with Dreamer and Funk, Leg drop off the top of the cage from Hardy, FU off the ring steps through the announcers table, Swanton from Hardy through a ladder in MITB... I could go on for awhile. Christian has been involved in crazy shit over the years also and escapes the label. So how is it that AJ Styles and Jeff Hardy are Spot Monkeys and Edge, Matt Hardy, and Christian are not? What are these qualifications? Narcissus spite tour of 2020. I have kids.