The death of logic

**Tom Guycott** · 08-17-2010, 01:56 AM

Long time visitor, first time poster. Yah, that was a cheesy, lame way to make my first post, but true nonetheless. I've visited TPWW since back in the day where most folks were limited to dialing into AOL for teh internets.
Now that that boring "nothing" about me is out of the way...

So, something that i've noticed for a long time in the world of wrestling is the death of logic; that is to say things that, by and large, ultimately make no sense even in the whole universal realm of what we're supposed to believe in wrestling, and is (to me at least) even more of a downer than the supposed death of kayfabe. A major example of what I mean is the widespread backlash of SS, where Cena takes a planting headfirst into a concrete floor and 30 seconds later gets his hand raised and is not only standing and conscious, but no selling what just happened. That in and of itself is pretty bad, but considering that just a couple matches sooner, Sheamus gets KILLED taking an RKO on a table that doesn't break, and needs trainers to help him to the back, really makes that spot seem unbelieveable.

That's a major thing, but even minor detracting things have gone by for years, such as the "hook the leg/kick out" (once upon a time, hooking the leg was a preventative measure FROM kicking out that "veterains" used, or was used after a finisher to "make sure" now it's just a basic pin, and it never works) and I was wondering what others may have thought of things like this, or other things that they may have noticed.

08-17-2010, 01:56 AM	#1
Tom Guycott Wrestling Marks Rejoice! Posts: 10,166	The death of logic Long time visitor, first time poster. Yah, that was a cheesy, lame way to make my first post, but true nonetheless. I've visited TPWW since back in the day where most folks were limited to dialing into AOL for teh internets. Now that that boring "nothing" about me is out of the way... So, something that i've noticed for a long time in the world of wrestling is the death of logic; that is to say things that, by and large, ultimately make no sense even in the whole universal realm of what we're supposed to believe in wrestling, and is (to me at least) even more of a downer than the supposed death of kayfabe. A major example of what I mean is the widespread backlash of SS, where Cena takes a planting headfirst into a concrete floor and 30 seconds later gets his hand raised and is not only standing and conscious, but no selling what just happened. That in and of itself is pretty bad, but considering that just a couple matches sooner, Sheamus gets KILLED taking an RKO on a table that doesn't break, and needs trainers to help him to the back, really makes that spot seem unbelieveable. That's a major thing, but even minor detracting things have gone by for years, such as the "hook the leg/kick out" (once upon a time, hooking the leg was a preventative measure FROM kicking out that "veterains" used, or was used after a finisher to "make sure" now it's just a basic pin, and it never works) and I was wondering what others may have thought of things like this, or other things that they may have noticed.