bad blood main event

[Celtic_Emperor]

This reminds me when Owen Hart injured Austin's neck in their match, and walked around the ring for about 5 minutes with his arms raised, trying to "ignore" Austin until the gimped out Austin was able to crawl over to him and roll him up from behind for a three-count. It didn't look plausible at all.

Now thats just stupid.

To be reading it like this is one thing, but to actually see it would be another.

 

[BigJim]

Makes sense. But how would it be explained to the fans and audiance that a champion that won his match (remember, we don't know who was supposed to win), and retains his title, only to have it stripped of him later by a GM or by Vince himself? How do they maintain a legitimacy in their pretexts for removing a belt or when someone wins when they aren't supposed to? And what if the other wrestler just says 'to hell with this, I'm supposed to win and you're not letting me', and he just walks out?

What kind of a story do you cook up for something like that? While for a person that walks out you simply could say he was a coward or something and the match is a forfeit, how is the person 'breaking the agreement' so to speak, being legitimately punished in public view?

To us this person will look as if he won fairly, when really, he's the bad guy that should be punished. It isn't fair that the person who was trying to do their job ends up getting all the heat initially in this example.

In Vince's case, or whomever is responsible, how does the script repair the damage the one wrestler caused? Because now they not only have to deal with a wrestler not following the script and make up a story for that, but they have to deal with the aftertaste of the 'loser' who was actually the winner, but couldn't win because the other guy didn't let him and make up a story for that as well. How do you create a realistic scenario to bounce back from something like this? In your example you were talking about an injury that didn't exist.

Or are you saying any lame excuse will do? For the sake of reputableness, I'd like to think some thought is put into it before they find the easiest way out.

They would probably handle it the same way they handled it when Alundra Blayze turned up on WCW Monday Nitro with the WWF Women's Belt and chucked it in a dustbin. Pretend it never happened and carry on as normally as possible. Like in any sort of theater, the show must go on I guess.

 

[BigJim]

I remember that one! It was at Summerslam one year, wasn't it? A match for the IC title. Owen went to do a reverse piledriver (not the Undertaker's way, a normal piledriver with the victim facing towards him) and Austin dropped down a few inches too far. It set up a good angle though.

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Is that why Austin wears those knee braces, or has he always had to wear them? Or is it that he's always had leg difficulties and only as of several years has actually needed these braces? Or, are they just for show (I wouldn't think they are though).

 

[BigJim]

He got dropped on his head and so had to wear knee braces? 😕 😕 😕 lol

I think he started wearing one shortly after his split from Ted DiBiase. He started wearing two about eighteen months to two years ago. (If memory serves.)

 

[Celtic_Emperor]

Why though? What happened that would be cause enough for him to wear them?

EDIT:

And what I meant is that perhaps, if he really was paralyzed from the neck down or was paralyzed in any sense it might have had a perminent effect on the motor skills in his legs and knees. Didn't he say that paralyzed him briefly, the piledriver? While he recovered its possible it had some kind of effect on him later.

 

[Deleted member 2452]

i didn't see the match, but..

my kids tell me they saw it, and austin needs to wear the leg braces due to being hit by a car. he really NEEDS to wear them.
it was one of those gimick things that went wrong.

steve

 

[BigJim]

I think he was wearing at least one of them before he got hit by the car Steve. Don't quote me on that though.

 

[BigJim]

Come to think of it, I don't believe it was actually him that got hit. (This was before the triple threat match at the Survivor Series where Paul Wight won the title, yeah?) As Austin stalked across the car park, it panned from him to the approachway, then back to him. But I don't think it WAS really him. We didn't see his face from the new angle. The car hits the double, he rolls over the screen and comes down, camera pans to car as it revs off, then back to Austin stretched on the floor; and it really IS him now, as we can see his face.

Thoughts anyone?

 

[natural tickler]

Getting back to topic, I thought this was about Bad Blood😀 Anyway, it was decent, and the main event was brutal, and ranks as one of the best Hell in the Cell matches done. However, I wish any member of Evolution (hear me, Randy Orton?) can finally win a match without outside interference?>