Let's Come Up With Creative Match Endings!

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Pretty self-explanatory. There are a lot of ways a match can end and only so many ways to change things up it seems... but there are still probably tons of deranged untapped ones.

This one TNA's done something kind of like (with the Sting / Roode match), but my idea's dumber. Okay, know when guys suddenly jump up and hit their finisher out of nowhere, but they're too tired to actually go for the pin so both guys just die afterward? I want to see, let's say Cena vs. Miz, where Miz has Cena down and is stomping on him, and Cena suddenly hits the AA and collapses right alongside him. Then Miz crawls over and pins Cena for the three.

... Actually, come to think of it, that's pretty much how the Triple H / Jeff Hardy match from No Mercy 2008 ended. Still.

[Bang Bang Bart]

The Bryan vs. Rowan match from SmackDown had me thinking of a spot where Bryan hits his running knee consecutively on three guys, then pinning the last guy for the win.

[Sparkybob]

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[Push R Truth]

Alberto Del Rio gets really aggressive and makes Kofi/Santino/Dolph/Ryder/RTruth tap out

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Wrestler A hits his devastating finisher on Wrestler B and then instead of pinning him, he throws him out of the ring and wins by countout because Wrestler B couldn't recover in time.

[Tony Schiavontay]

Dec 14, 2013 18:45:49 GMT -5 Sparkybob said:

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Cena Draws.

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A picture of him winning.

[Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal]

I know this one is stretching reality but what about Zack Ryder pinning a wrestler to the mat for three seconds. And then afterwards, he's announced the winner of said matchup.

[Chiral]

A wrestler who wants to lose but can't due to circumstances out of his control.

Cena tapping out.

Wrestler A pins Wrestler B, but it turns out A was actually B in disguise...and B was actually A in disguise.

[H-Virus]

Dec 14, 2013 19:19:04 GMT -5 Chiral said:

A wrestler who wants to lose but can't due to circumstances out of his control.

This happened in WCW once. I can't remember the wrestlers, but it was an I Quit match and one of them agreed to throw the match. Right before the match started the guy got hit in the throat and lost his voice, thereby rendering him unable to say 'I quit' no matter how badly he wanted to. The other guy got pissed and started screaming "Say it! Say I Quit! I QUIT!" and the ref counted it, so the first guy ended up winning.

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Dec 14, 2013 19:19:04 GMT -5 Chiral said:

Wrestler A pins Wrestler B, but it turns out A was actually B in disguise...and B was actually A in disguise.

The Hardys attacking and replacing the fake Conquistadors count?

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Heel cant be arsed with a match so walks off to regain the title by countout.


Face doesn't want this to happen so chases after him and throws him back in the ring.


The whole match is then a game of cat and mouse with the heel constantly trying to escape and the face chasing him and trying to stop him.


What i've done there is taken a match ending that's often used and made a whole matches psychology be based on it. not really what this thread asked for but I think its an awesome idea I'm surprised hasn't been used before

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

An interesting finish I always thought they could use involving Cena was to have him hit an AA with two opponents on his shoulders which would then leave the opponent who landed on top in prime pinning position. With Cena too exhausted after hitting the Double AA, the man on top would pick up the scraps to secure the win. I find it an easy way to have Cena lose a match while still looking strong as well as having one of his opponents come out looking cunning and opportunistic.

[repomark]

I have always wanted to see a ladder match where someone literally just runs up the ladder straight away and wins.

[Reflecto]

Dec 14, 2013 19:19:04 GMT -5 Chiral said:

A wrestler who wants to lose but can't due to circumstances out of his control.

It's not a match ending, but this concept would be fun to riff on the Fantanking phenomenon in sports: A heel champion like Orton keeps doing the classic heeling "ignore Cena/Bryan/top challengers to defend against JTG/Curt Hawkins/etc. move".

Then, you take a middle of the road contender- say, The Miz. He's not good enough to be a top challenger, but not bad enough to be a jobber. So, his solution- he goes out openly trying to lose all his matches so he can become non-threatening enough to get a World Title shot with Orton.

[kevin]

A wrestler in a match when his tag partner runs out to betray him only he misses and hits his opponent giving his partner the win. The partner then celebrates with him not realizing he was trying to betray him.

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Dec 14, 2013 20:41:58 GMT -5 repomark said:

I have always wanted to see a ladder match where someone literally just runs up the ladder straight away and wins.

Similarly, I've always wanted to see a cage match where somebody just kicks their opponent in the balls and runs for the door immediately.

[They Killed the Giggler]

I remember a match from years ago in which someone superplexed Savage and Savage hooked his opponent's legs and got the pin.

[Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift]

There's been matches where the loser walked away but the winner had to be stretchered out, right?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Dec 15, 2013 0:25:34 GMT -5 Sumbody Gon' Get Dey Kneelift said:

There's been matches where the loser walked away but the winner had to be stretchered out, right?

Yes, both of them involving Triple H (the sly fox)... against Shawn Michaels at SummerSlam 2002 and The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVII.

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A wrestler gets disqualified by the referee for molesting his opponent.