Favorite Sellers For Certain Moves, etc?

[booty2shoes]

Sept 27, 2023 8:23:03 GMT -5 PrimeTyme said:

Rick Rude taking the atomic drop.

This is the #1 answer for sure.

[CMWaters]

Sept 27, 2023 13:13:14 GMT -5 Venti said:

This may be an oddball one, but I really like how Jarrett took the couple of Stunners Austin gave him.

Just pitch perfect dropping to his knees and falling over completely KO'd.

Not cartoony and not sloppy.

Also, always hated the way the Stunner looked when people bent down and flew backwards, which became common post Austin's retirement.
The dropping to knees and falling to the side looks way more aesthetically pleasing to me
(As an Austin mark I've hyperanalyzed the Stone Cold Stunner lol)

So no liking this?

[Urn Anderson]

Rick Rude sold atomic drops like he’d been dropped out of an airplane ass-first onto a fence post.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Brock Lesnar selling basically anything

He so rarely has to sell, and when he does he is real good

He took a chokeslam from Taker once that is probably my single favourite sell ever

[Sicho100]

Sept 28, 2023 10:51:38 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Brock Lesnar selling basically anything

He so rarely has to sell, and when he does he is real good

He took a chokeslam from Taker once that is probably my single favourite sell ever

I’ve always liked how Lesnar gets clotheslined out of the ring.

[CMWaters]

Sept 28, 2023 10:51:38 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Brock Lesnar selling basically anything

He so rarely has to sell, and when he does he is real good

He took a chokeslam from Taker once that is probably my single favourite sell ever

Hell, he even sold a shove from Goldberg well.

[Aceorton]

Curt Hennig sold a few specific things like no one else:

• Kicks to the back of the leg (where he'd hang onto the rope and do an awkward backflip)
• Slingshots into the corner
• Head slams to the turnbuckle (he'd often turn and flip out into the middle of the ring)

Faarooq selling a spinebuster was fun -- like he was having a seizure.

DiBiase was a master at getting knocked out of the ring, either taking a clothesline backward or an atomic drop forward (with the extra bounce off the rope) like he'd been hit by a Jeep.

My favorite seller of many moves, however, was Harley Race during the King years. He did the clothesline spot even better than DiBiase (hitting his face on the apron on the way down), and would sometimes even land in a sitting position in a ringside chair. He'd sometimes fall backwards between the ropes, catching his feet on the top rope for a moment before slipping and crashing onto his head. He pushed up when taking a back body drop to give himself extra air. He sold JYD's headbutts and Hogan's comeback punches like he'd been jolted by an electric fence. When he missed his own headbutts, he sold it with the perfect combination of regret, surprise, pain and disorientation.

[tafkaga]

Sept 28, 2023 13:31:15 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

Curt Hennig sold a few specific things like no one else:

• Kicks to the back of the leg (where he'd hang onto the rope and do an awkward backflip)
• Slingshots into the corner
• Head slams to the turnbuckle (he'd often turn and flip out into the middle of the ring)

Faarooq selling a spinebuster was fun -- like he was having a seizure.

DiBiase was a master at getting knocked out of the ring, either taking a clothesline backward or an atomic drop forward (with the extra bounce off the rope) like he'd been hit by a Jeep.

My favorite seller of many moves, however, was Harley Race during the King years. He did the clothesline spot even better than DiBiase (hitting his face on the apron on the way down), and would sometimes even land in a sitting position in a ringside chair. He'd sometimes fall backwards between the ropes, catching his feet on the top rope for a moment before slipping and crashing onto his head. He pushed up when taking a back body drop to give himself extra air. He sold JYD's headbutts and Hogan's comeback punches like he'd been jolted by an electric fence. When he missed his own headbutts, he sold it with the perfect combination of regret, surprise, pain and disorientation.

DiBiase also did that thing where he'd use his neck to roll over backward and his ankle would hang over the top rope.

[tafkaga]

Sept 27, 2023 13:10:39 GMT -5 cornettesracket said:

And bret hart taking the Irish whip into the turnbuckles chest first. Beautiful bit of business.

Sgt. Slaughter taking the whip to the buckle too.  The way he flipped over the top looked like he legit hit so hard that he lost control of his body.

[ANuclearError]

Sept 28, 2023 10:51:38 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Brock Lesnar selling basically anything

He so rarely has to sell, and when he does he is real good

He took a chokeslam from Taker once that is probably my single favourite sell ever

One thing that sticks out to me, to the point I hope it's not a falsified memory, is that he made use of his bout with diverticulitis as a way to sell that moment of vulnerability where his opponent started laying in the body shots.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Sept 28, 2023 15:12:50 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

Sept 27, 2023 13:10:39 GMT -5 cornettesracket said:

And bret hart taking the Irish whip into the turnbuckles chest first. Beautiful bit of business.

Sgt. Slaughter taking the whip to the buckle too.  The way he flipped over the top looked like he legit hit so hard that he lost control of his body.

Him absolutely flying over the top in the 92 Rumble made Sid look like a total monster

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Sept 28, 2023 15:24:40 GMT -5 ANuclearError said:

Sept 28, 2023 10:51:38 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Brock Lesnar selling basically anything

He so rarely has to sell, and when he does he is real good

He took a chokeslam from Taker once that is probably my single favourite sell ever

One thing that sticks out to me, to the point I hope it's not a falsified memory, is that he made use of his bout with diverticulitis as a way to sell that moment of vulnerability where his opponent started laying in the body shots.

Yes! The Balor match pivoted around him being g thrown gut first into the announce table and I think a few other matches

[fg]

Sept 27, 2023 9:56:35 GMT -5 Moppy said:

Linda McMahon sure knew how to sell a stunner!

So did Donald Trump hehe!

[Mozenrath]

Sept 28, 2023 15:12:50 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

Sept 27, 2023 13:10:39 GMT -5 cornettesracket said:

And bret hart taking the Irish whip into the turnbuckles chest first. Beautiful bit of business.

Sgt. Slaughter taking the whip to the buckle too.  The way he flipped over the top looked like he legit hit so hard that he lost control of his body.

I wanna say both Undertaker and Mankind took being whipped into ring steps thigh-first and flipped over the steps, rather than dropping and hitting it with their back like most people do. Of course, given how both men (especially Mick) walked in their later years, it's easy to see why most guys do not sell it like that.

[sdoyle7798]

Sept 28, 2023 18:43:26 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Sept 28, 2023 15:12:50 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

Sgt. Slaughter taking the whip to the buckle too.  The way he flipped over the top looked like he legit hit so hard that he lost control of his body.

I wanna say both Undertaker and Mankind took being whipped into ring steps thigh-first and flipped over the steps, rather than dropping and hitting it with their back like most people do. Of course, given how both men (especially Mick) walked in their later years, it's easy to see why most guys do not sell it like that.

I was gonna say it’s a choice between bad knees or a bad back.

But then I remembered it’s wrestling and those things are going to shit regardless.

[Cyno]

As much as I think he's a complete doofus, I really liked Austin Theory's sell of the Stunner.

[Jake, The Jake, Jake]

Sept 28, 2023 15:10:53 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

Sept 28, 2023 13:31:15 GMT -5 Aceorton said:

Curt Hennig sold a few specific things like no one else:

• Kicks to the back of the leg (where he'd hang onto the rope and do an awkward backflip)
• Slingshots into the corner
• Head slams to the turnbuckle (he'd often turn and flip out into the middle of the ring)

Faarooq selling a spinebuster was fun -- like he was having a seizure.

DiBiase was a master at getting knocked out of the ring, either taking a clothesline backward or an atomic drop forward (with the extra bounce off the rope) like he'd been hit by a Jeep.

My favorite seller of many moves, however, was Harley Race during the King years. He did the clothesline spot even better than DiBiase (hitting his face on the apron on the way down), and would sometimes even land in a sitting position in a ringside chair. He'd sometimes fall backwards between the ropes, catching his feet on the top rope for a moment before slipping and crashing onto his head. He pushed up when taking a back body drop to give himself extra air. He sold JYD's headbutts and Hogan's comeback punches like he'd been jolted by an electric fence. When he missed his own headbutts, he sold it with the perfect combination of regret, surprise, pain and disorientation.

DiBiase also did that thing where he'd use his neck to roll over backward and his ankle would hang over the top rope.

I always liked when DiBiase would do that Double axe handle off the top, but get countered with a punch to the belly-welly and it would cause him to do a front flip when he landed.

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Slaughter taking a Stunner, looked like it snapped his neck every damn time

I tried taking a stunner like it once and crushed my throat on the guy's shoulder

[J. Hova]

Sept 26, 2023 22:51:01 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I was bored at work today and remembered Jim Cornette once saying that Samoa Joe was his favorite man to hit with the tennis racket because the combination of his wide back and his often being sweaty during a match meant the racket would ring out like a gun shot on contact and sounded tremendous, and it got me thinking of specific other ones.

RVD taking any kind of piledriver or DDT always loved flying up in the air like a pogo stick on impact.

Orton always liked to go limp when taking a hard strike to the head like the Trouble in Paradise or superkicks, like it had downright killed him.

Rikishi's clothesline sells were of course legendary, with him flying around like he'd been swept up in a tornado.

What are some of yours?

Either Corny has changed his answer or you are misremembering his answer.  My one and only question ever answered on his podcast was me asking his favorite person to hit with the racket and his answer was for selling, Ricky Morton but for sound was Animal or Hawk for the same reasons you stated above with Samoa Joe.  It also went into a rant about Culver's restaurant since he was on an anti-Wendys kick and I was trying to get him to embrace the deliciousness that is Culver's.

Damn, now I'm hungry.

I don't know about the sell, but I loved the way Jerry Sags would take the Doomsday Device from the Road Warriors/LOD.  He'd just go ass over tea kettle backwards and just made it look like death.

[Totorob101]

Bret hart being irish whipped chest first in the turnbuckle, he always sold it like he was in incredible pain,cant remember how many times he did that.