Am I being too critical here?

[Crusty Ruffles]

A wrestling fan wondering if he's too nit picky on the internet?! Say it ain't so!

I went to AAW's Windy City Classic IX last night and there were a couple of things that bothered me. This isn't a show quality question, but rather for a spot and some follow up that they did. I'll give a little backstory, if it helps.

They've been having a feud with Christian Rose and Marek Brave for a while now. It's the personal, blood feud type deal. Family involved, that kind of thing. Street fights. Just tons of stiff, weapon filled brawls. Last night Marek made a run in to save Angelus Layne (who was announcing her return from a serious concussion, legit) from Rose's beat down. They announce another street fight which becomes a loser leaves town match. The finish happened with Rose on his knees taking a really vicious looking, unprotected chairshot straight to the head. The chair was completely mangled. Marek gets the pin and the match is over.

Our very next segment is the finals for the AAW Allegiance Tag Tournament. Earlier in the night, Jimmy Jacobs and Silas Young beat Irish Airborn to make the finals. Jimmy took their spike tombstone finish and after got carried out. They announce Jimmy has a concussion and is out for the match. Well, midway through he fights through a crowd of referees and helps Silas. He ends up taking a bunch of head kicks, DDTs, etc. In the end, Jimmy and Silas win. Silas gives Jimmy the trophy from the tournament because "you got a concussion tonight."

Am I the only one that's somewhat bothered by this? I get the story they're trying to tell in both of these cases. I've been to every show this year, so it's easy to follow. But I really think these chairshot spots are completely unnecessary and have no place in wrestling anymore. It's beyond irresponsible given what we know now. And then to basically brush off concussions as nothing in the very next match? Really rubbed me the wrong way.

I'm just curious what you guys think. And please don't misunderstand me on this one. I love the company and everyone involved. This is just something that really stuck with me from an otherwise great show last night.

TL;DR: Unprotected chairshot to the head, next match wrestler announced as out with a concussion wrestles and takes tons of head shots. Overreacting or right to feel uncomfortable about this?

[Talent Name]

I would feel uncomfortable with it heck look at the flack we gave TNA with what they were doing with Kurt Angle also some people were saying similar things about PWG and Brian Cage

[rapidfire187]

I've been watching wrestling way too long for this kind of thing to bother me personally.

[Deleted]

Unprotected headshots, blood, and concussion angles need to go the way of the Dodo bird.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

There are two issues I see with this.

1. Doing two simultaneous concussion angles kind of takes the impact out of it when it should be something serious.

2. Doing a concussion angle while using unprotected weapon shots that would probably cause concussion is f***ing negligent.

[skulldouggory]

I'm surprised Marek Brave didn't end up giving himself an unprotected chair shot.

As for your point, I think it's another case of wrestling taking something that is real and overusing it so much that it will eventually mean nothing.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

unprotected chairshots have no place in a post-Benoit wrestling industry.

[mcmahonfan85]

Dec 2, 2013 8:43:15 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

There are two issues I see with this.

1. Doing two simultaneous concussion angles kind of takes the impact out of it when it should be something serious.

2. Doing a concussion angle while using unprotected weapon shots that would probably cause concussion is f***ing negligent.

he didn't say they did two concussion angles, he said the did an unprotected chair shot to the head and then in the following match did a concussion angle




an unprotected chair shot to the head is something to be upset about, and an obvious angle is still an obvious angle. it may be in poor taste, what with safety concerns now about head injuries, but as long as it wasn't like Mark Briscoe's concussion match in 2007* its just an injury angle


*NOTE: In late March 2007, Mark botches a Shooting Star Press from the top rope to the floor and had to be legit stretchered to the hospital where he was put in a medically induced coma for a few days to reduce the swelling in his brain. Two weeks later, "against his parents and ROH officials wishes" (they were yelling at him from ringside), Mark made is in-ring return a surprise mid-match replacement for his brother's match against Kevin Steen & El Generico after Jay's originally booked partner (Erick Stevens) was taken out. Steen and Generico targeted Mark's injury, and Mark spent the rest of the match taking a series of blows to the head (superkicks, knee strikes, piledrivers, etc.)

[froggyfrog]

Marek Brave still wrestles? After that SSP??