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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 4, 2016 20:37:20 GMT -5
I've never been a wrestler. I would definitely defer to Steve Austin's knowledge when it comes to in-ring action. Most fans (like me) saw that as a freak accident, but I can appreciate Steve Austin pointing out exactly what went wrong. These wrestlers are all trained performers and when somebody gets hurt it's usually because something went wrong. What's funny is that I recently heard Vince Russo on his podcast saying Simon doesn't deserve any blame, and anybody blaming Simon doesn't know what they're talking about. So by the theory of Vince Russo is either lying or an idiot its clearly Gotch's fault. Honestly Russo isn't a worker so how would he know? Russo trained as a wrestler under Johnny Rodz prior to joining the WWF and suffered a concussion working a match in WCW so this is one of the few situations where Russo can claim to have some experience.
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Post by Error on May 4, 2016 20:41:18 GMT -5
I hadn't seen video of the accident until today, and Gotch should certainly get some flack for trying to pick Enzo up (by the head). The referee is attending to him, why would you not wait until you'd been given the go ahead? But I don't see anything wrong with how he threw Enzo from the ring. That's the standard way that guys do it, but Enzo goes way too low for some reason. It's a really weird mistake to make. Accidents happen, and hopefully they can both learn from this, and thankfully Enzo is okay. He has such talent it would have been terrible for something to have happened to him so early in his career. I don't think he was trying to throw him through the ropes in the standard way. He was trying to slide him UNDER the bottom rope. Yeah, I think Enzo was supposed to slide under the bottom and land on his feet to anger Gotch but they didn't have enough room.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on May 4, 2016 20:46:52 GMT -5
So by the theory of Vince Russo is either lying or an idiot its clearly Gotch's fault. Honestly Russo isn't a worker so how would he know? Russo trained as a wrestler under Johnny Rodz prior to joining the WWF and suffered a concussion working a match in WCW so this is one of the few situations where Russo can claim to have some experience. Okay I retract a bit of that but still he's a lying idiot
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Post by abjordans on May 4, 2016 21:26:38 GMT -5
The pop Enzo will get when he returns might be an all time.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 5, 2016 2:10:23 GMT -5
o according to Alvarez on WO Live today, the word he heard was that it was the knee spot in the corner by Aiden English that initially knocked Enzo loopy prior to the toss through the ropes spot by Gotch. There's a very good chance Enzo suffered two major concussions inside of about a minute
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Post by Squirrel Master on May 5, 2016 13:05:12 GMT -5
Sucks that it happened for sure. ...when he returns he can tease a Rain Main idiot savant gimmick for a minute.
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Post by Chainsaw on May 5, 2016 13:41:33 GMT -5
o according to Alvarez on WO Live today, the word he heard was that it was the knee spot in the corner by Aiden English that initially knocked Enzo loopy prior to the toss through the ropes spot by Gotch. There's a very good chance Enzo suffered two major concussions inside of about a minute That would definitely explain why he may have zigged instead of zagged during the match trying to do that spot. He could have been trying to process it and it wasn't connecting at that point. Speculation, but it sounds like already being loopy would have made the spot much harder to do right. It's stuff like this that really makes you appreciate what these guys do in the ring, and how quickly things can go wrong, and what they may have to do to correct.
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