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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 3, 2020 13:36:13 GMT -5
I definitely agree that it kind of kills me to hear people bury a good lateral press because "he didn't hook the leg!"; the guy's got all his body weight on his opponent's shoulders, it's a perfectly fine pin.
Also agree with Lance Storm: ultimately, different pin attempts can tell different stories depending on how they're executed and how vigorously the opponent kicks out. In an era where some people are annoyed at wrestlers seemingly kicking out of finishers too often, playing up that someone hit their finisher but doesn't quite have enough in them to lock in a really deep pin offers a nice way to excuse the opponent kicking out while keeping the finisher looking pretty strong...but seemingly very few people think to do that, and I don't get why.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 3, 2020 18:15:47 GMT -5
You’re never gonna beat a guy the caliber of Tito Santana if you don’t hook the leg!
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 3, 2020 18:40:23 GMT -5
I've always seen pinned wrestlers kick their legs up to 'buck' the pinning wrestler off, hooking the leg takes away the ability to do that.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Aug 4, 2020 4:33:58 GMT -5
This is why:
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Aug 4, 2020 5:10:15 GMT -5
Earthquake and Yokozuna never hooked the leg!
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Post by auph10imitated on Aug 4, 2020 7:01:13 GMT -5
I feel like the irony in a "hook the leg" situation is that for the most part the fallen wrestler doesnt move anyways, given the impression they are knocked out and therefore you dont need to hook the leg. If they were squirming and attempting to get out then that lends to the theory that your adding weight to keep them down by hooking the leg.
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Post by Starshine on Aug 5, 2020 19:43:05 GMT -5
It’s the principal of pulling the opponents body weight onto their shoulders too plus a kick out is all about kicking so if you hook the leg they won’t be able to kick as well. However Undertaker usually could only pin an opponent when he didn’t hook the leg. Go figure. Yeah, but Undertaker was applying the traditional Japanese wrestling wrist-clutch power up to his pin. It was a given that no one could kick out at that point.
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