BAH GAWD! RING THE DAMN BELL!!

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

No, it's not a Jim Ross thread. I just wanted to get your attention.

Now that I have it, I was wondering: in a post-match melee, when the heels are overpowering the faces and the referee can do nothing about it, why does the timekeeper ring the bell 751,684,651,941 times? Is it to remind the heels that the match is over and they should stop fighting? Because, I mean ... that's why they're heels. They aren't going to listen to you. Is it to get the attention of the other "officials" so they can run in and break it up? I thought that was a given - that's their job. Is it to annoy the heels so they'll run away and stop bothering people, because they're so sick of hearing that #$@% bell?

But seriously, this has bugged me for years and I just now got around to asking. Anyone have any ideas?

[Feargus McReddit]

It's one of the great questions in wrestling history with an answer we will never know.

[Deleted]

It's the wrestling equivalent to switching the lights off and on.

[Nice Guy Cody]

nichotine said:

It's the wrestling equivalent to switching the lights off and on.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

[Deleted]

One of my favorites was from I think the old CWA territory when Jeff Jarrett was just getting started, he was getting beaten down by a bunch of heels and splashed repeatedly by Ronnie P. Gossett, they were ringing the bell ad nauseum and then the ring announcer gets on the mic and says, "If there is anyone left in the locker room please come help Jeff Jarrett." Or something to that effect. No one came.

[lildude8218]

what i learned from this thread:


Jeff Jarrett has never had friends in the wrestling business