JerryvonKramer Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 What are some of the known (kayfabe) weaknesses of wrestlers? For example, they always played up the plane-crash injury and Flair's back as being a weakness. Was the hot shot really played up as Jumbo Tsuruta's achilles heel or is that just one of those little qurks? What are some good examples of a guy always having a weak spot? And were there guys who had no particular weaknesses? Hogan, for example, seemed to have no chink in his armour. He was even more cunning than the mastermind villains he battled and time and again is shown outthinking them (see Summerslam 88 and that travesty 2 vs 8 dungeon of doom match, strangely, both times with Savage). Quote
Loss Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 That's pretty much it -- Flair's back. Anything else would be reading too much into things, although I'm sure people could point things out they picked up over time. Quote
Matt D Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Michaels' back later on. Austin had the braces. Poor Ace Orton's arm. Quote
JerryvonKramer Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Posted March 7, 2012 What about this ... Jesse Ventura's old bugbear: Barry Windham's HAND! He had it taped up for about 3 years. Ha ha. Wasn't Austin's neck a big deal in his comeback? Quote
KB8 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Michaels' back post-comeback was definitely played up pretty regularly. Quote
Jingus Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Nash's knees had become so infamously bad that their weakness was made into a storyline, multiple times in the past few years. And didn't Kawada sometimes sell German suplexes a bit harder than everything else? Quote
Loss Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries. Quote
Jingus Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries.Then I can't think of anything, because pretty much all the major examples were from devastating real-life injuries. It's more common for them to have weaknesses in psychology or tactics; i.e., a spot that rarely works or an attempt at something which frequently gets reversed. Quote
NintendoLogic Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Speaking of Kawada, his right leg has been a weak spot for nearly 20 years. Quote
JerryvonKramer Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Posted March 7, 2012 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries.Then I can't think of anything, because pretty much all the major examples were from devastating real-life injuries. It's more common for them to have weaknesses in psychology or tactics; i.e., a spot that rarely works or an attempt at something which frequently gets reversed. I'm up for identifying some of those too. Quote
NintendoLogic Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Also, the neck of every single Mexican is made of tissue paper. Quote
Marty Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 More of a psychological weakness than anything, but Hogan attempts slams on big guys WAY too early. Oh, and a physical one: Off and on, HHH's quad can hang on by a thread. Quote
FLIK Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 In ROH they played up for a while that Samoa Joe was weak against flash cradles & roll up pins. Aja Kong loved to build her big matches around ppl trying to take out her arm to prevent the back fist. That's all i've got Quote
KB8 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Anybody who has ever tried to powerbomb Kidman. If you try and powerbomb someone that is unpowerbombable, do you have a psychological weakness? If so, every wrestler that's ever wrestled Kidman has that psychological weakness. Quote
Matt D Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 Kamala couldn't figure out how to pin someone? There are some guys who can be riled/made angry enough to make mistakes/get themselves DQed? Mark Henry's confidence? Robert Gibson got so angry that he'd try to storm the ring and poor Ricky would get beaten to a pulp? Quote
Marty Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 I remember WWF Magazine back in the day pointing out that Tito Santana's Achilles heel was his fiery temper. Quote
jdw Posted March 7, 2012 Report Posted March 7, 2012 DDP's ribs is a great one. Kawada had stretches where the knee was a more focused storyline, such as after the 1993 RWTL. Other times it just happened to be what someone was going after... and he sold the crap out of it for storyline reasons. The final matches of 1988 would be an example. Suspect Kobashi's knees became a known weakness, but he's Kobashi... so he sells them when he feels like it. Misawa's back/neck was a bit overplayed one by hardcore fans. It was there in the storyline occasionally like in 1994... but after that usually just a matter of Misawa getting dropped on his head all the time. It was less a specific storyline at that point... hell, just a momentary one since he's sell damage until he was time to get up. John Quote
Bix Posted March 8, 2012 Report Posted March 8, 2012 Pillman's throatHe even had a signature bump to play that one up. Quote
PeteF3 Posted March 8, 2012 Report Posted March 8, 2012 Jerry Lawler being a "slow starter." (Similarly, Greg Valentine "taking fifteen minutes just to get warmed up," though that was more of a Gorilla-ism than standard practice). Quote
ohtani's jacket Posted March 8, 2012 Report Posted March 8, 2012 I remember WWF Magazine back in the day pointing out that Tito Santana's Achilles heel was his fiery temper. Gorilla would always shoot this down in commentary saying it took too long for Tito to get fired up. He had a point, though. Tito was at his best when he was fired up but it seledom ever happened. Quote
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