Let Me Help You Out There

I've said many times that this blog is here to help people out and any of you that know me personally will know that helping others is a big thing for me. You might also have picked up that I am of the belief that a lot of what we do in the ring is …

Staying on a Roll

Something I don't really understand sometimes with mainstream wrestling, the top levels of it at least, is the restriction of creativity that you often see on display.  To me wrestling is a very creative medium, it's one of the greatest forms of improvised theatre that there is, and while I understand the need to be …

OI! OVER HERE!!

Let me ask you a question this week. If I asked you to think about a popular way for a manager to interfere in a match, what would you say?  I'd probably be tempted to go with the age old grabbing of a foot to stop a wrestler or the climb onto the apron to …

Trust and the Hard Cam

First of all I might have to clarify something for the uninitiated or less experienced. Some of you might be aware of the term "Hard Cam" but if not then let me explain. The Hard Cam is the main TV camera that you see used for most recorded wrestling events. It is the fixed one …

False Cut Off

Today's blog is about something you may be familiar with, or maybe not. It might depend on how long you have been doing this or studying wrestling in detail. I call it the false cut off but some may refer to it as a long hope or even a false fire/come back.   I generally use …

Tag Team Cut Offs

More of a Ronseal blog today, I'm going to be talking about what it says in the title of the blog! This one happened in a tag match (obviously) where the wrestlers weren't teams just individuals working together.  It was near the beginning of the match, the face team had been on top for a …

If You Build It They Will Come

By the time I publish this the title of the post might be less ambiguous than it started out as, but then again maybe not.  Today's post is a little more critical than others mainly because it highlights something I have noticed as a bit of a trend recently. A specific occurrence of it would …

Using Their Persona

This blog might be a little longer as I feel like I need to explain it a little more than others and it focuses on crowd interaction rather than a specific physical movement.   First of all it is worth noting that this specific observation relies on a good proportion of the crowd having a reasonably …

Old School, Simple and Effective

So what am I going to talk about today? Maybe a long lost wrestling hold that's under-utilised? Perhaps a smooth escape from the World of Sport era that you never see any more?  Nope, I'm staying even simpler than that!  Today I want to highlight probably one of the simplest wristlock escapes there is that …