2007-02-12 00:39:09 · 16 answers · asked by Paresh P 1 in Sports ➔ Wrestling
They don't punch very hard, or don't connect at all. The Undertaker's shown on many occasions during a match that he can throw a punch and miss his target by about six inches. Most people have different methods to make it sound like they hit hard. The Rock used to slap his thigh as he threw a punch, Bubba Ray Dudley has stints where it's very obvious all of his punching noise comes from him stomping his feet on the mat, Brian Armstrong is very deliberate when it comes to that as well. Most of the noise you hear is stomping, although there are times (like Mick Foley being handcuffed and manhandled by Evolution) where a superstar or superstars allow their opponent to really punch them for effect.
Sometimes the older wrestlers (like Finlay, Bob Holly, Benoit, and William Regal) go very stiff. I remember one incident where Regal moused one of the Heart Throbs in one match, and then popped the mouse in a follow up match a few weeks later. Everyone remembers Bob Holly beating down Matt Capitelli on Tough Enough. Chops are real. You can look at anyone's chest after a Ric Flair match and tell that the chops are real. They are delivered in a specific way (mostly to protect Flair from breaking his hand, not to protect his "victim") to where they're not as hard as they could be, but the pain's still there. Go to a Smackdown event and watch a Benoit match, while setting up for a german, he'll forearm the hell out of someone, and you can hear him clubbing at their back as clear as a whistle over all of the people yelling around you.
So in closing, yes, there is a degree of stiffness in wrestling, but most punches are open fist (which is regulation) which means they don't hurt as bad if and when they do connect. This should be apparent to anyone who watches boxing. If wrestlers were really punching like that with the intent of inflicting pain, then I'm sure a lot of people would be looking a lot like Joey Mercury right now
2007-02-12 05:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by Candle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to watch Wrestling a lot, but haven't really watched it for 3 and a half years, although I still read about it in British publication Powerslam Wrestling.
All the moves are pretend. Like when someone takes a scoop slam, the reason you hear a loud bang when the wrestler hits the mat is because WWE have microphones under the ring, to add effects to the moves.
A lot of aerial moves do look like they would hurt, but these guys are all professionally trained (although looking at some of them, you wouldn't think it), and know how to do various moves (for example, a moonsault) without hurting the other guy, but to make it come across on TV as though it really hurt the wrestler taking the move.
WWE is Sports entertainment, and all the wrestler's there have the same paymaster (Vincent K. McMahon). A lot of them are best friends with each other, and in almost all circumstances, respect each other for being in a profession where injuries are commonplace. Therefore, by deliberately injuring each other would only be detrimental to the WWE product, and perhaps even the wretler's paychecks.
2007-02-12 00:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by Oneirokritis 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Real contact is made with most pro wrestlers. However there is a stage aspect to the WWF as well. Any actor can fake getting hit in the face or gut, these wrestlers are no different. They do make contact, the actor then getting hit pulls away from it absorbing most of the blow making the contact about 1/10th the strength of a real hit. The actor then fakes the pain. However, there have been cases where things went wrong and matches got too real. Anytime a wrestler is bleeding from an open face wound that's a mistake that was made and real contact happened. Blood from the mouth is not always real, sometimes they'll hide packets of fake blood in their mouth to make it look more real.
2007-02-12 00:46:25 · answer #3 · answered by jjbeard926 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretend
2007-02-12 00:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They actually perform move like suplexes and spears. The perform pulled punches and they communicate in the ring... sometimes. I know for a fact that Batista and King Booker have beef with each other in real life so they don't always pull their punches. Also moves like power bombs and spears don't look like they can be fake at all. That's just my opinion.
2007-02-12 01:47:11 · answer #5 · answered by marvelgamer001 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm not sure if anyone in the World Wildlife Fund hit each other, but I do know in the WWE they make "contact" with each other, but not with strong force (unless it's my error or if there is genuine heat between the two).
But to say it's "fake", is very ignorant of anyone.
2007-02-12 00:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alot of it truly is pretend hits. now and again they do fairly get hit like even as i imagine it become The Miz getting kicked in the face. Its more beneficial of an twist of destiny now and again or how they sense for another in the course of the experience. there are circumstances once you recognize they fairly hit them.
2016-11-27 03:36:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes real and sometimes the pretend to hit them and purposely miss and stomp their feet on the ground to make a loud sound like they hit them which i don't get cuz it sounds nothing like a punch
2007-02-12 00:47:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but they generally cuff their punches, and let there elbow come to rest when the punch is finished. It doesn't really hurt very much, but after all, it's only meant for entertainment.
2007-02-12 00:50:08 · answer #9 · answered by chronicalz21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all pretend. If ir wasn't fake, I think that a lot of people would die from injuries.
2007-02-12 00:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by Dima 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋