Author: Cake Flirt (Joseph Le May)

What to wear when going skydiving? Extreme times call for extreme t-shirts! H/T Nathan Paoletta!

What to wear when going skydiving? Extreme times call for extreme t-shirts! H/T Nathan Paoletta!

What to wear when going skydiving? Extreme times call for extreme t-shirts! H/T Nathan Paoletta!

I am emphatically of the opinion that there was no time (or indeed need) for blading.

I am emphatically of the opinion that there was no time (or indeed need) for blading.

I am emphatically of the opinion that there was no time (or indeed need) for blading. These guys are a football player and MMA fighter respectively. They are quite able to dish out and take real/realistic hits. There was no time to blade, and the ref looks like he is checking Roman is okay to me.

Originally shared by WWE King Of Fans® #WWEKOF

There was a lot of speculation during #WrestleMania #WM31 that #BrockLesnar did a “blade job” and cut himself open when they did the ring post spot. Several readers sent the following GIF, which appears to show a referee handing a blade off to #RomanReigns, presumably so Reigns could give it to Lesnar when he got back in the ring. 

If this is true, it would likely mean #VinceMcMahon allowed the blade job, something WWE has generally been against for years now.

Maybe I’m a wrestling grognard, but I feel like some signature moves in wrestling today just don’t have the impact…

Maybe I’m a wrestling grognard, but I feel like some signature moves in wrestling today just don’t have the impact…

Maybe I’m a wrestling grognard, but I feel like some signature moves in wrestling today just don’t have the impact they used to on a match, and also just don’t have the entertainment value they once did. So let’s talk about weak-ass moves first, then what looks to me like a sea change in what “finishers” (now a non-sequitur) mean.

Case in point: AJ Lee’s Black Widow. It just doesn’t look painful to me. Sharpshooter? Ow. Man? Crippler Crossface? Fuckin’ ow. Walls of Jericho? FUUUUCK.

Not so much the Black Widow, tho.

Then there’s Bray Wyatt’s Sister Abigail. I mean, he sells the shit out of it, but it just doesn’t have the punch of, say, a Tombstone or a Pedigree. That being said, I don’t watch Bray Wyatt for his wrestling, I watch him because he’s fucking creepy and inhuman.

Then there’s Roman Reigns’s (terribly named, but delightfully cinematic) Superman Punch. THAT is a badass signature move. Simple, powerful, showstopping…or at least it should be. Come to think of it, how many of those fuckers did he throw last night?

Like, is this a thing now? I haven’t really been following wrestling all that much. Has the Signature Move gone from a game-changer with match-ending potential to just a cheap pop mid-match that has almost no effect? You tell me.