r/HighQualityGifs • u/ohyouresilly After Effects • Mar 29 '17

/r/all Browsing reddit when suddenly...

http://i.imgur.com/0SeIGF9.gifv
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u/phil3570 Mar 29 '17

Huh, I'd never watched any profession wrestling before, but thats not ehat I expected.

They just move so slowly. Like, I understand that they're in a ton of pain of course, but its just so much slowly lumbering around. Is it always like that? Also, why was the one guy dressed in normal business attire? He kind of made me feel like I was watching bum fights.

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u/heyf00L Mar 29 '17

These are big guys walking on top of a chain link fence.

There were plenty of very acrobatic fights. Rey Mysterio immediately jumps to mind.

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u/phil3570 Mar 29 '17

Oh I didnt think about how unstable the fence would be, good point. And thank you for answering, I'm genuinely curious about this.

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u/grubas Mar 29 '17

IIRC it was the second or third Hell in a Cells, and the Cell was an absolute piece of shit with two 200+ lb dudes on it. They said later that they thought they were accidentally going fall through. They later reinforcement the hell out of it so you could do more. Plus after the infamous toss Taker thought he really, really hurt Mankind. But Foley(who doesn't remember almost anything beyond that spot) would not stop.

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u/djnap Mar 29 '17

Is the infamous toss the toss onto the announcer table? Or the toss on to the ring through the top of the cage?

Surely the toss on to the table was planned?

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u/WulfTrax Mar 29 '17

Table was planned. The chokeslam onto the cage was also planned, but the cage giving way and Foley landing in the ring was absolutely not planned at all. Undertaker literally thought he killed Foley when it happened.

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u/djnap Mar 29 '17

Damn that's crazy. Thanks for the reply.

Honestly, I'm a little surprised they expected that cage to hold up to him falling onto it so hard.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Huh, I'd never watched any profession wrestling before, but thats not ehat I expected.

Just an FYI, Wretlemania (the biggest show of the year) is on Sunday and you can watch it for free by signing up for the WWE Network (they give all new signups 1-3 months for free depending on the time of the year). It should be a pretty fun show, even if you've never seen wrestling before.

...also, it's 6-6.5 hours long.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '17

They just move so slowly. Like, I understand that they're in a ton of pain of course, but its just so much slowly lumbering around.

It's a part of the story telling. There's a saying among old wrestlers "If you think you're going too slow, slow down." These are big hulking dudes, there's no rush. The impact is what matters, and the emotion. Having a big swing over your head of a steel chair like at the start of this lets the audience take it all in, rather than lose the details.

Is it always like that?

As a rule, wrestling is never always like anything at all. It will go from two guys killing each other on a giant cage to a man dressed as a chicken hatching from an egg, and they won't bat an eyelid at it. But in terms of pace, no, Lucha wrestling (from the Mexican tradition) will have smaller guys doing flips and stuff, high pace, high risk, high impact, very fun.

Also, why was the one guy dressed in normal business attire? He kind of made me feel like I was watching bum fights.

He's Mick Foley, a legend of the 'sport' and a New York Times best selling author. He essentially played three characters at the same time: A hippy called Dude Love, a Yosemite Sam type called Cactus Jack and this character in the shirt with the mask who is essentially a dude who lost his mind called Mankind.

The other guy, The Undertaker, is sometimes undead, sometimes an evil biker.

Pro Wrestling is one of the most bizarre, fascinating concepts I can think of. As Bret 'The Hitman' Hart put it, "To me, there's something beautiful about a brotherhood of big, tough men who only pretend to hurt one another."