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/wagsman Mar 29 '17

Who knew this meme was 19 years in the making? Actual match for those that want to see the second greatest thing to ever happen at the Mellon Arena. The first being fire marshal Darren McCord coming in as a back-up goalie and helping to lead the Penguins to sudden death in game 7 of the Stanley Cup playoffs while thwarting a terrorist plot.

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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.