Posted March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496520 What are some of the known (kayfabe) weaknesses of wrestlers? For example, they always played up the plane-crash injury and Flair's back as being a weakness. Was the hot shot really played up as Jumbo Tsuruta's achilles heel or is that just one of those little qurks? What are some good examples of a guy always having a weak spot? And were there guys who had no particular weaknesses? Hogan, for example, seemed to have no chink in his armour. He was even more cunning than the mastermind villains he battled and time and again is shown outthinking them (see Summerslam 88 and that travesty 2 vs 8 dungeon of doom match, strangely, both times with Savage).
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496522 That's pretty much it -- Flair's back. Anything else would be reading too much into things, although I'm sure people could point things out they picked up over time.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496523 Michaels' back later on. Austin had the braces. Poor Ace Orton's arm.
March 7, 201213 yr Author comment_5496524 What about this ... Jesse Ventura's old bugbear: Barry Windham's HAND! He had it taped up for about 3 years. Ha ha. Wasn't Austin's neck a big deal in his comeback?
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496526 Michaels' back post-comeback was definitely played up pretty regularly.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496527 Nash's knees had become so infamously bad that their weakness was made into a storyline, multiple times in the past few years. And didn't Kawada sometimes sell German suplexes a bit harder than everything else?
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496528 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496529 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries.Then I can't think of anything, because pretty much all the major examples were from devastating real-life injuries. It's more common for them to have weaknesses in psychology or tactics; i.e., a spot that rarely works or an attempt at something which frequently gets reversed.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496530 Speaking of Kawada, his right leg has been a weak spot for nearly 20 years.
March 7, 201213 yr Author comment_5496531 I interpreted the point of this to be career-long things, not capitalizing on injuries.Then I can't think of anything, because pretty much all the major examples were from devastating real-life injuries. It's more common for them to have weaknesses in psychology or tactics; i.e., a spot that rarely works or an attempt at something which frequently gets reversed. I'm up for identifying some of those too.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496534 More of a psychological weakness than anything, but Hogan attempts slams on big guys WAY too early. Oh, and a physical one: Off and on, HHH's quad can hang on by a thread.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496535 In ROH they played up for a while that Samoa Joe was weak against flash cradles & roll up pins. Aja Kong loved to build her big matches around ppl trying to take out her arm to prevent the back fist. That's all i've got
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496536 Anybody who has ever tried to powerbomb Kidman. If you try and powerbomb someone that is unpowerbombable, do you have a psychological weakness? If so, every wrestler that's ever wrestled Kidman has that psychological weakness.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496537 Kamala couldn't figure out how to pin someone? There are some guys who can be riled/made angry enough to make mistakes/get themselves DQed? Mark Henry's confidence? Robert Gibson got so angry that he'd try to storm the ring and poor Ricky would get beaten to a pulp?
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496540 I remember WWF Magazine back in the day pointing out that Tito Santana's Achilles heel was his fiery temper.
March 7, 201213 yr comment_5496545 DDP's ribs is a great one. Kawada had stretches where the knee was a more focused storyline, such as after the 1993 RWTL. Other times it just happened to be what someone was going after... and he sold the crap out of it for storyline reasons. The final matches of 1988 would be an example. Suspect Kobashi's knees became a known weakness, but he's Kobashi... so he sells them when he feels like it. Misawa's back/neck was a bit overplayed one by hardcore fans. It was there in the storyline occasionally like in 1994... but after that usually just a matter of Misawa getting dropped on his head all the time. It was less a specific storyline at that point... hell, just a momentary one since he's sell damage until he was time to get up. John
March 8, 201213 yr comment_5496558 Jerry Lawler being a "slow starter." (Similarly, Greg Valentine "taking fifteen minutes just to get warmed up," though that was more of a Gorilla-ism than standard practice).
March 8, 201213 yr comment_5496560 I remember WWF Magazine back in the day pointing out that Tito Santana's Achilles heel was his fiery temper. Gorilla would always shoot this down in commentary saying it took too long for Tito to get fired up. He had a point, though. Tito was at his best when he was fired up but it seledom ever happened.
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