Fight or Flight??

[db_teamextreme]

First let me say that I fully realise that this is scripted entertainment…

However, why do people have to stay and fight a large group (and get destroyed) when they could just escape?

A very recent example of this was R-Truth on Raw. Kane comes to the ring and chokeslams several people. Instead of staying out of the ring Truth gets in there and starts fighting Kane only to end up being chokeslamed himself.

This is a very minor example of my point.

A better example would be during the John Cena v Nexus feud. There were several times when Cena got beat down by Nexus when he could have run instead. Again I know that this is scripted and part of storylines, and also part of Cena’s “never back down” gimmick, but am I the only one that thinks it is ridiculous.

If the person, in this case Cena spotted a way out (even when a group is surrounding the ring there is still plenty of room), why wouldn’t he run and avoid an inevitable beat down. It may be classed as some as being cowardly but surely it is just sensible.

Any thoughts?

 

[IrishSpring]

I agree with you that it just not realistic 99 percent of the time for them to stay and fight and even another horrible example of this is when Kharma would come down to the ring and attack another diva........the diva would just stand there with a horrible acting job of standing there for 10 mins till kharma got there just to kick their scrawny asses

 

[ProWrestlingFan]

Emm... Because its a TV show and if Cena runs away then he will look like a coward.

There won't be any heels or faces if faces started to run from heels looking like cowards.

 

[Mustang Sally]

Because its a TV show and if Cena runs away then he will look like a coward.

It's ironic that many fans criticize him for being Super-Cena when, in fact, he has left the ring and jumped over the railing several times when all seven members of Nexus were bearing down on him. He didn't look at all cowardly doing it either......discretion being the better part of valor. It's a tribute to the character he's built that he could do that and still be regarded as the hero he is.

Still, you have a point; if all good guys turned tail and ran in the face of superior numbers offered by the bad guys, we wouldn't regard them as faces. Good guys are supposed to stand up to evil, no matter how stacked the odds may be against them.

It's unrealistic, it's stupid......and it's classic pro wrestling.

 

[I Heart Cena]

Ya can't expect wrestling to be logical. Like when Hogan came in the ring in TNA to clean house. He had his hand on X-pac's head for like 30 seconds, and X-pac just stood there, spazzing in fear until Hogan clocked him. Kinda ridiculous, but this is wrestling, not the Godfather Trilogy.

 

[George Steele's Barber]

The obvious answers are stupidity and pride but here are some more reasons:

Wolverine Semen
These guys heal incredibly fast. Most beatings that would have put the rest of us in the hospital or in bed for weeks are fully recovered by the next taping or house show.

The only logical explanation for this is that 34 years ago Vince McMahon kidnapped Wolverine, brought him back to his laboratory in Stamford and found a way to sythesize Wolverine's special powers in to the stroganoff that WWE Catering feeds the wrestlers before shows.

Sympathy
If you know you will heal quickly thanks to Vince's special sauce why not take a beatdown and win some sympathy from the fans. It will make your dramatic revenge that much more powerful thus getting you bigger pops selling more T-shirts.

Mo' Money, Mo' Money, Mo' Money!
What's a little beatdown from 5 guys if it means it gets you 5 future feuds? Better to be the guy who gets beat down and has a reason to be on TV for a while than the guy who gets ignored by everyone and ends up on Superstars because they needed to fill some time.

So basically what I'm saying is that for the past 9 years John Cena has been duping the fans and creating more feuds by eating a lot of stroganoff.

 

[IHW]

I don't know how to follow GSB's post...
But i say they don't want to look like a coward. They want their character to seem like a chicken. If they run, then what? Nothing. No good TV, no good lead to the next week, etc.

 

[Cats Pajamas]

He didn't look at all cowardly doing it either......discretion being the better part of valor...

It's unrealistic, it's stupid......and it's classic pro wrestling.

My friends, never miss a Mustang Sally post. They have the witty epigrams and the "and that's the bottom liiiiine..." insights that should be in a Dos Equis commercial.

This is just one of those things, I guess... I know I feel stupid when I catch the voice in my head screaming at a diva through the TV screen "Get out of the ring! Get out of the ring!! Pffft... what a dummy..."

Unfortunately, I can't tell you how to avoid that feeling. You can start watching with a friend who takes the storylines seriously and yells out loud, but that's a slippery slope to depending on friends.

WWE should create a pamphlet for some of us... "So, you've decided to bring the pink elephant into the room..." so we know the signs of a reality check during programming. Stay thirsty, my friends.