Klown_Karnage
Slapstick Heavyweight Champion
My apologies if this thread is in the wrong section. As it concerns wrestling in general, I figured this would be the best place for it.
Before I get into the meat of this thread, I'd like to skirt the potatoes and vegetables a bit and share how the idea for it came about. Recently, I hit something of a milestone in my time at Wrestlezone: my first negative rep. It was apparently because I dared to express the opinion that an ending segment on Raw (which everyone will likely be aware of by now) was gratuitous to the point of being boring. I suppose it only goes to prove that expressing the "wrong" opinion, no matter how clearly explained or articulately presented, has consequences. Meh, if that's the price for having the guts to hold an unpopular opinion, I'll take that bump.
Still, the red mark and the comments that came with it got me to thinking about the general concept of the "beat-down" in professional wrestling. We all have seen it, where one or more heels ambush a face and beat him up until he's unconscious or unable to move without the face able to mount an appreciable counter-offense. Bit like a squash match without a ref. I'll admit to being somewhat prejudiced against it because I don't personally find it entertaining, although I do recognize it as a necessary tool in the heels arsenal as a cheap, easy and economical way of drawing heat. While I normally choose to click to something else or hit the fast forward button, particularly during a long and extended beat-down, apparently there are others who very much enjoy it. So perhaps I'm missing something, some piece of the puzzle that might make the genius of it apparent.
My question to the Wrestlezone community is this: What about a beat-down keeps it entertaining, particularly in the case of extended beat-downs? If not all beat-downs are entertaining, what about an entertaining beat-down makes it so? Give to me an example of one of the best ambushes/beat-downs you've seen, please.
I'm trying to keep an open mind here and am eager to learn. In conclusion, I'd like to dedicate this thread to the one who hit me with the bad rep in the first place, without whom all of this would not have been necessary.
Before I get into the meat of this thread, I'd like to skirt the potatoes and vegetables a bit and share how the idea for it came about. Recently, I hit something of a milestone in my time at Wrestlezone: my first negative rep. It was apparently because I dared to express the opinion that an ending segment on Raw (which everyone will likely be aware of by now) was gratuitous to the point of being boring. I suppose it only goes to prove that expressing the "wrong" opinion, no matter how clearly explained or articulately presented, has consequences. Meh, if that's the price for having the guts to hold an unpopular opinion, I'll take that bump.
Still, the red mark and the comments that came with it got me to thinking about the general concept of the "beat-down" in professional wrestling. We all have seen it, where one or more heels ambush a face and beat him up until he's unconscious or unable to move without the face able to mount an appreciable counter-offense. Bit like a squash match without a ref. I'll admit to being somewhat prejudiced against it because I don't personally find it entertaining, although I do recognize it as a necessary tool in the heels arsenal as a cheap, easy and economical way of drawing heat. While I normally choose to click to something else or hit the fast forward button, particularly during a long and extended beat-down, apparently there are others who very much enjoy it. So perhaps I'm missing something, some piece of the puzzle that might make the genius of it apparent.
My question to the Wrestlezone community is this: What about a beat-down keeps it entertaining, particularly in the case of extended beat-downs? If not all beat-downs are entertaining, what about an entertaining beat-down makes it so? Give to me an example of one of the best ambushes/beat-downs you've seen, please.
I'm trying to keep an open mind here and am eager to learn. In conclusion, I'd like to dedicate this thread to the one who hit me with the bad rep in the first place, without whom all of this would not have been necessary.
