Easily-Distracted Referee: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''It takes a special type of person to be a professional-wrestling referee, the type of person who, if he had been present when the Hindenburg was being consumed by a giant ball of flame, would have been looking, with intense interest, at the ground.''|'''[[Dave Barry]]''', "Wrestling's First Rule: Cover Your 'Masculine Region'"}}

 

It's a well-known fact that [[Professional Wrestling]] referees have the shortest attention spans of any creature in the known multiverse (along with [[Glass Jaw Referee|being allergic to contact]]). They can be distracted by ''anything''; from an argumentative manager, to a pretty girl dancing at ringside, to a turnbuckle pad that appears to be loose, to a [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|particularly shiny object]]. Wrestling villains often take advantage of the ref's attention deficit, causing distractions and using the opportunity to use illegal tactics (chokes, eye gouges, weapons, etc.) or, in a tag-team match, to prevent the [[Ricky Morton]] from tagging out to his partner. The rule is: if the ref didn't see it, it didn't happen, and it's [[Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught]].

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