Narm/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

* An episode of ''[[WWE Raw]]'' gave us a dramatic moment turned into a [[Narm]] by crowd participation. [[Randy Orton]] had just systematically destroyed [[John Cena]]'s father as Cena watched, helplessly, handcuffed to the ring ropes. Cena finally manages to free himself (by unbuckling the turnbuckle, one of the most unique ways out of this situation this editor had seen) and chases off Orton, and Orton and Cena have a tense, dramatic staredown, Orton smiling like the cat that ate the canary, Cena staring daggers at Orton... and [[X-Pac Heat|the crowd loudly chanting "You can't wrestle!"]] at Cena.

** A hilarious moment of audience narm was brought by a Providence, Rhode Island crowd at Backlash 2009. After [[Triple H]] was given an RKO by [[Randy Orton]] followed by a punt kick, he was shown as unable to get up and was taken out on a stretcher all the while the crowd sang "na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, good bye."

*** Speaking of the limo-bomb, how about Paul London's ridiculously cheesy grin during the hallway segment?

*** But then again, the Northeastern United States - particularly, from Philadelphia, PA to New York City - is home of the most hardcore fans/smarks in the entire professional wrestling world. It would be more of a shock if these crowds ''didn't'' create Narms.

** The best part was that Lesnar and Goldberg likely thought they could get away with phoning the match in, as they were both leaving the company the following week. Boy were they wrong! You really had to see it on PPV or in person for the full impact, as the crowd was edited in the DVD version.

** At least if you watch it with the English audio track. The chants are retained on the Spanish audio track.

** But the really fun bit was the video that circulated among [[Smart Mark]]s for weeks afterwards, which showed that pivotal moment repeatedly. In slow motion. Set to "Chariots of Fire".

*** In all fairness to Kev, you can see him grasping his leg as he enters the ring so chances were it was already in bad shape before the tear... though why with a bad leg you would go for a ''big boot'' as your first offense is beyond this troper.

* Yeah, [[Chris Jericho]] beating up [[CM Punk]] and dousing him with liquour on the 4/2/12 edition of ''Raw'' was a tense segment, but it loses its edge somewhat due to Jericho slipping on the spilled liquor and falling on his ass when attempting to kick Punk.

* On the topic of [[Wrestlemania]] 28, the [[Triple H]] vs [[The Undertaker]] match in Hell In A Cell, while an excellent and emotional match, had its moments. One such moment was when 'Taker kicked out of a [[Finishing Move|Pedigree]] that was chained from a Sweet Chin Music from guest referee [[Shawn Michaels]]: HBK sells it by dancing in circles like a lunatic around the ring. Another was when 'Taker sat up after that as Hunter prepared to hit him with a sledgehammer again ([[Holy Shit Quotient|it was that sort of match]]): Hunter sells it by dropping to the canvas in fright like he got kicked in the face. A little bit later, Hunter kicks out of his first [[Finishing Move|Tombstone Piledriver]] of the night again, that sort of match): the camera zooms in to 'Taker, hoping to get a priceless shot of his surprised face like when HBK did the same at their [[Wrestlemania]] 25 match, and instead gets a view of 'Taker with drool hanging out of his mouth.