Discussing Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi’s match at Clash in Italy, which Lesnar won after hitting seven F5s, led Booker T and his co-host Brad Gilmore to talk about the concept of wrestlers “spamming finishers” in matches on the most recent edition of The Hall of Fame.
It’s a fairly common criticism you’ll see and hear from various places in the wrestling community, often aimed at matches from AEW or the independents.
Ricochet is familiar with those criticisms, having heard them for more than ten years
as he rose the ranks from the indies to Japan to televised wrestling in the U.S. He’s also active on social media (sometimes to a fault), and saw aggregation of Booker T’s conversation from The Hall of Fame.
He started with:
Say you’ve never watched DragonBall Z without saying you’ve never watched DragonBall Z.
He later provided an argument those of us who didn’t grow up watching DragonBall Z could understand, in response to someone who said “it’s literally every match in AEW” and “comes off as choreography that goes on for way too long”:
I disagree. It gives more suspense. Because in other promotions we KNOW the match isnt gonna end until someone hits their ONLY move that ends the match. So everyone is just sitting and waiting until that one move, knowing the match isn’ t gonna end until that happens.
Seemed like something a community like ours might want to discuss. If I’m right about that, you can do so in the comments.
