Why do so many wrestlers throw forearms today? - /pw/ (#18125673) [Archived: 636 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:05:50 PM No.18125673
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What happened to having a good worked punch?
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:06:38 PM No.18125678
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>>18125673 (OP)
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:26:28 PM No.18125811
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>>18125673 (OP)
Punches are illegal in pro wrestling. If they're normalized in the promotion you watch, it's because you're watching a parody of pro wrestling.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:26:37 PM No.18125815
>>18125673 (OP)
New Japan poisoned the well and everyoneโ€™s gotta do some sorta strong style shit
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:30:33 PM No.18125842
>>18125673 (OP)
Because everyone these days know what someone getting punched in the face looks like making worked punches look inherently fake and gay
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:31:16 PM No.18125846
>>18125811
Mid-south was a parody of pro wrestling? But all the nerds say it was the greatest promotion ever
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:32:04 PM No.18125853
>>18125842
But shitty forearms look way worse
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:32:59 PM No.18125863
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>>18125842
But these forearms people throw look worse
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:34:05 PM No.18125874
>>18125846
It's a phony clown show compared to AJPW, NJPW and UWFi, I'm afraid. Open hand strikes, chops, and forearms are legal. Not punches.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:34:20 PM No.18125877
>>18125678
Good shit. Need more creative stuff like this in pro wrestling. Not gonna get it, though. There's some creative stuff, but it's mainly just flips, not basic trickery. The distracted wrestler trope, for example. You never see a female manager trying to get a male wrestler's attention, only for the wrestler to just flip her off and continue beating her downed guy up.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:36:34 PM No.18125892
>>18125853
>>18125863
Not the point. Someone being able to take multiple forearm shots is far more believable than a wind up bare knuckle punch to the face. How they look depends on the skill of the person performing them. Hey, kind of like worked punches. Crazy how that works.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:42:17 PM No.18125927
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>>18125874
>It's a phony clown show compared to AJPW, NJPW and UWFi, I'm afraid. Open hand strikes, chops, and forearms are legal. Not punches.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:47:03 PM No.18125962
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>>18125673 (OP)
Best puncher ever.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:49:19 PM No.18125978
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>>18125962
Fuckin based.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:49:47 PM No.18125985
>>18125853
>>18125863
OP asked why wrestlers today don't use worked punches. The answer is an evolution of wrestling psychology based on the general public increased exposure to MMA and bare knuckle fighting. It's not that wrestlers today can't learn to throw a good worked punch, it's that they don't try to because two 200+ pound dudes trading haymakers looks fake and gay. So they throw forearms and don't bother learning worked punches. It's the same reasons wrestlers use sleeper variations less and less. Everyone's seen someone get choked out grappling now and knows how retarded the old school wrestling psychology of it is.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:51:54 PM No.18125999
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>>18125978
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:52:04 PM No.18126000
>>18125962
kek that looks so retarded. as fake as modern flippy shit.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:52:56 PM No.18126009
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>>18125999
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:54:53 PM No.18126026
>>18125962
smarks hate this but love the jap slaps in the corner. grim
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:55:03 PM No.18126028
>>18125978
Look at the footwork. The way he went all the way around the guy while winding up. Smooth as fuck. You forget how crisp the basic moves used to be . . when the guy was good, that is.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:56:52 PM No.18126044
>>18125985
lies. all trainers are just shitters of past eras. why won't NXT or some obscure trainers hire Lawler to teach a worked punching class
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:57:02 PM No.18126045
>>18125962
>hundreds of punches to the face
>no blood
>not an ounce of DNA
>doesn't get knocked out
either King has the weakest punches known to man or this is fake bullshit. either way, exposes the business.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:57:17 PM No.18126050
>>18125962
Wow, surely he pinned him for a 3 count after that, and the guy wasn't seen again for weeks? 50 unprotected punches to the face should be enough to kill a man!
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:58:09 PM No.18126058
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>>18126000
>kek that looks so retarded. as fake as modern flippy shit.
>>18126045
>>hundreds of punches to the face
>>no blood
>>not an ounce of DNA
>>doesn't get knocked out
>either King has the weakest punches known to man or this is fake bullshit. either way, exposes the business.
>>18126050
>Wow, surely he pinned him for a 3 count after that, and the guy wasn't seen again for weeks? 50 unprotected punches to the face should be enough to kill a man!
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:01:41 PM No.18126083
>>18126044
They don't want them using worked punches, how the fuck are you not understanding this? I've explained it twice dude, Jesus.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:01:54 PM No.18126086
>>18125673 (OP)
It's hard to throw a good worked punch when nobody wants to take the shitty potatoes while you're trying to get good.
Lots of cowardice in pro wrestling today.
They'll do fancy somersaults and torpedo dives, but a half-closed fist barely grazing the cheek of a guy who's leaning forward so he can work the impact by recoiling back ("feeding") is just too fucking risky.
God forbid you get a receipt.
God forbid you wrestle.
That's just not the business anymore.

People do realise that they're watching a shoot Circus du Soleil where the idea that this is wrestling is the work, right?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:03:31 PM No.18126095
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>>18126058
>STOP heckin criticizing my boomers! Corny and "The Great" Brian Last told me this was when wrestling was good and looked real! STOP IT!
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:04:56 PM No.18126104
>>18125962
i wish someone would do this on raw just so i could see them getting roasted lmfao
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:06:03 PM No.18126111
>>18125673 (OP)
These new HD cameras make worked punches look like shit
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:06:50 PM No.18126117
>>18126095
kek it do be like that
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:07:44 PM No.18126128
>>18125811
Babyfaces don't punch.
Heels punch when the ref's not looking, they get heat for it.
The crowd builds with heat and tension as the heel keeps punching. Then the ref sees it and gives a warning.
The ref is somehow distracted and the heel continues punching. More heat.
Eventually the babyface snaps, when the crowd is ready, and now he starts to slug the heel. The crowd pops and cheers the punching, and the ref can't punish the babyface because the heel started it, but here's the angle from the TV show's point of view.
The promoter's rep (usually main commentary guy) talks about warning the babyface because: "now you know, punching ain't right in wrestling"
Babyface: "yes I know and I would like to apologise to the crowd here and to apologise for the people at home watching this, because I know it ain't right to hit a guy where it hurts and mean it, this is the sport of professional wrestling and I can be better than this, but you saw and everyone else saw that (the heel) broke that rule and he pushed me beyond reason and I had to resolve this like a man because that's what I am."
And all the dust clears, extra babyface cheers, no warning is ever issued, and the rule adds to the story.

They can't do that today. Nobody has the balls to tell stories this way anymore.
It's all got to be dramatic and careless and irrelevant.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:09:02 PM No.18126142
>>18126044
This lol. I don't know what that other guy was thinking. The current trainers just suck. Their sloppy proteges speak for themselves.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:11:03 PM No.18126158
>>18126028
They don't even stomp the mat on a strike these days.
It's perfectly believable because you're encouraged to do that in legit martial arts, it's part of normal fighting footwork.
But in 2025 wrestling, they just stand still and halfway twist and lean in and slide that forearm around the head and go back and forth, no feet moving.
It's pathetic.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:16:36 PM No.18126194
>>18126158
>They don't even stomp the mat on a strike these days
Highly annoying. It's as if one person says something, then all these new wrestlers slurp. They haven't even evolved the basic chain wrestling sequence in years, which wouldn't be bad if they weren't so sloppy.