How would you sell/bump for moves?

[Guest Dace59]

Just something to give everyone to past about.

Just any moves you can think of, how would you sell/bump for them.

 

Remember bumping is how you take the move (eg on your back or on your head), and selling is what you do when you take the move (eg scream, have a fit, collapse, act like you broke a bone)

 

Post any moves or selling/bumping

Serious, comdey, whaterver.

 

Palm Thrust to the face

 

Me: throw myself backwards onto my back and clutch my nose and thrash my legs around like my nose was broken.

[Guest Dillon Likes Bossman]

Eye poke - Backflip onto my chest, spring to my feet and old man flop.

[Guest godthedog]

moonsault--act like i got hit in the diaphragm: squirm around wildly and gasp for air. same with any vaderbomb-type move

 

there was one tag match where i saw akiyama take a german suplex (it might have been the tag match), and he clutched his chest and didn't move, just tried to get his wind back. he looked legitimately dazed, i'd rip that off from him.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

After taking a releash suplex(Dragon, German, Half-nelson, etc.) I would pop right up and stagger like Kawada while throwing punches wildly in the air like Funk or Windham before doing the Flair flop.

 

The Akiyama sell job you're talking about was great. It's like he was injured and unwilling to move because he knew something was wrong, not something seen very often but very well done. It reminds me of the time Kawada got a knee to the gut and then Misawa tried Irish Whipping him but Kawada just fell collapsed like the wind was legitimately knocked out of him.

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

It reminds me of the time Kawada got a knee to the gut and then Misawa tried Irish Whipping him but Kawada just fell collapsed like the wind was legitimately knocked out of him.

That would be Kobashi not Misawa, in the 98 Triple Crown Match. Stuff like that is the reason that Kawada is probably the greatest seller in the history of wrestling. He would catch the crowd off guard by occasionally over selling a simple move, leaving the impression that move might have been accidentally too stiff and hurt him legit. Even Kobashi was caught off guard by the sell, and froze for a second with a WTF expression on his face before realizing it was a work.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

We need more Abdullah selling:

forearm to the head - blade

kick to the shin - blade

chair to the back - blade

tauning from half way across the ring - blade

prematch promo - manger yaks while you blade

[Guest CED Ordonez]

After a guy destroys my leg for most of the match, I'd want to try a running high kick or a yakuza kick with the bad leg planted, collapsing on it without making much impact on the other guy. The running high kick would look really bad, but that's the concept of my psychology right there.

 

I'm a relatively small guy so I'd do the good old "OMG HE'S DEAD~!" sell for most power moves. Not the Shawn Michaels dead sell, but the glazed over "I have no f'n clue what the frick is going on" sell.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Let me also add that I love Scott Hall's sell of the Stunner. He'd stand there for a second like nothing happened and then fly off his feet like he took a cannonball to the gut.

 

I think I'd sell it like Kurt Angle where he shoots up ramrod straight and his eyes roll back into his head, but I'd also spin around like I was screwing myself into the mat and then collapse in a heap.

 

Another good idea for selling work on the legs, would be to just fall down on a cross corner whip. Your legs buckle as you run and you stumble down before reaching the other corner.

[Guest Sandman9000]

Stunner oversell: backwards somersault, back up to feet, fall back onto back.

 

I'd rag doll on neck-drop moves or high impact ones. When you see a person fall on their head and then just curl up in the corner, you think of pain.

[Guest Michael Joel Benoit]

I would oversell the Rock Bottom. Once it is applied, I would fall but then jump right back up, look dizzy, then fall back down.

 

And, just for the record, I say The Rock's selling of the Stunner is the best oversell I have ever seen.

 

If I got hit in the face, I would fly over the ropes. If I got hit in the stomach coming down from the top rope, I would do a somersault.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Deathwish's sig pic reminds me...

 

If i took a stiff strike to the face, I'd sell by legitimately crying like a little bitch. Hey, at least I'm honest.

 

-The "Hopes nobody quotes that" Cedman

[Guest Ravenbomb]

I'd jump with EVERYTHING. Clothesline, jump. Stunner, jump. Punch to face, jump. Punch to stomach, jump. DDT, MEGA JUMP~!. Piledriver...try to kick legs up to get mad air like RVD did. Oh, and if I turned around just as a guy came off the turnbuckle, I'd say 'Oh, shit!' all surprised like. Oh, and if I were supposed to sell something like I were dead, I would be DEAD. No movement except breathing. Oh, and after big moves, I'd twich just once.

 

 

If my leg had been worked on the whole match, and a submission was gonna end the match (a leg submission of course) I wouldn't put any weight on it, not even limping. If I tried to walk on it, I fall right back down.

[Guest cynicalprofit]

Take Tiger Driver bump, thats easy, act dead.

 

SuperKick, spin your body with the movement that your head goes, assuming you get hit in the jaw, and roll totaly with it like you were shot, if you fall face down, do nothing, if you fall face up, arch your head up and then let it go back down quickly.

 

DDT, dead or slowly put army up to head and really slow to get up, hell fall back down, if they guy picks you up, slump back down. That is how you make the move devastating again.

 

Diamond Cutter, when you hit ground, bounce the best that you can once, then dont move.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Stunner - Kurt Angle sell: Fall down to my knees with it and get glassy eyed as I fall straight back.

 

Cross arm breaker- If the arm has been worked on well enough, then I'll begin screaming my head off. I'll start by flailing at my opponent then I'll begin clawing at my own arm as if to rip it off ala a fox in a steel trap near the brink of tapping out.

 

Chairshots - Fall limp with it and play dead. I remember Shane McMahon doing this once.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I would Hulk up after every single move ever done to me.

[Guest saturnmark4life]

I'd take the stunner by standing straight up, taking two steps backward then doing a flair flop. That's the only one i've really thought about. BUT IT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I'd sell a cross armbreaker by letting my opponent legitimately pull my arm out of socket. I can do that. It hurts, but I can put it back without too much trouble.

[Guest DragonflyKid]

QUOTE (RollingChop @ Oct 30 2002, 10:28 PM)

It reminds me of the time Kawada got a knee to the gut and then Misawa tried Irish Whipping him but Kawada just fell collapsed like the wind was legitimately knocked out of him.

 

That would be Kobashi not Misawa, in the 98 Triple Crown Match. Stuff like that is the reason that Kawada is probably the greatest seller in the history of wrestling. He would catch the crowd off guard by occasionally over selling a simple move, leaving the impression that move might have been accidentally too stiff and hurt him legit. Even Kobashi was caught off guard by the sell, and froze for a second with a WTF expression on his face before realizing it was a work.

 

How could I forget, that was the first AJ match I really got into. It has been about a year since I last saw it which might explain my error.

 

BTW CoffinSurfer I'm really going to have to steal you're sig pic one of these days. Sure Kobashi's only giving Kawada a Chop instead of a Rolling Chop but it's close enough and I haven't been able to locate a RC pic yet.

[Guest Dace59]

Burning Lariart:

Drop back, flip back over my neck onto my front and clutch my neck, convulse and few times before laying still and praying he doesnt want to hit me with anything else before he pins me.

[Guest Incandenza]

I'm double jointed in my left shoulder, so any guy could make it where it looks almost like they're pulling my arm out of its socket legit, but with minimal pain to me.

 

When getting hit with a chairshot, I'd rip off Masato Tanaka and do the NO-SELL OF FUCKING AWE~! I'd make up for that by overselling every other move by flying out of the ring anytime I could get away with it.

[Guest J*ingus]

and he clutched his chest and didn't move, just tried to get his wind back. he looked legitimately dazed, i'd rip that off from him.

 

The Akiyama sell job you're talking about was great. It's like he was injured and unwilling to move because he knew something was wrong, not something seen very often but very well done.

 

He would catch the crowd off guard by occasionally over selling a simple move, leaving the impression that move might have been accidentally too stiff and hurt him legit.

 

the glazed over "I have no f'n clue what the frick is going on" sell

 

Thing is, sometimes selling ain't selling. Lots of wrestling moves really do hurt like hell, especially mash-yer-spine stuff like German suplexes. (I once took a sidewalk slam that felt like it broke my fucking ribs, despite the fact that it was perfectly executed.) And in a federation like All Japan where they work so insanely stiff, little moments of paralyzing pain are bound to happen.

[Guest godthedog]

i'm just saying, that's the look i'd try to go for if i were a wrestler. like if my back was being worked, i'd put all sorts of little touches into it from shawn michaels' 98 wrestlemania match, cause it looks realistic in a way that no one acting hurt has looked. whether akiyama was selling or whether he was really hurt isn't important in a discussion like this (though i'm more inclined to believe he was really hurt). the point is it looked cool.

[Guest Coffin Surfer]

and he clutched his chest and didn't move, just tried to get his wind back. he looked legitimately dazed, i'd rip that off from him.

 

The Akiyama sell job you're talking about was great. It's like he was injured and unwilling to move because he knew something was wrong, not something seen very often but very well done.

 

He would catch the crowd off guard by occasionally over selling a simple move, leaving the impression that move might have been accidentally too stiff and hurt him legit.

 

Thing is, sometimes selling ain't selling. Lots of wrestling moves really do hurt like hell, especially mash-yer-spine stuff like German suplexes. (I once took a sidewalk slam that felt like it broke my fucking ribs, despite the fact that it was perfectly executed.) And in a federation like All Japan where they work so insanely stiff, little moments of paralyzing pain are bound to happen.

I think Jun was really hurt on the Dangerous Backdrop in the 12/96 tag match. The clutch the chest sell, isn't a usual Head Drop sell, I haven't seen anybody not even Jun do it since.

 

However most of Kawada's oversells are oversells. If you watch Kawada enough, his occasional oversells(usually caused by the same or similar move) tend to pop up every now than. He does them all time, it's one of his trademarks. example: He did the same sell of Kobashi's knee, that he did for Jun's diving elbow in the 12/96 tag match.

[Guest deadbeater]

On a deadly kick or punch I would do the samurai death: Forward drop to my knees, then flat on my face.

[Guest The Metal Maniac]

Off the Stunner, I'd drop to my knees with it, then fall straight back. Without getting off my knees. That way, I end up with the top of my feet in my armpits, pretty much, laying on my back.

[Guest Ram]

I'd do what feels natural. If I get stunned and I bounced off his shoulder, you exaggerate it for show and bounce back like a mofo.

[Guest Breetai]

My selling of a Molly Holly stinkface: