the origin of the kip-up

[Guest godthedog]

i always thought it was odd that i'd never seen michaels do the kip-up before 1996, but i was watching some of his old stuff & came up with a hypothesis.

 

the earliest match i've seen him do a kip-up in was at the february 96 IYH against owen hart. owen used to do a kip-up on occasion (first example that comes into my head is summerslam 94), & if this was the first match he used it in, it looks like it started off as a little in-character insult to owen, and just took off from there.

 

anyone who's seen a kip-up earlier and/or a competing theory, i'd like to hear.

[Guest dreamer420]

Michaels and Janetty would do it at the same time as the Rockers.

[Guest WrestlingDeacon]

Why is it called a 'kip-up?' I always thought it was because JR slurred 'kick up' so bad that people thought he was saying 'kip-up' and that name stuck.

[Guest godthedog]

didn't he abandon it as soon as he became a singles wrestler though?

[Guest dreamer420]

Why is it called a 'kip-up?' I always thought it was because JR slurred 'kick up' so bad that people thought he was saying 'kip-up' and that name stuck.

JR calls it a nip-up and usually blows a fat load when doing so.

 

MICHAELS NIPPED UP!!! HE NIPPED UP!!!

[Guest nWoScorpion]

I've even seen Jacques Rogeau do it at SSeries 89, so Shawn wasn't the only one.

[Guest eiker_ir]

anyone knows who invented the kip-up?

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Nova

[Guest Choken One]

I saw Ricky Morton do it around 89 or something...

[Guest tank_abbott]

Probably some one like Ricki Starr from the 50's and 60's... wouldn't surprise me one bit...

 

I'll ask www.kayfabememories.com

[Guest BAR]

Dynamite did it until he was unable to in the late 80's. He called it a nip-up.

[Guest Downhome]

I've seen the kip-up for as long as I've been watching Pro. Wrestling, and then many years before that on old tapes. It's nothing new at all.

 

Wasn't it done in old martial arts movies also? Or do you mean JUST in Pro. Wrestling?

[Guest godthedog]

Dynamite did it until he was unable to in the late 80's. He called it a nip-up.

good thing it changed somewhere along the way to kip-up, cause the other way sounds like his nipples are hardening.

[Guest TheGame2705]

It may have been a combo deal. The second wind and hard nips.

[Guest eiker_ir]

i mean do u know who created it, like in old Kung Fu movies or something...

[Guest Choken One]

Bruce Lee seems probable...

[Guest thetrendsetter]

i mean do u know who created it, like in old Kung Fu movies or something...

Godzilla Nipped Up against Mothra

[Guest Sandman9000]

David did a kip-up vs. Goalith.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

I always used to call it a Chinese Ghettup, and still do. Fuck whatever the hell they call it in wrestling these days.

 

It's probably come somewhere from Kung-Fu movies. I *highly* doubt that it originated in Pro Wrestling.

[Guest tank_abbott]

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